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Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London. It's quite a thing to bring the play, considered a modern classic, back into central London when it just played a 16-week season at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, running…

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham sets a mental timer of strictly 45 minutes for a conversation that will encompass tonight's gala opening at London's National Theatre — en route to a run at the Garrick Theatre — of his sublime stage adaptation of Alan Bleasdale's landmark 1982 television drama Boys from the Blackst…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC commissioning executives are booked to see the award-winning musical Standing at the Sky's Edge, which opens Wednesday night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its transfer from a sold-out season at the National Theatre. This column told you a year ago that StudioCanal's RED Production…

Indhu Rubasingham, an acclaimed theater practitioner, has broken the decades-long white male hold on the reins of power at the National Theatre by being appointed its artistic director, it was being revealed Wednesday in London. She succeeds current director and chief executive Rufus Norris, who, by…

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Fiennes has scored a winner with playwright James Graham's knockout stage play Dear England, which will transfer from London's National Theatre to the West End in the fall. The play is an uplifting dramatization of Gareth Southgate's inspirational leadership of the England's men's…

It's succession season at the UK's  National Theatre with Rufus Norris, the institution's Artistic Director, announcing that he will step down in 2025 after a decade in the post. "It's good to keep leadership evolving," Norris noted during a press conference at the National's base on the south side…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has a mammoth hit on his hands with The Motive and the Cue, which has been playing to packed houses on the National Theatre's 890-seater Lyttelton proscenium stage. Breaking Baz can reveal that discussions are ongoing with the play's cast, including stars Johnny Flynn, Mark…

EXCLUSIVE: There's some seriously scary stuff going on at London's National Theatre as the venue prepares for a musical version of Roald Dahl's The Witches that will feature book and lyrics by playwright Lucy Kirkwood, who's also an executive consultant on Succession. Music and lyrics are by Dave…

EXCLUSIVE: Standing at the Sky's Edge, which won best musical at the Olivier Awards Sunday night, will transfer to the West End's Gillian Lynne Theatre early in 2024, Deadline can reveal. The show written by playwright Chris Bush, featuring rock songs from the catalog of Richard Hawley, moves into…

EXCLUSIVE: House of the Dragon star Milly Alcock tells me that she will make her professional theater debut for London's National Theatre playing the vengeful Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's powerful drama The Crucible. The 22-year-old admits that she's "mortified” at the prospect of treading the…

Barbara Broccoli is perplexed as we grab a moment alone (well, not exactly alone alone; we were surrounded on all sides) at the swanky soirée Saturday for BAFTA Film Awards nominees at the National Gallery just off Trafalgar Square. Far classier than the clumsy awards show the following…

So, here's the good news. Martha Plimpton has packed up her home in New York to live and work in London. Pooches to follow. Her first gig? Playing Jacque in Shakespeare's As You Like It on the stage of @sohoplace, the West End's first purpose-built theatre in half a century. That Plimpton should…