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Audience ‘went mad’ when Just Stop Oil activists disrupted West End show – court
The estimated cost to the Sondheim Theatre of cancelling the Les Miserables performance was £60,000, Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told.
Soap star Carley Stenson pregnant with second child with Danny Mac
The couple are already parents to daughter Skye.
New host of Radio 2’s Pick Of The Pops announced following Steve Wright’s death
Pick Of The Pops counts down two charts from two different weeks from the past seven decades.
OPINION - Tom Holland's silence over the racist abuse of his co-star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is a very bad look
Rarely is there a silver lining when it comes to racism. This is true in the case of the despicable barrage of abuse against actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, cast as Juliet alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo in an upcoming West End production of Shakespeare’s most famous play. But if there is one t...
Opening Night starring Sheridan Smith to close two months early
Producers of West End musical say premature end is due to ‘challenging financial landscape’The West End musical Opening Night starring Sheridan Smith that divided audiences and critics is to close two months early.The show about an actor with mental health problems received mixed reviews and was...
‘It’s their caution and my optimism’: Mamma Mia! producer Judy Craymer on working with Björn and Benny
The woman who talked the Abba duo into putting the musical on stage 25 years ago this weekend is still ‘having the time of her life’, with a third Abba film possibly in the worksJudy Craymer does a top-notch impression of Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Its chief merit is that it is a combin...
Opening Night review – Sheridan Smith’s boozy meltdown shakes up musical theatre
Gielgud Theatre, LondonSmith plays a Broadway star in the midst of a mental crisis in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s glittering and extravagantly original musical adaptation of the Cassavetes filmJohn Cassavetes’ 1977 film about a Broadway star in crisis might seem a natural fit for a stage...
Priscilla the Party! review – jukebox musical dances back to a desert of divas
Here at Outernet, LondonThe 90s movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is celebrated in a chaotic night that’s played for fun I look forward to the day when jukebox musicals have lost their grip on our stages, but if other people’s songs must be used to do the emotional lifting f...
Andrew Scott wins best actor at Critics’ Circle theatre awards
Irish actor awarded prize for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, following his win at Critics’ Circle film awardsAndrew Scott has been named best actor at the Critics’ Circle theatre awards for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens. In February, the...
Don Shearman obituary
My grandfather Don Shearman, who has died aged 92, spent many years in show business as a pianist and worked with a number of top artists, including Norman Wisdom, Russ Conway and Roy Hudd as their personal musical director.After giving up his initial career in engineering, Don started at Butlin’s...
Ian McKellen’s Player Kings to tour England
The play, adapted by Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, stars McKellen as John Falstaff for the first time in his career and will take in Bristol, Birmingham and Newcastle after its West End runA tour of four English theatres has been announced for Player Kings, in which Sir Ian McKellen is st...
‘Am I playing Dolly Parton? I’m flattered!’ Imelda Staunton launches Hello, Dolly! in London
Staunton reunites with Follies director Dominic Cooke to bring ‘old musical to a new audience’ at the Palladium in JulyAfter a four-year delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Imelda Staunton is finally taking on the lead role in the first West End staging of Hello, Dolly! since 1984.The product...
James Corden to return to London stage in political drama The Constituent
Joe Penhall’s new play marks the talkshow host’s first theatre role since One Man, Two Guvnors and will see him star opposite Anna Maxwell Martin at the Old VicJames Corden is to return to the London stage for his first role since the National Theatre’s blockbuster farce One Man, Two Guvnors.T...
‘Black men are conditioned not to articulate our emotions’: Ryan Calais Cameron on his hit play bringing new audiences to the West End
The playwright and actor’s For Black Boys... confounded the critics to become a smash. As it starts a fourth run, he discusses money, creativity and being the world’s worst electricianBorn in Tooting, London in 1988, Ryan Calais Cameron is a playwright, actor, director and producer. His breakout...
Harry Clarke review – Billy Crudup dives into ‘the deep end of sexy’ in tricksy tale
Ambassadors theatre, LondonA timid midwesterner adopts a geezerish British persona in David Cale’s often shrewdly observed yet meandering monologueHarry Clark is the former lance corporal from Slough who lied, cheated and betrayed his way to victory on The Traitors. His near namesake goes several ...
Sarah Jessica Parker and David Tennant among 2024 Olivier nominees
Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings• Complete list of nominationsJames Norton, Andrew Scott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook and David Tennant are among the stars to have received Olivier nominations in a year when British ...
Olivier awards 2024: complete list of nominations
Sunset Boulevard and Dear England have the most nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running• Sarah Jessica Parker and David Tennant among nomineesNoël Coward award for best new entertainment or comedy playAccidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, ada...
Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough
Gough, who is resuming her Olivier award-winning role in People, Places and Things, calls on those in positions of power to become allies for colleaguesThe stage and screen star Denise Gough has called upon prominent actors to be vigilant for fellow cast and crew members in an industry where miscond...
Two teenagers sentenced for killing 14-year-old boy in street violence
Gordon Gault was stabbed as part of tit-for-tat violence between rival groups in Newcastle’s West End.
‘I have big ambitions’: Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran on her West End shocker – and building solar-powered factories
One minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix’s Regency hit. And now she’s blazing into the West End. But that’s not nearly enough for this unstoppable star with a first class degree in PPEFor a select group of actors, the pandemic was not the worst but the be...