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West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London

London

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's "Theatreland". Along with New York

New York City

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's Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre

Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
in the English-speaking

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
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West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London

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Broadway theatre

Theatre

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Tourism

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activity in London.

Total attendances first surpassed 12 million in 2002, and in June 2005 The Times
The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
reported that this record might be beaten in 2005. Total attendance numbers surpassed 13 million in 2007, setting a new record for the West End. Factors behind high ticket sales in the first half of 2005 included new hit musicals such as Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot the Musical

Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical theatre based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall ....
, The Producers
The Producers (musical)

The Producers is a comedy-Musical theater adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' The Producers , with lyrics by Brooks and music by Brooks and Glen Kelly....
and Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (musical)

Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly-titled Mary Poppins and the Disney 1964 Mary Poppins . The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Laurence Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre Choreography....
and the high number of film stars appearing. Since the late 1990s there has been an increase in the number of American actors on the London stage, and in 2005 these included Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Camille Shields is an American actor and supermodel. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon as well as tv shows such as Suddenly Susan and Lipstick Jungle ....
, Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor and possible candidate for Governor of New Mexico. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun ...
, Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe

Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
and David Schwimmer

David Schwimmer

David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor and director of Television director and Film director. Born in New York, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of two....
. Also in 2005, Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish people actor, singer, and adventurer who has had success in mainstream, independent film and Art film films....
made his first appearance in a stage musical in Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls is a musical theater, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon....
. Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey is an American character actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television....
has been artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre

Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road, London. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1951....
since 2004 and appears in some of his own productions.

Theatreland

London's main theatre district is located in the heart of the West End

West End of London

The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, businesses, headquarters and the commercial West End theatres....
of the city centre, and is traditionally defined by The Strand

Strand, London

The Strand is a street in the City of Westminster, London, England. It currently starts at Trafalgar Square and runs east to join Fleet Street at Temple Bar London, which marks the boundary of the City of London at this point, though its #History has been longer than this....
to the south, Oxford Street

Oxford Street

Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the City of Westminster. With over 300 shops, it is Europe's busiest shopping street, as well as the most dense....
to the north, Regent Street

Regent Street

Regent Street is one of the major high street in London's West End of London, well known to tourists and Londoners alike, and famous for its Christmas illuminations....
to the west, and Kingsway

Kingsway (London)

Kingsway is a major road in central London in the United Kingdom, designated as part of the A4200 road. It runs from High Holborn, at its north end in the London Borough of Camden, and meets Aldwych in the south in the City of Westminster at Bush House....
to the east although The South Bank Complex is now considered by some to be part of it. Prominent theatre streets include Drury Lane

Drury Lane

Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of London Borough of Camden and the southern part in the City of Westminster....
, Shaftesbury Avenue

Shaftesbury Avenue

Shaftesbury Avenue is a major street in London, England, named after Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, that runs in a north-easterly direction from Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, crossing Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus, London....
, and The Strand

Strand, London

Western canon

The Western canon is a term used to denote a wiktionary:canon of Western literatures, and, more widely, European classical music and Western art history, that has been the most Power in shaping Western culture....
or middle brow plays, and comedy performances

Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
.

Most of the theatres in "Theatreland" are of late Victorian

Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
or Edwardian construction, and they are privately owned. Most of them have great character, and the largest and best maintained are splendid, featuring grand neo-classical, romanesque, or Victorian facades and luxurious, detailed interior design and decoration. On the other hand, leg room is often cramped, and audience facilities such as bars and toilets are often much smaller than in modern theatres. The protected status of the buildings and their confined urban locations, combined with financial constraints, mean that it is very difficult to make substantial improvements to the level of comfort offered. In 2004, it was estimated that an investment of £250 million was required for modernisation, and the theatre owners unsuccessfully requested tax concessions to help them meet the costs.

Long-running shows

West End shows may run for a varying number of weeks, depending on ticket sales. Musicals tend to have longer runs than dramas. The longest running musical in West End history is Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)

Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....
. It overtook Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
's Cats
Cats (musical)

Cats is a Musical theatre composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard, 'Memory '....
, which closed in 2002 after running for 8,949 performances and 21 years, as the longest running West End musical of all time on 8 October 2006. Other long-runners include Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....
, still running after 21 years, and Willy Russell

Willy Russell

William Russell is a British dramatist, lyricist, and composer. His best-known works are Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, and Blood Brothers ....
's Blood Brothers, currently in its 20th year. However the non-musical Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire , commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English people crime writer of novels, short stories and Play ....
play The Mousetrap
The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap is a Play in the Crime Fiction genre by Agatha Christie. The play is known for having the longest initial run of any play in the world, with over 23,000 performances since beginning its run in the West End of London in 1952....
is the longest running show in the world, and has been showing since 1952.

The Mousetrap
The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap is a Play in the Crime Fiction genre by Agatha Christie. The play is known for having the longest initial run of any play in the world, with over 23,000 performances since beginning its run in the West End of London in 1952....
at the St Martin's Theatre
St Martin's Theatre

St Martin's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in West Street, near Charing Cross Road, in the London Borough of Camden. It was designed as one of a pair of theatres with the Ambassadors Theatre by W.G.R....
- opened 25 November 1952 originally at the Ambassadors Theatre - 55th Year. It is also the longest running show in Canada; starting on 19 August 1977 it closed on 18 January 2004 after running for 26 years.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)

Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....
at the Queen's Theatre
Queen's Theatre

The Queen's Theatre is a West End theatre located in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It opened on 8 October 1907 with a comedy called The Sugar Bowl by Madeleine Lucette Ryley....
- opened 8 October 1985 originally at the Barbican Theatre - 23rd Year
The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....
at Her Majesty's Theatre
Her Majesty's Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in the Haymarket, in the City of Westminster. The present building was designed by Charles J....
- opened 9 October 1986 - 22nd Year
Cats
Cats (musical)

