West End
Sarah Jessica Parker to make West End debut with husband Matthew Broderick
The pair will star in a revival of Neil Simon’s marriage comedy Plaza Suite, which transfers from a hugely successful Broadway run
Chris Wiegand
08, Jun, 2023 @1:53 PM
Fleabag star Andrew Scott to bring one-man Uncle Vanya to West End
Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens, will see Scott tackle all of the characters in Chekhov’s play
Mark Fisher
07, Jun, 2023 @11:01 PM
London’s Donmar Warehouse appoints Tim Sheader as artistic director
After more than a decade running Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, the hit-making director is to take over the Covent Garden venue next year
Chris Wiegand Stage editor
07, Jun, 2023 @8:30 AM
Badly behaved theatregoers: ‘A woman urinated in a stairwell adjacent to where we were sitting’
Guardian readers share their experiences of appalling audience antics, including heckling, eating sushi and being sick in the seats
Tom Ambrose
01, Jun, 2023 @1:46 PM
Vogue editor Anna Wintour planning London’s answer to Met Gala
Stormzy, Naomi Campbell and Sadiq Khan among those expected at ticketed fashion show raising funds for city’s arts scene
Morwenna Ferrier
31, May, 2023 @12:05 PM
‘They don’t know the rules’: actors hit back at theatregoers phoning, drinking and fighting
What’s it like to star in a play when audience members watch football, ring friends, open lagers or pass round entire chickens? Actors vent their anger at the ‘Netflix mindset’ of the new post-Covid generation
Tom Ambrose
29, May, 2023 @2:51 PM
Anger as intruder tries to take photos in 2:22 West End dressing room
Sophia Bush, who has joined the cast of the West End thriller, said the unidentified man had made the experience ‘ugly and scary and sad’
Chris Wiegand Stage editor
16, May, 2023 @10:57 AM
The cuddling cowboys ride again! Saddle up as Brokeback Mountain is staged with songs
As the two hard-loving herders from the 2005 Oscar-winner get back on their horses, the team behind a new musical version talk about fear, regret – and the tragic power of forbidden desire
Ryan Gilbey
09, May, 2023 @1:52 PM
Shelley Maxwell: the soul-stirring master mover who makes superheroes dance
From The Secret Life of Bees to The Marvels, she is the choreographer everyone wants. The Jamaican dynamo talks about turning humans into horses, turbo-charging TV debates and her dream Bob Marley gig
Chris Wiegand
02, May, 2023 @11:35 AM
Maria Charles obituary
Veteran stage and screen actor who starred in West End musicals and played Maureen Lipman’s mother in the TV show Agony
Anthony Hayward
01, May, 2023 @4:32 PM
Kenneth Branagh to direct and star in King Lear in London and New York
The play, which the actor has described as being pertinent to our ‘savage and judgmental’ political climate, will run for 50 performances in the West End before transferring to the US
Chris Wiegand
28, Apr, 2023 @10:46 AM
Barry Humphries obituary
Entertainer whose outrageous caricatures Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson took the one-man show to new heights
Peter Coleman
22, Apr, 2023 @11:51 AM
1 / 117 pages