Dusty, the first authorised new musical charting the life of Dusty Springfield is set to premiere in the UK in 2018. Details of dates, venue and casting are still to be announced. Originating from the notes and memoirs of the late singer’s close friend and manager Vicki Wickham, Dusty is...

The Lyric Hammersmith today announces full casting for Seventeen, which opens on 14 March 2017. Sarah Ball will be playing Lizzy, Michael Feast will be playing Mike, Mike Grady will be playing Ronny, Diana Hardcastle will be playing Jess, Margot Leicester will be playing Emilia and Richard Cordery will be...

The Royal Court Theatre announces that Gary Beadle, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Lashana Lynch, Shvorne Marks and Meera Syal have been cast in new play a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) written and directed by Debbie Tucker Green. It runs in the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from Tuesday...

Bruised Sky Productions presents the world premiere of Worlds, written and directed by Martin Murphy, and starring Naomi Sheldon and Andrew Macklin. Nine people from all walks of life find themselves, on a dark and stormy night, at the end of the world – or rather, Worlds, a guesthouse ruled...

Bruised Sky Productions present the Martin Murphy’s powerful solo show in its London premiere following a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year. Developed through interviews with social workers and research into real-life cases, Villain places a spotlight on the growing pressures on social care agencies with the...

US writer Lindsey Ferrentino’s play, Ugly Lies The Bone, has its European premiere in the Lyttelton Theatre in February.    After three tours in Afghanistan and months in a severe burns unit, Jess (Kate Fleetwood) finally returns to Florida.  In a small town on the Space Coast, as the final...

New rehearsal images for La Ronde which will open at The Bunker Theatre on 11th February have been released.  La Ronde features a stellar cast including Lauren Samuels, who steps outside the realm of musical theatre for this daring production, BBC’s Versailles star Alex Vlahos, Leemore Marrett Jr and Amanda...

In Invincible the recession is biting hard, Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England.  One night, they open their doors to their next door neighbours, Dawn and Alan.  Over the course of a disastrous evening...

After a critically acclaimed launch at the end of 2016, Dragonflies Theatre's new production returns in 2017, exploring HIV amongst gay men through a series of interwoven stories. Writer Patrick Cash and director Luke Davies continue their work, including show The Clinic and The Chemsex Monologues, in bringing important queer...

With Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ production of Fantastic Mr Fox about to start its tour at Lyric Hammersmith, Director Sam Hodges today announces casting for the forthcoming production of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Grapes of Wrath, adapted by Frank Galati. The American dust bowl. The height of the Great...