Cats is a Musical theatre composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard, 'Memory '....
- opened 11 May 1981 at the New London Theatre
New London Theatre

The New London Theatre is a West End theatre located on the corners of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden....
and closed 11 May 2002 on its 21st anniversary
Blood Brothers at the Phoenix Theatre
Phoenix Theatre (London)

The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located on Charing Cross Road . The entrance is in Phoenix Street.The theatre was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Bertie Crewe and Cecil Masey and is Grade II listed....
- opened 28 July 1988 originally at the Albery Theatre - 20th Year
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black is a 1983 Horror fiction novel by Susan Hill about a menacing spectre that haunts a small English town.It was adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt....
at the Fortune Theatre
Fortune Theatre

The Fortune Theatre is a 432 seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, built in 1922-4 by Ernest Schaufelberg for impresario Laurence Cowen....
opened 15 February 1989 originally at the Strand Theatre
Novello Theatre

The Novello Theatre is a West End theatre on Aldwych, in the City of Westminster....
- 19th Year
Starlight Express
Starlight Express

Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Richard Stilgoe and Arlene Phillips , with later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek ....
- opened 27 March 1984 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre
Apollo Victoria Theatre

The Apollo Victoria Theatre, is a West End theatre, on Wilton Road near London Victoria station in the City of Westminster. Opened as a cinema and variety theatre, the Apollo Victoria became a venue for musical theatre, beginning with The Sound of Music in 1981, and including the long-running Starlight Express, from 1984 to 2002....
and closed 12 January 2002 - 17 years
No Sex Please, We're British
No Sex Please, We're British

No Sex Please, We're British is a United Kingdom comedy play written by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott and first staged in West End of London in 1971....
- opened 3 June 1971 at the Strand Theatre
Novello Theatre

The Novello Theatre is a West End theatre on Aldwych, in the City of Westminster....
and closed 16 January 1987 - 16 years
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story

Buddy ? The Buddy Holly Story is a jukebox musical in two acts with a book co-written by Alan Janes and Rob Bettinson, and music and lyrics by a variety of songwriters....
- opened 12 October 1989 at the Victoria Palace Theatre
Victoria Palace Theatre

The Victoria Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in Victoria Street, London, in the City of Westminster, opposite London Victoria station....
, transferred to the Novello Theatre
Novello Theatre

The Novello Theatre is a West End theatre on Aldwych, in the City of Westminster....
October 1995 and closed 19 May 2002 Re-opened 3 August 2007 at the Duchess Theatre
Duchess Theatre

The Duchess Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, London, located in Catherine Street, near Aldwych.The theatre opened on 25 November, 1929 and is one of the smallest 'proscenium arched' West End theatres....
- 15th Year
Chicago
Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....
at the Cambridge Theatre
Cambridge Theatre

The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929-30....
- opened 18 November 1997 originally at the Adelphi Theatre
Adelphi Theatre

The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....
- 11th Year

* The Black and White Minstrel Show
The Black and White Minstrel Show

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a United Kingdom television series that ran from 1958 until 1978 and was a popular stage show. It was a weekly light entertainment and variety show presenting traditional American Minstrel show and Country songs, as well as show and music hall numbers, usually performed in blackface, and with lavish c...
- opened in 1962 at the Victoria Palace Theatre

Victoria Palace Theatre

The Victoria Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in Victoria Street, London, in the City of Westminster, opposite London Victoria station....
and closed about 1972 - 10 years

Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon is a West End theatre musical theatre by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr....
- opened 20 September 1989 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a London borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane....
and closed 30 October 1999 - 10 years
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! is a jukebox musical with a book by Great Britain playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus....
at the Prince of Wales Theatre
Prince of Wales Theatre

The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner....
- opened 6 April 1999 originally at the Prince Edward Theatre
Prince Edward Theatre

The Prince Edward Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Old Compton Street, just north of Leicester Square, in the City of Westminster.The theatre was designed in 1930 by Edward A....
- 9th Year
Disney's The Lion King
The Lion King (musical)

The Lion King is a Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning Musical theatre based on the The Lion King with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice....
at the Lyceum Theatre - opened 19 October 1999 - 9th Year
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It highlights the political and interpersonal struggles of Judas Iscariot and Jesus....
- opened 9 August 1972 at the Palace Theatre
Palace Theatre

Palace Theatre may refer to:...
and closed about 1980 - 8 years
Me and My Girl
Me and My Girl

Me and My Girl is a musical play with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. It takes place in the late 1930s in Hampshire, Mayfair, and Lambeth....
(revival) - opened 12 February 1985 at the Adelphi Theatre
Adelphi Theatre

The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....
and closed 16 January 1993 - 8 years
Aldwych Farces (revue) - opened in 1925 at the Aldwych Theatre
Aldwych Theatre

The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Aldwych in the City of Westminster. The theatre was listed building on 20 July 1971 Its seating capacity is 1,200....
and closed in 1933 - 8 years
Evita - opened 21 January 1978 at the Prince Edward Theatre
Prince Edward Theatre

The Prince Edward Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Old Compton Street, just north of Leicester Square, in the City of Westminster.The theatre was designed in 1930 by Edward A....
and closed on 8 February 1986 - 7 years
There's A Girl In My Soup
There's A Girl In My Soup (comedy)

There's A Girl In My Soup is a stage comedy written by Terence Frisby.It opened in 1966 at the Gielgud Theatre and ran for six and half years until 1973 - over a thousand performances - to become the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End....
- opened June 1966 at the Globe Theatre
Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613....
and transferred to The Comedy in 1970. It closed in 1972/3 after over a thousand performances - 6 1/2 years
Oliver!
Oliver!

Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
- opened in 1960 at the New Theatre
Noël Coward Theatre

The No?l Coward Theatre is a West End theatre on St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre, and was built by Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899....
and closed about 1966 - 6 years. It has since reopened at the Drury Lane theatre in 2009
We Will Rock You
We Will Rock You (musical)

We Will Rock You is a jukebox musical, based on the songs of Queen and named after their We Will Rock You. The musical was written by English comedian and author Ben Elton in collaboration with Queen members Brian May and Roger Meddows-Taylor....
at the Dominion Theatre
Dominion Theatre

The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre on Tottenham Court Road close to St Giles' Circus and Centre Point Tower, in the London Borough of Camden....
- 14 May 2002 - 6th Year
Stomp
Stomp (dance troupe)

Stomp is a non-traditional dance troupe that uses the body and ordinary objects to create a physical theatre performance.The term may also refer to a distinct sub-genre of physical theatre where the body is incorporated with other objects as a means of producing percussion and movement that has echoes of tribe dance....
at the Ambassadors Theatre opened 25 September 2002 - 6th Year

List of West End theatres

If no show is currently running, the play listed is the next show planned (dates marked with an *).
If the next show planned is not announced, the applicable columns are left blank.

Theatre	Current show	Capacity	Opening date	date >- \| Adelphi Theatre Adelphi Theatre The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat* is the second British musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice....	1500	2007-07-06July 06 2007	- \| Aldwych Theatre Aldwych Theatre The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Aldwych in the City of Westminster. The theatre was listed building on 20 July 1971 Its seating capacity is 1,200....	Dirty Dancing Dirty Dancing *Dirty Dancing* is a 1987 in film romance film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed byEmile Ardolino, the film features Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes, and Jerry Orbach....	1200	2006-09-28September 28 2006	- \| Apollo Victoria Theatre Apollo Victoria Theatre The Apollo Victoria Theatre, is a West End theatre, on Wilton Road near London Victoria station in the City of Westminster. Opened as a cinema and variety theatre, the Apollo Victoria became a venue for musical theatre, beginning with The Sound of Music in 1981, and including the long-running Starlight Express, from 1984 to 2002....	Wicked Wicked (musical) *Wicked* is a musical theatre with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L....	2208	2006-09-27September 27 2006	- \| Cambridge Theatre Cambridge Theatre The Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929-30....	Chicago Chicago (musical) *Chicago* is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....	1231	2006-04-27April 27 2006	- \| Criterion Theatre Criterion Theatre The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Piccadilly Circus in the City of Westminster, and is a Listed building#England and Wales....	The 39 Steps The 39 Steps (play) *The 39 Steps* is a play adapted from the The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan and the The 39 Steps by Alfred Hitchcock. Patrick Barlow wrote the adaptation, based on the original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon of a two-actor version of the play....	588	2006-09-20September 20 2006	- \| Dominion Theatre Dominion Theatre The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre on Tottenham Court Road close to St Giles' Circus and Centre Point Tower, in the London Borough of Camden....	We Will Rock You We Will Rock You (musical) *We Will Rock You* is a jukebox musical, based on the songs of Queen and named after their We Will Rock You. The musical was written by English comedian and author Ben Elton in collaboration with Queen members Brian May and Roger Meddows-Taylor....	2163	2002-05-14May 14 2002	- \| Duchess Theatre Duchess Theatre The Duchess Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, London, located in Catherine Street, near Aldwych.The theatre opened on 25 November, 1929 and is one of the smallest 'proscenium arched' West End theatres....	Buddy	479	2007-08-03August 03 2007	- \| Fortune Theatre Fortune Theatre The Fortune Theatre is a 432 seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, built in 1922-4 by Ernest Schaufelberg for impresario Laurence Cowen....	The Woman in Black The Woman in Black The Woman in Black is a 1983 Horror fiction novel by Susan Hill about a menacing spectre that haunts a small English town.It was adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt....	432	1989-06-07June 07 1989	- \| Garrick Theatre Garrick Theatre The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster. It opened on April 24 1889 with The Profligate, a play by Arthur Wing Pinero....	Zorro Zorro (musical) *Zorro* is a musical theatre with music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron, and a book and lyrics by Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson, based on the 2005 mock biography Zorro: A Novel, the first origin story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende....	656	2008-07-15July 15 2008	- \| Her Majesty's Theatre Her Majesty's Theatre Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in the Haymarket, in the City of Westminster. The present building was designed by Charles J....	The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) *The Phantom of the Opera* is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....	1216	1986-10-09October 09 1986	- \| London Palladium London Palladium The London Palladium is a 2,286 seat West End theatre located off Oxford Street in the City of Westminster....	Sister Act Sister Act the Musical *Sister Act* is a musical theatre with a book by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner, lyrics by Glenn Slater and music by Alan Menken. It is based on the hit Sister Act of the same name....	2286	2006-11-017 May 2009*	2009-02-21Open-ended >- \| Lyceum Theatre	The Lion King The Lion King (musical) *The Lion King* is a Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning Musical theatre based on the The Lion King with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice....	2100	1999-09-24September 24 1999	- \| Noël Coward Theatre Noël Coward Theatre The No?l Coward Theatre is a West End theatre on St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre, and was built by Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899....	Avenue Q Avenue Q *Avenue Q* is a Musical theatre conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics, and directed by Jason Moore . The book is by Jeff Whitty....	872	2006-06-28June 28 2006	2009-03-28March 28 2009 >-	Palace Theatre Palace Theatre, London The Palace Theatre, is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster. It is an imposing red-brick building that dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus, London, and is located near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road....	Priscilla Queen of The Desert Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical *Priscilla: Queen of the Desert the Musical* is a musical theatre with a book written by Australian film director/writer Stephan Elliott, using well-known pop songs as the score....	1400	2007-07-24March 10 2009	- \| Piccadilly Theatre Piccadilly Theatre The Piccadilly Theatre is a West End theatre located at 16 Denman Street, behind Piccadilly Circus and adjacent to the Regents Palace Hotel, in the City of Westminster, England....	Grease Grease (musical) *Grease* is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....	1232	2007-07-24July 24 2007	- \| Phoenix Theatre Phoenix Theatre (London) The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located on Charing Cross Road . The entrance is in Phoenix Street.The theatre was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Bertie Crewe and Cecil Masey and is Grade II listed....	Blood Brothers	1012	1991-11-21November 21 1991	- \| Prince Edward Theatre Prince Edward Theatre The Prince Edward Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Old Compton Street, just north of Leicester Square, in the City of Westminster.The theatre was designed in 1930 by Edward A....	Jersey Boys Jersey Boys *Jersey Boys* is a documentary film-style musical theatre based on the lives of one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, The Four Seasons ....	1618	2008-03-18March 18 2008	- \| Prince of Wales Theatre Prince of Wales Theatre The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner....	Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! *Mamma Mia!* is a jukebox musical with a book by Great Britain playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus....	1160	2004-06-09June 09 2004	- \| Queen's Theatre Queen's Theatre The Queen's Theatre is a West End theatre located in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It opened on 8 October 1907 with a comedy called The Sugar Bowl by Madeleine Lucette Ryley....	Les Misérables Les Misérables (musical) *Les Mis?rables* , colloquially known as *Les Mis* or *Les Miz*, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....	989	2004-04-03April 03 2004	- \| Shaftesbury Theatre Shaftesbury Theatre The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden....	Hairspray Hairspray (musical) *Hairspray* is a musical theatre with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan , based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray ....	1400	2007-10-11October 11 2007	- \| St Martin's Theatre St Martin's Theatre St Martin's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in West Street, near Charing Cross Road, in the London Borough of Camden. It was designed as one of a pair of theatres with the Ambassadors Theatre by W.G.R....	The Mousetrap The Mousetrap *The Mousetrap* is a Play in the Crime Fiction genre by Agatha Christie. The play is known for having the longest initial run of any play in the world, with over 23,000 performances since beginning its run in the West End of London in 1952....	550	1974-03-25March 25 1974	- \| Theatre Royal Theatre Royal, Drury Lane The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a London borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane....	Oliver! Oliver! *Oliver!* is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....	2196	2009-01-14January 14 2009	- \| Victoria Palace Theatre Victoria Palace Theatre The Victoria Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in Victoria Street, London, in the City of Westminster, opposite London Victoria station....	Billy Elliot Billy Elliot the Musical *Billy Elliot the Musical* is a musical theatre based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall ....	1550	2005-05-11May 11 2005	Open-ended

