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The Society Of London Theatre is presenting the 16th Kids Week in the West End, designed to introduce young people to the theatregoing experience, with thousands of free tickets and special events. Once again this year it will run for a whole month, from 1st to 31st August. Children...

The musical Billy, book by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, music by John Barry, lyrics by Don Black, based on Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's play Billy Liar, about a provincial dreamer at the dawn of the swinging '60s, with Keith Ramsay, Mark Carroll, Ricky Butt, Paddy Glynn...

This year's Laurence Olivier Awards were dominated by The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, taking a record equaling with 7, including New Play, Actor - Luke Treadaway, and Director - Marianne Elliott; Sweeney Todd, winning Musical Revival, Actor - Michael Ball, and ...

The Lyceum Theatre Sheffield production of The Full Monty, a new play adapted from the 1997 film about unemployed Sheffield steelworkers who become male strippers, by original screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, (not the American musical, book by Terrence McNally, which relocated the action...

The 119th season of the BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts takes place at the Royal Albert Hall between 12th July and 7th September. The world's greatest classical music festival centres on 75 main concerts (at least one every evening) with consistently low ticket prices, including...

Shakespeare's Globe will once again celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with a weekend of events. On Saturday 20th April there will be the traditional Sonnet Walks, during which sonneteers entertain walkers along routes to Bankside starting from Westminster Abbey or St Leonard's Church...

The National Theatre has announced further experimental productions in The Shed, its temporary replacement for the Cottesloe. Rory Mullarkey's The Grandfathers, following 8 boys from training camp to the battlefields of an unknown war, will open on 9th July, a Bristol Old Vic Young...

The nominations for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain's premier theatre awards, given by the Society Of London Theatre, are dominated by The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time with 8, including New Play, Actor - Luke Treadaway, and Director - Marianne Elliott...

The Theatre Royal Bath production August Wilson's Fences, which tells of the struggle of a former Negro League baseball player who finds himself working as a garbage collector in 1950s Pitsburgh, with Lenny Henry, Tanya Moodi, Colin McFarlane, Peter Bankole, Ashley Zhangazha, directed...

It's Official! As previously forecast here, Harold Pinter's The Hothouse, a black comedy set in a state run mental hospital, with Simon Russell Beale and John Simm, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will open at Trafalgar Studios 1 on 9th May. The Royal Opera House has announced its 2013...

It's Official! As previously forecast here, the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, which satirises the rise of Hitler in Germany through the story of a Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade, translated...

Moya Productions will stage Dermot Canavan's semi autobiographical play Third Finger, Left Hand, in which two estranged sisters come together following their mother's death to reminisce over a box of old photographs, with Imogen Stubbs and Amanda Daniels, directed by Ian Talbot, ...

Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its 2013 season, with a 1,400 seater Theatre In The Park tent as its main space while the Festival Theatre undergoes refurbishment, which will host productions of Barnum, book by Mark Bramble, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Michael Stewart...

The Almeida Theatre will stage Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, examining family, morality and guilt in a mother-son relationship, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, opening on 3rd October. House on the Hill Productions will stage Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen Of Carthage, charting...

The Menier Chocolate Factory production of the musical Merrily We Roll Along, book by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, adapted from the play by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart, charting the lives of a Broadway show writing partnership and their best friend over ...

The National Theatre has announced productions for its 50th anniversary year, which will include in the Olivier: Shakespeare's Othello, with Adrian Lester, Rory Kinnear, Olivia Vinall, Jonathan Bailey and Lyndsey Marshal, directed by Nicholas Hytner; James Baldwin's The Amen Corner...

The Royal Shakespesare Company's autumn season in Stratford upon Avon will include in the Main House: Shakespeare's Richard II, with David Tennant and Oliver Ford Davies, directed by Gregory Doran, from 10th October, which will transfer to the Barbican Theatre from 9th December; ...

The National Theatre production of a double bill of monologues adapted from Alan Bennett's Untold Stories, performed by Alex Jennings, comprising Hymn, a memoir of music in childhood, directed by Nadia Fall, and Cocktail Sticks, in which a son talks to his dead father as his mother...

The Royal Opera House has announced plans for new works to be staged in the next few years. The 2013/1214 season will see Gerald Barry's adaptation of The Importance Of Being Earnest, directed by Ramin Gray; Ben Frost's adaptation of Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory, text by David Pountney...

The spring season at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond will include Githa Sowerby's The Stepmother, a play from 1924 about a woman trying to be both a mother and a businesswoman, directed by Sam Walters, from 6th February; G B Stern's The Man Who Pays The Piper, in which a 1920s...