Harvey, Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, recently revived by star director Lindsay Posner, is set to arrive at the Theatre Royal Haymarket after opening at the Birmingham REP and embarking on a mini UK tour.
West End Theatre News and Reviews


Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey comes to the West End
By Oliver Mitford Monday, January 26 2015, 09:18


Hay Fever will transfer to the West End
By Oliver Mitford Tuesday, January 20 2015, 09:59
Hay Fever, Noel Coward’s most famous play will arrive in the West End in April of this year, flying into the Duke of York’s Theatre for a limited run of three months.
Felicity Kendal will reprise her staring role in Lindsay Posner’s acclaimed revival that was first seen at the Bath Theatre Royal in July 2014. The production then went on complete a hugely successful Australian tour.


Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock will open on Broadway this year
By Oliver Mitford Wednesday, January 14 2015, 09:19
A brand new stage musical adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black film School of Rock will premiere in New York at the end of this year.
The musical is a collaboration between composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyricist Glenn Slater and Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes. The production is scheduled to open at the massive Winter Garden Theatre (about to become the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s double bill transfer of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies) on 6 December 2015.


West End stars receive top honours
By Oliver Mitford Monday, January 5 2015, 14:22
This year's New Years Honours sees a whole host of West End star peppering the list of talented and successful individuals.
Actor John Hurt is to be made a Knight and Kristin Scott Thomas will receive the title of Dame. Scott Thomas has just stepped off the stage of the Old Vic Theatre after playing the tile role in Electra to great public and critical acclaim. Now the actress will step into Dame Helen Mirren’s shoes to play the Queen on Broadway in transfer of Peter Morgan’s The Audience.


Review: TREASURE ISLAND at the National Theatre
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, December 24 2014, 09:52
An annually revived stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate adventure at the now defunct Mermaid Theatre used to be a London Christmas tradition. But, like the Mermaid Theatre itself, it's long gone so it's lovely that the National Theatre are breathing new life into the story in a new version by Bryony Lavery directed by the fashionable and much admired Polly Findlay.
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