London's non-commercial theatres

It should be noted that the term West End Theatre is sometimes used to refer specifically to commercial productions in "Theatreland". However the leading non-commercial (usually government subsidised) theatres in London, such as the National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
, the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
, the Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613....
, the Old Vic

Old Vic

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a West End Theatre#London's non-commercial theatres theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea....
, the Almeida Theatre

Almeida Theatre

The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off A1 road , in the London Borough of Islington....
, and the Open Air Theatre, most of which are not located in "Theatreland", arguably enjoy greater artistic prestige. These theatres stage a higher proportion of more demanding work, including Shakespeare, other classic plays and premieres of new plays by leading highbrow playwrights. Hit plays from the non-commercial theatres sometimes transfer to one of the commercial "Theatreland" houses for an extended second run.

The Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
is one of London's most famous theatres and widely regarded as one of the greatest opera houses in the world, comparable with the Palais Garnier

Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier, also known as the Op?ra de Paris or Op?ra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Op?ra, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Op?ra in Paris, France....
, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera House, New York

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in New York City....
. Commonly known simply as Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden....
due to its location, it is unique to other West End theatres in many ways, not least in having three resident performance companies, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera

Royal Opera

Royal Opera or Royal Opera House may refer to:* Royal Opera, London, leading opera company in England* Royal Opera House, opera house in Covent Garden, London...
and a resident symphony orchestra. It has three performance spaces (19th Century Main Auditorium, Linbury Theatre and Clore Studio) and hosts guest performances from other leading opera, ballet and performance companies from around the world.

Other London theatre

There is a great deal of theatre in London outside of the West End. Much of this is known as fringe theatre

Fringe theatre

Fringe theatre is a term used to describe alternative theatre, or entertainment not of the mainstream.In London, United Kingdom, the Fringe is the term given to small scale theatres, many of them located above pubs, and the equivalent to New York's off-Broadway or Off-Off-Broadway theatres....
which is the equivalent of Off Broadway Theatre in New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. Fringe venues range from well-equipped small theatres to rooms above pubs

Public house

A public house, the formal name for a pub in Britain, is a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic beverage for consumption on or off the premises in countries and regions of United Kingdom influence....
, and the performances range from classic plays, to cabaret, to plays in the languages of London's ethnic minorities. The performers range from emerging young professionals to amateurs.

Finally, there are also local theatres in the suburbs which stage a wide range of work, often including touring productions, such as the New Wimbledon Theatre

New Wimbledon Theatre

The New Wimbledon Theatre is situated on The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, in the London Borough of Merton. It is a Listed building Edwardian era theatre built by the theatre lover and entrepreneur, J B Mullholland....
or the Churchill Theatre

Churchill Theatre

The Churchill Theatre in the London Borough of Bromley was commissioned by the local council, from its borough architect Ken Wilson, together with the nearby central library complex....
in Bromley.

