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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[...]

Directed by Sean Foley, it premiered last night in the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End A show that regularly entertained millions on TV, entertained just hundreds, even at a full house So how does the transfer of a TV show based on the life of a stage playwright transfer back to the stage? Working with[...]

Uberfans know that Fleabag began life as a one-woman play Waller-Bridge wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2013. Now Waller-Bridge is going back to perform the original play one last time in London's West End Some fans are paying hundreds of pounds to scalpers just to see the original Rosetta Stone version of[...]