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The British Theatre Guide

WHAT'S ON IN LONDON

UPDATED July 4, 2008

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PLEASE NOTE: Theatre scheduling is only changed when a new production is entered, so check dates carefully before attending a performance, also we do not advertise one nighters here – hope you find the site useful!

Detailed Listings

Adelphi - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - starts July 6, 2007 - to Oct 18/08;

Albery -

Aldwych - Dirty Dancing - to October 18/08

Almeida - (too many short stands to list) – Rosmersholm - starts May 15/08 opens May 22/08 to July 5/08; Nocture - July 16-22, 2008; Cloud 9; Kicking a Dead Horse - Sept 5-20/08; Waste - Sept 25/08 to Nov 15/08; In a Dark Dark House - Nov 20/08 to Jan 17/09;

Ambassadors - see New Ambassador's Theatre - Stomp - starts Sept 27/08 - transfer from Vaudeville;

Apollo - 29 Shaftesbury Ave (Piccadilly Circus) – Vortex - starts Feb 20/08 - opens Feb 26 to June 7/08; Divas: A Dance Spectacular - June 19/08 - opens June 25/08 to July 5/08; Rain Man (Josh Hartnett) - August 28th start;

Apollo Victoria - (Wilton Road)(Victoria) - Wicked - to March 29/08;

Arts - Jay Johnson: The Two and Only - June 25/08 to Sept 28/08;

Arts Depot (Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley alongside the Cannons Health & Leisure Centre, Nether Street) -

Barbican Centre - Pit - (Many short or one-night programmes - check paper) - Waiting for Barbarians - closes June 12/08; Troilus and Cressida - closes June 14/08; Black Watch - starts June 20/08 - opens June 24/08 to July 26/08;;

Bush Theatre - 2000 Feet Away - opens June 16/08;

Cambridge - Chicago - to July 30/09;

Cinema on Haymarket - Brief Encounter - starts Feb 2/08 - opens Feb 17/08 - to Oct 19/08;

Coliseum - (Many short or one-night programmes - check paper) - Kismet - June 25/07 to July 14/07;

Comedy - Dickens Unplugged - starts May 23/08 - closing June 29/08;

Criterion - 39 Steps - April 23/07 - to Feb 7/09;

Dominion - We Will Rock You - to Oct 2008;

Donmar Warehouse - Chalk Garden follows June 2/08; Donmar - Piaf - Aug 8/08 to Sept 20/08; also taking over Wyndhams Theatre in 2009 - see Wyndhams for productions; Ivanov - Sept 12/08 to Nov 29/08; Creditors - Sept 25/08 to Nov 15/08; Family Reunion - Nov 20/08 to Jan 10/09; Doll's House (Gillian Anderson) - Spring 2009; Be Near Me - Jan 22/09 to March 14/09;

Drillhall - Bitch Slapped by God - Dec 5/07 to Jan 6/08;

Drury Lane Theatre -see Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Duchess - Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story - Aug 3/07 - opens Aug 7/07 to March 28/09; Notes in Heels - opens April 6/08; Addictions - opens June 8, 2008 ???;

Duke of York's - That Face - starts May 1/08 - opens May 8/08 to July 5/08; Under the Blue Sky - starts July 15/08 - opens July 25/08 to Sept 20/08; No Man's Land (Michael Gambon) - starts Sept 27/08 - opening Oct 7/08;

English National Opera - Madam Butterfly - Jan 3/08 to Mar 7/08; Mikado - Feb 2/08 to March 4/08;Candide - starts June 23/08 for 13 performances (Kristin Chenoweth)

Fortune - Woman in Black (15th Anniversary) -

Garrick - Zorro - starts July 2/08 - opening July 15/08;

Gate - Car Cemetary

Gielgud - God of Carnage (Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer) - starts Mar 7/08 - opening March 25/08 - closes June 14/08;

Globe - see Shakespeare's Globe

Greenwich - Casanova: The True Story - May 14/08 to June 8/08;

Hackney Empire - Beau Jest - opens May 8/08 to June 1/08;

Hammersmith - see Lyric Hammersmith

Hammersmith Apollo – High School Musical - starts June 328/08 to Aug 31/08;

Hampstead Theatre -

Hanover Grand -

Haymarket - see Theatre Royal Haymarket

Her Majesty's - Phantom of the Opera (19th birthday as of Oct 9/05) - to Sept 27/08;

Jermyn Street Theatre - Romeo and Juliet - April 21/08 to May 17/08; A Bit of Irish - March 17-22/08;

King’s Head – The Musical of Musicals - the Musical - to Jan 28/07;

Leicester Square Theatre - Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress By a Life in Progress - Aug 29-Sept 18/08 and Dec 2/08 to Jan 29/09;

Lillian Bayliss Theatre -

London Apollo (Hammersmith) -

London Colisseum - Merry Widow - April 26/08 to May 10/08; Candide - (Kristin Chenoweth) - June 23/08 to July 12/08;

London Palladium - The Sound of Music - to Feb 28/08;

Lyceum - Lion King - to Jan 5/08

Lyric - Cabaret (revival) - from April 2/07 to June 21/08;

Lyric Hammersmith - Love - May 29/08 - opens June 3/08 - closes June 21/08; Cinderella; Spyski (or The Importance of Being Honest); Othello; Radioplay; Why I Don't Hate White People; Brilliant NIE; Comedy Nights; Spring Awakening - January 23/09 - opening Feb 3/09;

Menier Chocolate Factory - La Cage aux Folles - starts Nov 27/07 - opening Dec 13/07 to March 8/08; They're Playing Our Song (Connie Fisher) - starts July 25/08 - opening Aug 4/08 to Sept 28/08; A Little Night Music (dir. Trevor Nunn);

National - (Cottesloe;Lyttleton and Olivier) - (Many short or one-night programmes - check paper) - DeProfundis - closes July 2/08; Women of Troy; Statement of Regret; Present Laughter; Year of Magical Thinking (Vanessa Redgrave) - April 30/08 to July 15/08; Afterlife - starts June 3/ 2008; A Slight Ache; Never So Good (Jeremy Irons) - starts March 17/08 - opens March 26/08 to Aug 14/08; Major Barbara - to July 3/08; Ravenger's Tragedy - June 2008; Her Naked Skin - starts July 24/08 - opens July 31/08; Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - August 2008; Oedipus (Ralph fiennes); Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat; Eurobeat - starts Sept 4/08; War Horse - starts Sept 10/08; The Idiot; A Disappearing Number - Oct 10/08 to Nov 11/08; To Be Straight With You - Oct 30/08 to Nov 9/08; August: Osage County - November 2008 for 8 week engagement; Mrs. Affleck - Nov 2008; Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew - December 2008 to March 2009; Gethsemane (David Hare) - 2009; Mother Courage - 2009;

New Ambassador's changed to Ambassadors - Waiting for Godot;

New End Theatre (Hampstead) -

New London - Imagine This - starts Nov 4/08 - opening Nov 19/08;

New Players Theatre - will reopen on Villiers Street – Make Me a Song - starts March 3/08 - opening March 6/08

New Wimbleton - To Kill a Mockingbird – opens Jan 30/07

Noel Coward – Avenue Q - to April 25/09;

Novello - formerly Strand – Shadowlands (transfer from Wyndhams) for 9 weeks; Into the Hoods - opens March 14/08 to May 10/08;

Old Vic - Pygmalion - extended to August 9/08; Bridge Project: Hamlet/The Tempest - May, June 2008; Cherry Orchard and Winter's Tale (Ethan Hawke,Richard Easton - May to August, 2009;

Open Air - 8th Anniversary season 2008 - Romeo and Juliet - starts June 2/08; Twelfth Night - starts June 4/08 - opens June 13/08; A Midsummer Night's Dream - starts July 8/08; Gigi - starts Aug 6/08 - opens Aug 14/08; Norman Conquests - Sept 11/08 to Dec 20/08;

Orange Tree - The Years Between; Once We Were Mothers; Chairs;

Palace - Monty Python’s Spamalot - to Jan 2/09 - over 2 years opened Oct/06;

Phoenix - Blood Brothers - to Nov 1/08;

Piccadilly - Grease - starts July 25/07 - opens August 8/07 to Jan 10/09;

Pit -

Playhouse - The Harder They Come - starts May 23/08 - opens June 9/08;

Prince Edward - Jersey Boys - begins Feb 28/08 - opening March 18, 2008;

Prince of Wales - Mamma Mia - to April 25/09

Queen's - Les Miserables - to April 25/09;

Richmond Theatre -

Riverside Studios – Auto Auto - April 9/08 to May 4/08;

Roundhouse/Undercroft - Royal Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare's 8 play histories cycle - (Richard II, III, Henry IV, V, VI) - Spring 2008;

Royal Albert Hall - Strictly Gershwin - June 13-22/08;

Royal Court -(Many short or one-night programmes - check paper) - Relocated - to July 5/08; Free Outgoing - July 2-19/08; Gone Too Far - July 23 to Aug 9/08; Now or Later - Sept 3/08 to Oct 8/08; Caryl Churchill readings - Sept 15/08 to Sept. 26/08; Girlfriend Experience - Sept 18/08 to Oct 11/08; Faces in the Crowd - Oct 17/08 to Nov 8/08; I Come From There - Nov 11-15/08; Wig Out - Nov 20/08 to Jan 10/09; Pride - Nov 21/08 to Dec 20/08;

Royal Festival Hall -(too many one nighters to list) - Wizard of Oz - July 23/08 to Aug 31/08; Lost and Found - Dec 19/08 to Jan 11/09;

Royal National Theatre -

Royal Opera House - (too many one night programmes to be listed here - check theatre in listings) - 2007/8 seasons. Highlights include three complete performances of The Ring Cycle starring Bryn Terfel, Placido Domingo and John Tomlinson, new opera The Minotaur, new productions of Salome and Don Carlo, a revival of George Balanchine's Jewels and new work by Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Kim Brandstrup

Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-Upon-Avon) - ;

Sadler's Wells - (too many one night programmes to be listed) - West Side Story - July 22, 2008 to Aug 31/08; Dorian Gray - September 2008;

St. Martin's - Mousetrap (54th Anniversary November 25/06) - to Nov 1/08;

Savoy - Never Forget - starts May 7/08 - opening May 21/08; Take That - starts May 7/08 - opens May 21/08 - closing Feb 16/08;

Shaftesbury - Hairspray - October 11, 2007 - opens Oct 30/07 - to Oct 25/08;

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - 2008 season runs from April 23/08 to Oct 5/08 and includes King Lear - starts May 2/08 - opens April 23/08 to Aug 17/08; Midsummer Night's Dream; Timon of Athens; Merry Wives of Windsor - opens June 18/08; The Frontline - opens July 9/08; and Liberty;

Shaw Theatre - Golda's Balcony (Toah Feldsheh) - starts June 7/08 - opening June 12/08 to June 28/08; Elaine Stritch at Liberty - July 31/08 to Aug 10/08;

Soho - Divers - opens June 23/08;

Sound Theatre -

Strand - name changed to Novello –

Stratford-Upon-Avon - 2008 season - Merchant of Venice - starts April 3/08; Taming of the Shrew - starts April 24/08; Midsummer Night's Dream - starts May 9/08; Hamlet (David Tennant) starts July 24/08 - opens Aug 5/08; Love's Labour's Lost - starts Oct 2/08 - opens Oct 8/08;

Theatre Royal Drury Lane - Lord of the Rings – previews mid May, opens June 19/07 - closes July 19/08 (may tour?); French and Saunders--Still Alive - Oct 15/08 to Nov 8/08; followed by Oliver (revival - Rowan Atkinson) - starts Dec 12/08 - opening Jan 14/09;

Theatre Royal Haymarket - The Sea (Eileeen Atkins) - Jan 17/08 - opens Jan 23/08 to Apr 19/08; Marguerite (Ruthie Henshall) - starts May 7, 2008 - opens May 20/08 to Nov 1/08;

Trafalgar Studios - Lifecoach - closes June 14/08; Fat Pig - starts May 16/08 to Aug 30/08; Quiz - opens June 17/08 to June 28/08; In My Name - July 1-19/08; In Celebration (Orlando Blum) - July 2008;

Tricycle – Moonlight and Magnolias - starts July 10/08 - opening July 20/08 to Aug 2/08; Let There Be Love - Aug 5/08 to Aug 30/08; Twelfth Night - Sept 1-27/08; Radio Golf - Oct 2/08 to Nov 1/08; Loot - Dec 11/08 to Jan 31/09;

Vaudeville - Deep Blue Sea - starts April 29/08 - opens May 13/08 - to July 19/08; Female of the Species - starts July 10/08 - opening July 16/08;

Venue - ;

Victoria Palace - Billy Elliot - The Musical - to Dec 20/08;

Watermill - Merrily We Roll Along - starts Jan 16/08

Westminster -

Wilton's Music Hall - Wink the Other Eye - starts July 17/08

Wimbleton Theatre -

Whitehall -

Wyndhams - Donmar will take up residency as of September 2008 while continuing to run its smaller Covent Garden site as well - Ivanov (Kenneth Branagh) - starts Sept 12/08 - opens Sept 17/08 to Nov 29/08; Madame DeSade (Judi Dench) - March 13/09 to May 23/09; Hamlet (Jude Law) - May 29/09 - opening June 3/09;

Young Vic - The 2007/8 season at the Young Vic: Good Soul of Szechuan - starts May 8/08 - opens May 14/08 - closes June 28/08;

COMING SOON TO THE WEST END

Aida

American Plan - November 2005

Anna in the Tropics

Bad Girls

Barnum (Hugh Jackman) - Autumn 2009

Bat Out of Hell - musical - 2008/09

Blonde Bombshells

Blunkett - the Musical - Spring 2005

Bob Marley musical (untitled) - 2006

Boyfriend (Liliane Montevecchi)

Can't Smile Without You (Barry Manilow) - 2008/09

Cyrano (musical) - Spring 2006

Daydream Believer (Monkees musical) - plans cancelled July 2008

Desperately Seeking Susan (musical) - Fall 2007 - theatre TBA

Dinner at Eight - musical

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical) - Spring 2007

Enchanted April

42nd Street - 2007/08

From Here to Eternity

Funny Girl (Connie Fisher) - 2008

Grey Gardens - 2007/08

Gypsy (Patti LuPone)

Hans Christian Anderson - 2004/05

Hello Dolly - revival

Importance of Being Earnest (Diana Rigg) - 2006

It's A Wonderful Life (musical) 2004

Kean - May 2007 - Theatre TBA

Jekyll and Hyde (musical) - 2005

La Boheme -

La Cage aux Folles - West End - April 2008

Little Night Music

Little Women (musical) - 2006

Macbeth

Man of No Importance (musical)

Marguerite (Ruthie Henshall) - opens March 2008

Masada - 2004 season

Memory House (Dianne Wiest)

Merrily We Roll Along - 2008

Monsoon Wedding - 2008/09

Never Forget - musical - 2007/08

Night Heron

Over Here (Donna McKechnie) - Jan 8, 2007 to Feb 16/07 - Theatre TBA

Phantom: Once Upon Another Time - Nov 2009

Pravda

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - late 2008

Prisoner: Cell Block H (Paris Hilton) - 2008

Private Lives (Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones)

700 Sundays (Billy Crystal) - tenative

Simply the Best (Tina Turner musical) - 2009

Some Like It Hot - Fall 2007

Song and Dance - 2002/03

Sweet Bird of Youth (Christian Slater) - (perhaps Gielgud)

To Be Or Not To Be

Twelve Angry Men - Fall 2005

Urinetown - 2003

Vortex - 2008

When Harry Met Barry - 2005 TBA

White Chocolate - 2005

Xanadu - from Broadway Spring 2009 - theatre TBA

Zorro (musical - music by Gipsy Kings) - 2009???

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