3rd September 2010
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the first productions in the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre and refurbished Swan Theatre, after their 'on time and on budget', 4 year, £112.8m redevelopment. In a 'safety first' move, these will be transfers from the Courtyard Theatre. In...
27th August 2010
The Bridge Project has announced that its final season will be a production of Shakespeare's Richard III, with Kevin Spacey leading a company of British and American actors, directed by Sam Mendes. The production will open at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York...
20th August 2010
Following the refurbishment of the auditorium, the autumn season at the Theatre Royal Bath will include Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, the classic comedy of romance, confusion and commitment, set in Regency Bath, with Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, directed...
13th August 2010
The autumn season at the Finborough Theatre in Earl's Court will include: Suzan-Lori Parks's In The Blood, a contemporary picture of a single mother living on the streets of New York, with Frances Ashman, Natasha Bain, Eleanor Fanyinka, Vinta Morgan, Richard Pepple...
6th August 2010
The Bush Theatre has announced its 2010/2011 season, comprising: the British premiere of Annie Baker's The Aliens, examining contemporary America by following professional dropouts who spend their days sitting in a coffee shop discussing music and the drudgery of...
30th July 2010
This year's Kids Week in the West End, organised by the Society Of London Theatre to introduce young people to the theatregoing experience, with thousands of free tickets and special events, is proving so popular that it is being extended to a third week, and will...
23rd July 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, the Chichester Festival Theatre production of the musical Love Story, book and lyrics by Stephen Clark, music and lyrics by Howard Goodall, adapted from Erich Segal's novel about college students who fall...
16th July 2010
The Old Vic Theatre has announced further productions in its 2010/2011 season.
Georges Feydeau's A Flea In Her Ear, in the version by John Mortimer, in which a wife's trap designed to reveal her husband's infidelity results in mistaken identities, bruised egos and...
9th July 2010
The Society Of London Theatre is presenting the 13th 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 has double the fun, as it is extended to a...
2nd July 2010
The National Theatre has announced further productions in its autumn season. In the Lyttelton: the premiere of J T Rogers's Blood And Gifts, a global political thriller set at the time of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, with Matthew Marsh and Lloyd Owen...
25th June 2010
The Royal Shakespeare Company will play a 10 week season at The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm with a repertoire of plays from its Stratford season, performed by an ensemble of 44 actors, opening on 2nd December. As with its previous season, a thrust stage will be constructed with a 750...
18th June 2010
British productions and performers were the biggest winners in this year's New York Tony Awards, with the Donmar Warehouse production of Red taking 6 (the most for any show): Play, Eddie Redmayne - Actor Play (Featured), Michael Grandage - Director (Play), Christopher...
11th June 2010
With 40,254 performances, of 2,453 shows (558 of which will be free), in 259 venues, involving 21,148 performers, the 64th Edinburgh Festival Fringe, running from 6th to 30th August, is once again bigger than ever, retaining its position as the world's largest arts festival. In fact...
4th June 2010
The summer dance season at the London Coliseum will include the Mikhailovsky Ballet performing Swan Lake, Giselle, Cipollino, Triple Bill and Laurencia, from 13th to 21st July; Carlos Acosta with...
28th May 2010
The 48th City Of London Festival, running from 21st June to 9th July, has the twin themes of music from the Portuguese speaking world and a celebration of the 200th birthday of Chopin. The festival comprises the usual mixture of lunchtime, rush hour and evening events, with concerts...
21st May 2010
Neil Simon's dark comedy The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, with Jeff Goldblum, Terry Johnson, will open at the Vaudeville Theatre on 13th July. Set in 1970s New York, it relates the experiences of a couple when the husband is made redundant and suffers a nervoius breakdown...
14th May 2010
The Royal Court Theatre will stage its first family Christmas show. Get Santa!, written and directed by Anthony Neilson, with music by Nick Powell, who also collaborated on the story, about a 10 year old girl's mission to find the perfect family by enlisting the help...
7th May 2010
Once again there is a strong showing of British talent in the nominations for this year's New York Tony Awards. They are led by the Menier Chocolate Factory productions of La Cage Aux Folles with 11 nominations, including Musical Revival, Actor Musical (Leading) -...
30th April 2010
It has been confirmed that television cast production of The Wizard Of Oz, adapted by John Kane from the 1939 film based on L Frank Baum's Oz stories, music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E Y Harburg, will play at the London Palladium, beginning on 19th March. The...
23rd April 2010
The 116th season of the BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts takes place at the Royal Albert Hall between 16th July and 11th September. The world's greatest classical music festival centres on 76 main concerts (at least one every evening) with consistently low ticket prices, including...
16th April 2010
English National Opera has announced its 2009/2010 season at the London Coliseum. It will include new productions of Gunod's Faust, directed by Des McAnuff, a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Handel's Radamisto, directed by David...
9th April 2010
Once again Shakespeare's birthday will receive a celebration at Shakespeare's Globe. On Saturday 17th April, there will be the traditional Sonnet Walks, during which twelve sonneteers will entertain walkers along routes to Bankside. There is a choice of two routes through Tudor London...
1st April 2010
LIFT - the London International Festival of Theatre will return as a full scale festival, presenting cutting edge companies from all over the world, from 23rd June to 17th July, after which it will become a biennial event again. The programme will feature 7 British premieres, and...
26th March 2010
This year's Laurence Olivier Awards were dominated by Donmar Warehouse productions, A Streetcar Named Desire winning Actress (Play) - Rachel Weisz, Supporting Actress (Play) - Ruth Wilson; and Red winning Supporting Actor (Play) - Eddie Redmayne;...
19th March 2010
The Edinburgh International Festival has announced the programme for this year's festival, running from 13th August to 5th September, for which booking opens on 27th March. Theatre highlights include The Gospel Of Colonus, a contemporary musical adapted from Sophocles...
12th March 2010
The Royal Opera House has announced its 2009/2010 season. Royal Opera highlights will include: the world premiere of Anna Nicole, libretto by Richard Thomas, music by Mark-Anthony Turnage, about the life of American glamour model Anna Nicole Smith, with Eva-Maria...
5th March 2010
Tap Dogs, featuring 'six guys from a building site' dressed in Blundstone boots and jeans, who tap, stomp, jump, grind and splash their way through a series of routines created by choreographer Dein Perry and designer/director Nigel Triffitt, will return to the West...
26th February 2010
For the first time, the presentation of the Laurence Olivier Awards, given by the Society Of London Theatre, will be streamed live on the SOLT web site, from the Grosvenor House Hotel on 21st March, from 6.30pm. Disgracefully, Britain's premier theatre awards ceremony has not been...
19th February 2010
It's Official! As previously forecast here, David Herson's La Bete, a Moliere style comedy pitting the head of the royal court sponsored theatre troupe against a foppish, frivolous street entertainer in 17th century France, with Joanna Lumley, Mark...
12th February 2010
The nominations for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain's premier theatre awards, given by the Society Of London Theatre, are dominated by Royal Court Theatre productions with 15, including Enron: New Play, Samuel West - Actor (Play), Tim Piggott-Smith -...
5th February 2010
The 33rd London Handel Festival runs from 23rd February to 2nd April, with highlights including: a fully staged performance of the third version of Il pastor fido, bringing baroque dance to the Festival for the first time; Apollo e Dafne performed...
29th January 2010
Despite the current economic situation, figures released by the Society Of London Theatre reveal that West End theatre enjoyed a record breaking year in 2009. There were 14,257,922 tickets sold, up 5.5% on the previous record of 13,807,286 set in 2008, while box office revenue totalled...
22nd January 2010
The National Theatre has announced further productions for the spring and summer. In the Olivier: Thomas Middleton's Jacobean tragedy Women Beware Women, with Harriet Walter and Samuel Barnett, directed by Marianne Elliott, opening on 27th April; the premiere of Moira...
15th January 2010
The Laurence Olivier Awards is creating a new Audience Award, giving theatregoing audiences the chance to honour their favourite long running West End show. Voting is in two stages: first the selection of a shortlist from a field of 20, for which voting closes on 1st February, and...
8th January 2010
The Place is presenting its 21st Resolution! season of new dance ideas and fledgling talent, running until 20th February. 102 companies, selected from hundreds of applicants from this country and abroad, have an opportunity to present their work, with three different...