Theatre News: Joan Collins, Tim Minchin and Rosalie Craig at the Young Frankenstein opening night

Mel Brooks' musical opened to positive reviews in the West End last night

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 9:04am on October 11, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: In Event of Moone Disaster (Theatre503)

Lisa Spirling directs Andrew Thompson's award-winning script at Theatre503

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 5:48am on October 11, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: Cockpit (Lyceum Theatre)

Bridget Boland's exploration of European identity is revived at the Lyceum in Edinburgh

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 5:48am on October 11, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre)

Mel Brooks' musical comedy arrives in the West End starring Ross Noble, Hadley Fraser, Summer Strallen and Lesley Joseph

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 6:48pm on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Video: The stars and celebs at the West End premiere of Heisenberg

Simon Stephens' play stars Kenneth Cranham and Anne-Marie Duff

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 2:04pm on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Theatre News: Casting announced for The Secret Theatre at Shakespeare's Globe

Anders Lustgarten's new play is about Elizabethan spy master Francis Walsingham

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:36am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Gossip: Is there an Amy Winehouse musical in the works?

Could the musician's life be portrayed onstage?

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:36am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Video: Ross Noble, Hadley Fraser and Summer Strallen discuss Young Frankenstein

The Mel Brooks musical based on the original film opens in the West End

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:36am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: Bravado (Dover Road Sports and Social Club, Folkestone)

Scottee's latest piece is a memoir of working class masculinity which plays in non-theatre spaces across the UK

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 9:54am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Photos: First look at Louise Redknapp in Cabaret

The singer stars in Rufus Norris' production with Will Young

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 8:33am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: From the House of the Dead (Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff)

Janáček's dark and devastating opera brilliantly revived by WNO

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 8:33am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Blogs: Is theatre about theatre simply navel-gazing?

After a glut of plays about plays, Matt Trueman looks at why the stage looking back at itself can be a way of unpicking the world

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 8:33am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Photos: Andrew Scott, Kim Cattrall and more join cast for opening night of Heisenberg

Simon Stephens' play stars Kenneth Cranham and Anne-Marie Duff

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 7:12am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: Hairspray (Birmingham Hippodrome)

Rebecca Mendoza stars as Tracy Turnblad in this heart-warming musical in which good wins over evil

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 6:04am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Theatre News: All or Nothing - The Mod Musical announces West End transfer

The show, based on the music of Small Faces, is coming to London in 2018

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 6:04am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: Victory Condition (Royal Court)

Jonjo O'Neill and Sharon Duncan-Brewster star in Chris Thorpe's new play at the Royal Court

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 6:04am on October 10, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle (Wyndham's Theatre)

Marianne Elliott directs Simon Stephens' play in its UK debut, starring Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 7:18pm on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Features: Top 5 openings of the week: 9 to 15 October

Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein arrives in London, while Simon Stephens has two plays staged

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 1:12pm on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Theatre News: Cast announced for UK tour of The Winslow Boy

Aden Gillett and Tessa Peake-Jones will star in the show

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:48am on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Photos: Julian Glover, Kara Tointon and Florian Zeller attend opening night of The Lie

Florian Zeller's comedy opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory last night

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:48am on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Interviews: Joe McElderry: 'I didn't think I'd be an actor because I struggled with confidence'

The star of the UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat answers 20 questions on the show and his past

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 8:18am on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Interviews: Ian McDiarmid: 'An audience member shouted at me to get off the stage'

The actor discusses his contentious role as Enoch Powell in the current production of What Shadows, as well as his future in the Star Wars franchise

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 8:18am on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: Giulio Cesare [Parts 1 & 2] (Hackney Empire and tour)

Rome meets Egypt as ETO performs Handel's lengthy opera across two evenings

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 8:18am on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Theatre News: Verity Bargate Award shortlist announced

A winner will be picked from the shortlist of six new plays

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 7:06am on October 9, 2017☆⚑

Review: Review: The Lie (Menier Chocolate Factory)

Samantha Bond and Alexander Hanson star in Florian Zeller's comedy about marriage and dishonesty

SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 6:04am on October 9, 2017☆⚑