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Please note: the year in brackets refers to the year
of the news story, not the year of the event itself.
Neil LaBute - - - To direct his own premiere
at the Almeida (2001)
Neil LaBute - - - The Shape of Things
to have West End premiere (2004)
Neil LaBute - - - Shape
to close early (2004)
Neil LaBute - - - Some Girls
casting (2005)
La Cage Aux Folles - - - Extends with
cast changes (2008)
Lady Day at Emmerson's Bar and Grill - - - On
tour (2003)
The Lady from the Sea - - - Extends
(2003)
Lady in the Van - - - Revival at West
Yorkshire Playhouse (2002)
The Ladykillers - - - Stage production
in Liverpool and London (2011)
Verity Lambert - - - Obituary (2007)
Lament - - - New production
by Suspect Culture (2002)
Sarah Lancashire - - - To replace Krakowski
in Guys and Dolls (2005)
Lancaster Institute for the Performing Arts - - - New
season (2010)
Dinsdale Landen - - - Dies (2003)
Landor Theatre - - - To premiere A Class
Act (2004)
Carla Lane - - - Returns OBE (2002)
Nathan Lane - - - To replace injured Dreyfuss
in The Producers (2004)
Nathan Lane - - - Record pay packet (2004)
Belinda Lang - - - Replaces Lipman in Chalk
Garden (2003)
Bonnie Langford - - - To join Fosse
touring cast (2004)
Bonnie Langford - - - In touring two-woman
show (2005)
Bonnie Langford - - - Joins Chicago
cast (2006)
Caroline Langrishe - - - To tour in Our
Song revival (2003)
Lanternhouse International - - - Replaces
Welfare State International (2006)
Jonathan Larson - - - Songs from Tick, Tick...
Boom! at the Donmar (2004)
Jonathan Larson - - - Tick, Tick... Boom!
Euro premiere (2005)
Danny La Rue - - - Suffers stroke (2006)
Danny La Rue - - - Obituary (2009)
The Last Confession - - - To transfer
to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket (2007)
Lee Latchford Evans - - - To debut in West End
Grease (2002)
Latin! - - - To play Brighton (2002)
Latin! - - - Transfers to Hampstead
(2002)
Latitude Festival - - - 2009 programme
(2009)
Latitude Festival - - - 2010 programme
(2010)
Latitude Festival - - - Sold out two months
in advance (2010)
Latitude Festival - - - Dance in the 2010
programme (2010)
Latitude Festival - - - Theatre503
programme (2010)
Latitude Festival - - - Launch date set
(2011)
Latitude Festival - - - 2011 line-up
announced (2011)
Latitude Festival - - - More theatre
announced (2011)
Latitude Festival - - - Yet more theatre
announced (2011)
Latitude Festival - - - Even more theatre
announced (2011)
Latitude Festival - - - Sadler's Well
at Latitude (2011)
Laughing Orange Theatre Company - - - Tours
Blue Remembered Hills (2005)
Hugh Laurie - - - Golden Globes win
(2005)
Bryony Lavery - - - Frozen
to get London premiere at the National (2002)
Bryony Lavery - - - Dracula
to premiere at Bromley (2005)
Jude Law - - - To play Faustus at
Young Vic (2002)
Jude Law - - - Injury cancels performances
(2002)
Jude Law - - - In discussions to play Hamlet
(2002)
Jude Law - - - Leave Natural Nylon: company
folds (2003)
Jude Law - - - To star in film version of Marber's
Closer (2003)
Jude Law - - - Offered $10m for Alfie
remake (2003)
Jude Law - - - May play Richard Branson in
film (2004)
Jude Law - - - To front Young Vic £2.5m
campaign (2004)
Jude Law - - - To star in Brideshead
film (2004)
Jude Law - - - To play Hamlet at Young Vic?
