New Live Play Set to Inspire
Newcastle's Live Theatre and new company Murmur gain the London 2012 Inspire Mark for The Prize
Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
Long Day's Journey into Night (Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)
Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
Noises Off (Novello Theatre)
One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic)
The Alternative Top 5
The King's Speech (Wyndham's Theatre)
Sweeney Todd (Adelphi)
Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace)
Ghost the Musical (Piccadilly)
Love, Love, Love (Royal Court)
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Latest reviews
Close the Coalhouse Door (Northern Stage and Live Theatre at The Lowry, Salford)
Detroit (Steppenwolf Theatre at Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre)
Encounters: Dry Ice and You're Not Like Other Girls Chrissy (Bush Theatre)
A Slow Air (Tron Theatre Company at Tricycle Theatre)
Mother Adam (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Babel (Wildworks with BAC, Lyric Hammersmith, Stratford East and the Young Vic at Caledonian Park)
Street of Dreams: Coronation Street (Reckless Entertainment with ITV Studios and SMG Europe at Manchester Arena)
Epsom Downs (Salisbury Playhouse)
Jerusalem Tango (New End Theatre Beyond at The Carriageworks, Leeds)
A Kind of Alaska/Krapp's Last Tape (Bristol Old Vic at Bristol Old Vic)
Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre)
Latest news
Midlands productions
What's on in the region this week.
Lost Boys needed for Buxton Christmas show
Buxton Opera House will soon be recruiting young talent for this year’s Christmas production Peter Pan.
Stoke theatre starts search for top talent
The Regent Theatre in Stoke has announced that its talent search, Stoke’s Top Talent, is back.
Leicester gets three firsts in Curve’s autumn season
Two world premieres, a UK premiere and the opening of a major tour are some of the highlights of the autumn season at Leicester’s Curve.
New Vic mad about Thomas Hardy adaptation
Thomas Hardy’s most popular story which was also his first major literary success gets the New Vic treatment this week in a new adaptation.
Two world premieres in Northampton’s ‘exciting season’
Billed as “one of the most exciting seasons of work that Northampton’s Royal and Derngate has ever staged”, Festival of Chaos starts this month with two world premieres.
NW Productions
Regional round-up for week beginning Sunday May 13.
What's on in the North East
Theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 14th May
Panto Auditions and Technical Positions 2012
Casting information for the 2012 panto season, including technical positions.
Epstein Theatre opens for business
The Liverpool Arts and Media world gathered to toast the re-opening of one of city's long lost jewels.
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival, the only festival of its kind in the UK, returns this July.
Audiences play their part
A new way of making theatre is being rolled out across three regional venues over the next few weeks.
Croydon Warehouse goes into administration
Croydon's Warehouse Theatre has been placed into administration following cuts to its funding, threatening it with its closure as it approaches its 35th birthday.
Wicked partners new anti-bullying charity
West End show Wicked has partnered with new anti-bullying charity The Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation.
Vicky Featherstone becomes first female Royal Court artistic director
National Theatre of Scotland artistic director Vicky Featherstone will succeed Dominic Cooke at the Royal Court Theatre in London from next April.
Another NTC Bid Fails
Northumberland Theatre Company (NTC) has had another Arts Council funding bid rejected
Nominations announced for 10th Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland
The nominations for the tenth Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland were announced today.
Latest tours
Ionesco's Chairs from Blue Raincoat;
Latest coming soon
London première of Arnold Wesker's false memory play Denial; Cartoon de Salvo's Irish Giant; Idiot at the Wall premières in Edinburgh; Greenhouse's Mercury Fur transfers to Trafalgar Studios; Druid Tom Murphy trilogy at Hampstead Theatre; Henna Night at Pleasance; New musical about West Indian Pentecostal community premières in Croydon;