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Founded by the late, great Sir Peter Hall, and modelled on the original Elizabethan Rose Theatre on London's Bankside, Rose Theatre Kingston is the largest producing theatre in south-west London.

Germ Free Adolescent centres on Ashley, a teenage girl with OCD.

Ugly sets out to be an exploration of beauty standards and the perception of women's attractiveness.

Charting the blossoming political analyst Jamie and Brown University dropout-turned-bartender Stephanie after meeting in the office of their psychiatrist, Chemistry is a worthy entrant into the growing pantheon of plays about mental health.

Frank McGuinness's play is never less than engaging, Angela Murray tremendous as the woman left alone after her daughter is shot, but it's an unrelenting and demanding watch

It's a particular treat when a triple bill allows programme space to showcase not one but two exciting companies.

Every year, thousands of playwrights respond to Papatango Theatre Company's call for their New Writing Prize.

A new family face the most testing of circumstances when their beautiful new baby girl is diagnosed with a potentially life-changing condition.

Today, Hamleys, the oldest toy store in the world, unveiled its legendary Christmas windows display.

Olivier nominee Rachel Tucker ('Come From Away', 'Wicked'), 'Britain's Got Talent' winner Jai McDowall and Matthew Pagan from Collabro are to headline a star-studded charity gala performance of Boublil And Schönberg's 'The Pirate Queen' at the London Coliseum on Sunday 23 February, 2020, with proce

Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar remains one of the most epic scores in musical theatre.

Tonight, we open the first UK revival of Robert Chesley's play Jerker.

Michael Harrison and David Ian today announce The Drifters Girl, a brand new musical starring Beverley Knight, which tells the remarkable story of one of the world's greatest vocal groups The Drifters and the woman who made them.

CURTAINS will premiere in London at Wyndham's Theatre, playing 38 performances from 13 December 2019 until 11 January 2020.

Deep in the stomach of Soho, the Boulevard Theatre is the newest addition in the panorama of London's studio theatres.

It's not been a long time since Clare Barron took both New York and London by storm with her 2018 play Dance Nation, whose portrayal of a group of teenage competitive dancers had gloriously ruptured into feminist fireworks.

I Do! I Do! even with this updated book, is an old-fashioned two-hander musical that never fails to please, without ever challenging the traditional approach to the union between a man and a woman.

The Guild of Misrule's THE GREAT GATSBY, created and directed by Alexander Wright, is currently wowing audiences in its brand-new West End venue IMMERSIVE | LDN, continuing its record as the UK's longest running immersive production.

Broadway star Kelli O'Hara will return to London to play her debut solo concert engagement at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 10 November.

Adapted from the 2010 book written by celebrated author, actor, presenter and talent show judge David Walliams, Billionaire Boy brings to life familiar morality tales for a young audience.

The National Youth Theatre revamp Mary Shelley's masterpiece and update it for a modern audience in what should be a cutting-edge production at Southwark Playhouse.

Is this a great time to tell stories, shedding light in dark times? Or is it an impossible task? That's the loose premise of Annie Baker's wilfully elusive new piece, featuring the brainstorming session from hell a?' or possibly about hell, or in hell.

On 29 October 2019 performances began for the West End premiere of Dear Evan Hansen at the Noel Coward Theatre

Producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and Sonia Friedman Productions announced today that To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin's new play based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, directed by Bartlett Sher, will open at London's Gielgud Theatre in May 2020.

'Reputation', a new musical by Alick Glass, set in the 1930s and celebrating the glorious sounds and musical rhythms of that era, will get its world premiere at The Other Palace Studio from Tuesday 5 - Thursday 14 November.