UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 106

Ilan Galkoff, Ben Caplan, Clara Francis, Andrew Paul and Yiftach Mizrahi will star in the world premiere of Shimmy Braun’s  Faygele, directed by Will Nunziata, at London’s Marylebone Theatre.

Electric Press Productions will present the London debut of The Mad Ones, which will feature West End actors Jacob Fowler and Courtney Stapleton.

Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice.

After a rather muted reception of The Tempest, fans of director Jamie Lloyd’s work can breathe a sigh of relief.

In a vigorous virtuoso performance that demands to be seen, Jack Holden brings to exhilarating life a true-life crime story from half a century ago.

An extra 30,000 tickets for Mischief's brand new West End show,  The Comedy About Spies have been released, with the show extended through Summer 2025 by four weeks due to phenomenal demand.

Richard II is played by Jonathan Bailey, whose past work includes Bridgerton, Fellow Travellers, Cassio in Nicholas Hytner’s National Theatre production of Othello and Edgar to Ian McKellen’s King Lear.

As someone with a love for musicals and comedy who grew up with an odd fascination around the Titanic and its tragic end, you can only imagine the excitement I felt seeing the press release for Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle.

A nation in need, an unsuitable king, banishments, murders, attempted coups.

Katy Rudd (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) returns to the National Theatre to direct a re-imagining of Noel Streatfeild’s beloved novel Ballet Shoes, in a new version by Kendall Feaver (The Almighty Sometimes).

Arts Council England delays its planned overhaul of National Lottery Project Grants and Developing Your Creative Practice funding until September, following sector feedback.

AI and ChatGPT are yesterday’s news but artificial general intelligence - and the very existential threat it presents - may very well be tomorrow’s.

The West End Flea Market will take place this May at St Paul's Church and Churchyard, Covent Garden.

360,000 new tickets have been released for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London, taking booking for the production to 15 February 2026.

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical will welcome a new cast as the musical continues performances at The Other Palace.

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the West End transfer of the Kiln Theatre’s production of Retrograde by Ryan Calais Cameron.

The National Theatre has announced a tour of its production, Dear England.

The premise of The Shark is Broken is deceptively simple; three men in a boat, waiting and talking.

The world premiere of a new adaptation of The Passenger by Nadya Menuhin, is being presented at Finborough Theatre.

Liv Hill, Siena Kelly and Tanya Reynolds are cast in the world premiere of Ava Pickett’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play 1536 at The Almeida Theatre.

With a starry The Seagull opening soon at The Barbican, the peerless playwright is in vogue right now, his unstable worlds of uneasy transition chiming with the nervous times.

Airlock Theatre has returned to Soho Theatre with their “third big queer musical extravaganza” - Count Dykula.

Set in a corporate building’s executive ladies’ room in Seattle and with its tagline promising us a story of “holding on, letting go and everything in between”, Liesl Wilke’s new musical Stalled makes its world premiere at Kings Head Theatre.

The winners of the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards were announced this weekend in a ceremony hosted by David Tennant at The Royal Festival Hall in London.

West End Unscripted! is an exclusive new celebrity Q&A series donating to charity, and bringing theatre lovers closer to their favourite stars, set for next month, with further dates to be announced.