(2004)
D.H.Lawrence - - - Daughter-in-Law
to open Young Vic autumn season (2002)
Twiggy Lawson - - - To star in tour of Hall's
Mrs Warren's Profession (2003)
Josie Lawrence - - - At the National
(2002)
Rosemary Leach - - - To tour in The Old
Ladies (2003)
League of Gentlemen - - - To star in Art
(2002)
League of Gentlemen - - - To tour (2005)
Leeds - - - Seven Arts, a new studio theatre
(2007)
Leeds - - - Second Emerge Festival (2010)
Leeds Civic Theatre - - - Last performance
(2005)
Jane Leeves - - - To get £250,000 an
episode for Frasier (2002)
Le Grand Cirque - - - UK premiere tour
(2007)
Leicester Haymarket - - - Fame Academy
reject to star in West Side Story (2002)
Leicester Haymarket - - - To close (2003)
Leicester Haymarket - - - Closure to be raised
in Commons (2003)
Leicester Haymarket - - - Arts Council to
probe financial crisis (2003)
Leicester Haymarket - - - ACE rescue plan
(2003)
Leicester Haymarket - - - Co-producing Singin'
in the Rain at Sadler's Wells (2004)
Leicester Haymarket - - - Stewart steps down
(2005)
Leicester - - - More theatre misery (2003)
Leicester - - - £12m from ACE for
new performing arts centre (2004)
Leicester - - - Curve announces first season
(2008)
Leicester - - - New CEO for Leicester Theatre
Trust (2010)
Mike Leigh - - - Two Thousand Years
to tour (2005)
Mike Leigh - - - Extra performances of Two
Thousand Years (2005)
LeKoa - - - Rehearsed reading at the Lowry
(2003)
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen - - - In liquidation
(2007)
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen - - - Saved (2008)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz - - - New Play at the Soho
Theatre (2005)
Robert Lepage - - - The Dragons' Trilogy
at The Lowry (2005)
Nicholas Le Prevost - - - To tour in comedy
revival (2003)
Les Enfants Terribles - - - To tour Immaculate
(2006)
Les Enfants Terribles - - - Launches Edinburgh
Fringe award (2011)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - - - Revival
at Playhouse (2003)
Les Miserables - - - Extends to
December 2002 (2001)
Les Miserables - - - Special version
for school performance (2002)
Les Miserables - - - To open in China
(2002)
Les Miserables - - - Extends to June
2003 (2002)
Les Miserables - - - 17th birthday
(2002)
Les Miserables - - - New two-tier ticket
pricing structure (2003)
Les Miserables - - - Pop star joins
cast (2003)
Les Miserables - - - Extends into 2004
(2003)
Les Miserables - - - To move from the
Palace (2003)
Les Miserables - - - To transfer earlier
than planned (2004)
Les Miserables - - - No MU strike over
move (2003)
Les Miserables - - - Further extension
(2004)
Les Miserables - - - Special performance
at Windsor Castle (2004)
Les Miserables - - - Top musical of all
time according to a Radio 2 poll (2005)
Les Miserables - - - Twentieth birthday
(2005)
Les Miserables - - - New 25th anniversary
tour (2009)
Les Miserables - - - Nunn "profoundly
unhappy and profoundly betrayed" (2010)
Anton Lesser - - - Returns to RSC (2003)
Anton Lesser - - - To play in RSC Cymbeline
(2003)
Adrian Lester - - - To play Henry V at RNT
(2002)
Adrian Lester - - - To play lead in RNT Henry
V (2003)
Ira Levin - - - New Deathtrap tour
(2002)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Autumn/winter
season (2003)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Autumn season
2004 (2004)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - To premiere
Shipman Inquiry play (2004)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Cancels
Chapter Two after fire (2007)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Chapter
Two repoens for four shows (2007)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - 2007-2008
season (2007)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - re:play
line-up announced (2007)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Spring
2008 season (2007)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Autumn/winer
2008 season (2008)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Spring 2009
season (2009)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Autumn 2009
season (2009)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Possible move
confirmed (2009)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Final season
in current home (2010)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - First season "in
exile" (2010)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - To share
new home (2010)
Library Theatre, Manchester - - - Autumn/winter
season (2011)
Lichfield - - - New arts and business
venue (2002)
Lichfield - - - Corin Redgrave to direct and
star at Garrick (2003)
Lichfield Festival - - - Opening details
(2003)
Lies Have Been Told - - - West End transfer
(2005)
Life After George - - - Announces
early closure (2002)
Life x 3 - - - Returns to the West End
(2002)
LIFT - - - Details of performances (2003)
LIFT - - - In Barking & Dagenham (2009)
Lighting Technology Group - - - In administration
(2002)
Lilies on the Land - - - National tour
(2003)
Linbury Design Award - - - Applications invited
(2003)
Linbury Design Award - - - Shortlist exhibition
at the National Theatre (2005)
Linbury Prize for Stage Design - - - 2011
judges announced (2011)
Linbury Prize for Stage Design - - - 2011
