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Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
- Once (Phoenix Theatre, London)
- Wolf Hall (Aldwych Theatre)
- Bring up the Bodies (Aldwych Theatre)
- Great Britain (Lyttelton Theatre (National))
- The Crucible (Old Vic Theatre)
The Alternative Top 5
- The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
- A Small Family Business (Olivier Theatre (National))
- Fathers and Sons (Donmar Warehouse)
- Skylight (Wyndham's Theatre)
- Medea (Olivier Theatre (National Theatre))
Current Festivals
We have separate pages for news and reviews from current and upcoming festivals, including Buxton Fringe, 24:7 Theatre Festival and all the 2014 Edinburgh Festivals
Latest reviews
Calamity Jane
The Watermill Theatre Company at The Watermill Theatre Newbury
Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Nick Hern Book
The Boy Who Fell into a Book
Stephen Joseph Theatre at Stephen Joseph Theatre
Around the World in 80 Days
Royal Exchange Theatre and New Vic Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
The Secret Garden
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre Company at Grosvenor Park Chester
17
Northern Edge at Finborough Theatre
Three Women
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
Medea
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
Afterglow
Pull Your Finger Out Productions at 24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
Stuff
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
The Box of Tricks
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
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New Jersey Nights
Spirit Productions Worldwide at Grand Theatre, Blackpool
The Curing Room
Stripped Down Productions at Pleasance Theatre
In My Bed
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
This Was a Man
Finborough Theatre
A History of Falling Things
New Vic Theatre Company at New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Lives and Loves of Vera Dymond
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
Pass
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
Beyond The Park
Three Minute Theatre, Manchester
Anonymity
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
The Tongue Twister
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
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The Last Days of Limehouse
Yellow Earth at Limehouse Town Hall
To the Dam
24:7 Theatre Festival, New Century House, Manchester
The Rape of Lucrece
Royal Shakespeare Company at Southbank Centre
Natural Affection
House on the Hill Productions at Jermyn Street Theatre
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Harold Pinter Theatre
Henry V
Guildford Shakespeare Company at Guildford Cathedral
Leviathan
Living Structures with Teatro Español & Falmouth University’s Academy of Music and Theatre Arts at Hackney Downs Studios
The Sheffield Mysteries
Sheffield Theatres at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
While You Wait
BTG has partnered with Fuel Theatre on a series of podcasts called While You Wait.
- Waiting... Now by Paul Clark in collaboration with Bill Brewer
- Waiting... to be born by Lewis Gibson in collaboration with Debra Bick and Sarah Beake
- Waiting... in a hairdressers by Malika Booker in collaboration with Emily Butterworth
- Waiting... to come home by Caroline Horton in collaboration with Jennifer Wild
- Waiting... for a Cancer Diagnosis by Brian Lobel, in collaboration with Iain Perdue
- Waiting... are we? By The Company in collaboration with Jonathan Reades and Raphael Woolf
- Waiting... for a loved one to die by Rachel Mars in collaboration with Fliss Murtagh
- Waiting... for the inevitable by Toby Jones in collaboration with Peter Giese
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Panto Auditions and Technical Positions 2014
Casting information for the 2014 panto season, including technical positions (Update: 21/07/2014)
NW Productions
Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday July 20.
What's on in the North East
Theatre productions in the north east in the week beginning Monday 21 July 2014.
Midlands productions
Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 21 July.
Comedy Store legend makes wicked panto debut in Guildford
Josie Lawrence to star in Snow White at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaug Theatre.
Great War play for Hyde
Hyde Festival Theatre Company is bringing Rob Johnston’s specially-commissioned First World War play Bantams to Hyde Festival Theatre.
Wherefore art the sponsors?
The forthcoming promenade production of Romeo and Juliet by Home Manchester, at the city’s historic Victoria Baths in September, will be sponsored.
Christine appointed theatre patron at The Dukes
An actress who has appeared in 15 Dukes productions has become the Lancaster’s theatre’s latest honorary patron.
A Wicked touch to Liverpool Pride festival
Wicked is the latest act confirmed to perform at this year’s Liverpool Pride event.
Seeking help with slave story
This November is the bi-centenary of one of the slavery abolition movement's great unsung heroes... and writers are looking for help.
Company lays out The Morgue Table in Liverpool
New Liverpool Theatre Company Wild Flowers Productions brings its new play to the Epstein.
A rare Honour for Salford Quays
Honour is a large-scale outdoor arts commission that combines the work of Phoenix Dance Theatre, Theatre In The Quarter, digital artists, and a choir of hundreds of people.
Contact keeps 'em coming . . .
Autumn at Contact in Manchester features major names, radical international work and a host of up and coming companies.
Hawth pantomime needs young dancers
The Hawth is searching for local, young talent.
Festival Theatre reopens after £22m redevelopment
Chichester Festival Theatre celebrated the successful completion of a £22 million redevelopment project this week, with the official reopening of its Grade 2* listed building.
Buxton Fringe to hear about Opera Delights
Arias, duets, ensembles and choruses can be heard at Buxton Fringe when City of Manchester Opera performs Opera Delights.
Bomb factory play set to go off at Buxton Fringe
Nottingham-based Arletty Theatre will perform at Buxton Fringe Swan Canaries, a musical play about the Chilwell Canary Girls who packed shells during World War I.
Ami explores Shrew’s untold story at Buxton Fringe
Shrew, exploring Shakespeare’s Katharina, the heroine of The Taming of the Shrew, plays at Buxton Fringe before transferring to Edinburgh and New York.
Haylo puts spotlight on dementia at Buxton Fringe
Two-woman company Haylo Theatre will be performing its self-penned play Over the Garden Fence, which promotes an awareness of dementia, at Buxton Fringe.
‘True essence’ of flamenco at Buxton Fringe
Flamenco “as you’ve never seen it before” will be on offer when Dotdotdot Flamenco Company premières its new production at Buxton Fringe.
Mansfield not sleeping on panto ticket sales
More than 50% of the tickets have already been sold for Sleeping Beauty Mansfield Palace Theatre’s 2014 panto.
Northampton regenerates Tennessee Williams’s play
The stage première of WWI novel Regeneration and a new staging of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are among the autumn highlights at Northampton’s Royal and Derngate.
Derbyshire companies create work for Derby Festé
Two Derbyshire companies have been commissioned to create new work for the 2014 Derby Festé.
WWII propaganda play swings into Coventry
Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre has announced the cast for the UK première of Peter Arnott’s World War II drama Propaganda Swing.
Summer outdoor extravaganza in Birmingham
For the second successive year three weekends of free outdoor performances are to be staged around Birmingham Hippodrome.
English National Ballet promotions
Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, has announced promotions within the Company as well as details of new members.