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WHAT'S HOT IN LONDON
Jude Law triumphs as Hamlet at the Wyndham's Theatre this summer, playing the troubled Dane opposite Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Ophelia. Runs until August 22nd.
Tim Firth's stage adaptation of the hit film
Calendar
Girls has just announced a new
cast from 27 July at the Noel
Coward Theatre and it becomes an 'Eastenders'
special with Jill Halfpenny, Anita Dobson and
June Brown joining the line up.
Chun
Yi: The Legend of Kung Fu was a
hit at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and is
re-staged by acclaimed Broadway director Ray
Roderick. It tells the poignant story of a young
boy who embarks on an epic journey to enlightenment
by completing a series of formidable trials
to earn his title Chun Yi - The Pure One. At
the London Coliseum from 29th July.
Based on the smash-hit movie, Sister Act the Musical is brought to the stage by Whoopi Goldberg and features a brand new score by 8 time Oscar winner Alan Menken and stars Patina Miller in the role of 'Sister' Deloris at the London Palladium.
Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in
Samuel Beckett's Waiting
For Godot in this new production
by Sean Mathias. Two tramps clowning around,
joking and arguing, repeating themselves, as
they wait through one day and then another,
waiting for the mysterious Godot. This will
probably be the theatrical event of the year
in London.
The National Theatre's breathtakingly beautiful
War
Horse has now transferred to the
New London Theatre in the West End. The play
follows the story of Joey, young Albert's beloved
horse, through World War One. Having been sold
to the cavalry and shipped to France. he's soon
caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him
on an extraordinary odyssey. An triumphant piece
of stage craft certainly not to be missed.
The critically acclaimed, sell-out Menier Chocolate
Factory production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh
Wheeler’s musical A
Little Night Music, directed by Trevor
Nunn, transfers to the Garrick
Theatre for a strictly limited season.
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Following its sold-out run on Broadway, the Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Cat on A Hot Tin Roof comes to London's West End in December this year. Featuring a dynamic all black cast led by Academy Award nominee and two-time Tony winner James Earl Jones, Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad, Olivier Award winner Adrian Lester and Tony Award nominee Sanaa Lathan.
Marking the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Darwins The Origin of Species, Trevor Nunn returns to direct Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey in Lawrence and Lees grippingly relevant drama, Inherit The Wind, based on the 1925 Scopes 'Monkey' Trial. Two legal Titans confront each other when a community puts freedom of thought on trial
Breakfast
at Tiffanys, the classic movie
is being brought to the west end stage in a
new adaptation by Samuel Adamson, directed by
Sean Mathias and starring Anna Friel as Holly
Golightly and Joseph Cross as 'Fred'. Opens
at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in September.
Lenny Henry steps out on the west end stage as Othello in the Northern Broadside Production that has received great critical acclaim. Opens at the Trafalgar Studio 11th September.
Sheridan Smith is to lead the cast as college sweetheart Elle Woods in Jerry Mitchell’s Legally Blonde The Musical opening at the Savoy Theatre in December 2009 after taking Broadway by storm. Sheridan is joined by Duncan James who will play heartbreaker Warner and Alex Gaumond as Emmett, Elle’s love interest.
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