Directed by Carrie Cracknell, the critically acclaimed Young Vic production of A Doll’s House is running at the Duke of York’s Theatre for a limited 12 week run (8 August to 26 October 2013).

Hattie Morahan reprises her Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle award-winning role as Nora Helmer, with Dominic Rowan as Torvald, Nick Fletcher as Nils Krogstad and Steve Toussaint as Doctor Rank.

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‘If you ever see a production of the play, see this one… Hattie Morahan’s Nora is a once-in-a-lifetime performance.’
The Sunday Telegraph

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‘An intense emotional thriller…Ian MacNeil’s set is like a spinning doll’s house come to life…Hattie Morahan’s Nora offers a piercing study in desperation.’
Sunday Express

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‘Ferociously raw and palpably radical…Hattie Morahan is instantly enthralling.’
Independent on Sunday

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‘A sexy, passionate interpretation of Ibsen, potent and emotionally truthful.’
Evening Standard

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Daily Mail

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‘A riveting production of Ibsen’s classic led by a vivid, moving performance from Hattie Morahan.’
Financial Times

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‘There is so much to admire in this marvellous production… terrific.’
The Times

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‘Hattie Morahan is wonderfully luminous… Ian McNeil’s set is exquisite… warmly recommended.’
Daily Telegraph

‘A bravura performance that elevates Morahan to the front rank of British actors.’
The Guardian

Theatre: Duke of York’s Theatre

Rising musicals star Charlotte Wakefield has been cast in the lead role of Maria in the Open Air Theatre’s new production of The Sound of Music (25 July to 7 September 2013).

The actress made her West End debut in Spring Awakening at the Novello Theatre in 2011, playing the starring role of Wendla Bergman in the Lyric Hammersmith production, which earned her a Best Actress in a Musical Olivier Award nod.

Charlotte has also played the lead role of Sophie in the West End and international touring productions of Mamma Mia!

Charlotte Wakefield stars alongside Michael Xavier as Captain von Trapp  in The Sound of Music.

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Michael Xavier returns to the Open Air Theatre this summer following his Olivier nominated performance in Into The Woods in 2010.

Michael has forged an accomplished musicals career since graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University.

2012 was a busy one for the actor as he starred in Hello Dolly! at the Leicester Curve with Janie Dee, in Soho Cinders at the Soho Theatre, Wonderful Town at the Royal Exchange and appeared as Daniel Cleaver in a workshop production of  Bridget Jones The Musical.

He played jock Oliver Barrett in Love Story at the Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End in 2011, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Other roles include Curly in Oklahoma at Chichester, Sir Galahad in Spamalot at the Palace Theatre, Raoul in Phantom of the Opera, Freddy in My Fair Lady at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Sky in Mamma Mia in the UK on tour.

Michael Xavier stars alongside Charlotte Wakefield as Maria Rainer in The Sound of Music.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s timeless classic The Sound of Music is given a new revival this summer in the beautiful setting of the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Expect the hills to well and truly come alive in the park setting, in the show where every song is a hum-able hit, including ‘Do-Re-Mi’, ‘Climb Ev’ry Mountain’, ‘My Favourite Things’, ‘Sixteen Going on Seventeen’ and ‘Edelweiss’.

Directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, the show stars Michael Xavier as Captain Von Trapp and Charlotte Wakefield as Maria Rainer.

The Sound of Music runs from 25 July to 7 September 2013 at the Open Air Theatre.

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The West End Men is a sharp and sexy concert that brings together some of London theatre’s hottest and most talented male stars in a night celebrating the greatest musical numbers from the biggest shows.

This extraordinary concert stars Lee Mead (Wicked, Legally Blonde, Winner of Any Dream Will Do), Matt Willis (Wicked, Flashdance, Footloose and member of Busted), Glenn Carter* (Jersey Boys, Jesus Christ Superstar, Whistle down the Wind), David Thaxton (Olivier Award winner for Passion, Les Miserables) and Stephen Rahman-Hughes* (Bombay Dreams, West Side Story).

From acclaimed director Mitch Sebastian, the show features a wealth of West End and Broadway showstoppers, backed by a live band and choir. And joining the boys will be West End superstar Kerry Ellis* (Wicked, Oliver, We Will Rock You) in this intimate production running for only four weeks at the Vaudeville Theatre.

* Note: Kerry Ellis appears until 15 June 2013; Glenn Carter appears until 8 June 2013; Stephen Rahman-Hughes performs from 10 – 22 June 2013

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LIMBO at the London Wonderground. Photo: Roy Tan

Following their amazing success with Cantina, the producers of all things showstoppingly circus are back on the Southbank this summer with another blend of magic meets circus and dance.

With turns from sword-friendly Heather Holliday, vertigo-lover Jonathan Nosan and beatboxer extraordinaire Mikael Bres there is much to love in this new show.

Photos by Roy Tan.

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New Les Miserables mural uncovered

Producer Cameron Mackintosh has commissioned a new mural for the side of the Queen’s Theatre in London – home to his blockbuster show Les Miserables.

The Queen’s Theatre is part of his Delfont Mackintosh theatre group, and in a bid to brighten up the side of the theatre on Wardour Street, he has commissioned artist Martin Jarvis to create a Les Miserables mural.

The mural is also to celebrate the fabulous 12 months that the show has enjoyed including the audience and critical success of the movie version of the show starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

Watch a video of the making of the mural below.

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Kim Cattrall has clearly still got it! A sexy new poster has been released ahead of Cattrall starring in a new revival of Tennessee Williams’s steamy, powerful play Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic Theatre, directed by recent Olivier Award winner Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time, War Horse).

Joined by hot new American actor Seth Numrich (Golden Boy), Cattrall stars as fading film star Alexandra Del Lago who is mired in a failing career and drink and drugs. She finds comfort in the arms of attractive young gigolo and wannabe movie star Chance Wayne, who is using Alexandra to further his own career in this vivid drama about longing and the destruction of dreams.

Sweet Bird of Youth starts previews at the Old Vic Theatre from 1 June 2013.

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The poster for Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic Theatre starring Kim Cattrall and Seth Numrich

Trevor Nunn directs a new production of Noel Coward’s Relative Values at the Theatre Royal Bath this summer (from 12 June 2013).

In a starry cast that features Katherine Kingsley, Patricia Hodge, Rory Bremner and Caroline Quentin, the rumours are that the play may be West End bound.

One of Noël Coward’s most successful comedies, Relative Values in set in the early 1950s and deals with the culture clash between the glittering world of Hollywood and the stiff upper lip of the English aristocracy.

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The critical and audience hit about the phoney war between Labour and Tory whips in 1974, which sees both sides become embroiled in a war of attrition.

The cast will include players from the National Theatre production including Julian Wadham, Phil Daniels and Reece Dinsale.

1974. The UK faces economic crisis and a hung parliament. In a culture hostile to cooperation, it’s a period when votes are won or lost by one, when there are fist fights in the bars and when sick MPs are carried through the lobby to register their vote.

Set in the engine rooms of Westminster, James Graham’s This House strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes: the whips who roll up their sleeves and on occasion bend the rules to shepherd and coerce a diverse chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.

Theatre: Aldwych Theatre