Jonathan Guy Lewis and Michael Brandon will lead the cast of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge on tour. The play, produced by the Touring Consortium Theatre Company, will also feature 1…
An avant-garde theatre course that was initiated in the 70s has been closed, despite a petition signed by more than 2,000 people to save it. The BA (hons) Theatre course, which focused on de…
Shakespeare's Globe is facing the threat of industrial action over a pay dispute at the venue. Union BECTU is demanding a rise in the hourly rate that tour guides working at the venue rec…
US actor Jennifer Coolidge, who is known for films such as American Pie and Legally Blonde, is to join the cast of Follies at the Royal Albert Hall. Also joining the cast are Alexander Hanso…
An exhibition celebrating 40 years of theatre on Broadway and the West End is to run in both London and New York. Provisionally called Curtain Up!, the exhibition is timed to coincide with t…
A competition offering circus performers the chance to win £4,000 and the opportunity to create a new show with production company Underbelly has launched its 2015 talent search. Circus M…
Plans for a tour highlighting the work of British theatre designers have been thrown into doubt after Arts Council England rejected a £70,000 funding application. The Society of British T…
A play about fashion designer Alexander McQueen will receive its world premiere at the St James Theatre in May. McQueen is written by James Phillips and will be directed by John Caird. It ru…
Music venue Wigmore Hall is to undergo a £2 million refurbishment that will see the creation of new rehearsal spaces and enable the building to stream and broadcast its work. The London v…
In a pub in west London, Harriet Walter is taking a break from rehearsing a new play called Boa and has just declared that she is the production's "self-elected Equity deputy". There don't a…
Antony Sher is to play King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016, with new plays by Marina Carr and Helen Edmundson also announced as part of the theatre company's winter 2015 seas…
Shakespeare's Globe's production of The Duchess of Malfi starring Gemma Arterton will be broadcast to cinemas on February 26. The production is the first in the new season from Shakespeare's…
Theatre company Les Enfants Terribles is to stage an immersive production for children based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The production, titled Adventures in Wond…
The National Theatre, Michael Grandage Company and the Donmar Warehouse have all been honoured at the Falstaff Awards, with Helen Mirren being presented a lifetime achievement award. Prod…
JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls is being adapted into a television drama starring David Thewlis. The play is being adapted for the screen by Helen Edmundson, who previously adapted Coram B…
Leicester Square Theatre and the Museum of Comedy in London have launched a competition aimed at finding the best comics over the age of 35. Called Old Comedian of the Year, the competition …
Sonia Friedman Productions has appointed Donna Munday as executive producer. Munday is currently executive producer of Billy Elliot the Musical in Holland, a role she took following five yea…
War Horse has extended its booking period in the West End until February next year. It had been booking at the New London Theatre until October but is now selling tickets until February 13, …
Ghost Stories is to end its London run in March after almost 1,000 performances around the world. The show, written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, will close at the Arts The…
New work made up more than half of all productions staged in 2013, according to research into the output of 273 venues around the UK. The British Theatre Consortium " a group of academics an…
Ian McKellen has been named best actor at the BBC Audio Drama Awards, which also saw performer Aisling Loftus and writer Neil Gaiman honoured. McKellen won for his role in Eugenie Grandet, d…
The managerial crisis at the top of English National Opera has deepened with the shock resignation of executive director Henriette Gotz less than a year after she was appointed in April 2014…
Musical Thrill Me " The Leopold and Loeb Story, which ran in Edinburgh last year, is to embark on a UK tour. The production, directed by Guy Retallack, has a book, music and lyrics by…
West End musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has rewritten part of its script after a challenge from an audience member. London resident Nathalie Bristow complained about a line in the…
Actors David Morrissey and Julie Walters are backing an Equity campaign aimed at ensuring performers are paid properly, with Morrissey claiming the "culture that exploits people's love of th…