Awards

There are a number of annual awards for outstanding achievements in London theatre:

Laurence Olivier Awards
Laurence Olivier Awards

The Laurence Olivier Award is regarded as the most prestigious award in British theatre, and is presented in recognition of artistic achievement in London theatre....
Evening Standard Awards
Evening Standard Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are presented annually for outstanding achievements in West End theatre. Sponsored by the Evening Standard newspaper, they are announced in late November or early December....
London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards
London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards are presented annually for the year's theatrical achievements. The winners, embracing theatre throughout the United Kingdom, are selected by vote by members of the The Critics' Circle's drama section who are all professional theatre critics....
West End Cares Awards
West End Cares Awards

The West End Cares Song Contest was introduced in the late nineties to provide a platform for outstanding new material performed in the Theatre....

Notable recent performers

2006

Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw England actor.BackgroundShaw is the elder of two sons of an engineer. His mother was a competition standard ballroom dancer....
, Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey

Eve Best

Eve Best , is a United Kingdom actress best known for her stage work.Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove and attended Wycombe Abbey before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford where she read English....
, Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi Order of the British Empire is an England actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British....
, Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins

Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. is an England actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook ....
, Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming is a Scottish film and stage actor, perhaps best known for his supporting roles as Boris Grishenko in the James Bond film series film GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, in Spy Kids as Fegan Floop and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning lead performance as the Emcee in the highly successfu...
, Janie Dee

Janie Dee

Janie Dee is an award-winning English actress and singer.She is married to the actor Rupert Wickham....
, Jodhi May, Ashlee Simpson

Ashlee Simpson

Ashlee Nicole Wentz , now professionally known as Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, is an American pop rock singer-songwriter, and occasional actor. Simpson-Wentz, who is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson, rose to prominence in mid-2004 through the success of her number-one album Autobiography and the accompanying reality televi...
, David Haig

David Haig

David Haig is an Olivier Award-winning England actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having been successfully cast in dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes....
, Samantha Bond

Samantha Bond

Samantha Bond is an English actor best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan. She is married to Alexander Hanson and has two children, Molly and Tom....
, David Bedella

David Bedella

David Bedella is an United States TV and stage actor.He graduated from Merrillville High School in Merrillville, Indiana.Bedella is perhaps most noted for his role in Jerry Springer - The Opera, where he played both the Warm Up Man and Satan in the Second....
, Suzanne Shaw

Suzanne Shaw

Suzanne Shaw is an English actress, singer and television personality. She is most famous for winning the talent contest Popstars and subsequently being a member of the band Hear'Say....
, Steve Pemberton

Steve Pemberton

Steve James Pemberton is an England comedy writer and performer, most famous as a member of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson....
, Danny Baker

Danny Baker

Danny Baker is an England comedian, journalist, screenwriter and presenter of radio presenter and television presenter....
, Christopher Biggins

Christopher Biggins

Christopher Biggins is an England actor and media personality....
, Roger Lloyd Pack

Roger Lloyd Pack

Roger Lloyd Pack is an England acting, he is best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses....
, Summer Strallen

Summer Strallen

Summer Strallen is an England actress who has performed various roles on stage and screen. She is currently portraying the role of Maria Von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of The Sound of Music at the London Palladium....
, Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon

Michael John Gambon, Order of the British Empire is a British Academy Television Awards-winning Irish people-born United Kingdom actor who has worked in theatre, television and film....
, Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons is an England film, television and stage actor. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards....
, Patrick Malahide

Patrick Malahide

Patrick Malahide is a British actor, who has played many major film and television roles....
, Cheryl Baker

Cheryl Baker

Cheryl Baker is an England television presenter and singer. She is most famous for being a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz , and has performed for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, winning it the second time....
, Stephen McGann

Stephen McGann

Stephen McGann is an England actor. His three elder brothers ? Paul McGann, Joe McGann and Mark McGann ? are all actors as well.He began his professional career in 1982, starring in the West End musical Yakety Yak....
, Johnny Shentall

Johnny Shentall

Johnny Shentall was a member of the British pop group Boom!! and then later became a member Hear'say in 2002 having replaced Kym Marsh. He is also the husband of pop singer Lisa Scott-Lee an ex member of pop band steps....
, Lorna Want

Lorna Want

Lorna Want is a British actress most noted for her appearances in the 2005 CBBC/Simon Fuller television series I Dream with S Club 8....
, Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson is an England television actor....
, Judi Dench

Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
, Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg Order of the British Empire is an England actor. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Tracy Bond in the 1969 in film James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ....
, Martin Jarvis, Tom Conti

Tom Conti

Tom Conti is a Scotland Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning actor, theatre director, and novelist....
, David Walliams

David Walliams

David Walliams is an England comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile....
, Matt Lucas

Matt Lucas

'Matthew Richard Lucas' is an England comedian, writer and actor. He is perhaps best known for his acclaimed work with David Walliams in the television sketch show Little Britain and spoof interview series Rock Profile, as well as for his portrayal of the surreal scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the Vic and Bob comedy panel game Sho...
, David Soul

David Soul

David Soul is an United States-born British actor and singer and best known for his role as the "seat-of-the-pants" California police Det. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson in the cult television program Starsky and Hutch ....
, Megan Dodds

Megan Dodds

Megan Dodds is an United States stage and television actress....
, James Fox

James Fox

James Fox, is an England actor....
, Christian Slater

Christian Slater

Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an United States actor who has starred in films such as Heathers, Kuffs, True Romance and He Was a Quiet Man....
, Faye Tozer

Faye Tozer

Faye Louise Tozer is a theatre actress and singer who first gained fame as a member of the pop group Steps ....
, Tim Pigott-Smith

Tim Pigott-Smith

Tim Pigott-Smith is an English people film and television actor....
, Dave Willetts

Dave Willetts

Dave Willetts is an England singer and actor known for having leading roles in West End theatre musical theater.Willetts is something of an enigma in that he has had no formal singing, dancing, or acting lessons....
, Dawn French

Dawn French

'Dawn Roma French' is an United Kingdom actor, writer and comedian. In her career, she has been nominated for six BAFTA Television Award. She is best-known for starring in and writing her sketch comedy, French and Saunders, alongside her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom Th...
, Linda Robson

