99 stories by "Chris Wiegand Stage Editor"
Report suggests that popular initiatives such as NT Live and NT at Home are making UK audiences more adventurousTheatre streaming services and cinema screenings of stage performances are not…
'If we celebrate the impact of physical storytelling, we must acknowledge the artists behind it,' says Equity body, calling out the lack of movement categories in major awards
Choreographers…
Other winners include Inter Alia's Rosamund Pike, Ivo van Hove for All My Sons and Hayley Atwell who beat her Much Ado co-star Tom Hiddleston to best Shakespearean performance
Brendan Gleeso…
New work will be choreographed and directed by Benoit Swan Pouffer, artistic director of Rambert, with Davies and Pet Shop Boys serving as executive producers
It's a Sin, the award-winning T…
The director's first play " an 1830s 'rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise' " is planned for early 2027 opening in London
Since Quentin Tarantino announced last year that he had wri…
Two musicals dominate nominations while Tom Hiddleston and Bryan Cranston vie for best actor, with Cate Blanchett and Rosamund Pike up for best actress' Olivier awards 2026: full list of nom…
Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is 'obvious choice' to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring
A new prequel to George RR Martin's blockbuster fantasy saga Game of Thro…
A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and even run later in the year
The Christmas decorations have been packed away, kids are back at school …
Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister's death, considers 'what happens when people feel they don't have a voice' says director John Young
Hilary Mante…
Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie's record-breaking mystery, says 'we all fancy ourselves as detectives'
Audiences left hungry for more suspense after the nail-biting Celebrity Tra…
Deep Azure, written by the Black Panther star in response to the death of a fellow college student, will open at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse next year
A play by the Black Panther star Chadwick B…
Next summer, the star will appear in Stratford-upon-Avon first as Prospero and then alongside Helen Hunt in Chekhov's classic
More than 40 years after his star-making performance as Henry V …
The Oscar winner will appear alongside Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough when they play the same character at different ages in Tracy Letts' play Mary Page Marlowe
Susan Sarandon is to make h…
Public art project The Herds is passing through capital on 20,000km journey from Congo Basin to Arctic Circle, inspiring climate action
The animals went into the West End, not quite two by t…
Attendances are up and average ticket prices down, even in the West End, but the sector faces mounting and unsustainable strain
A report by the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, rele…
Harewood " who became the first black actor to play Othello at the NT in 1997 " will play the role at Theatre Royal Haymarket opposite Toby Jones as Iago
David Harewood is returning to the r…
Revival of the 'profoundly moving' Irish pub drama will open at the Olympia theatre in Dublin before arriving in London this autumn
Brendan Gleeson will make his West End debut this autumn i…
John Niven's debut play explores rivalry between the two British bands who vied for the No 1 spot in the charts in 1995
It was the great Britpop showdown in the summer of 1995, billed as a c…
A pair of electrifying London shows bagged four prizes at the Olivier awards. Both were developed by Dutch company ITA, which has an eye for British talent
Olivier awards: full list of win…
Speaking after his best actor victory, Lithgow said Donald Trump's administration 'has done some shocking, destructive things' especially its takeover of the Kennedy Center
The actor John Li…
Actor, who won an Olivier for Oedipus, says her 'bugbear' is that venues outside London do not get enough money
Stars come out for theatre's Olivier awards 2025 " in pictures
Lesley Manville…
John Lithgow, Imelda Staunton, Romola Garai and Layton Williams are among the winners at the annual stage awards
Olivier awards: full list of winners
The play Giant, which portrays children'…
Other winners include Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for Romeo & Juliet, Danny Sapani as King Lear and Giant playwright Mark Rosenblatt
A modern-day version of Oedipus, which turned Sophocles…
The One Day actor will star in Sophia Chetin-Leuner's Porn Play, one of four new premieres announced by the London theatre
Ambika Mod is to star as an academic addicted to violent pornograph…
Suzie Miller's award-winning monologue hits the road next year, with the Killing Eve actor playing a barrister who defends men of rape and is assaulted herself
Jodie Comer is to reprise her…