Jamie Lloyd’s inventive production has its tongue planted firmly in its cheek at the St James’s Theatre. It is surprising how long it has taken for this Broadway musical to make it across the pond to the West End.
Angela Lansbury steals the show in Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre. Hidden behind Noel Cowards improbably silly story of dead wives and séances is a more thoughtful study of passion, love and commitment in Michael…
The smash-hit Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You has announced that it will close on 31 May 2014 after a victorious 12 year reign at the Dominion Theatre.
The Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson is doing the rounds on the theatreland rumour mill, with the whisper that she may reprise her performance as Mrs Lovett alongside Bryn Terfel in Stephen…
At last the weathers turning Spring-like and thankfully the West End is coming alive again after one of the dullest, quietest February’s I can remember.
A dream team collaboration has been announced for a major revival of the musical GYPSY. Imelda Staunton, who was such a hit in SWEENEY TODD last year, will reunite with its director Jonathan Kent to portray Mamma Rose…
Headlong’s critically acclaimed production of George Orwell’s 1984 transfers from the Almeida Theatre to the West End’s Playhouse Theatre from 28 April.
The 2014 Oliver Awards are set to take place at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden today. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Merrily We Roll Along are leading from the front after receiving seven nominations…
Ghost Stories finds a terrifying new home at the Arts Theatre. Back in 2010, the Lyric Hammersmith took a punt on Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories.
A new production of The Importance of Being Earnest will open at the Harold Pinter Theatre this summer, with a cast including Nigel Havers and Siân Phillips, opening on 17th July.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s smash-hit adaptations of the award-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by novelist Hilary Mantel is due to transfer to the Aldwych Theatre in London’s West End from 1 May 2014.
Not long to go until we get to see the stage version of FATAL ATTRACTION, opening at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 11 March and currently booking to 21 June 2014.
Preview performances of X Factor musical I Can't Sing! have been postponed for the second time due to technical issues with the complex stage machinery.
Stephen Ward may have not have found its audience, but does that make it a flop? Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was the dominant force in the world of musical theatre for decades.
Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar winning writer of the film THE FULL MONTY, has collaborated with Sheffield Theatres to turn his much loved screenplay into a hit stage show.
Monday will see tickets go on sale for the hugely anticipated stage musical of Made in Dagenham. Based on the 2010 feature film of the same name, it deals with the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike and tells the…
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