Linda Robson

Linda Robson is an England actress. She is most famous for her role as Tracey in the BBC comedy, Birds of a Feather, which she played from 1989 to 1998 alongside Pauline Quirke....
, Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair is a comedienne and novelist, working in the United Kingdom....
, Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet

Alison Moyet , is an England Popular music singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice....
, Daniel Evans

Daniel Evans (actor)

Daniel Evans, , is a Wales actor and director....
, Jenna Russell

Jenna Russell

Jenna Russell is a critically acclaimed England actor and singer....
, Ian Richardson

Ian Richardson

Ian William Richardson Order of the British Empire was a Scotland actor best known for playing the Machiavellianism Conservative Party politician Francis Urquhart in the House of Cards trilogy for the BBC....
, Anna Maxwell Martin

Anna Maxwell Martin

Anna Maxwell Martin , sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin, is a BAFTA award winning England actress who has won acclaim for her performances as Lyra in His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre and as Esther Summerson in the BBC's 2005 adaptation of Bleak House ....
, Iain Glen

Iain Glen

Iain Glen is a Scotland film and theatre actor.Glen was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He trained at RADA where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal....
, Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , is an England actor of theatre and film, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Academy Awards nominations....
, Timothy West

Timothy West

Timothy Lancaster West, Order of the British Empire is an English people film, stage and television actor....
, Kathleen Turner

Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner , better known as Kathleen Turner, is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor....
, Antony Costa

Antony Costa

Antony Daniel Costa is an England singer and actor....
, Bonnie Langford

Bonnie Langford

'Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford' is an England actor and entertainer. She came to prominence as a child actor in the early 1970s then subsequently became a companion of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who and has appeared on stage in various musicals such as Peter Pan: The Musical, Cats and The Pirates of Penza...
, Alex Ferns

Alex Ferns

Alex Ferns is a Scotland actor, best known for his EastEnders role as Trevor Morgan , "Britain's most-hated soap opera villain."Alex made an appearance in The Ghost and the Darkness before various TV roles, including EastEnders from 2000 to 2002....
, Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze

Patrick Wayne Swayze is an United States actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. He is best-known as a romantic leading man in films such as Dirty Dancing and Ghost , for which he received Golden Globe Award nominations, along with his performances in Red Dawn , Road House , and Point Break ....
. Claire Sweeney

Claire Sweeney

Claire Jane Sweeney is an England Actress, Singer and celebrity best known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside and her appearance on the first series of the Reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother....
, Amy Nuttall

Amy Nuttall

Amy Nuttall is a British actress and singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005....
, Neil Morrissey

Neil Morrissey

Neil Anthony Morrissey is an England actor. His most famous roles include Rocky in Boon ; Tony in Men Behaving Badly; the voice of Bob the Builder and playing Eddie Lawson in Waterloo Road....
, Sally Ann Triplett

Sally Ann Triplett

Sally Ann Triplett is a United Kingdom singer and actress most famous for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest and many West End theatre productions....
, Adam Cooper

Adam Cooper

Adam Cooper was a fictional character in the Australian police drama series Blue Heelers. He joined the cast in late 1994 while the programme was still in its first season....
, Richard Dempsey

Richard Dempsey

Richard Dempsey is an England actor....
, Neve Campbell

Neve Campbell

Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canada film and television actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series Party of Five, playing the role of the teenager Julia Salinger....
, Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine

Matthew Avery Modine is an United States actor, perhaps most famous for playing Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick 1987 in film film Full Metal Jacket and high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest....
, Lesley Garrett

Lesley Garrett

Lesley Garrett Order of the British Empire is an England soprano, broadcaster and media personality....
, Connie Fisher

Connie Fisher

'Connie Fisher' is a British actress and singer, who won the BBC One talent contest, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?Fisher was delighted to be named Maria: "I feel on top of the world, thanks very much....
, Aoife Mulholland

Aoife Mulholland

'Aoife Mulholland' is an Irish people actress, and musical theatre performer from Salthill, Galway on the west coast of Ireland. Aoife is a successful leading lady in London West End of London: she has played many lead and notable roles, such as Roxie Hart in Chicago , at the Cambridge Theatre and for 18 months as Maria von Trapp in T...
, Reece Shearsmith

Reece Shearsmith

Reece Shearsmith, name registered at birth as Reeson William Shearsmith, is an England actor and writer. He is most famous for his work as part of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson....
, Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers

Tim Rogers is the frontman of esteemed Australia rock band You Am I. He is also a solo artist, as well as having fronted and released albums with bands Tim Rogers#The Twin Set and Tim Rogers#The Temperance Union....
, Alun Armstrong

Alun Armstrong (actor)

Alun Armstrong is an Olivier award-winning English people actor and singer, perhaps best known for his role as Brian Lane in New Tricks ....
, Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia

Adam Gabriel Garcia is an Australian actor of partial Colombian people descent . He was born in Wahroonga, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia....
, Helen Dallimore

Helen Dallimore

Helen Dallimore is an Australian actor.Dallimore was born Melbourne and grew up in Oxford, England and Sydney, Australia. She trained at National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1995....
, Idina Menzel

Idina Menzel

Idina Kim Menzel is a Tony Award-winning United States actress, singer and songwriter. She is widely known for originating the roles of Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked ....
, Nigel Planer

Nigel Planer

Nigel George Planer is an England actor, novelist and playwright. He was educated at Westminster School, the University of Sussex at Brighton, and LAMDA....
, Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes Order of the British Empire is a British character actress, who has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and as a voice artist....
, Michelle Collins

Michelle Collins

Michelle A. Collins is a United Kingdom actor best known for her roles on television in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as Cindy Beale, and BBC dramas Sunburn and Two Thousand Acres of Sky....
, Javine Hylton

Javine Hylton

Javine Dionne Hylton , more commonly known as 'Javine', is a English singer. She is perhaps mostly famous for representing the UK at Eurovision Song Contest 2005 beating competition favourite model Katie Price for the ticket to Kiev....
, Camilla Beeput, Tim Curry

Tim Curry

Timothy James "Tim" Curry is an England actor, singer, composer and voice artist, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions....
, and Lisa O'Hare

Lisa O'Hare

Lisa O'Hare is an English stage actress who has played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and the title character of Mary Poppins on the West End and UK stage....
.

