On Stage
By Zoe Craig

Arts Ahead: What's On In London 8–14 February

Flamenco, photography and fornicating animals. That's what's coming up this week on London's cultural calendar
By Zoe Craig

Love Never Dies leads Laurence Olivier Award Nominations

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom sequel receives seven nominations for the Laurence Olivier theatre awards.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Preview: Beachy Head @ Jackson's Lane

The 2009 Edinburgh hit from award-winning theatre company, Analogue, promises to be original, exciting and visually stunning.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Review: The Shape of Things @ The Gallery Soho

A shocking, thought-provoking examination of the not-so-trifling subjects of art, love and morality.

By Franco Milazzo

Review: The Night Kitchen Cabaret Presents Imbolc Blues

The Night Kitchen Cabaret return to London with their fantastic new show Imbolc Blues at the Clerkenwell Theatre.

By Zoe Craig

Arts Ahead: What’s On in London 1 – 7 February

Susan Hiller is our pick of the week, with not one but two exhibitions opening in London. There's also an international flavour to this week's Arts Ahead: Russian ballet, American dance, images from Communist East Germany and your last chance to see Japanese fashion at the Barbican.
By Zoe Craig

Ticket Alert: See Kevin Spacey Play Richard III at the Old Vic

Today's the day you can break away from this winter of discontent and book tickets to see Richard III at the Old Vic; it's sure to be the theatrical event of our glorious summer 2011.
By Victoria Rudland

Mime Fest Review: Upswing’s ‘Fallen’ @ Purcell Room, QEH

Upswing’s latest venture is an elegant, powerful portrait of loss, longing and a crisis of identity and a cross-discipline amalgamation of aerialism, animation and dance.

By Zoe Craig

Tori Amos, Mike Leigh and Stalin: The National Theatre’s New Season

A new musical by singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a new play by Mike Leigh and Simon Russell Beale playing Stalin are all part of the National Theatre's plans for next year.
By Zoe Craig

Theatre Review: King Lear @ The Roundhouse

David Farr's production of King Lear, the last in the Royal Shakespeare Company's current London season, is a mix of successes and failures. Despite excellent acting, there's little light to be found in this perennially gloomy play...
By Londonist

Fringe Benefits: New End Theatre

The latest in our series looking at London's fringe theatres travels to a venue that was once a mortuary.

By Zoe Craig

Arts Ahead: What’s On in London 25–31 January

Our top recommendation for this week is Sampled at Sadler's Wells. But there's more to life than dance! Find out about Hamlets closing, photography exhibitions opening and some cultural tips for little londonists in this week's Arts Ahead...
By Victoria Rudland

Review: Becky Shaw @ Almeida Theatre

A sharply-written comedy of emotions and relationships at Islington's Almeida Theatre.
By Franco Milazzo

Review: Tiger Country @ Hampstead Theatre

Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, Young Doctors, Flying Doctors...it seems that our capacity for medical melodrama is infinite. Nina Raines, award-winning writer of critically acclaimed plays including last year’s Tribes, adds to the canon with her latest play Tiger Country.

By Victoria Rudland

Mime Fest Review: Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl @ The Pit, Barbican Centre

American theatre artists Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford bring their hugely entertaining, dark satire on corporate life, office politics and human nature to the Barbican as part of the 2011 London International Mime Festival.
By Talia

Lost Musicals Return for 2011

The excellent Lost Musicals seasons returns to Sadler's Wells this summer with The Band Wagon, Coco and Mexican Hayride.
By Londonist

Theatre Review: Bane & Bane 2 @ Tristan Bates

Is this credit crunch theatre? No, this is Joe Bone’s thrilling one man show which boasts car chases, gun fights and a rampaging monster.
By Zoe Craig

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 18–24 January

Sculpture, two Swan Lakes, Scissor Sisters and Shakespeare: just some of the shows opening in London this week. Plus a few gentle reminders for things that are closing. Just so you don't miss out.
By Franco Milazzo

Theatre Review: The Painter @ Arcola Theatre

Coming on like a neophile's wet dream, Dalston's Arcola Theatre has kickstarted the new year by rising from the ashes at a new venue with a new specially commissioned play based on the life of JMW Turner, the famous nineteenth-century painter.
By Zoe Craig

Theatre Review: As You Like It @ The Roundhouse

As You Like It is one of the Bard's comedies that ticks several Elizabethan mirth-making boxes; love at first sight, cross dressing, plain speaking fools and flirty freedoms when courtly townspeople head out to the countryside. Director Michael Boyd has added a dash of darkness to the proceedings too...
By Franco Milazzo

Theatre Review: RSC's Julius Caesar @ The Roundhouse

Friends, Londonists, commuters, Lend me your eyes. I come to praise Caesar, not to bury it. The good that men do lives on after them, Their works oft inspire and amaze. So let it be with Shakespeare…
By Londonist

Fringe Benefits: Finborough Theatre

Find out about The Stage 100's Fringe Theatre of the Year, based in Earls Court.

By Lindsey

Theatre Preview: 33% Festival @ Oval House Theatre

A festival conceived and created by bright things plucked from the 33% of Londoners who are under 25 opens at Oval House Theatre today.
By Zoe Craig

Arts Ahead: What's On In London 11-17 January

Here's what's new and what's closing this week in London. There are a lot of things on our last chance to see list: make sure you don’t miss out!