finalists announced (2011)
Linbury Prize for Stage Design - - - 2011
winners (2011)
Lion and Unicorn Theatre - - - Nagy/Churchill
double bill (2004)
Lincoln Theatre Royal - - - Saved, but on
a smaller scale (2009)
The Lion King - - - Extends to June
2003 (2002)
The Lion King - - - Extends to September
(2003)
The Lion King - - - Extends to 2004
(2003)
The Lion King - - - Further extension
(2003)
The Lion King - - - Six month extension
(2003)
The Lion King - - - Extends a further
four months (2003)
The Lion King - - - Further extension
(2003)
The Lion King - - - Another extension
(2004)
The Lion King - - - Fifth birthday (2004)
The Lion King - - - Record gross
in 2010 (2011)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - - - At
Sadler's Wells (2001)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - - - To
be filmed in new Zealand (2003)
the Lions part - - - National tour of Lilies
on the Land (2003)
the Lions part - - - Free performance at the V&A
(2003)
Maureen Lipman - - - Wins award (2001)
Maureen Lipman - - - To join Coronation
Street (2002)
Maureen Lipman - - - In Chalk Garden
revival (2002)
Maureen Lipman - - - Pulls out of The Chalk
Garden (2003)
Maureen Lipman - - - To appear in Thoroughly
Modern Millie (2003)
Maureen Lipman - - - To job-share with Marti
Webb in Thoroughly Modern Millie (2003)
Maureen Lipman - - - To be replaced by Anita
Dobson in Millie (2004)
Maureen Lipman - - - To play "the worst
singer in the world" (2005)
Andrew Lippa - - - To premiere two new songs in
Notes from New York (2003)
Little Angel - - - To close (2002)
Little Angel - - - Saved (2002)
Little Angel - - - Autumn 2011 season
(2011)
Little Baby Nothing - - - To premiere
at the Bush (2003)
Little Shop of Horrors - - - Rowe
stands in (2007)
Little Shop of Horrors - - - On tour (2009)
Little Women - - - Opening in the
West End (2004)
Little Women the Musical - - - Concert
performance at Drury Lane (2005)
Joan Littlewood - - - Obituary (2002)
Live from Golgotha - - - To play the
Drill Hall (2002)
Live Nation - - - Spins off from Clear Channel
(2005)
Live Nation - - - To merge with Ticketmaster
(2009)
Live Nation - - - Merger
referred to the Competition Commission (2009)
Live Nation - - - To sell off UK theatres?
(2009)
Live Nation - - - Sale progresses
(2009)
Live Nation - - - Competition Commision to
block Live Nation/Tcketmaster Merger (2009)
Live Nation - - - ATG set to buy theatres
(2009)
Live Nation - - - Sale to be announced
(2009)
Live Nation - - - Sale confirmed (2009)
Liverpool - - - Wins 2008 Capital of Culture
title (2003)
Liverpool - - - Playhouse and Everyman link
up with Soho Theatre for Writers' Festival (2003)
Liverpool - - - Programme for January-June
2004 (2003)
Liverpool - - - Marsden pulls out of Everyman
production (2004)
Liverpool - - - Autumn at the Everyman
and Playhouse (2004)
Liverpool - - - Everyman postpones Urban
Legend opening (2004)
Liverpool - - - Star-studded gala at Everyman
(2004)
Liverpool - - - History of the Everyman
published (2004)
Liverpool - - - Everyman and Playhouse
autumn season (2006)
Liverpool - - - First 2007 season at the
Everyman and Playhouse (2006)
Liverpool - - - Only 10th arts city in the
UK (2006)
Liverpool - - - Liverpool Theatres' autumn
season (2007)
Liverpool - - - Capital of Culture programme
(2007)
Liverpool - - - New season at the Everyman
and Playhouse (2007)
Liverpool - - - New season at the Everyman
and Playhouse (2008)
Liverpool - - - Autumn season at the Everyman
and Playhouse (2008)
Liverpool - - - New season at the Everyman
and Playhouse (2009)
Liverpool - - - Autumn 2009 season at Everyman
and Playhouse (2009)
Liverpool - - - First part of Everyman and Playhouse
2010 season announced (2009)
Liverpool - - - Second part of Everyman and
Playhouse 2010 season announced (2010)
Liverpool - - - Everyman and Playhouse spring
2011 season (2010)
Liverpool - - - City Council arts and culture
cuts (2011)
Liverpool - - - Everyman and Playhouse
spring 2012 season (2011)
Lverpool Insitute for Performing Arts - - - Musical
theatrre conference (2010)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - September 2002 drama
and dance programme (2002)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - To celebrate
30 years with Haddaway (2003)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - Wins Peggy Ramsay
Award (2003)
Live Theattre, Newcastle - - - Tom Hadaway Festival
(2003)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - RSC co-production
opens this week (2003)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - Fundraising successes
(2004)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - New writing
events for June 2004 (2004)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - Peter Flannery
to be Writer Emeritus (2005)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - Sustain
award (2009)
Live Theatre, Newcastle - - - Autumn 2010 season
(2010)
Living Archive - - - Opens at the Palladium
(2009)
Living Pictures Productions - - - Directors'
Acting Courses (2006)
Living Pretty - - - Tour dates
(2004)
Ken Livingstone - - - Launches "The
Greatest Show on Earth" (2001)
Ken Livingstone - - - Second "Greatest
Show on Earth" (2003)
Ken Livingstone - - - Get Into London Theatre!
