Theatre News Weekly

Latest UK theatre news including the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston and Kelsey Grammer coming to the West End, next summer's season at the Open Air Theatre. Plus recommendations from the latest shows to open including Kit Harington in Sam Shepard's True West and an all male version of Genet's The Maids.

News of tours of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Mousetrap and Rotterdam, Clare Burt starring in an Arthur Miller play at the Old Vic, and a number of Strictly’s finest young male celebrities- Harry Judd, Aston Merrygold, Louis Smith and Jay McGuinness- getting together for a West End show plus the pick of this week’s openings including Mark Williams as Doctor Dolittle and the arrival of Caroline Or Change with Sheila D Clarke in the West End.

The best of shows opening this week including War Horse at the National Theatre and news of West End transfers including Home, I'm Darling with Katharine Parkinson and Switzerland with Phyllis Logan, UK tours including Dom Jolly in The Rocky Horror Show and, after 60 years of Jerome Robbins, new choreography for West Side Story.

News about a new version of Death Of A Salesman directed by Marianne Elliott, a new season at Young Vic, and tours of a Torben Betts comedy and a musical based on the film Amelie plus a review of Don Carlos starring Tom Burke of TV’s Cormoran Strike fame, who is brilliant in Schiller’s Don Carlos plus the seven best shows opening this week including a new play by Debbie Tucker Green at Royal Court Theatre and Mark Gatiss in The Madness of George III.

News about arts cuts in Birmingham, a new season at Royal Court Theatre featuring a play by Harry Potter And The Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne, and a new tour of American Idiot, plus a review of A Very Very Very Dark Matter by Martin MacDonagh starring Jim Broadbent at Bridge Theatre London, and the pick of this week's openings including plays featuring Christopher Ecclestone, Niamh Cusack, Rufus Hound, David Threlfall, Keith Allen and Tamsin Greig.

News of the UK Theatre Awards big winners and two West End transfers, review of David Hare's I'm Not Running starring Sian Brooke at National Theatre and the pick of shows opening this week with Tom Burke, Maisie Williams, Hugh Dennis and more.

News of National Theatre's new season featuring Cate Blanchett, Nicola Walker in new Mark Ravenhill play at Royal Court, a review of Florian Zeller's new play The Height Of The Storm starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins (confusing but moving), and this week's top five openings including a new play by Martin McDonagh starring Jim Broadbent

News of tickets going on sale for Ivo Van Hove's new production All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James, an award for Aidan Turner and a review of Humans at Hampstead Theatre plus the pick of theatre shows opening around the UK including Stephen Sondheim's Company, a comedy by and starring Adrian Edmonton and Nigel Planer, Kwame Kwei-Armah's first production in large of the Young Vic and the National Theatre's Macbeth on tour.

News & reviews from the UK stage including a new Lloyd Webber musical and Kevin Clifton in a hit musical tour, reviews of Women In Power and Flowers for Mrs Harris, plus the pick of shows opening this week including Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo in Anthony And Cleopatra and Debris Stevenson's Poet In Da Corner.

News about the first West End show with an all female creative team, the RSC's new rep company and more plus a review of The Goon Show and five recommended theatre shows opening this week including a new play starring Lesley Sharp.