Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker will star in Polly Findlay’s production of Antigone at the National Theatre adding to the star-studded 2012 season at the Southbank venue.

Matt Smith is to become the next patron of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival, which runs from 23 February to 14 April at the Sloane Square venue.

“Oo-ooh, Aa-aah, precious moments…” so goes the opening line of the famous Three Degrees song that closes Absent Friends, though painful moments may be a more apt description of this poisonous party.

Youth Music Theatre is searching for 250 of the most talented, vibrant and energetic young performers, musicians and stage managers to join the 2012 company.

As part of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Festival, the much-lauded venue is holding a free playwriting workshop for children next month.

Tyne Daly gives a tour de force performance as the utterly dominating Maria Callas.

Young theatregoers with literary aspirations can once again take part in Wicked’s Young Writers’ Award as it returns for its third year with the competition now open for applications.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner but, at last night’s opening of Stefan Golaszewski’s Sex With A Stranger, romance certainly wasn’t in the air.

David Schwimmer will make his UK directing debut with Sabrina Mahfouz’s Dry Ice as part of New Writing, New Artists, Madani Younis’s inaugural season as Artistic Director at the Bush theatre.

As the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birthday, a new musical version of A Tale Of Two Cities is to open at London’s Charing Cross theatre.

Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy about six friends and a tea party that goes horribly, and hilariously, wrong opens at the Harold Pinter theatre this week, so Official London Theatre decided to find out whether any of the star-studded cast have had to endure an evening of torture at a disastrous party.

Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy about six friends and a tea party that goes horribly, and hilariously, wrong opens at the Harold Pinter theatre this week, so Official London Theatre decided to find out whether any of the star-studded cast have had to endure an evening of torture at a disastrous party.

Tom Bateman, Mark Bonnar, Harry Lloyd and Finbar Lynch have joined the cast of Jamie Lloyd’s forthcoming production of The Duchess Of Malfi.

Tom Bateman, Mark Bonnar, Harry Lloyd and Finbar Lynch have joined the cast of Jamie Lloyd’s forthcoming production of The Duchess Of Malfi.

Voting is now open for the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Olivier Audience Award which gives theatre fans the chance to decide their favourite long-running show.

Voting is now open for the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Olivier Audience Award which gives theatre fans the chance to decide their favourite long-running show.

Olivier Award-winning actress Samantha Spiro will star in Shakespeare’s Globe’s production of the Bard’s controversial comedy The Taming Of The Shrew this summer.

A host of West End stars will be behind some of the many voices participating in this year’s The Night Of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall, which will take place in May.

Michael Frayn’s Noises Off will transfer to the West End following its overwhelming success at the Old Vic theatre.

Thomas Middleton’s asylum sub-plot in The Changeling is a somewhat confusing addition to his dark revenge tragedy. To counteract this problem, director Joe Hill-Gibbins has chosen to transform his Young Vic production into a mental, anarchic experience...