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2 November 11:22:01	Glamour model, television personality and actress Abi Timuss (www.abititmuss.co.uk) is tackling Shakespeare. She will play Lady Macbeth at The Seagull in Lowestoft, and other locations.   The Seagull
20 October 07:03:36	'A Small Town Anywhere' at the Battersea Arts Centre (www.bac.org.uk) is a theatre piece in which the audience are the performers...Here, the show is both drama and game. Audience members play characters..." More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
9 October 05:19:39	Welsh actor Jonathan Owen has had a YouTube hit with Svengali (www.youtube.com/user/orangeriver), an online drama about the music business. Word is that the mini-series will be turned into a TV show. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
24 September 07:11:15	The producers of 'SmartGirl' are looking for acting and writing talent for this new online drama. Check out the website www.smartgirl.tv for contact details.   SmartGirl
23 September 10:15:13	Young London playwright Atiha Sen Gupta will use funding from IdeasTap (www.ideastap.com) to put on her first full-lenth play. More at The Standard.   Evening Standard
15 September 11:18:31	Dame Judi Dench wants to see the set from 'Shakespeare In Love' turned into a "real replica Elizabethan theatre." More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
7 September 11:14:34	City money is looking to back West End plays and musicals. "Producers have been astonished...at a time when they feared they would struggle to find funding." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
1 September 10:51:06	"X Factor style" - 1,500+ people have auditioned for '1916: The Musical' (www.1916themusical.com) and "the selection will be turned into a television programme that could be broadcast on the BBC and in Ireland." More in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
1 September 06:34:01	Avant-garde French street theatre group Transe Express (www.transe-express.com) are performing at Derby Festé, Sept 4-6.   Derby Festé
27 August 07:15:01	Classic 70s prison sitcom 'Porridge' is being staged by Calibre Productions (www.calibreproductions.co.uk). Shaun Williamson of EastEnders stars as 'Fletch'. The UK tour starts at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage on Aug 28. More in The Times.   The Times
18 August 05:10:39	Actors Clare Thomas, Ciaran Joyce, Harry Ferrier, Darragh Mortell and Alice Connor star in new teen thriller PO5T (www.po5t.co.uk) from indie prodco Barking Angel (www.barkingangel.com). It debuts online, not on TV. More in The Guardian.   The Guardian
12 August 05:44:12	'Katrina', from Jericho House (www.jerichohouse.org.uk), runs at Bargehouse Sept 1-26. The audience will move around the building as writer/director Jonathan Holmes recreates the hurricane with sound + light effects. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
11 August 06:33:22	The Tricycle Theatre (www.tricycle.co.uk) in Kilburn is to host a series of commissioned pieces from black writers Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje which examine "the state of black Britain." More in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
10 August 06:44:47	Actors Dominic West, Greg Wise and Dan Stevens have a side-project reading on the Carte Noire website - "for a more seductive coffee break."   Carte Noire
7 August 09:58:58	'Shameless' star Anne-Marie Duff will appear in 'As You Like It' and 'The Tempest' as part of 'The Bridge Project' in which the productions open in New York and transfer to The Old Vic (www.oldvictheatre.com). More in the Evenng Standard.   Evening Standard
6 August 10:50:47	Playwright Simon Stephens is busy. His terrorism play 'Pornography' is at the Tricycle (www.tricycle.co.uk) until Aug 29 and new work 'Punk Rock' about a classroom shooting opens at the Lyric (www.lyric.co.uk) Sept 3. More in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
4 August 11:27:38	Suddenlossofdignity.com (www.suddenlossofdignity.com) is at the Bush Theatre until Aug 15. "Five young writers tackle staple topics such as sex, bodily functions and the ageing process with undoubted vigour..." More in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
4 August 07:25:28	Belfast theatre company Kabosh (www.kabosh.net) is reviving hit show 'Two Roads West'. The 1-hour play by Laurence McKeown is performed for an audience of 5 in the back of a taxi on Belfast’s most famous thoroughfares. More in The Times.   The Times
29 July 10:36:11	Rachel Weisz mesmerises as Blanche DuBois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. At the Donmar (www.donmarwarehouse.com) until Oct 3. More in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
