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Ncuti Gatwa is busy for the rest of 2024, starring in a new West End Production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which means that if there is any Series 3 filming on the new Doctor Who, it won't be until 2025 That's okay since Series 3 of Doctor Who hasn't been officially commissioned[...]

I went to the opening night of Slave Play last night, the London West End debut of Jeremy O.Harris' play, with a number of members of the US cast but now also starring Kit Harington alongside an ensemble cast of Fisayo Akinade, James Cusati-Moyer, Aaron Heffernan, Chalia La Tour, Annie McNamara, Irene Sofia Lucio and Olivia[...]

But while the West End is significantly cheaper than Broadway, it is still outside most people's pockets to attend on a regular basis So how do I do it? I mean I know there are theatres that offer discount tickets to under 25s, but I am twice that now. Well, there are some theatres like the[...]

Running from the 5th of October to the 20th of December, Jodie Whittaker is to star in a revival of The Duchess at the Trafalgar Theatre in London's West End, and I will probably cycle past it twice a week wondering how I can grab cheap seats Adapted and directed by Zinnie Harris from John[...]

I just found myself on Shaftesbury Avenue at the Apollo Theatre, in London's West End to get up close and personal with John Cleese As in, I am in the second-to-front row, the stage is before me, and it looks like the familiar set of the TV sitcom Fawlty Towers, recorded fifty years ago, except[...]

I just went to a screening of the new film Wicked Little Letters in London's Leicester Square at the Odeon De Luxe West End, just after seeing Ricky Gervais' new show – more on that later But before the press got a screening of the film we got an impromptu unplanned introduction from three of[...]

We should have seen this coming: John Cleese has adapted his classic sitcom Fawlty Towers for the stage to debut on London's West End Now audiences can see petty fascist and failed control freak hotelier Basil Fawlty fail in the flesh on the stage, although not played by Cleese Cleese and his then-wife Connie Booth[...]

Last week, we were introduced to the cast of the live theater prequel production Stranger Things: The First Shadow, set to officially open at the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End this December Joining the "Stranger Things" universe are Shane Attwooll (Chief Hopper), Kemi Awoderu (Sue Anderson), Chase Brown (Lonnie Byers), Christopher Buckley (Bob Newby), Ammar[...]

There are a couple of weeks left of the Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical at the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End I went to see it back in June and thoroughly enjoyed it In its final fortnight, there are tickets going for £25 quid up, and maybe just a couple of minor spoilers[...]

That they had to pass Jeremy Hunt on their way through the crowd, much to his amusement, only made last night's version of the show better, as the creatures are charged with creating culture war detractions while all the time repeating that "Jeremy Hunt says the economy is f-cked!" And throughout the show, we have Harry[...]

Tom Stoppard's award-winning hit West End and Broadway play Leopoldstadt is being developed into a television miniseries by Amblin, Steven Spielberg's production company According to Deadline Hollywood, the project is currently being shopped to playwright and director Patrick Marber, best known for his play Closer, to adapt and for The Crown's Stephen Daldry to direct[...]

Fresh from the end of Killing Eve on television, Jodie Comer is making her West End debut as a barrister in the one-woman theatrical legal drama Prima Facie, now running at the Harold Pinter Theatre just off Leicester Square The play will be filmed and broadcast in the cinemas overseas, including in the US as[...]

Featuring The Liar King, the recently revived puppet-based satirical TV series will be taking to London's West End next year, apparently. Spitting Image screencaps Spitting Image co-creator Roger Law, behind the current TV show, stated "The last month has shown Spitting Image has been far too kind to Boris and his pals on TV recently[...]

The Ocean At The End Of The Lane is now The Ocean At The West End Of The Lane, having transferred from South Bank to the Duke Of York Theatre, holding its press night last night And for some reason, Bleeding Cool was invited The play is based on one of my favourite Neil Gaiman novels,[...]

