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Cate Blanchett, Anne-Marie Duff, and More Join National Theatre's 2026 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 6, 2026

The National Theatre announced further casting and dates for its 2026 season, including Cate Blanchett in ELECTRA/PERSONA, Anne-Marie Duff in SOME WOMAN, and new casts for CLOUD 9 and THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE.

New Staging of THE JUNGLE BOOK Comes to the National Theatre in November
by Stephi Wild - Mar 16, 2026

This festive season, the National Theatre will stage Anupama Chandrasekhar's (The Father and the Assassin) new play, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's beloved family tale The Jungle Book, directed by Indhu Rubasingham.

Photos: Inside Opening Night of THE CHERRY ORCHARD at the Donmar Warehouse
by Stephi Wild - May 3, 2024

The Donmar Warehouse is now presenting Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, in a new version and directed by Benedict Andrews. Check out photos from opening night here!

Photos: First Look at THE CHERRY ORCHARD at Donmar Warehouse
by Stephi Wild - May 1, 2024

All new photos have been released from Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, in a new version and directed by Benedict Andrews, at the Donmar Warehouse.

Photos: Go Inside Rehearsals for THE CHERRY ORCHARD at Donmar Warehouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 11, 2024

Check out rehearsal photos of The Cherry Orchard at Donmar Warehouse. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

Full Cast Set For THE CHERRY ORCHARD at the Donmar Warehouse
by Stephi Wild - Mar 19, 2024

Discover the full cast of Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD, in a new version adapted and directed by Benedict Andrews, announced by Donmar Warehouse.

Photos: First Look at Rehearsal for POSSESSION at the Arcola Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 30, 2023

Photos-first look at the world première of Sasha Hails’ debut stage play, Possession, directed by Oscar Pearce is currently in rehearsal.  Completing the Arcola summer season in Studio 1, this powerful new play interweaves the stories of four mothers across continents and time, through colonial and contemporary Democratic Republic of Congo, and Victorian and present-day London.

Arcola Theatre Presents The World Premiere of POSSESSION By Sasha Hails
by Stephi Wild - Apr 19, 2023

Arcola Theatre, led by Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen and Executive Producer Leyla Nazli, has announced the world première of Sasha Hails' debut stage play, Possession, to be directed by Oscar Pearce.

Cast Announced For The World Premiere of Jacob Roberts-Mensah's DRUM at Omnibus Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Aug 10, 2022

With The Girl Who Was Very Good at Lying, and FIJI currently running at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Omnibus Theatre have announced the full company for the world premiere of Jacob Roberts-Mensah's DRUM. Sarah Amankwah directs Benjamin Sarpong-Broni  (Mike Eghan) and Joshua Roberts-Mensah (James Barnor).

Shakespeare's Globe Restarts Guided Tour With Visitors Onstage For The First Time
by Stephi Wild - Aug 19, 2020

After closing in March this year, the Globe Theatre opens its oak doors once more for guided tours from 21 August.

BWW Review: AMADEUS, National Theatre At Home
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jul 17, 2020

It seems almost a lifetime ago that the National Theatre made the decision to start streaming shows from their archive to shine a light in the darkness of these times. Beginning with One Man, Two Guv'nors, their screening of the peerless production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus marks the last of these shows and ends this wonderful series on a triumphant high.

Shakespeare's Globe Announces 2019/20 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Season: She Wolves And Shrews
by Stephi Wild - Jul 12, 2019

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the 201920 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Season. Centred around She Wolves and Shrews, the season is a celebration and interrogation of women, power, and the role of the feminine in shaping our past, present and future. The candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will play host to a world-premiere of Ella Hickson's new play Swive [Elizabeth], Shakespeare's Henry VI, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew, and Middleton's Women Beware Women. Sandi and Jenifer Toksvig have written a new family show dubbed, Christmas at the (Snow) Globe, and a series of candlelit ghost tales will include a new story from Jeanette Winterson. Other events running throughout the season include half-term storytelling festival, Half Term Tales at the Globe, with the new Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell, and a double bill of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, marking the centenary year since the removal of the sex disqualification act. The Globe's flagship project for secondary and post-16 students, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, reaches its 14th year with Macbeth.

THE STARRY MESSENGER Leads May's Top 10 New London Shows
by Marianka Swain - Apr 25, 2019

London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From timely plays to the beginning of open-air theatre season, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld's reviews, interviews and features!

Shakespeare's Globe Announces Summer Season 2019
by Stephi Wild - Jan 9, 2019

Shakespeare's Globe is delighted to announce the Summer Season 2019. Celebrating and interrogating our 'sceptred isle' through Shakespeare's history plays, a year-long journey begins with Richard II, opening 22 February in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, continuing into the Globe Theatre this summer with Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. The season also includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, and the return of 2018's As You Like It. Robin Hood tales will form the core of the Read Not Dead series this year, and festivals throughout the summer include Women & Power and Poland is Hamlet. This year's Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production will be Romeo and Juliet, opening on 28 February, with 20,000 free tickets available to state secondary schools. The Shakespeare's Globe Touring Ensemble will once again present a trio of plays for the audience to choose from: The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, and Twelfth Night.

BWW Review: DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
by Laura Jones - Dec 7, 2018

In the intimate candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe, Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus has once again been brought to life on the London stage. In this version however, director Paulette Randall has switched the lead's gender, with Jocelyn Jee Esien taking on the role of the ambitious and knowledgeable Faustus.

Shakespeare's Globe Announces Full Casting For Paulette Randall's DOCTOR FAUSTUS
by Stephi Wild - Oct 25, 2018

Shakespeare's Globe is delighted to announce the full cast of Paulette Randall's Doctor Faustus, opening in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on Saturday 1 December.

National Theatre Announces New Casting for Upcoming Season
by Stephi Wild - Feb 21, 2018

New casting announced for the new National Theatre season. Full cast has been announced for Brian Friel's Translations including Colin Morgan and Ciaran Hinds, part of the Travelex season with thousands of tickets available at £15. Eric Kofi Abrefa and Thalissa Teixeira join Vanessa Kirby in the cast of Julie, part of the Travelex season with thousands of tickets available at £15. Sam Mendes directs The Lehman Trilogy, a co-production with Neal Street Productions, cast includes Adam Godley, Ben Miles and Simon Russell Beale. Full casting is announced for the award winning An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, transferring to the National Theatre in a co-production with the Orange Tree Theatre. The NT will tour to 30 venues in 27 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland, for a total of 83 playing weeks over the next year. Rufus Norris' Macbeth to tour to 18 venues across the UK and Ireland from autumn 2018. War Horse returns to the National Theatre marking the centenary of Armistice Day.

Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsals for AMADEUS at the National Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 3, 2018

Michael Longhurst's acclaimed production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus returns to the Olivier theatre this January following a sell-out run of performances last year. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy it. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music and, ultimately, with God.

National Theatre Announces Casting for MACBETH, THE GREAT WAVE, JOHN and More
by BWW News Desk - Oct 27, 2017

Dates and casting have announced for new National Theatre season!

BWW Review: AMADEUS, National Theatre, 26 October 2016
by Marianka Swain - Oct 27, 2016

Jealousy stalks this seminal work by the late Peter Schaffer, making a triumphant return to the theatre where it debuted in 1979. Court composer Salieri is cursed with just enough musical appreciation to realise how mediocre his efforts are in comparison with Mozart - whose instinctive genius is yoked to an obscene child persona - a realisation that shakes his fundamental faith. If music is God's art, why isn't his virtue rewarded with a divine voice? Why does the Almighty choose instead, as his conduit, someone who Salieri deems so unworthy?