Matthew Warchus News

Emmy award-winning Jean Marsh will join the cast of Matthew Warchus' hilarious and critically acclaimed West End comedy, Boeing-Boeing on October 1 to play long-suffering housekeeper Bertha.

Matthew Warchus' hilarious and critically acclaimed production of 'Boeing-Boeing' is to extend booking until January 5, 2008 as two of television's most notorious femme fatales, Jennifer Ellison and Tracy-Ann Oberman, join the cast.

The Lord of the Rings, the first major stage adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy, which received its British and European Premiere when it opened at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London earlier this summer, celebrates its 100th performance today, Monday, August 13, and its booking period has been extended to September 27, 2008.

Pirates of the Caribbean's Kevin McNally will join the cast of the hit West End comedy, Boeing-Boeing on September 3 for four weeks only to play Parisian playboy Bernard.

Four-time Emmy award-winning Rhea Perlman ('Cheers') and Olivier Award-nominated Evita star Elena Roger are among the new stars of the West End hit comedy, Boeing-Boeing, by Marc Camoletti.

The musical version of The Lord of the Rings, now in previews, opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on June 19th, 2007.

Four-time Emmy award-winning Rhea Perlman, best known for playing feisty and quick-witted waitress Carla Tortelli in the American sitcom classic 'Cheers,'will make her London stage debut as she joins the cast of the West End hit comedy, Boeing-Boeing on June 25 to play long-suffering housekeeper Bertha

Four-time Emmy award-winning Rhea Perlman, best known for playing feisty and quick-witted waitress Carla Tortelli in the American sitcom classic Cheers, one of the most successful US sitcoms of all time, will make her London stage debut as she joins the cast of the West End hit comedy, Boeing-Boeing on 25 June to play long-suffering housekeeper Bertha.

Performances of the London production of The Lord of the Rings, the Tolkien-based musical now in previews, have been halted for a few days due to a stage accident.

After a jam-packed Autumn season last year, with 8 musicals in 8 weeks, the West End goes one better and gives us 10 musicals to look forward to over the summer months. With Broadway imports, popular reality TV cast musicals, new musicals and short-run revivals, there's certainly something for everyone, so read on for the full lowdown..

Patricia Hodge (the West End's Noises Off) will join Matthew Warchus' critically acclaimed production of Boeing-Boeing, taking on the role of Bertha, April 30-June 23. Boeing-Boeing, translated by Beverley Cross from Mark Camoletti's original, opened at the Comedy Theatre in February.

Frost/Nixon, the new play by Peter Morgan, directed by Michael Grandage, will open on Broadway this spring starring Frank Langella (as President Richard Nixon) and Michael Sheen (as Sir David Frost).

Casting is complete for upcoming London production of The Lord of the Rings, which opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on June 19th, 2007

More stars have climbed aboard the upcoming London revival of the French bedroom farce Boeing-Boeing, starring the previously announced Roger Allam and Frances de la Tour

Laura Michelle Kelly flies from Cherry Tree Lane to Middle Earth, Frances de la Tour stars in Boeing-Boeing and Lloyd Webber casts Joseph through reality TV

Tony Award-winner Frances de la Tour and Roger Allam will star in a London revival of the 1961 comedy Boeing-Boeing, which will be presented at the Comedy Theatre beginning February 3rd

London Mary Poppins star Laura Michelle Kelly will play the elven queen Galadriel in the upcoming London production of The Lord of the Rings, which opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on June 19th, 2007

Lord of the Rings plans to cast its spell on London, Chris Carmack and Rosamund Pike plan Summer and Smoke, Trevor Nunn trims Porgy and Bess and a roundup of Avenue Q reviews.

Producers Kevin Wallace and Saul Zaentz, in association with David & Ed Mirvish and Michael Cohl, announced today that The Lord of the Rings will complete its Toronto engagement on Sunday, September 3, 2006 at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre.

The critically lambasted LORD OF THE RINGS walked off with 7 Dora awards (named for Dora Mavor Moore) handed out Monday June 26 at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre.