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First Look: Production images for new adaptation of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm
West Side Story – Back by Popular Demand in 2020
Mesmerising Sweeney Todd got me by the throat
Paines Plough announces full tour dates for Zia Ahmed’s debut play I Wanna Be Yours
Latest casting for Festival 2019 at Chichester Festival Theatre
Dance Umbrella announces further line-up for Festival 2019
Rachel Tucker: ‘Come From Away Will Soothe Your Soul And Lift Your Heart.’
The Watermill Theatre announces Autumn and Winter season for 2019
Mesmerising Sweeney Todd got me by the throat
Lots to love about Nick Bagnall’s stripped-back Sweeney Todd in Liverpool, including the cast, acting, and absorbing scenes between Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett and the decision to set it in a time of Brexhaustion. Everything seems fresh minted. Bagnall’s wickedly...
The Olivier Awards. It’s not all that.
THERE are many good reasons why The Olivier Awards with Mastercard are theatre’s biggest night. Central to most of them are the performances by actors from your favourite west end shows having the time of their lives and at the height of their theatre powers, who...
Rachel Tucker: ‘Come From Away will soothe your soul and lift your heart.’
‘My favourite start to my working day and I’m only allowed one of them – is a triple shot americano,’ grins Rachel Tucker. I follow her lead and order one for myself at the Pret on Shaftesbury Avenue – just off Cambridge Circus where we meet. It’s a joy...
Recent Articles
2019 National Theatre Connections Festival premieres ten brand new plays staged by young people
Ten UK school and youth theatre companies have been chosen to bring their productions of ten brand new plays to the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival, which takes place in the Dorfman Theatre from 25-29 June. Connections is the largest youth theatre festival...
Justin Audibert announces his first season as Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre
Justin Audibert, the Unicorn Theatre’s new Artistic Director, announces his first season at the London venue. An audacious opening season themed around thinking about our future – the world as it is or the world as we might imagine it to be – will address concerns...
First Look: Tony Award-winning musical MAN OF LA MANCHA at London Coliseum
First Look: Tony Award-winning musical MAN OF LA MANCHA at London Coliseum Man of La Mancha stars Kelsey Grammer, Danielle de Niese, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Peter Polycarpou and Cassidy Janson. The acclaimed musical opened tonight on 30 April at the London Coliseum where...
Equus to open at Trafalgar Studios this July
Award winning director Ned Bennett’s bold revival of Peter Shaffer’s iconic psychological thriller Equus is transfering to the West End this summer. Following its hugely successful run, the English Touring Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East production...