2007

Absurd Person Singular
Absurd Person Singular

Absurd Person Singular is a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn. Divided into three acts, it documents the changing fortunes of three married couples. Each act takes place at a Christmas celebration at one of the couples' homes on successive Christmas Eves....
: Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks

Jane Horrocks is an England actor, musician, and singer....
, Jenny Seagrove
Jenny Seagrove

Jennifer Ann Seagrove is an English actor. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and rose to fame playing the lead in a TV dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance and the 1983 film Local Hero....
, John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair

John Gordon Sinclair is a Scotland actor most famous for playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl.Sinclair joined the Glasgow Youth Theatre after he visited one night and met fellow fan of Canada progressive rock group Rush , Robert Buchanan....
, David Bamber
David Bamber

David James Bamber is a British actor, known for his television and theatre work. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art....
, David Horovitch
David Horovitch

David Horovitch is an England actor best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple .David Horovitch trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the 1960s....
Alex: Robert Bathurst
Robert Bathurst

Robert Guy Bathurst is a United Kingdom actor. Bathurst was born in Ghana and raised in Republic of Ireland and England. He took up amateur dramatics while at boarding school and continued acting with the Cambridge Footlights at university, alongside reading for a degree in law....
All About My Mother
All About My Mother

Todo sobre mi madre is a 1999 Spain drama film written and directed by Pedro Almod?var. The screenplay deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, faith, and existentialism....
: Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg Order of the British Empire is an England actor. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Tracy Bond in the 1969 in film James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ....
, Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville

Lesley Manville is an English actress.Manville was born and raised in in Brighton, East Sussex, the daughter of a taxi driver.She began acting as a teenager, appearing in television series such as the soap opera Emmerdale and King Cinder....
, Colin Morgan
Colin Morgan

Colin Morgan is an actor from Armagh, Northern Ireland. After gaining a National Diploma in Performing Arts at Belfast Institute of Further & Higher Education in 2004 he went on to graduate from the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2007....
, Joanne Frogatt, Charlotte Randle
A Night in November: Patrick Kielty
Patrick Kielty

Patrick Kielty is a Northern Irish comedian and television personality. He was born in Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland.Background...
Bad Girls: The Musical
Bad Girls: The Musical

Bad Girls: The Musical is a musical theatre with a book by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus and music and lyrics by Kath Gotts. It is based on the popular ITV1 prison drama series, Bad Girls , also by Chadwick and McManus....
: David Burt
David Burt

David Burt is a United Kingdom actor, known primarily for his many and wide-ranging West End theatre performances.Burt recently starred as the flamboyant Count Fosco opposite Yvette Robinson in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White at the Palace Theatre, London and was featured as Captain Andy Hawks in Show Boat at the Royal Al...
, Camilla Beeput, Helen Fraser, Sally Dexter
Sally Dexter

Sally Julia Dexter , is an England actor of stage and screen.She was educated at Chiltern Edge School, The Henley College and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ....
Billy Elliot The Musical
Billy Elliot the Musical

Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical theatre based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall ....
: Sally Dexter
Sally Dexter

Sally Julia Dexter , is an England actor of stage and screen.She was educated at Chiltern Edge School, The Henley College and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ....
, James Gaddas
James Gaddas

James Gaddas is an England actor probably best known for playing prison governor Neil Grayling in ITV's Bad Girls between 2002 and 2006. Prior to this he played Vinnie Sorrell in Coronation Street between 1999-2000, and had a supporting role in ITV's "Medics" ....
, Jackie Clune
Jackie Clune

Jackie Clune is a female comedy cabaret performer/writer, actor, and broadcasting who has previously done a Karen Carpenter act. She has appeared on popular British comedy trivia shows such as the award winning TV panel show QI, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Staying-in Show and has had a small role in a number of episodes of...
Blood Brothers: Helen Hobson, Steven Houghton
Steven Houghton

Steven Houghton is a United Kingdom actor and singer.Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Houghton trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds....
Boeing Boeing
Boeing Boeing (play)

Boeing-Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Camoletti . The English language adaptation, translated by Beverley Cross, was staged in London at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in 1965, running for a total of seven years....
: Frances de la Tour
Frances de la Tour

Frances de la Tour is an English actress perhaps best known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the United Kingdom sitcom Rising Damp, and as Olympe Maxime in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ....
, Rhea Perlman
Rhea Perlman

Rhea Perlman is an United States four-time Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for her role as Carla Tortelli on the classic situation comedy Cheers....
, Tamzin Outhwaite
Tamzin Outhwaite

Tamzin Outhwaite is an award-winning England actor.She became known for her role as Melanie Owen in the UK drama EastEnders, which she portrayed from 1998 until 2002....
, Adrian Dunbar
Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar is a Northern Irish actor best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards....
, Amy Nuttall
Amy Nuttall

Amy Nuttall is a British actress and singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005....
, Roger Allam
Roger Allam

Roger Allam is an English actor, known primarily for his stage career, although he has performed in film and television. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of Les Mis?rables ....
, Daisy Beaumont
Daisy Beaumont

Daisy Beaumont is a United Kingdom actress, arguably most known for her work parodying celebrities such as Catherine Zeta-Jones and Victoria Beckham on the Channel 4 comedy show Star Stories....
, Elena Roger
Elena Roger

