Get new contemporary Japanese, Habuka, on your radar, because next time you're feeling clueless and hungry round Tottenham Court Road, you could do worse... more
The Mikado is The tiny Union's fourth musical - and second all-male production of Gilbert and Sullivan - in a year and it keeps getting better.... more
Hairspray has gone into profit and Wicked has notched up more than £50 million of box office takings to defy the trend of Broadway imports that lose money.
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Jude Law is to play Hamlet on the West End stage. Law will play the title role in a new production for the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Kenneth Branagh.... more
Having run in London for 13 years before touring nationally, Rob Bettinson's slickly directed revival of Buddy could well occupy the Duchess Theatre for the next decade.... more
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is re-launching itself as a West End rival to Kevin Spacey's Old Vic, establishing an in-house company to produce full seasons.... more
She had a triumphant first night in the West End, but the days before were peppered with damaging speculation. In her first interview, Billie Piper hits back at the gossips.... more
Work has started on the £1m moving floor that will transform the Theatre Royal Drury Lane into Middle Earth for the The Lord Of The Rings musical.... more
Underneath The Lintel is such "grave tosh" it left Nicholas de Jongh fearing commercial theatre producers are plotting to rid the West End of straight plays altogether.... more
The cast of a £25 million West End stage version of The Lord Of The Rings has begun rehearsals, with the director admitting he had visited JRR Tolkien's grave to apologise for the show.... more
Flushed with the success of musicals, theatres are in the money. Now some of their profits should go into looking after their customers, says the Standard's theatre critic.... more
A gangly palm tree fills the White Cube's West End space, At Home is hard to resist and The Wallace Collection celebrates Francesco Xanto Avelli.... more
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