Artwork for When The Blackbird Sings, a collage blackbird on an Oxford map branch. Illustration by Bry Leighton
Upcoming and New Shows

When The Blackbird Sings: Erica Whyman directs a world premiere on an Oxford bus

A new site-specific play that puts most of its audience on a bus, When The Blackbird Sings has its world premiere in Oxford from 23 September to 11 October, directed by Erica Whyman and presented by the Schwarzman…

Keira Knightley in rehearsals for The Lives of Others at the Adelphi Theatre. Photo by Danny Kaan
Cast Changes and Announcements

Full company announced for Robert Icke’s The Lives of Others at the Adelphi Theatre

Thirteen more actors join Keira Knightley, Stephen Dillane and Luke Thompson in Robert Icke’s stage adaptation of The Lives of Others, which begins previews at the Adelphi Theatre on 14 October.

Thabo Stuck-Mekela outside the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury
Industry News

The Marlowe Theatre appoints Thabo Stuck-Mekela to new Director of Vocational Strategy role

The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury has appointed Thabo Stuck-Mekela as its first Director of Vocational Strategy, a new director-level post created to expand the theatre’s vocational training and to build fresh routes…

Frances Gilbert, Shona Maule and Carine Gilbert in Under the Influence at the King’s Head Theatre. Photo by Danny Kaan
Theatre News

First production images released for Under the Influence at the King’s Head Theatre

The first London production images have been released for Under the Influence, the comedy musical written and performed by Carine Gilbert and Frances Gilbert with Shona Maule, now running at the King’s Head Theatre…

Key art for the concert production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the London Palladium
Upcoming and New Shows

Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker to star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in concert at the London Palladium

Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker will lead a new concert staging of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the London Palladium next spring, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with an orchestra of 30.

Tilda Swinton in Man to Man at the Royal Court. Photo by Ruediger Glatz
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: MAN TO MAN at the Royal Court Theatre

Thirty-nine years after she first played the part in the same building, Tilda Swinton is back at the Royal Court in Man to Man, Manfred Karge’s monologue about a German widow who puts on her dead husband’s clothes and…

Key art for Girls by Theresa Ikoko, directed by Ewa Dina, at the Young Vic
Features

Everything you need to know about Girls at the Young Vic

Theresa Ikoko’s award-winning play returns to London for the first time since its 2016 premiere, in the Young Vic’s Maria studio and in the hands of Ewa Dina, this year’s JMK Award winner.

Mark Rylance as Pastor Blake in Tartuffe (Remixed) at the Marylebone Theatre
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: TARTUFFE (REMIXED) at the Marylebone Theatre

The notices are in for Tartuffe (Remixed), Darren Raymond’s rewriting of Molière’s 1664 farce for a Nigerian-Jamaican family gathering in London for a wedding, with Mark Rylance as the bogus cleric Pastor Blake and a…

Michelle Dockery as Helen and Jay Taylor as Marcus in Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy at Theatre Royal Stratford East
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: BLOODSPORT: AFTER HELEN OF TROY at Theatre Royal Stratford East

Ava Pickett’s Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy opened at Theatre Royal Stratford East on 10 September, and the reviews are in. Seventeen of them so far, and eleven give it four stars.