After The Dance tickets now available for the Lyttleton Theatre

First staged in 1939, After the Dance is now often thought to be Terence Rattigan’s masterpiece offering a subtle, witty unmasking of the hedonistic 20s generation and a devastating study of repression and the human heart.

At its centre is David, who idles away his sober moments researching a futile book until the beautiful Helen decides to save him, shattering his marriage and learning too late the depth of both David’s indolence and his wife’s undeclared love.

After The Dance tickets are available now for performances from the 9th to the 19th June.

Women Beware Women tickets now available for the Olivier Theatre

Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women is a blackly funny, fast and ferocious tragedy.

In the Italian court, where wealth secures power and power serves lust, the lascivious Duke can play wherever he chooses.

He catches the eye of another’s exquisite bride, Bianca. Can a glance secure her fate, a bribe appease her husband?

Isabella’s father would marry her off to a rich young idiot, while Hippolito has won her trust and desires her truly. But he’s her uncle.

These are her choices. If twice-widowed Livia conspires against her sex to gain a little clout, she’s only fighting to survive.

Tickets are available now for performances from the 28th April until the 8th June.

London Assurance tickets are now available for the Olivier Theatre

The brilliantly funny London Assurance was written in 1841, the age of Dickens, by the Irish genius Dion Boucicault.

Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, who is several decades his junior.

Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker, wife of barmy old Mr Adolphus Spanker.

Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace.

When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.

Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw star as Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker with the legendary Richard Briers as Mr Spanker.

Tickets are available now for performances from the 3rd April until the 2nd June at the National Theatre’s Olivier Theatre.

La Bete tickets are now on sale for the Comedy Theatre

La Bete will star Tony and Olivier Award winner Mark Rylance (Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing), Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce (Dr Niles Crane in Frasier) and BAFTA Award winner Joanna Lumley (Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous) and will be directed by the multi award-winning Matthew Warchus (The Norman Conquests, God of Carnage, Boeing-Boeing).

La Bete, is a comic tour de force about Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theatre, and Valere (Mark Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves only himself. When the fickle princess (Joanna Lumley) decides she’s grown weary of Elomire’s royal theatre troupe, he and Valere are left fighting for survival as art squares off with ego in a literary showdown for the ages.

La Bete tickets are on sale now for the Comedy Theatre from the 28th June through to the 28th August from £56.50.

With such a star studded cast we expect this to be very popular so book early to avoid disappointment.

Tickets now on sale for The Habit Of Art at the Lyttleton

Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music.

It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion’s spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.

Tickets are available for the 19th April through to the 19th May at £47.50.

The Habit of Art plays at the Lyttleton Theatre at 2.15pm and 7.30pm.

Madness in Valencia comes to the Trafalgar Studios following a sell out run at the White Bear

Floriano kills a Prince and flees. Erifila escapes an abhorrent arranged marriage. Uncertain of their futures they take refuge in Valencia’s famed asylum. Locked up with fools and physicians they become entangled in the convolutions of a glorious farce.

Enjoy this beguiling and hilarious pageant of love, madness and mistaken identity.

Time Out’s Top Critics’ Choice and Show of the Week.

Booking until March 6th at Trafalgar Studio 2, tickets are just £17.50

Tickets for Abbaworld at the Museum Court, Earls Court now on sale

Fully approved and supported by ABBA, ABBAWORLD is playing in London at Earls Court until 28th March 2010.

The hugely interactive experience will take visitors on a mind-blowing journey through ABBAWORLDS’ 25 rooms, bursting with exclusive music, footage, images and never-before-displayed memorabilia from the personal collections of the world’s most cherished pop icons; Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Frida. continue reading »

Tickets now on sale for Holding the Man at Trafalgar Studios

Based on the much loved award winning book by Tim Conigrave, adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man is a hilariously funny, tender and moving play following the remarkable true life love story of Tim Conigrave and John Caleo.

It is a celebration that speaks across generations, sexual preference and culture.

Now booking from 23rd April until 3rd July.

Felicity Kendall to star in Mrs Warren’s Profession at the Comedy Theatre

Vivie has never really known much about her mother.

A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education and a generous monthly allowance.

Now she has ambitions to go into Law.

Is it conceivable that all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest profession? continue reading »

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is to direct a stage version of Frankenstein at the National Theatre next Winter.

Boyle directed plays at the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company earlier in his career.

The National Theatre’s Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner commented – “What will be exciting will be to see how a theatre director with a really recognisable personal style has been altered by what he’s discovered about himself over 15 years making movies.”

The play is by Nick Dear and is based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

We will bring you more news as and when we get it.