Noel Coward News

Red Peppers, a short play by Noël Coward in which he originally starred, shows a faded music hall double act, a husband and wife team, who perform two musical numbers punctuated by backstage bickering and quarrels with colleagues.

West End stars Rosalie Craig, Natalie May Paris, & Maiya Quansah-Breed will join Hadley Fraser at his first ever solo concert at Cadogan Hall this June.

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show will make its Brighton homecoming, after an 11-year absence, at Ironworks during the Brighton Fringe this May. Learn more about the show here!

Theatrical charity, Acting for Others, has announced the winners of the Golden Bucket Awards 2025. The ceremony, held at the Prince of Wales Theatre and hosted by Carl Mullaney, concluded with a performance by Stefan Bednarczyk.

Don't Tell Mama will present Christy Trapp in The Tender Trapp, a woman's perspective on Sinatra's standards and double standards this month. Learn more here!

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, directed by Ola Ince. The Crucible is the first modern classic to be staged at the Globe Theatre.

Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton will star in supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story on an extensive UK-wide tour, opening at Manchester Opera House in August.

Master satirist Rory Bremner is back with an intimate show  that combines his signature stand-up with candid conversation, accompanied by a rotating cast of special guest hosts. Learn more about the tour here!

Ahead of Operation Mincemeat's Broadway opening night at the John Golden Theatre on 20th March, the 2024 Best New Musical Olivier Award-winning show has announced its biggest West End extension to date.

Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Last Laugh is a brand-new laugh-a-minute play which re-imagines the lives of three of Britain's all-time greatest comedy heroes – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse.

Homage to much-loved comedians and their deceptively dangerous art

54 Below will present the return of MAC and Bistro Award-winning concert artist Jeff Harnar – celebrating Manhattan in music with Confessions of a New Yorker. Learn more here!

Electric Press Productions will present the London debut of The Mad Ones, which will feature West End actors Jacob Fowler and Courtney Stapleton. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Following a remarkable 18-year run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the multi-award-winning Bite-Size Plays returns with an enchanting series of mini theatrical productions this Spring.

West End star Hadley Fraser will perform his first ever solo concert at Cadogan Hall. The event marks the launch of his upcoming album, Things That Come and Go

The legendary Isaac Mizrahi oozed charm at the opening night of his annual Café Carlyle residency on February 4. The show, funny and dishy with plenty of songs in between, is a perfect Valentine's week treat. It runs nightly through February 15.

Moon Over Buffalo is a comedy play-within-a-play that follows the story of George and Charlotte Hay, a couple of Broadway stars who have taken their run-down touring company to Buffalo, New York. The play is set in the summer of 1953 and is rife with slapstick and situational humor, backstage shenanigans, and dysfunctional family dynamics. Charlotte and George Hay, an acting couple not exactly the Lunts, attempt to regain their former glory while on tour in Buffalo with a repertory consisting of Cyrano de Bergerac 'revised, one nostril version' and Noel Coward's Private Lives.

Check out production photos for Figaro: An Original Musical receiving its world premiere tonight at the London Palladium. The two fully-staged concert performances take place on Monday 3 February & Tuesday 4 February 2025.

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast of this year’s Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production, Macbeth, directed by Lucy Cuthbertson (Director of Education, Shakespeare’s Globe) in the Globe Theatre.

The production’s thrifty staging directed by Judith Hendra for Topanga Actors Company feels stagnant instead of urgent, indifferent where it could have been thought-provoking.