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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))
- Skylight (Wyndham's Theatre)
- Medea (Olivier Theatre (National Theatre))
- The Nether (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs)
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
PUSH – Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant
Sadler’s Wells Production at London Coliseum
The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes
Nabil Elouahabi & Nick of Time Productions Ltd at Arcola Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire
Young Vic Theatre
The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Memories of August 1914
Royal De Luxe, co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW at St George's Hall and Liverpool City Centre
A Bright Room Called Day
Secret Heart at Southwark Playhouse (The Little)
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The Nether
Headlong at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
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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Nottingham-based Arletty Theatre’s World War I musical Swan Canaries took the top production award at Buxton Festival Fringe 2014.
Autumn at Northern Stage
Newcastle's Northern Stage has announced its autumn 2014 season, from September to December.
Panto News: July 2014
With the UK enjoying the summer sun, Simon Sladen looks forward to Christmas in this month's panto news blog.
The new season at Dundee Rep Theatre
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World première and UK tour for United We Stand
A new play based on the story of the “Shrewsbury 24” starts a tour in September.
Alternative opera at Arcola’s Grimeborn
The eighth annual Grimeborn Festival runs at London's Arcola Theatre from 4 August.
It's Just The Beginning for musical theatre stars
The Songs of Charles Miller and Kevin Hammonds available on iTunes sung by stars of the West End and Broadway.
Casting for world première of Love Me Do
Watford Palace Theatre stages Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran’s new play in September.
From off-Broadway to off-West End
Award-winning See Rock City and Other Destinations plays London's Union Theatre.
TYPT:14 - Lie With Me
Twentieth TYPT programme for emerging theatre makers from Talawa.
Anna Weiss at The Space
Mike Cullen's plays to be revived at East London's The Space.
Midlands productions
Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 28 July.
What's on in the North East
Theatre productions in the north east for the week beginning Monday 28 July 2014.
Seats at all prices for Plaza
On August 10 Stockport Plaza, really will have seats at all prices.
Nick and Lindsey join Liverpool team
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse have appointed director Nick Bagnall as their first permanent associate director.
£150,000 charity grant for HOME
The Granada Foundation has given a £150,000 grant to HOME, Manchester’s new £25m purpose-built centre.
Damaged Goods from city theatre group
Damaged Goods is a devised piece of theatre and the first production to come from the Manchester-based Little Hub Drama Group.
Keswick theatre looking for your favourites
Theatre by the Lake in Keswick is celebrating its 15th birthday by asking people to name their favourite plays of all time.
Half a million milestone for Dukes plays
During The Dukes run of Hansel & Gretel this summer, the number of people who have seen outdoor walkabout theatre plays in Lancaster since 1987 has hit half a million.
Sea Breeze blows through Morecambe again
Sea Breeze is a poetic and spectacular site-specific performance inspired by and presented in Morecambe’s iconic Winter Gardens theatre.
Bristol and Liverpool in Juno co-production
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse artistic director Gemma Bodinetz will direct Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock in a major co-production with Bristol Old Vic.
Homeless production set to tour north west
Homeless people in Lancaster are to take their unique version of a Dickens classic story on tour.
Spamalot rides out on new national tour
Following Monty Python’s 10-night sell-out run at London’s O2 Arena, Monty Python’s Spamalot is back on tour.
Studio season details from Exchange
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre has announced more details of its autumn and winter 2014-15 season.
NW Productions
Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday July 27.
Regent stokes up top shows in autumn season
The National Theatre’s War Horse and the West End hit Jersey Boys are among the headline shows taking to the stage at Stoke’s Regent Theatre in autumn 2014.
Buxton company connects with National Theatre
Buxton Opera House has beaten stiff competition to win a place in the National Theatre Connections Festival.
Birmingham screams for new Christmas show
Birmingham Hippodrome and Wales Millennium Centre have got together to stage a “unique” show for Christmas 2014, The Frozen Scream.
RSC’s new Two Gents music and speeches CD
The RSC has released a new CD of original music and speeches from the current production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the third in an ongoing series of recordings.
New seats in Nottingham fit for a Royal
Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall is having its seating replaced—32 years after the building was erected.
Buxton pulls the strings in annual puppet festival
Buxton continues to be the home of festivals as the Derbyshire town welcomes back the annual Buxton Puppet Festival.
Murder mystery season set to thrill in Nottingham
Four weeks of murder, mystery and mayhem are in store at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal with the return of the Classic Thriller Season.
Devil of a play as RSC stages Webster revenge tragedy
Described as “one of the great works of Jacobean theatre”, John Webster’s The White Devil is to start a four-month run in the RSC’s Swan Theatre, Stratford.
Stage première of Peter James novel to tour in 2015
After The Perfet Murder, Peter James's best selling novel Dead Simple will be staged in 2015.
Sheffield Lyceum closes for refurbishment
The Sheffield Lyceum is to close this week for just over two months’ worth of refurbishment and improvement works.