Cats Movie Casting Announced

Cast movie cast

Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Taylor Swift and Sir Ian McKellen are to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats movie musical. Working Title and Universal have confirmed that Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Sir Ian McKellen are to star in the Cats movie musical to be directed by Les Miserasbles director Tom Hooper. Cats is based on T S Eliot’s poetry which featured in The Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats. Hooper has been preparing the Cats movie musical for the past few years. The film is adapted by Billy Elliot’s Lee Hall. Cats the musical is Broadway’s fourth longest-running musical and the West End’s sixth longest-running musical. It is estimated to have grossed more than $USD 340 million to date and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Cats on stage featured direction by Trevor Nunn, iconic choreography by Gillian Lynne and design by John Napier.  

Ian McKellen’s King Lear Transfers To Duke Of York’s Theatre

Ian McKellen as King Lear at Duke Of York's Theatre

The Chichester Festival’s acclaimed production of King Lear starring Sir Ian McKellen, directed by Jonathan Munby will transfer to the Duke Of York’s Theatre from 11 July to 3 November 2018. King Lear tickets are now on sale. Two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with shocking ends. Tender, brutal, moving and epic, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written. This production of King Lear sees Sir Ian McKellen returning to the Duke Of York’s Theatre where he made his West End debut in the 1964 production of A Scent Of Flowers. This intimate and contemporary production of King Lear ran for a sold-out acclaimed season at the Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minerva Theatre … Read more

The Exorcist to feature the voice of a Devilish Ian McKellen

Sir Ian McKellen to voice the Demon in stage adaptation of The Exorcist

  When The Exorcist opens at the Phoenix Theatre it will feature the voice of one Ian McKellen in the devilish role as the voice of the Demon. This great new trailer (click here) was released to promote Sir Ian’s involvement in the show. Multi award-winning Ian McKellen has had a 55 year long career on stage and on screen. For the Royal Shakespeare Company he has played Romeo, Macbeth, Iago and King Lear and at the National Theatre, has appeared in productions of Coriolanus, Richard III, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. He gained his first Oscar nomination for Gods and Monsters and his second for Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is Magneto to Patrick Stewart’s Xavier in the X-Men movies, Richard III and most recently Mr Holmes. He is currently starring in King Lear in Chichester and was last seen on stage in London with Patrick Stewart in No Man’s … Read more

FIRST LOOK: No Man’s Land UK Tour

Book now for the No Man's Land UK Tour

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the highly awaited production of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land which has now started a brief UK tour before landing at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre from 8th September 2016. This production of No Man’s Land is directed by Sean Mathias and comes to London following its season at the Cort Theatre in New York where it ran in repertory with Waiting For Godot which also starred McKellen and Stewart. We hope that you enjoy these great production photos by Johan Persson. BOOK NOW FOR THE UK TOUR OF NO MAN’S LAND

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart Tour The UK In Pinter’s No Man’s Land

Ian McKellen Patrick Stewart No Man's Land Tour

Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the London stage in Sean Mathias’ acclaimed production of No Man’s Land, one of the most brilliantly entertaining plays by Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter. One summer’s evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst’s stately house nearby.  As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men. This production of No Man’s Land received acclaimed reviews at the Cort Theatre in New York, where it ran in repertory with Waiting For Godot. Patrick Stewart (Hirst) says: “I saw the original production of No Man’s Land three times in one week at Wyndham’s Theatre and would have seen it more if I … Read more

The West End Goes Ice Bucket Mad

Judi Dench Ice Bucket Challenge

The Ice Bucket Challenge has become a viral fund-raising phenomenon being taken up by people around the world and the great and the good of the West End are no exception. Take a look at the casts and theatrical greats who have contributed. To support the challenge visit the Motor Neurone Disease Association’s Just Giving page or by texting ICED55 £5 (or any other amount) to 70070 (UK only). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_XXA3K0gM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju5VxyM3S4o