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National Geographic shows off Lion King
Fans of hit West End show The Lion King can see exactly how the characters from the Disney story were created on stage thanks to a new exhibition at the National Geographic store on London’s Regent’s Street. Donmar debuts Spelling Bee in 2011
The Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will receive its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse next spring as part of a season that also includes the first major London revival of Harold Pinter’s Moonlight and Schiller’s Luise Miller. Shoes
Who knew you could tap dance in platform shoes? Apparently you can. This rather impressive sight is just one of many scenes in dance revue Shoes which pay loving homage to footwear. Goldberg returns for Superior performances
Whoopi Goldberg, who was forced to curtail her run in musical Sister Act at the London Palladium due to family illness, will return to the show for five performances only in October. Swede is big at Roundhouse
Following yesterday’s announcement of cabaret show La Soirée, another star of La Clique will return to London this Christmas. Magician Carl-Einar Häckner will stage his show Big In Sweden at Camden’s Roundhouse from 2 to 22 December. Autumn Access London Theatre brochure out now
The new Access London Theatre brochure is now available and contains details of over 120 assisted performances taking place across London’s Theatreland this autumn. Clybourne Park
Following his dissection of middle class guilt in The Pain And The Itch, American playwright Bruce Norris turns his biting wit onto the subject of prejudice across a period of 50 years. Clique stars return for new Soirée
Some of the stars of the Laurence Olivier Award-winning cabaret show La Clique will return to London this Christmas to present La Soirée, a new show held in a specially created venue on the South Bank. Wicked soars into its fifth year
The witches of Wicked will defy gravity to soar into their fifth year in the West End; the Laurence Olivier Award-winning musical extends its booking period today to 29 October 2011. Aspects of autumn
With Simon Russell Beale in Deathtrap, Rory Kinnear taking on Hamlet and Derek Jacobi’s King Lear, not to mention Matt Willis in Flashdance, this autumn is shaping up to be a theatregoer’s paradise. Take a look at the line-up below and you might just be tempted... Nigel Lindsay is Shrek
Nigel Lindsay will have to get used to feeling a little green at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane next year as he takes on the role of Shrek in the forthcoming musical adaptation which opens in May 2011. Clean Break is Charged at Soho
Women’s theatre company Clean Break will bring together six of Britain’s finest contemporary female playwrights at the Soho theatre this autumn for a cycle of shows entitled Charged. Graham and Beaumont find Enlightenment in Hampstead
Julie Graham and Daisy Beaumont will star in Shelagh Stephenson’s Enlightenment at the Hampstead theatre from 30 September to 30 October (press night 6 October). Deathtrap
There is something that just feels right about indulging in a thriller at the start of autumn. The encroaching darkness, the gathering storms and the chill creeping into the air... Jamie Lloyd
Jamie Lloyd, currently directing the Donmar Warehouse’s revival of Sondheim’s Passion, tells Caroline Bishop why he is an actor’s director. |
