By Oliver Mitford Tuesday, April 21 2015, 10:42
It has been announced that Kenneth Branagh will helm a year-long season of plays in the West End. The star of stage and screen will direct and act in the season due to open at the Garrick Theatre in October 2016.
The plays include The Winter’s Tale and Romeo and Juliet, both by William Shakespeare, Harlequinade by Terence Rattigan, an adaptation of The Painkiller by Francis Veber, and The Entertainer by John Osborne.
By Oliver Mitford Thursday, April 16 2015, 09:20
The longest running musical in the West End, Les Miserables has extended booking at the Queen’s Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue through to 26 March 2016, showing once again that this giant of a musical is still as popular as ever.
By Oliver Mitford Wednesday, April 15 2015, 07:09
Tim Firth and Gary Barlow’s new musical based on The Calendar Girls is due to open in Leeds this year, but the question is, do the duo have their eyes set on a West End run?
The musical, aptly titled The Girls underwent a workshop period last year, with a stellar cast of Sally Dexter, Harriet Thorpe and Joanna Riding. Now, the musical comedy is due to open at the Leeds Grand from 14 November to 12 December 2015, followed by a month stint at the Lowry in Manchester from 13 January 2016.
By Oliver Mitford Tuesday, April 14 2015, 08:09
A new musical adaptation of the hit 1993 film Groundhog Day has been given the green light for a production at The Old Vic Theatre next year, following a second workshop in London last month.
By Daniel Perks Monday, April 13 2015, 12:29
This weekend was one of the pivotal awards weekends in the theatre calendar, with the stars of the West End hitting the red carpet to celebrate the best of theatre, dance and opera that London had to offer. The 39th Lawrence Olivier Awards took place on Sunday 12th April at the Royal Opera House and as ever there were some expected wins for the year’s most popular productions but also some surprises as well deserved dark horses crept up unawares.
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