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This week’s production news includes a new cast for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical and a show at London’s Bridge Theatre
Performers Patti LuPone, John Partridge and Cleve September are among the winners of this year’s Golden Bucket Awards, which celebrate fundraising in
Michael Frayn’s comedy Noises Off is to return to the Lyric Hammersmith 40 years after it premiered at the London venue. The
Leading theatre companies that work with disabled artists, including Graeae and Hijinx, have criticised the decision to use a puppet to portray
The King is dead. Long live the king. Through the ages, the replacement of one corrupt despot with another represents the opposite
Em is having a terrible night. Rachel Harper's new monologue, which she also performs in, is a meaty, impressively unsentimental deep dive
David Ponting presented his one-man show Dylan Thomas, the Man and the Myth, more than 700 times on both sides of the
The multi-award winning play about a blockbuster film set in Ireland enraptured audiences when it premiered in 1996, and now it's back
This punchy new English version of Bizet's opera, by Mary Franklin and Ashley Pearson, focuses on the seedy, violent aspects of the
Actor Lucy Sheen and playwright Inua Ellams are among the signatories of a letter slamming the BBC for the “unacceptable” shortage of
Nkeki Obi-Melekwe and Ashley Zhangazha have been announced to join the cast of Tina – The Tina Turner Musical. Obi-Melekwe will take
Jason Manford is to star in a new production of the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains, which will tour the UK later
Dave has passed on a love of Rod Stewart to son David, but they don't share a genetic link or even the
Another day, another Arthur Miller opening in London in a season that sees a plethora of the American playwright's work popping up
Director and producer Phil Willmott has proved himself a past master of the musical reinvention. But though his Essential Classics season at
This is a true story. Jordan Waller was born in 1992, the child of two lesbians. His natural mum, the lucky recipient
This double bill allows audiences with the opportunity to see two great actors starring in intimate solo shows by playwrights with which
Peter Strickland's 2012 cult film Berberian Sound Studio is a very sensory cinematic experience " aurally and visually disorientating, almost hallucinatory in
These days it is virtually impossible to separate people from their phones. And despite strenuous efforts by theatres that make repeated announcements
An entirely original Broadway musical " that's to say, not based on a book, movie, play, or TV show and not using
Another week, another influx of Irish productions at Vault Festival. Jeda de Bri and Finbarr Doyle's new play Tryst is a three-hander,
The perception of Henrik Ibsen's work in the UK is often told through the prism of a period piece, of people from
Something of a dream team has been assembled for this stage adaptation of Joseph Mankiewicz's 1950 black-and-white classic film about a Broadway
Theatre and TV stars including Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer and Gemma Arterton have called for an Olivier award for casting directors,
The work of choreographers Kenneth MacMillan and Robert Cohan is familiar territory for Yorke Dance Project, so it’s fitting that works by
