Latest UK theatre news including the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston and Kelsey Grammer coming to the West End, next summer's season at the Open Air Theatre. Plus the best of the latest shows to open including Kit Harington in Sam Shepard's True West and an all male version of Genet's The Maids.

Theatre News Weekly

Paul Seven's Theatre News Weekly 22 November 2018

News of tours of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Mousetrap and Rotterdam, Clare Burt starring in an Arthur Miller play at the Old Vic, and a number of Strictly’s finest young male celebrities- Harry Judd, Aston Merrygold, Louis Smith and Jay McGuinness- getting together for a West End show plus the pick of this week’s openings including Mark Williams as Doctor Dolittle and the arrival of Caroline Or Change with Sheila D Clarke in the West End.

Paul Seven's Theatre News Weekly 14 November 2018

The best of shows opening this week including War Horse at the National Theatre and news of West End transfers including Home, I'm Darling with Katharine Parkinson and Switzerland with Phyllis Logan, UK tours including Dom Jolly in The Rocky Horror Show and, after 60 years of Jerome Robbins, new choreography for West Side Story.

Paul Seven's Theatre News Weekly

News about a new production of Death Of A Salesman directed by Marianne Elliott, a new season at Young Vic, and tours of a Torben Betts comedy and a musical based on the film Amelie plus a review of Tom Burke of TV’s Cormoran Strike fame who is brilliant in Schiller’s Don Carlos plus the seven best shows opening this week including a new play by Debbie Tucker Green at Royal Court Theatre and Mark Gatiss in The Madness of George III.

Paul Seven's Theatre News Weekly 31 October 2018

News about arts cuts in Birmingham, a new season at Royal Court Theatre featuring a play by Harry Potter And The Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne, and a new tour of American Idiot, plus a review of A Very Very Very Dark Matter by Martin MacDonagh starring Jim Broadbent at Bridge Theatre London, and the pick of this week's openings including plays featuring Christopher Ecclestone, Niamh Cusack, Rufus Hound, David Threlfall, Keith Allen and Tamsin Greig. 

Paul Seven's Theatre News Weekly 24 October 2018

News of the UK Theatre Awards big winners and two West End transfers, review of David Hare's I'm Not Running starring Sian Brooke at National Theatre and the pick of shows opening this week with Tom Burke, Maisie Williams, Hugh Dennis and more.

Paul Seven's Theatre News Weekly 17 October 2018

News of National Theatre's new season featuring Cate Blanchett, Nicola Walker in new Mark Ravenhill play at Royal Court, a review of Florian Zeller's new play The Height Of The Storm starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins (confusing but moving), and this week's top five openings including a new play by Martin McDonagh starring Jim Broadbent  

Paul Seven's Theatre News 10 October 2018

News of tickets going on sale for Ivo Van Hove's new production All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James, an award for Aidan Turner and a review of Humans at Hampstead Theatre plus the pick of theatre shows opening around the UK including Stephen Sondheim's Company, a comedy by and starring Adrian Edmonton and Nigel Planer, Kwame Kwei-Armah's first production in large of the Young Vic and the National Theatre's Macbeth on tour.

Theatre News Weekly 25 September 2018

News of a new Lloyd Webber musical and Kevin Clifton in a hit musical tour, reviews of Women In Power and Flowers for Mrs Harris, plus the pick of shows opening this week including Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo in Anthony And Cleopatra and Debris Stevenson's Poet In Da Corner.

Theatre News Weekly 18 September 2018

The first West End show with an all female creative team, the RSC's new rep company and other news plus a review of The Goon Show and five recommended theatre shows opening this week including a new play starring Lesley Sharp.

Theatre News Weekly 11 September 2018

The best theatre shows opening in the UK this week including Pinter On Pinter, a review of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen at Chichester Festival Theatre and news of shows opening and closing including Fiddler On The Roof.

Theatre News Weekly 4 September 2018

Latest UK theatre news and reviews including review of Rhys Ifans in Exit The King, news of National Theatre's controversial Macbeth going on tour, another Poldark star to appear on the West End stage, singalongs with the cast of A Bat Out Of Hell and Alexandra Burke starring in two musicals, plus the best shows to see including Ian McKellen's King Lear.

Theatre News Weekly August 2018

Latest UK theatre news including Orlando Bloom's attack on an audience member, a round-up of reviews of Ian McKellen as King Lear and Rhys Ifans in Exit The King, London theatre closures, more big names in Pinter At Pinter, a review of Alan Bennett's Allelujah! and the pick of this week's openings.

Theatre News Weekly 31 July 2018

Latest UK theatre news including Gillian Anderson to star in West End, Vanessa Kirby comments on the large Lyttleton Theatre space, Publishers' Association research shows book adaptations far more commercially successful than original shows, new seasons at New Vic and New Diorama, pick of the Edinburgh Fringe, and a round-up of reviews of Alan Bennett's Allelujah!

Theatre News Weekly 24 July 2018

News of Vanessa Redgrave's return to the West End and Bonnie Langford joining the cast of 42nd Street, how to watch theatre from your sofa, a round-up of reviews of The Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre and a review of Aidan Turner in The Lieutenant Of Inishmore plus the pick of shows opening this week.

Theatre News Weekly 17 July 2018

News of new theatre shows opening and going on sale in London and the UK and the latest stories from the world of theatre

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