Last night saw the Press Launch for the West End debut of The Ocean At The End of The Lane, at the Duke of York Theatre, on St Martin's Lane in London Bleeding Cool was there, and on the way in (and out), spied a number of celebrated types, from Simon Callow to Ruby Wax,[...]

Tonight is the press night for the West End debut of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean At The End Of The Lane I saw an earlier version, and am expecting great things tonight And the Duke Of York Theatre, round the corner from where Orbital Comics used to be, has just announced that the National Theatre's[...]

We did say a new Doctor was always going to be an unexpected choice. Every Gen Z kid probably just went "WHO?!" Let us put you out of your misery. Elaine Paige, OBE (Order of the British Empire) is an award-winning star of musical theatre who has appeared in many musicals in London's West End since 1968[...]

With a combination of booze, a violinist, and impossible chiselled/curved young people flocking, Orbital definitely moved its notch from comic book store to genuine West End art gallery in a way I haven't seen a comic book store move before Here's a video and bunch of hastily snapped photos from the night Find it on[...]

Last night saw the world premiere of The Windsors: Endgame, the West End stage spinoff of the bawdy satirical Channel 4 TV sitcom that parodies the lives of the royal family and its hangers on A goodly chunk of the TV cast reprise their roles including Harry Enfield as Charles, Matthew Cottle as Andrew, Tom-Durrant[...]

Due to more flooding over the weekend & further stage damage, Doctor Who: Time Fracture has been forced to cancel additional performances.

But where? Since it was a BBC show, Quentin Tarantino was asked if he would consider bringing that play to London, stated that he hadn't talked to anyone about it, but that his first instinct is to open it in the West End theatres of London Currently suffering the impact of the pandemic and shutdowns, London's[...]

With the theater housing the production dealing with flooding, Doctor Who: Time Fracture has canceled shows between now and Sunday, July 18.

When Immersive Everywhere's upcoming immersive West End production Doctor Who: Time Fracture premieres this summer (with previews set to start on May 26), attendees are going to be facing a crisis of such universal consequence that it will take more than David Bradley's First Doctor to save the day On Friday, fans learned that the[...]

While previews are still set for later this month and the immersive experience still on track for a summer premiere, Immersive Everywhere's West End production Doctor Who: Time Fracture will be doing so without the pre-recorded cameo appearance from John Barrowman aka Captain Jack "Immersive Everywhere have taken the decision to remove this pre-record from[...]

With previews set to begin on May 26 and the show expected to debut in some time in Summer 2021, Doctor Who fans learned last month that David Bradley and John Barrowman would be reprising their respective roles as William Hartnell's First Doctor and Captain Jack Harkness in pre-recorded cameo appearances in the upcoming immersive West End production[...]

Starting this summer (with previews set to begin on May 26), fans of Doctor Who can be a part of the Time Lord's universe with immersive West End production Doctor Who: Time Fracture Based on the long-running BBC sci-fi series and stemming from Immersive Everywhere, the production will span seventeen worlds with a company of[...]

There were only three kinds of lines I saw in and around the West End today, for barbers, for Italian delis and for comic book shops Gosh Comics had the Cinema Purgatorio collection with a signed Alan Moore/Kevin O'Neill bookplate Their final work together, I will be looking forward to reading it in one sitting with[...]

Ralph Fiennes will star in David Hare’s one-man stage play Beat the Devil, slated to premiere at London's Bridge Theatre on August 27th

The Hampstead Theatre is a cozy little venue up in North London, well away from the West End It sits in a cozy residential neighbourhood that's practically a little town in itself The theatre stages small and intimate plays by many of the biggest playwrights in the U.K The free play this week is Wild,[...]

While my youngest has now discovered we can afford West End theatre. Last night we went to see The Mischief Theatre's long-running The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre, at Piccadilly Circus Seats are usually in the £60-£80 ballpark We went to the half-price ticket booth on Leicester Square at 5pm and bought[...]