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Fuerza Bruta, the show combining physical theatre, acrobatics, music and audience involvement by the Argentinean company that created De La Guarda, will return to the Roundhouse at Chalk Farm for a 4 week season from 26th December. The Love Theatre/Soho Theatre production of A...

New York TheatreNet: Once again there is a strong showing of British talent in the nominations for this year's Tony Awards. One Man, Two Guvnors leads the way with 7, including James Cordon - Actor (Play) and Nicholas Hytner - Direction (Play); followed by End Of The Rainbow with...

English National Opera's 2012/2013 season at the London Coliseum will include new productions of Philip Glass's The Perfect American, based on Peter Stephan Jungk's novel Der Konig von Amerika, a partly fictionalised account of the final years of Walt Disney's life; Charpentier's...

The Society Of London Theatre's Get Into London Theatre initiative, designed to encourage new and young theatregoers to experience the wealth of theatrical fare to be found in London, is making a second appearance this year. Discounted tickets are available now for over 40 shows, ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Theatres has sold the Palace Theatre to Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer's Nimax Theatres for an undisclosed sum. The proceeds will be used in part to fund the refurbishment of the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Jesus Christ...

This year's Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, which runs from 21st to 20th June, will feature procession, pyrotechnics and performance from major international companies, many free and taking place outdoors. Highlights include: Graeae Theatre Company and La Fura dels...

Forthcoming productions at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark will include Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, the story of a drag queen searching for love and acceptance, directed by Douglas Hodge, from 30th May; Brandon Thomas's Victorian farce Charley's Aunt, in which...

Self styled 'psychological illusionist' Derren Brown will bring his stage show Svengali, written by Brown, Iain Sharkey and Stephen Long, directed by Polly Findlay, back to the West End, playing at the Novello Theatre from 12th July to 11th August. The producers are Michael Vine, ...

The nominations for this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain's premier theatre awards, given by the Society Of London Theatre, are dominated by Matilda The Musical with 10 - every category for which it is eligible, including the four young actresses playing the title role; while...

Paul Merton's new stand up show Out Of My Head, also featuring Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster, which is currently touring, will play at the Vaudeville Theatre from 1st to 20th October. The autumn season at the Barbican will include TR Warszawa's Nosferatu, inspired...

It's Official! The current Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford production of David Edgar's Written On The Heart, exploring the hazards faced and legacy left by the King James Bible's earliest translators, with Oliver Ford Davies, Bruce Alexander, Stephen Boxer and Jodie McNee, directed...

The Space, the new Arts Council England/BBC online arts channel, which will broadcast new work, documentaries and filmed performances created by cultural organisations across the country, will launch on 1st May. Among the first commissions are: the Bristol Old Vic production of Arthur...

David Seidler's The King's Speech, from which the film was adapted, about how a speech therapist helped King George VI to overcome his stutter, with Charles Edwards, Jonathan Hyde, Emma Fielding, Joss Ackland, Ian McNeice, Michael Feast, Charlotte Randle, David Killick and Daniel...

Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its 50th Anniversary season. In the Festival Theatre: William Congreve's restoration comedy The Way Of The World, with Penelope Keith, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh; the premiere of Hugh Whitemore's A Marvellous Year For Plums, a political...

It's Official! As previously forecast here, Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, the comedy in which a vaudeville double act that broke up in acrimony is reunited for a television special, with Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, directed by Thea Sharrock, will open at the Savoy Theatre...

The National Theatre has announced new productions, which will include in the Olivier: Sophocles's Antigone, in a version by Don Taylor, directed by Polly Findlay; Shakespeare's Timon Of Athens, with Simon Russell Beale, directed by Nicholas Hytner; Tirso de Molina's Damned For Despair...

The spring season at the Soho Theatre will include A Walk On Part - The Fall Of New Labour, adapted from the diaries of former minister Chris Mullin by Michael Chaplin, with John Hodgkinson, directed by Max Roberts, from 21st March; Swamp Juice, written and performed by Jeff Achtem...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced its 2012/2013 winter season in Stratford-upon-Avon, comprising in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Russell Hoban's The Mouse And His Child, adapted by Tamsin Oglesby, about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who begin a dangerous quest...

The Society Of London Theatre is looking for 14 enthusiastic and knowledgeable theatregoers to join one of the judging panels for next year's Laurence Olivier Awards. Panellists will receive a pair of free tickets for all shows playing in the West End for a whole year starting on...