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The Audience breaks record - for audience figures
A West End play starring Helen Mirren as the Queen has broken a National Theatre audience record.
Graeae’s tale of limbless knight to ask theatre-goers at Greenwich festival what it means to be alive
Jenny Sealey, co-director of the London 2012 Paralympic Games opening ceremony, writes about a new production by Hackney-based disabled-led theatre company Graeae, which will be shown at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.
I have come to terms with ‘older women’ roles, says Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, who will grace London’s Old Vic theatre when a new show opens this week, has said she has come to terms with taking on the roles of “older women”.
Old postal sorting office to host unconventional production
A unconventional theatrical production which advises audience members to wear “comfortable” footwear is to show at an old postal sorting office in central London from this summer.
Jeeves and Wooster stage production to hit the West End
PG Wodehouse’s classic characters Jeeves and Wooster - famously portrayed on TV in the 90s by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry - are being brought to the West End.
War Horse puppet to tread turf at Uefa Champions League final
A giant puppet from the hit West End show War Horse will put in an appearance at Wembley this weekend ahead of the Uefa Champions League final.
Theatre review: Relatively Speaking at Wyndham’s Theatre
This new production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking may only be a couple of hours long, but it crams in the comedy.
Tom Hiddleston to take lead role in Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus
Avengers Assemble actor Thom Hiddleston and Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss are to star in a West End production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.
Theatre review: Hutch at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
The story of Leslie ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson promises on paper to be a humdinger.
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Theatre See all
- The Audience breaks record - for audience figures
- Graeae’s tale of limbless knight to ask theatre-goers at Greenwich festival what it means to be alive
- I have come to terms with ‘older women’ roles, says Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall
- Old postal sorting office to host unconventional production
- Jeeves and Wooster stage production to hit the West End
