Whats On Stage

Following a stint at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, Clarke Peters and Five Guys Named Moe will return home to Theatre Royal Stratford East to mark the Olivier Award-winning musical's 20th anniversary. The musical – written […]

Stakes are high as England battle to remain in the World Cup. WithWorld Cup fever gripping the nation, here’s a quick question for you avid theatregoers: which would you rather be watching?! Plain and simple. […]

Oliver! has posted closing notices at the West End's Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Impresario Cameron Mackintosh's production of the Lionel Bart musical opened, with the West End's largest-ever advance of £15 million, on 14 January […]

The final new production in Covent Garden’s season sees the much-anticipated house debut of Anna Netrebko as Massenet’s innocent turned courtesan, a role she has played to acclaim across continents in recent years. The Russian […]

Critics got a ringside seat at the Royal Court on Saturday (19 June) for the press performance of Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch in the reconfigured Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.The play looks back on “what it was like […]

With England facing their make or break world cup match against Slovenia tomorrow, actor Brian Blessed has encouraged the troubled team with a good old bit of Shakespeare. Predictably, the speech chosen for the BBC […]

As an increasing number of theatre companies take up residence in and under Waterloo station, a new venue is about to open in a disused railway arch under Waterloo East. The Waterloo East Theatre, which […]

Anyone walking down Shaftesbury Avenue last night might have been surprised by the number of excited teenage girls waiting outside the Queen’s Theatre.The reason they were there was to catch a glimpse of US pop […]

As we reported yesterday (See Photos::E8831277127128, 21 Jun 2010), this year’s West End Live was a record-breaker, with over 250,000 people heading to Leicester Square to watch the stars of Theatreland strut their stuff.Shows taking […]

In 1841, the mad poet John Clare began a four-day walk from an asylum in Epping Forest back home to Northamptonshire. That journey, or at least the idea of re-rooting oneself in one's native background, […]