Nicholas Hytner News

The script for Alan Bennett's The History Boys, winner of the Olivier, Evening Standard and London Critics Circle Awards for Best Play, is available today in bookstores

The Broadhurst Theatre Box Office (235 West 44th Street) will open on Monday, March 20th at 10am for THE HISTORY BOYS, a new play by Alan Bennett. THE HISTORY BOYS opens Sunday, April 23. Previews begin on Friday, April 14 for a 20-week limited engagement.

'Anna-Jane Casey will now headline the cast of Not(es) from New York at the Duchess Theatre on Sunday 19 March, alongside Dougal Irvine, Julie Atherton and Paul Spicer. Casey, who has recently won rave reviews for her performance as Dot in the revival of Sunday in the Park with George, replaces Joanna Riding who has reluctantly been forced to withdraw from her role due to unforeseen personal circumstances.'

Now through Saturday, February 25, American Express Gold Card Events is offering a pre-sale before they're available to the general public.

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

Following a year-long absence, the West End's first and only platform for contemporary musical theatre returns with an unexpectedly British twist. Double Olivier Award winner Joanna Riding and West End regular Richard Dempsey join series stalwarts Julie Atherton and Paul Spicer in Not(es) from New York, a one-off show focusing on songs by a duo of London based composers, at the Duchess Theatre on Sunday 19 March 2006.

The complete London cast of Alan Bennett's The History Boys will also be on hand for the Broadway transfer production

The National Theatre of Great Britain's production of Alan Bennett's THE HISTORY BOYS, will open on Sunday, April 23, 2006 on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) with the National's acting company for a 20-week limited engagement.

Alan Bennett's play The History Boys, which concerns a group of British school boys, will open at a to-be-announced Broadway theatre on April 23rd after beginning previews on April 14th

The National Theatre of Great Britain's production will open on Broadway, with the National acting company, on April 23, 2006 at a theater to be announced.

The heat of the summer closes three plays, Branagh reunites with the Right Size for Ducktastic and the Menier invites us to the Park with George.

A film version of Alan Bennett's The History Boys will be brought to the screen with Nicholas Hytner once again directing

The winners of this year's Laurence Olivier Awards were announced in London on Sunday, February 20th.

Can The Producers sweep the Laurence Olivier Awards against The Woman in White and Mary Poppins? Also, Ralph Fiennes leads a cast of over 100 on stage..

The nominations were announced today for the 2005 Olivier Awards, London's most prestigious theatre awards. The award ceremony will take place on February 20, 2005 in the UK.

Sharon Osbourne's Vagina Monologues, Millie tours and Broadbent's Blood at the National.

An extensive interview with Broadway star Patrick Wilson, about the upcoming Phantom of the Opera film and much more...

Will problems at Jerry Springer cause premature closure? Plus Mary Stuart Masterson makes her West End debut with Kevin Spacey.

Oh Meer! It was never meant to be for the West End run of Fuddy Meers, but solutions are unearthing to this closing trend. Plus, the Edinburgh Fringe programme is announced!