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Phyllis Logan to star in transfer of play Switzerland in the West End

Friday, 19 October, 2018

Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Switzerland, which is about novelist Patricia Highsmith is set to open in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre in November, following its UK premiere in Bath. The play... Read more
Video – Douglas Booth, Clifford Samuel, Ken Urban and Jonathan O’Boyle talk Guide for the Homesick

Thursday, 18 October, 2018

Ahead of the West End opening of A Guide for the Homesick, the play by American playwright Ken Urban which gets its European premiere tonight, we caught up the writer, actors Douglas Booth and... Read more
Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘British audiences are hung up on sex’

Thursday, 18 October, 2018

Creator of Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda has said one of the main differences between Broadway and West End audiences at his musicals is the fact that London theatregoers are “super hung up on sex... Read more
Six Twilight Zone episodes you didn’t realise you already know

Tuesday, 16 October, 2018

The Twilight Zone is a classic American TV show you’ve probably heard so much about but may have never sat down and watched. But it's likely that you already know more about the show than you think... Read more

Latest Fringe & Off West End Features

New 2019 season announced at Southwark Playhouse in London

Friday, 19 October, 2018

A new season of plays and musicals has been announced for Southwark Playhouse’s Little and Large spaces for the next year, including a transfer of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love and a new... Read more
Planned immersive theatre venue The Buzz cancels all productions

Thursday, 18 October, 2018

A new immersive theatre venue planned for London has cancelled all productions with immediate effect, it has been announced. The Buzz, which was set to open in Borough later this year, had planned an... Read more
Initial casting announced for Fiddler on the Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Tuesday, 16 October, 2018

Initial casting has been announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory’s upcoming production of Fiddler on the Roof, which is set to run this Christmas. Trevor Nunn directs the musical, which has music... Read more
Interview - Bradley Foster on playing a young Charles Darwin in The Wider Earth

Friday, 12 October, 2018

New theatres pop up all the time around the capital, but this autumn, a very special production is running in one of the country’s most-visited tourist attractions. The Wider Earth follows the first... Read more

Latest Theatre Reviews See all

Review - Emma Rice returns with Wise Children at the Old Vic

The dazzling theatre magician that is Emma Rice has just conjured the latest chapter, in every sense, of her compelling and revolutionary adventures in theatreland. From Kneehigh, the touring company... Read more

Review - Stephen Sondheim's Company is 'stunning' at the Gielgud Theatre

Company, first premiered on Broadway in 1970, was always a bold, brilliant musical: a series of brief vignettes (by George Furth) and dazzling songs (by Stephen Sondheim) about the challenges of... Read more

Review - Stories at the National Theatre

How do you have a baby if you’re newly single, with no prospective father in sight, and time is literally running out, egg-by-egg? Nina Raine’s new play, Stories, looks at the lengths Anna - a 39-... Read more

Review - The Wider Earth at the Natural History Museum

For the very first time, a theatre space has popped up inside one of the country’s grandest buildings: the Natural History Museum. Nestled between artefacts and exhibits is a new auditorium inside... Read more