29 July 10:20:22	Theatre producer Josephine Buchan (www.josephinebuchan.com) appears on Dragons' Den tonight pitching for £250,000 for 'Dusty: A Life in Music', a musical about Dusty Springfield. Mike Moran, co-writer of Barcelona, is on board. More info in the ES.   Evening Standard
29 July 05:08:41	Like Elvis, Bono, Madonna + many others, "the actor formerly known as Christopher Biggins" has achieved 'single name status' and has applied for a trademark to protect the 'Biggins' brand. More in The Guardian.   The Guardian
27 July 10:58:32	'Enron' by Lucy Prebble is getting great reviews. At Chichester (www.cft.org.uk) until Aug 29, it opens at the Royal Court on Sept 17. The theatre event of the year?   The Guardian
25 July 11:32:03	"The must-see of the summer" - Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook stand out in 'Jerusalem' by Jez Butterworth. At the Royal Court until August 15.   Royal Court
25 July 11:19:05	Comedian / DJ Richard Blackwood will make his West End stage debut in the all-black production of Tenessee Williams’ Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello later this year. James Earl Jones stars.   Novello Theatre
25 July 05:41:46	The 24 Hours Plays starts at The Old Vic 10pm on July 25 - 7 new plays will be created and performed in 24 hours. More on the Old Vic website. Kevin Spacey is twittering the event at 24HourPlays - http://twitter.com/24hourplays   The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices
18 July 06:13:14	'The Container' is outside the Young Vic (www.youngvic.org) until July 30. The audience joins a people smuggler and his customers inside the container where claustrophobia soon sets in. Check out the video report from BBC News.   BBC News
1 July 05:54:32	Scene & Heard (www.sceneandheard.org) has 10 short plays written by children and performed by adults at Theatro Technis July 2-5. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance.   Scene & Heard
18 June 11:41:08	Polly Stenham, Lucy Prebble, Ella Hickson, Atiha Sen Gupta - "Female playwrights set to take the West End by storm."   The Guardian
26 May 12:38:55	The Ben Harrison production of 'Peter Pan' in Kensington Gardens runs from May 26 to August 30. Reduced price previews until June 9.   Peter Pan
15 May 10:26:07	Actress/model/muse Tolula Adeyemi is planning a series of “pop-up” theatre events around London this summer. She has already given a performance at Shoreditch restaurant Bistrotheque.   Evening Standard
8 May 10:31:02	The National Theatre is celebrating the works of Harold Pinter in The Olivier on June 7. Tickets are limited to two per person.   Harold Pinter: A Celebration
8 May 07:36:58	Tunnel 228 update - it looks like all the tickets have already gone! On the Tunnel 228 website (www.tunnel-228.com), click on 'Contact Tunnel 228', then skip the intro to get to the booking page where it says "Sorry, Tunnel 228 is now fully booked."   Tunnel 228
8 May 07:35:55	Tunnel 228, Kevin Spacey's temporary theatre and art venue underneath Waterloo Station, runs for 15 days from May 8. It is sponsored by Bloomberg and all 15,000 tickets are free.   Evening Standard
2 May 09:18:49	'Waitng For Godot' is at the Theatre Royal Haymarket until June 28. Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup are expected to provide "the theatre event of the year."   Waitng For Godot
2 May 09:18:15	Adetomiwa Edun and Ellie Kendrick lead a "startlingly youthful production" of Romeo and Juliet at The Globe (www.shakespeares-globe.org) until August 23.   Evening Standard
27 April 06:10:26	'Serious Money' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Money) by Caryl churchill was a big hit back in 1987 with the 'Big Bang' City players it was lampooning. Now revived by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company, May 8-23.   Serious Money
24 April 07:00:42	The RSC want a "love poem to be included in the set design" for its production of As You Like It. "Poems must be no longer than 14 lines long. Maximum number of words permitted is 140." Twitter poets are invited to submit works of up to 140 characters.  RSC love poem competition
8 April 04:45:58	'Monsters', by Swedish writer Niklas Radstrom, is at the Arcola Theatre 6-30 May. The play about the killing of James Bulger coincides with another major case of child-on-child violence in the UK.   Arcola Theatre
6 April 09:45:46	The Menier Chocolate Factory and its artistic director David Babani are getting TV coverage for their incredible record of 'exporting' shows abroad and to the West End. La Cage aux Folles, now at the Playhouse Theatre, is a Menier production.   Menier Chocolate Factory