Lewis Carroll's Wonderland goes under the big top this Christmas, as the creators of Circus 1903 bring Cirque Alice to the Royal Festival Hall for its European premiere, with Layla Schillert in the title role and a…
The notices are in for First Encounters: Julius Caesar, the RSC's 90-minute revival of Phyllida Lloyd's all-female prison staging, first seen at the Donmar Warehouse in 2012 and now at The Other Place in…
The reviews are in for Vortex, and the run ends tonight. HUMANHOOD's 55-minute dance piece has spent the week at Sadler's Wells East, where choreographers Julia Robert and Rudi Cole send their company spinning through…
Baloo, Bagheera and Shere Khan are out of the shadows: the National Theatre has released a first look at the puppets of The Jungle Book as previews begin in the Olivier.
Rupert Goold sets out his first Old Vic season, Matt Smith signs up to play an alien in the West End and Hamlet Hail to the Thief collects nothing below four stars at the Barbican. This is the week in London theatre.
Annette Badland leads the world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Animals Come to the Table, directed by Anthony Lau in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 11 December, a play in which the natural world…
Matthew Tennyson, Samuel Creasey, Kirsty Rider and Lucy McCormick give Lauren Yee's post-Soviet comedy Mother Russia its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre from 11 December, in a production directed by Oscar Toeman.
Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane are among the writers of the ten plays shortlisted for the first Climate Playwriting Prize, announced today by Shakespeare's Globe ahead of a winner's ceremony on Friday 27 November.
Lauren Conroy and Matthew Anthony Ralph will play the title roles in Chelsea Walker's Romeo and Juliet, which opens in Edinburgh on 30 January 2027 before touring to Leeds, Guildford, Newcastle and Nottingham.
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