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From Amsterdam to the West End: the avant-garde hit factory behind The Years and Oedipus

A pair of electrifying London shows bagged four prizes at the Olivier awards. Both were developed by Dutch company ITA, which has an eye for British talent

The Guardian - UK

Do we really want Clueless updated to reflect our dark, digital age? Ugh! As if!

Thirty years after the film, the musical version makes no excuses for being a nostalgia-fest

The Guardian - UK

Award-winning Dear England play to embark on 16-venue tour

Written by James Graham it had a sell-out run at the National Theatre before it transferred to the West End in 2023.

The Independent UK

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Curtain up! Meet the new artistic directors with great plans for British theatre

Our theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK, from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about working post-pandemic in an era of funding cuts – and share the secrets of their trade

The Guardian - UK

Scottish star Jack Lowden to star in West End play about addiction

SCOTTISH actor Jack Lowden and Sherlock's Martin Freeman are to star in a play about addiction that has been transferred to the West End...

The National (Scotland)

Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe

The pianist, director and playwright of Farinelli and the King, which starred her husband Mark Rylance, is remembered by the Globe’s former artistic director

The Guardian - UK

Director Eline Arbo: ‘Theatre is very fake. You have grown up people pretending to die in front of you’

The Norwegian theatre director on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir The Years to the West End, standing on Ivo van Hove’s shoulders, and why live experiences still matter

The Guardian - UK

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Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

The Guardian - UK

‘King of the musicools!’ Inside the outrageous musical send-up of Andrew Lloyd Webber

It’s had hit runs in Edinburgh and Soho – and was the Guardian’s funniest show of 2024. Now it’s blazing into the West End. Comedy duo Flo & Joan (who were both in Joseph at school) reveal all about One Man Musical

The Guardian - UK

‘I was captivated and in awe’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2024

A towering turn from John Lithgow, musicals in Birmingham and Manchester, and Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde were among the year’s standout shows

The Guardian - UK

David Jason ‘full of anticipation’ to watch Only Fools And Horses The Musical

After a four-year run on the West End, the musical comedy has returned for a UK and Ireland tour.

Evening Standard

The Old Vic announces Rupert Goold as new artistic director

Goold said he will be joining with ‘excitement and trepidation’

The Independent UK

Deck the stalls! 20 of the UK’s best festive theatre shows

Theatre’s boom season offers puppy puppetry, hungry houseplants and fresh spins on Dickens, Dumas and Disney

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Evening Standard

The Standard 100: People shaping London in Music, Culture, Art, Stage, Screen and Podcasts

The Standard 100’s list of people shaping London across arts and culture from Charli XCX to Tracey Emin and Idris Elba

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Leigh-Hunt obituary

Highly expressive actor of impeccable technique that could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy

Evening Standard

Death of England: Michael/Delroy at @sohoplace review – these raging, raw shows are exactly what the West End needs

The first two parts of Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ exploration of the white and black working-class experience are full of swagger, banter and furious feeling

Evening Standard

What is Slave Play? Jeremy O. Harris's controversial Broadway hit coming to London's West End this summer

Harris’s shocking play about slavery and sex, power and trauma has been dividing audiences since its 2018 Off-Broadway debut. Now it’s opening in the capital

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The London exhibition you must see before it closes in July

Don’t miss the Museum of London’s brilliant Fashion City exhibition which is closing soon says Victoria Moss

The Guardian - UK

Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough

Gough, who is resuming her Olivier award-winning role in People, Places and Things, calls on those in positions of power to become allies for colleagues

The Guardian - UK

Michael Blakemore, venerable theatre director, dies aged 95

The double Tony-winning director staged acclaimed productions by Michael Frayn, Peter Nichols and many others in the West End and Broadway

The Independent UK

Can Stranger Things replicate Harry Potter and save the West End?

The production team behind the most anticipated show of the year tell Annabel Nugent about what makes ‘The First Shadow’ so different from the usual screen-to-stage adaptation, and why they hope the ‘Stranger Things’ monsters will frighten away the curse of Covid from the West End

Evening Standard

The best (non-festive) shows to book this Christmas from Stranger Things to David Tennant's Macbeth

Want to hit the theatre but sick of the seasonal fare? Look no further...

Evening Standard

The best children's shows to book this Christmas: from The Snow Queen to Bluey

Here are the best festive shows for kids that London has to offer in 2023

Evening Standard

The 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards: a glittering night with the brightest stars of London theatre

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

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