Retrograde by Ryan Calais Cameron comes to Apollo Theatre
Announced today – the West End transfer of the Kiln Theatre’s acclaimed production of Retrograde by Ryan Calais Cameron (For Black Boys…) Starring Ivanno Jeremiah who reprises the role of Hollywood icon Sidney Poitier. Joining him as his protagonist Mr Parks is Stanley Townsend (Kaos, Netflix; The Normal Heart, National Theatre) and Oliver Johnstone (Antigone, […]
Full cast announced for Sophokles’s electrifying and timeless play ELEKTRA
Academy Award winner Brie Larson (Room, Lessons in Chemistry, Captain Marvel) will make her West End debut in ELEKTRA, in a UK Premiere production of the translation by award winning poet Anne Carson of Sophokles’s electrifying play. Helmed by the acclaimed director Daniel Fish (Oklahoma), performances will begin at Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 13 […]
Royal Court Theatre’s production of GIANT comes to the Harold Pinter Theatre
Royal Court Theatre’s production of Mark Rosenblatt’s GIANT is now closed at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End. Directed by Nicholas Hytner (Straight Line Crazy, La Belle Sauvage) and designed by Bob Crowley, the sold-out hit which has just completed its run at the Royal Court premiered at the theatre in September 2024. […]
Mike Bartlett’s new play Unicorn to debut at the Garrick Theatre
The world premiere of Mike Bartlett’s new play Unicorn, directed by James Macdonald, will debut at the Garrick Theatre in the West End from 4 February for strictly limited run until 26 April 2025. “Nick: Have you two kissed already? Polly: No Kate: Yes” Polly and Nick have it all. Happily married, two children, successful […]
Jonathan Bailey in Richard II at London’s Bridge Theatre
London Theatre Company are delighted to announce that a brand-new production of Richard II will open 10 February 2025 and run until 10 May 2025 at the Bridge Theatre. Who’s in the cast? Award-winning screen and stage actor Jonathan Bailey, Richard II will feature alongside a talented cast to illuminate Shakespeare’s powerful work. The cast features: Royce Pierreson as Henry Bolingbroke, Christopher Osikanlu Colquhoun as Earl of Northumberland, Olivia Popica as […]
Capital Theatre to open in Autumn 2025 with Dirty Dancing
Capital Theatre, a permanent new venue, will open in West London in Autumn 2025 with the record-breaking Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage. Performances commence on Thursday 23 October 2025 in Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush. The brand new purpose-built 620 seat venue is set over 35,000 square feet, taking over the southwest […]
Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler’s The Baddies comes to London
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s smash-hit 2022 story The Baddies, which premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in October 2024, will run from 1–24 August 2025 at Cadogan Hall in London. Meet the very worst Baddies in the world! Don’t you dare to come too close to a witch, a troll and a ghost! […]
London Road at the National Theatre 2025
The National Theatre welcomed the return of the innovative musical London Road, directed by Rufus Norris from 5 – 21 June 2025. This show is now closed. What’s the show about? In autumn 2006, the everyday life of the Suffolk town of Ipswich is shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. […]
Come Alive at The Empress Museum ★★★★★
Come Alive! – a musical circus spectacular that doesn’t need to rewrite the stars – it deserves them all ★★★★★ Inspired by the film The Greatest Showman, ‘COME ALIVE!’ is a musical circus spectacular, starring the finest international circus acts and musical theatre talent from the West End. I went to see it last night […]
MRS. DOUBTFIRE at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre ★★★
MRS. DOUBTFIRE announces closing date at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre Like many young people growing up in the eighties and nineties, I grew up watching the film Mrs Doubtfire. It was always on TV around Christmas and had an A-list cast including Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein and a six-year-old Mara Wilson (in […]