London Theatre News and Reviews

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 conceivablethat all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest [...]

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Andrew Lloyd Webber has confirmed that the US premiere of Love Never Dies will be delayed until 2011.

The musical, which opened in the West End to mixed reviews in March, had been scheduled to begin its Broadway run in November 2010 at the Neil Simon Theatre.  That date has now been pushed back until Spring 2011 with the venue [...]

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Inspired by the albums, Bill Kenwright and Laurie Mansfield in association with Universal Music present Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical has been extended until 27th of November, 2010.

Written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the team behind Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds of a Feather, The New Statesmen and Shine On Harvey Moon, this spectacular new feel-good production will give you [...]

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Emma Louise Barton will play Roxie Hart in Chicago The Musical  from 26 April 2010 at the Cambridge Theatre.

Emma Louise Barton was born 1977 in Portsmouth, is an English actress. She played Honey Mitchell in EastEnders from November 2005 to September 2008.

Before her role in EastEnders, Barton appeared in Spooks and trod the boards in plays including Grease, Loveshack and Thoroughly [...]

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If you’re watching the new show ‘Over the Rainbow’ – the search for Dorothy – you might be interested in ‘Wizard of Dogz’.  Andrew Lloyd Webber is looking for Dorothy’s Toto.

To highlight the search for Toto, BBC has created a short Wizard of Oz film where all the good characters are played by dogs and the baddies played by [...]

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Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte D’Arthur in a new adaptation by Mike Poulton. A new RSC commission directed by Gregory Doran.

Thomas Malory’s Morte D’Arthur tells ‘of the matter of England’. Written during the violent years of the Wars of the Roses, it reflects its time. The story of King Arthur’s attempt to unite his country, blends myth and magic, from [...]

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In the instant of a chance meeting two young people fall in love. Impulsively they marry in secret, but in a divided city their innocent union is threatened by a bloody family feud. Shakespeare vividly captures the beauty, intimacy and ultimate fragility of young love in a hostile world.

Rupert Goold returns to the Company to direct his first production [...]

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The Theatre Book Prize was first awarded for 1997 to celebrate the Jubilee of the Society for Theatre Research. It was created to encourage the writing and publication of books on British theatre history and practice, both those which present the theatre of the past and those which record contemporary theatre for the future. It is now presented annually [...]

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Tickets are on sale for As You Like It – Stratford Upon Avon directed by Michael Boyd.

When two young people fall in love they are unable to act on their impulse. Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden only to become entangled in [...]

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The 39 Steps will be entertaining us for some time yet.  It has been extended to February 2011.  It is a comic adaptation of Hitchcock’s 1935 classic movie thriller.  This version is performed by four actors playing a minimum of 139 roles covering every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie.  The legendary scenes include the chase on the [...]

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