launched (2003)
Ken Livingstone - - - Get Into London Theatre!
extended (2003)
Ken Livingstone - - - Directs refusal of
the plan to demolish the Mermaid (2003)
Ken Livingstone - - - Launches Get Into Lond
Theatre 2004 (2004)
Ken Loach - - - Attacks Labour and British
Board of Film Censors (2002)
Lobby Hero - - - To close a week
early (2002)
London - - - The world's leading cultural
city (2008)
London Assembly - - - ACE should withhold subsidy,
Culture Committee says (2003)
London Bites - - - Launch (2005)
London Bubble - - - Fan Made Theatre (2009)
London Bubble - - - Fans choose The Odyssey
(2009)
London Concert for Peace - - - Details
(2003)
London Councils - - - Considering cutting the
London Borough Grants Scheme (2010)
London Councils - - - High Court judge quashes
cuts (2011)
London Councils - - - All arts grants cut
(2011)
Londonderry - - - To be City of Culture
2013 (2010)
London Eye - - - Becomes a theatre - for three flights
only (2005)
London Festival Fringe - - - Meeting
(2009)
London Horror Festival - - - Details
announced (2011)
London International Mime Festival - - - 2005
programme (2004)
London International Mime Festival - - - 2006
details (2005)
London International Mime Festival - - - 2007 programme
(2006)
London International Festival of Theatre - - - Details
of performances (2003)
London Film Critics Awards - - - 2003 nominations
announced (2003)
London Film Critics Awards - - - Nominations
announced (2004)
London Film Critics Awards - - - Winners
(2005)
London Palladium - - - Sinatra on stage (2005)
London Repertory Company - - - Proposal
(2012)
London Shakespeare Workout - - - To present
Shakespeare in Pentonville Prison (2003)
London Shakespeare Workout - - - Blacking
Iago in London and on tour (2006)
London Suite - - - UK premiere
(2002)
London Theatre Walks - - - Summer programme
(2005)
London Theatre - - - Must go green (2008)
London Weekend Television (LWT) - - - Planning
two modernised Shakespeares (2002)
Kenneth Lonergan - - - This Is Our Youth
to open at the Garrick (2002)
Kenneth Lonergan - - - Lobby Hero
to transfer (2002)
Kenneth Lonergan - - - Lobby Hero
to return (2002)
Kenneth Lonergan - - - This Is Our Youth
to close (2003)
Lord Chamberlain - - - Play cataloguing
project (2009)
Lord of the Rings - - - Stage musical
version planned for spring 2005 (2003)
Lord of the Rings - - - India and Finland
join to score the musical (2003)
Lord of the Rings - - - To premiere
in Canada (2005)
Lord of the Rings - - - London premiere
in 2007 (2005)
Lord of the Rings - - - Critical reaction
(2006)
Lord of the Rings - - - To replace
The Producers at Drury Lane (2006)
Lord of the Rings - - - Open auditions
(2006)
Lord of the Rings - - - UK casting
(2007)
Lord of the Rings - - - Accident cancels
three previews (2007)
Lost Musicals - - - New series at
Sadler's Wells (2005)
Lost Musicals - - - 2008 series
(2008)
Lost Musicals - - - 2009 season
(2009)
Lost Musicals - - - 2010 season
(2010)
Lost Musicals - - - 2011 season
(2011)
Loughborough - - - Town Hall Theatre to
be refurbished (2004)
LOVE&MADNESS - - - Touring Dickens'
Hard Times (2004)
LOVE&MADNESS - - - Touring new Jack Shepherd
comedy (2009)
LOVE&MADNESS - - - To perform Richard
III in the Tower of London (2011)
Love Never Dies - - - Not a sequel
to Phantom, says ALW (2009)
Love Never Dies - - - Cancels first
preview (2010)
Love Never Dies - - - Broadway transfer
delayed (2010)
Love Never Dies - - - Brief closure
(2010)
The Lowry - - - Walk the Plank with 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea (2003)
The Lowry - - - Now £2.5m Education
and Community space (2004)
The Lowry - - - To host Lepage's The Dragons'
Trilogy (2005)
The Lowry - - - To celebrate LS Lowry
with the Rambert Dance Company (2005)
The Lowry - - - Autumn/ winter season (2006)
The Lowry - - - January to April 2007
(2006)
The Lowry - - - May to August (2007)
The Lowry - - - Autumn 2007 season (2007)
The Lowry - - - Spring 2008 season (2007)
