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The multi award-winning production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is back.

Get a peek below at rehearsals for the upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm below!

Following her recent award-winning success on Company and Angels in America, Marianne Elliott co-directs Death of a Salesman with Miranda Cromwell, who worked as Associate Director on both shows.

The Actors Centre and Voila! Theatre are currently hosting A Piece of the Continent at the Tristan Bates Theatre, a small three-week festival to celebrate European talent.

Cirque du Soleil returns to London's Royal Albert Hall in January 2020 with the European Premiere of LUZIA, a waking dream of Mexico.

The producers of the 2019 UK and Ireland tour and first new production in 25 years of Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey's iconic musical GREASE are delighted to announce that Dan Partridge, Martha Kirby, Louis Gaunt and Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky will star as Danny, Sandy, Kenickie and Rizzo respectively.

Maggie Smith returns to the stage for the first time in twelve years in A German Life, a new play by Christopher Hampton drawn from the life and testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel (1911-2017).

Turning the 1590's patriarchy into a matriarchy, Justin Audibert breaks down why he chose to gender reverse The Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and what effects the decision has had on the actors and audience alike.

Written more than 100 years ago, Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness continues to be a hugely influential, and deeply controversial, work of literature.

A chilly, grey April afternoon: not the most auspicious weather for an occasion such as the Olivier Awards.

RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran has announced his ambition for a new collaborative cross-cast ensemble, to play three Shakespeare productions in a newly reconfigured Royal Shakespeare Theatre this summer.

Following a month-long run at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Katherine Parkinson's debut play, Sitting will make its London premiere at Arcola Theatre 10 April - 11 May 2019.

The Noises traps us in a room with Luna, as she tells us her story from puppy to dog / bodyguard while the world disintegrates outside.

Shakespeare's Globe announced the full cast for William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Elle While, and Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, directed by Blanche McIntyre.

You've seen the musical.

The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award-winning box office hit, against all odds today announces a new booking period with tickets going on sale until 3rd May 2020.

I started writing The Amber Trap over two years ago while I was living in Brighton in a little flat by the sea.

Artistic Director Tom Littler has announced new regional theatre partnerships for Jermyn Street Theatre, and complete casting for his forthcoming production of Pictures of Dorian Gray.

The crimes perpetrated by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1920s-Chicago have gone on to become interwoven in popular culture and have generated a multitude of films, plays, and fiction.

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre have today announced full casting for Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town.

Former Royal Ballet Principal Ivan Putrov has been curating regular galas in London in recent years with hit and miss results.

The Victoria and Albert Museum will host an exhibition of portraits by Francis Hamel celebrating the visiting professors of the Cameron Mackintosh Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

John Godber's Brexity flavoured two-hander examines loneliness in late middle-age with warmth, humour and no little insight - a gem.

Livewire Festival has announced that the Sunday evening slot will be a musical extravaganza, titled 'From Movies To Musicals' bringing some of the UK's most beloved musical stars to the famous seaside resort for the August bank holiday in 2019.

On Saturday 6 April, Mamma Mia! celebrated its 20th birthday in London.