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A city bus crashed into London’s Palace Theatre, home to the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, this afternoon, according to a report posted on the UK’s Metro news site. No injuries have been reported, but police sealed off the crash site on Shaftesbury Avenue, near Leicester…

A London theatregoer has described the moment Sir Ian McKellen fell off stage and into her lap, saying she "went into shock." Johanna Dart was attending a production of Player Kings at the Noel Coward Theatre in London's West End on Monday evening when the Lord of the Rings star lost his footing…

Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London. It's quite a thing to bring the play, considered a modern classic, back into central London when it just played a 16-week season at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, running…

EXCLUSIVE: In a move designed to “extend the intersection” of Hollywood, Broadway, London’s West End and regional theater, the movie-ticket site Hollywood.com and theater producer Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment announced today the formation of an online joint ticket-selling venture that will include…

EXCLUSIVE: Shucked, the Broadway musical nominated for nine Tony Awards, will begin a London run on the West End next year, producer and theater owner Cameron Mackintosh announced today. “I'm delighted to confirm that London is going to get Shucked in one of my theatres next year,” Mackintosh said in…

Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters and International Entertainment Holdings Limited, the parent company of Ambassador Theatre Group, have agreed to combine operations, bringing together two of the major players on Broadway and London’s West End. Jujamcyn owns five Broadway theaters: the St. James, Al…

EXCLUSIVE:  Dyllón Burnside, star of Ryan Murphy shows Pose, American Horror Story and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, will make his London stage debut in Black Superhero, the debut play from British actor, activist and playwright Danny Lee Wynter. Florida-born Burnside will play King, a…

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown's Imelda Staunton will still star as matchmaker Dolly Levi in musical Hello, Dolly! in London's West End, but fans will have to wait until the summer of 2024. The actress will make her first appearance as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix drama The Crown on November 9. Fall TV Premiere Dates For New &#038…

EXCLUSIVE: A gleaming, stainless steel DMC DeLorean is ready for its star turn in New York. Phantom of the Opera has its chandelier, while Miss. Saigon boasted a helicopter hovering into view. And now, the Broadway-bound hit West End musical Back to the Future is revving up with a scene-stealing DeLorean time…

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's Felicia Boswell (Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert) will be making her West End debut this July when she takes over from Beverley Knight (Bodyguard Musical), the chart-topping Queen of British Soul, in the enormously enjoyable hit show The Drifters Girl, which has been running at The Garrick…

When she was 23, Sonia Friedman was—to use her expression—thrown into a rehearsal room with Harold Pinter at London's National Theatre. She was his deputy stage manager during production for the premiere of his one-act play Mountain Language starring theatrical royalty Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins. "I was the…

The Old Vic’s production of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles, which was to have featured the West End debut of Timothée Chalamet in a co-starring role opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, has been canceled, the theater company announced today, citing a two-year pandemic-caused delay. In a statement to ticket-holders, theater…