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Following on from successful London seasons, the Australian production of PETER PAN GOES WRONG, the encore to THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG arrives in Sydney on it's Australian tour.  

Mischief Theatre, the Olivier award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, will take over London's Vaudeville Theatre with a season of new work from September 2019. First up is comedy GROAN UPS - book tickets here!

Mischief Theatre, the Olivier award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, today announces it will take over the Vaudeville theatre with a season of new work from September 2019. Opening with comedy Groan Ups, the original Mischief company reunite to bring their unique inventive hilarity to the West End.

Mischief Theatre, the multi award-winning company behind the global smash hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, today announces a UK tour of Mischief Movie Night, the improvised movie live on stage. Direct from the West End and nominated for the 2018 Olivier Award for 'Best New Comedy', Mischief Movie Night opens at Oxford Playhouse on Wednesday 6 June, visiting a further six venues nationwide until 22 July 2018. Tickets are now on sale.*

London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a feverishly anticipated musical to sci-fi and Shakespeare, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld's reviews and find our top Christmas picks here!

Mischief Theatre, the award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, return to their comedy roots with Mischief Movie Night, the improvised movie live on stage! It's playing at the Arts Theatre in London's West End from 13 December. Book tickets here!

Mischief Theatre, the award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, today announce their return to the West End with Mischief Movie Night, the improvised movie live on stage, which will play for a strictly limited season at the Arts Theatre from 13 December 2017.

Earlier this week, the original Broadway and West End cast of the Tony and Olivier Award winning hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong was honored with a Tony's DiNapoli Broadway Wall of Fame portrait at the Times Square eatery after the new company of stars took their curtain call following their first performance at The Lyceum Theatre.

A new school year is beginning at Cornley University this fall as the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Mischief Theatre's The Play That Goes Wrong, which has inexplicably become longest-running play currently on Broadway, welcomes a new company beginning tonight, September 19th.

A new school year is beginning at Cornley University this fall as the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Mischief Theatre's The Play That Goes Wrong, which has inexplicably become longest-running play currently on Broadway, welcomes a new company beginning Tuesday, September 19th.

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG cast caught yesterday's matinee of COME FROM AWAY - scroll down for a photo of 'The Kiss That Went Wrong' as they smooched the cod!

In this madcap British farce in which the actors are busy smashing chairs and falling over, physical training, concentration and careful meal planning are requisites in getting laughs.

In an inconceivable turn of events, The Play That Goes Wrong will continue wrecking havoc at The Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) on Broadway until at least 2018. Below, watch what happens when Mischief Theatre's Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer get a hold of this new block of tickets!

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: THE LIGHTNING THIEF officially strikes tonight Off-Broadway, and Paula Vogel's INDECENT begins previews on Broadway!

The play within the play might have gone oh, so wrong last night, but opening night couldn't have gone more right at the Lyceum Theatre. Following their first official Broadway curtain call, the company of  the Olivier Award winning West End comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong, headed to Guastavino's to celebrate!

The Mischief Theatre production of The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award winning West End comedy, which officially began performances Thursday, March 9, opened on Broadway last night, April 2, at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).

The Mischief Theatre production of The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award winning West End comedy, which officially began performances Thursday, March 9, opened on Broadway last night, April 2, at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).

All the context you'll need to deal with at the Lyceum's latest offering, Britain's Mischief Theatre import, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, is right there in the title. Forgoing pesky details like plot and character development, the two-act evening of visual gags - some worthy of a Mack Sennet silent - pieced together by bits of verbal silliness is one of those endeavors that charges onto the stage as a force of choreographed chaos, bombarding the audience with so many jabs to the funny bone that even if only a third of them strike properly you're in for a sufficient number of laughs.

The Mischief Theatre production of The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award winning West End comedy, which officially began performances Thursday, March 9, opens on Broadway today, April 2, at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say...

The Play That Goes Wrong opens tonight, April 2, at the Lyceum Theatre.  Get to know the cast before they take their opening bows!