Theatre News

Oliver Reed: Wild Thing
Tue 21 May 2013 14:08
St James studio gets Wild Thing

Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Oliver Reed: Wild Thing will play a three-week limited season at the St James studio this summer.

Mon 20 May 2013 12:43
Hiddleston and Raine lead Donmar autumn

The Donmar Warehouse has announced its autumn 2013 season, with leading stage and screen actors Jessica Raine, Daniel Mays, Mark Gatiss and Tom Hiddleston set to star in a season of new and classic work examining how we...

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Far from Disgraced

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Mon 20 May 2013 12:51
Far from Disgraced

Ayad Akhtar talks to us about his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced and bringing it to London's Bush theatre.

Gallery

In rehearsals: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

In rehearsals: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

What says English summer better than a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream performed in a roofless theatre?

Q+A

Introducing... John Heffernan

Introducing... John Heffernan

If The Hothouse's John Heffernan's name does not ring a bell, remember it. It'll be chiming like Big Ben by this time next year.

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Theatre in the Park

Theatre in the Park

Prior to the Park theatre’s official opening tomorrow night with the UK premiere of These Shining Lives, London’s newest venue invited press on an exclusive tour of the Finsbury Park space.

Q+A

Q&A: Anna-Jane Casey

Q&A: Anna-Jane Casey

Billy Elliot The Musical’s newest star Anna-Jane Casey talks to us about an unusual love of wrestling, working with her husband on stage and being a marathon runner in her spare time.

First Nights

Kara Tointon in Relatively Speaking (photo: Nobby Clark)Tue 21 May 2013

Relatively Speaking

Relatively speaking, the misunderstanding at the heart of Alan Ayckbourn’s 1965 play is one of substantial proportions.

Darrell D’Silva in Public Enemy at the Young Vic (Photo: Keith Pattison)Tue 14 May 2013

Public Enemy

The team behind the Young Vic’s psychedelic The Government Inspector is back with another look at corruption and power, this time tackling Ibsen’s Public Enemy.

Simon Russell Beale in The Hothouse (Photo: Johan Persson)Fri 10 May 2013

The Hothouse

Something rather strange and even a little nightmarish is taking place at the Trafalgar Studios. Cigars are exploding, cakes are being thrown and mysterious experiments are taking place.

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