The Lowry - - - May to August 2008 season
(2008)
The Lowry - - - Autumn/winter 2008 season
(2008)
The Lowry - - - Autumn Studio season
(2008)
The Lowry - - - Spring 2009 season (2008)
The Lowry - - - May to August 2009 (2009)
The Lowry - - - September to December 2009
(2009)
The Lowry - - - January to April 2010 (2009)
The Lowry - - - The second part of the 10th
anniversary season (2010)
The Lowry - - - Studio announces new season
(2010)
The Lowry - - - Autumn/winter season (2010)
The Lowry - - - Shows for 2011 (2010)
The Lowry - - - Autumn 2011 programme (2011)
The Lowry - - - Spring 2012 programme (2011)
Ludlow Festival - - - Berkoff to direct
Richard II (2005)
Adrian Lukis - - - To replace Kevin Spacey
in The Philadelphia Story (2005)
Maggie Lunn - - - To join Attenborough at
the Almeida (2002)
Christopher Luscombe - - - Joins cast of Art
(2002)
Alan Lyddiard - - - To leave Northern Stage
(2005)
John Lyly - - - Gallathea
at the King's Head (2007)
Nicholas Lyndhurst - - - To co-star in The
Dresser (2004)
Lyric Theatre, Belfast - - - May have to
close (2003)
Lyric Theatre, Belfast - - - Neeson spearheads
fund-raising campaign (2004)
Lyric Theatre, Belfast - - - £1m
gift (2007)
Lyric Theatre, Belfast - - - To appoint
a playwright in residence (2010)
Lyric Theatre, Belfast - - - To open
with The Crucible (2011)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Autumn/winter
2002 season (2002)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - New version
of Camille (2002)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - £2.6m
worth of improvements begin (2003)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - More on the autumn/winter
season (2003)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - To revive
Shockheaded Peter (2003)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - "Final"
London run of Shockheaded Peter (2004)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Celebrates
new extension with an international festival (2004)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Programme
for the end of 2004 (2004)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Bartlett's
last season details (2004)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Launches Farr's
first season (2005)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Goes blogging
mad for Christmas (2005)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Wins Home
Office award (2005)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - theMIX returns
(2006)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - New version
of The Odyssey (2006)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Children's
programme until August (2006)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Easter
family fun day (2006)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Autumn/winter
2006 season (2006)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Spring/summer
2007 season (2006)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Autumn/winter
2007 programme (2007)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Spring/summer
2008 season (2007)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - UK premiere
of Icelandic musical (2008)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Holmes
to replace Farr (2008)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Spring
2009 season (2008)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Holmes announces
first season (2009)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Spring 2010
season (2010)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Autumn/winter
season (2010)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Autumn/winter
2011 season (2011)
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith - - - Spring 2011
season (2011)
The Lysistrata Project - - - London
details (2003)
The Lysistrata Project - - - More details
(2003)
Lyttelton Theatre - - - To become two spaces
(2002)
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