Jane Horrocks and Karl Johnson will join, as previously announced, Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in the Old Vic’s forthcoming revival of Samuel Beckett’s 1957 classic Endgame.
WATCH: Feel the tension in the trailer for new thriller You Game
How are your nerves? Can they take the tension-piling, knuckle-whitening short new trailer for thriller You Game? Give it a watch, then book your tickets.
NEWS: Waitress closes at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre 4 July ahead of UK tour
The producers of Waitress have announced the show’s final West End extension at the Adelphi Theatre, where it will finish on 4 July 2020 ahead of a UK tour and planned London return.
CASTING: Preeya Kalidas becomes first British Asian to play Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
BAFTA and Olivier Award nominee actress, singer and radio presenter Preeya Kalidas has this week joined the West End cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the West End’s Apollo Theatre, becoming the first British Asian to play the role.
‘This is a play from Soviet Russia but it’s surprisingly anti-Soviet’: Ukrainian director Asya Sosis on reviving tyrannical allegory Dragon
How well do you know Soviet-era Russian plays? Following her reinvention of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Flight, Ukrainian-born Gamayun Theatre founder Asya Sosis directs a new reimagining of rarely-seen Soviet political satire Dragon. She told us more about its significance. Time to get booking!
NEWS: Full 41-strong cast announced for premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt
Final casting is announced today for the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s new play Leopoldstadt.
Welcome back: Meet the cast & creatives as Offies-commended At Last returns
Rehearsals have started for the return of Alexander Knott and James Lewis’ acclaimed dystopian drama At Last and the full original company have reunited for new dates in Coventry and London. We followed along on Twitter as Proforca Theatre re-introduced cast and creatives. Catch up – and then get booking!
FEATURED SHOW: ★★★★ reviews are in for The House of the Spirits, now extended at the Cervantes Theatre
‘Absorbing, compelling, excellent, visually beautiful’… Is it any wonder that The House of the Spirits has extended its sell-out, bilingual run at London’s Cervantes Theatre? We’ve rounded up review highlights from Mates and others below. Only a few tickets remaining.
‘My determination was fired up by the junior doctors’ strike’: Tania Amsel on writing & performing Blood Orange
When helping others is at the heart of your career, what happens when you’re the one who needs help? We talked to Tania Amsel about her new one-woman play Blood Orange, told from the perspective of an overwhelmed junior doctor at Christmas.
Terri trips: Toe-tapping along with 42nd Street at the cinema
I loved the recent outrageously lavish West End production of 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, but was annoyed I didn’t get a chance to return to see the recast before it finished earlier this year – which saw Bonnie Langford return the adaptation of this Hollywood Golden Age musical 25 years after she first starred as the show’s young ingenue.
NEWS: Gamayun Theatre presents outlawed Soviet satire Dragon at Cockpit Theatre in December
What does it take to kill a dragon? British Ukrainian company Gamayun Theatre presents a timely new production of rarely-seen Soviet Russian political satire Dragon for two performances only at London’s Cockpit Theatre on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 December 2019.
NEWS: New play Blood Orange exposes the pressure on junior doctors at Christmas
As we head towards another annual winter crisis for the over-stretched NHS, new play Blood Orange, written and performed Tania Amsel, explores the extra pressures heaped on junior doctors at Christmastime. It runs at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre from 10 December 2019 to 4 January 2020, with a press night on 12 December.
Terri trips: Ibsen via India in When the Crows Visit’s world premiere
I’ve been remiss in not getting back up to Kilburn, where I lived for many years, since the reopening of Kiln Theatre. But I was able to put that right with a trip to artistic director Indhu Rubasingham’s world premiere production of Anupama Chandresekhar’s When the Crows Visit.
New satire God 2.0 needs your help!
What would you ask God if you had the chance? The team at God 2.0 want to know the answer and may even use it in their new show, which opens later this month. Book your tickets now.
NEWS: Beverley Knight stars in world premiere of The Drifters Girl musical, about the 1950s R&B band’s rise to fame
The Drifters Girl will make its world premiere at Newcastle Theatre Royal in the new year, before transferring to the West End’s Garrick Theatre in London for a strictly limited season of 20 weeks.
NEWS: Five years after Donmar sell-out, City of Angels transfers to West End’s Garrick Theatre
Josie Rourke’s critically acclaimed and Olivier Award-winning production of City of Angels makes its West End transfer five years since opening at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014.
FEATURED SHOW: More ★★★★ reviews & an Offies nomination for The Good Scout in London
After its rave reviews and New Writing award at Edinburgh Fringe, Glenn Chandler’s new play The Good Scout has won another round of plaudits and an OffWestEnd.com nomination on its London transfer to Above the Stag Theatre, where it continues until 2 November. We’ve rounded up the review highlights. Time to get booking!
‘Exploring the dark corners where memory hides’: DISSOCIATED – Etcetera Theatre
There are some really interesting ideas in Dissociated, from the exploration of a woman’s psyche during continuous nights of conscious sleep to the fact that the traumas she unearths are punctuated with singing and dancing.
Terri trips: Attending opening night of Mischief Theatre premiere Groan Ups
Ahead of my post-show Q&A tonight, I was at the Vaudeville Theatre for the official opening of the world premiere of Mischief Theatre’s new comedy Groan Ups last Thursday (10 October 2019).
NEWS: Full 18-strong cast announced for James McAvoy-led Cyrano de Bergerac
Full details of the 18-strong company joining James McAvoy in Cyrano de Bergerac in the West End have been announced.