London Theatre News and Reviews

Torvill & Dean’s Dancing on Ice Tour returns to arenas across the UK next.

Torvill and Dean’s Dancing On Ice is coming to Sheffield, Newcastle, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, and Belfast in April/May 2010. Our as yet unannounced celebrities and professional skating couples look set to cut up and melt the ice across the country once more.

Torvill & Dean, will, [...]

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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, begins performances at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre (Monday, 22 Feb 2010), after cancelling the first preview on 20 Feb 2010.

The principal characters of The Phantom of the Opera continue their stories in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES.

Ten years after the mysterious disappearance of The Phantom from [...]

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The smash hit West End musical WICKED launches a new educational award today (Monday 22 February 2010) to recognise excellence in writing, encourage creativity and help develop writing talent in young people nationwide. Spearheaded by bestselling author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo, the WICKED Young Writers’ Award is the first of its kind to seek entries from young writers between [...]

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The nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards were announced at 07:45 (GMT) on Thursday 21 January.

The official winners and nominees of the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010.

ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP – Vanessa Redgrave

OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA – Joe Dunton

BEST FILM – The Hurt Locker

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM – Fish Tank

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER [...]

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The Sell-out Menier Chocolate Factory Producttion will transfers to Theatre Royal Haymarket from 23rd of April.

Tamzin Outhwaite, who plays the title role of Charity Hope Valentine, will lead the cast in the West End transfer of the Tony Award-winning musical, Sweet Charity.

Sweet Charity follows the misadventures of love encountered by the gullible and guileless Charity Hope Valentine, a woman [...]

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The Menier Chocolate Factory will present the first major London revivals of Willy Russell’s award-winning Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine from 26th March – 8th May 2010.

Jeremy Sams will direct Larry Lamb and Laura Dos Santos in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita.
Much to the dismay of her husband Denny, Rita, a young, brash hairdresser, has recently discovered a passion for [...]

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What is Mrs Warren’s profession? Her daughter Vivie has never really known much about her mother.

A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education and a generous monthly allowance.

Now she has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivable that all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest profession? [...]

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Legendary Hollywood and Broadway leading lady Shirley Jones makes her UK debut at the Arts Theatre for 12 performances only.

Shirley Jones was virtually unknown when Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein cast her as Laurie in the 1955 movie version of their hit stage musical Oklahoma! which bought her world wide fame. She followed this up with the films of [...]

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With a tranche of five star reviews and continuing box office success, Avenue Q has recently announced its extension into 2010.

Booking into its 4th year in London, the cult hit show Avenue Q has been playing to hugely enthusiastic crowds and standing ovations, proving highly addictive with its legion of fans coming back to see it over and over!

Avenue [...]

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Inspired by real-life events and using music, dance and video, ENRON has extened its current run at Noël Coward Theatre St Martins Lane, London until 14th of August 2010.

“The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren’t smart enough to do what we did.”

One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. [...]

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