Elena Roger is an Argentine actress who appeared in the West End theatre comedy play Boeing Boeing as the Alitalia air stewardess, Gabriella, at the Comedy Theatre in Panton Street....
, Patricia Hodge
Patricia Hodge

Patricia Ann Hodge is an England actor....
, Neil Stuke
Neil Stuke

Neil Stuke , is a United Kingdom actor.His television career includes Matthew Malone in the second and third series of Game On, Drop The Dead Donkey, Office Gossip, Bedtime, A Touch of Frost and The Bill....
, Kevin McNally
Kevin McNally

Kevin McNally is an English actor who has worked extensively in both film and television. He is best known for his portrayal of first mate Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean films....
, Tracey-Ann Oberman, Jennifer Ellison
Jennifer Ellison

Jennifer Ellison is an English actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison, who was born in Liverpool, is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003 and has recently made appearances in many different television shows, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film ada...
, Jean Marsh
Jean Marsh

Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh is a British actress, occasional screenwriter, and co-creator of the television series Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott....
Cabaret
Cabaret (musical)

Cabaret is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
: Kim Medcalf
Kim Medcalf

Kim Louise Medcalf is a United Kingdom actress who has made occasional appearances as a singer, best known for playing the fictional character Sam Mitchell in the long running BBC Soap Opera EastEnders over a period of three years ....
, Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman is an England actor, who is perhaps best known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and as Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger ....
, James Dreyfus
James Dreyfus

James Dreyfus is an award-winning English people actor....
, Amy Nuttall
Amy Nuttall

Amy Nuttall is a British actress and singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005....
, Julian Clary
Julian Clary

Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....
Chicago
Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....
: Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley

Tony Hadley is an England Pop music singer who fronted the 1980s synthpop/new wave music band Spandau Ballet.The group disbanded in 1989, after their final recording studio album, Heart Like a Sky, failed to live up to the critical and commercial success of their earlier albums, such as True and Parade ....
, Maxwell Caulfield
Maxwell Caulfield

Maxwell Caulfield is a United Kingdom actor....
, Aoife Mulholland
Aoife Mulholland

'Aoife Mulholland' is an Irish people actress, and musical theatre performer from Salthill, Galway on the west coast of Ireland. Aoife is a successful leading lady in London West End of London: she has played many lead and notable roles, such as Roxie Hart in Chicago , at the Cambridge Theatre and for 18 months as Maria von Trapp in T...
, Duncan James
Duncan James

Note that this article is about the British artist, not the Australian artist of the same name who is famous for the single "Speed of Life".Duncan Matthew James Inglis is an England singer, actor and television presenter, formerly of the popular boy band Blue ....
, Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English Celebrity, Singing, award-winning Actor, Radio personality, fashion designer and Model . She is the daughter of Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy Osbourne....
, Clive Rowe
Clive Rowe

Clive Rowe is a United Kingdom actor who won the 1997 Laurence_Olivier_Awards for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his role as Nicely Nicely Johnson in the National Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls....
, Josefina Gabrielle, Amra-Faye Wright, Bonnie Langford
Bonnie Langford

'Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford' is an England actor and entertainer. She came to prominence as a child actor in the early 1970s then subsequently became a companion of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who and has appeared on stage in various musicals such as Peter Pan: The Musical, Cats and The Pirates of Penza...
Dealer's Choice
Dealer's choice

Dealer's choice is a style of poker where each player may deal a different poker variants. As the deal passes clockwise around the table, each player chooses a variant which is either played just for the current hand or for an entire orbit....
: Roger Lloyd Pack
Roger Lloyd Pack

Roger Lloyd Pack is an England acting, he is best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses....
, Samuel Barnett
Samuel Barnett (actor)

Samuel Barnett is an England actor. He has performed on stage, film, television and radio, and achieved recognition for his work on the stage and film versions of The History Boys by Alan Bennett....
, Malcolm Sinclair
Malcolm Sinclair

Malcolm Sinclair is a United Kingdom Stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as 'Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher' in the television series Pie in the Sky , although he has an extensive number of film, television and theatre roles to his credit....
Desperately Seeking Susan
Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 in film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna ....
: Emma Williams
Emma Williams

Emma Williams may refer to:*Emma Vyssotsky , nee Emma Williams, American astronomer*Emma Kennedy, real name Elizaeth Emma Williams, British comedian...
, Kelly Price, Steven Houghton
Steven Houghton

Steven Houghton is a United Kingdom actor and singer.Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Houghton trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds....
Elling
Elling

Elling is an Academy Award-nominated Norway film directed by Petter N?ss. Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is based on Ingvar Ambj?rnsen's novel Br?dre i blodet , one of a series of four featuring the Elling character ? the others are Utsikt til paradiset , Fugledansen...
: John Simm
John Simm

John Ronald Simm is an England actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in two British Academy Television Awards award-winning BBC Wales dramas: as Sam Tyler in the detective drama Life on Mars and as an incarnation of the Master in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who....
Equus
Equus (play)

Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious/zoophilia with horses....
: Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an England actor, best known for playing Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series based on the popular Harry Potter....
, Jenny Agutter
Jenny Agutter

Jenny Agutter is a BAFTA Awards- and Emmy Awards award-winning England actor best known in recent years for her role as Tessa Phillips in the United Kingdom TV drama series Spooks....
, Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths Order of the British Empire is an English actor of theatre, film and television. He has received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leadi...
Fame
Fame (musical)

Fame ? The Musical conceived and developed by David De Silva is a Musical theatre with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy....
: Natalie Casey
Natalie Casey

Natalie Casey is an English people actor. She is best known for her long running roles in the TV series Hollyoaks and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps....
, Ian Watkins
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
: Henry Goodman
Henry Goodman

Henry Goodman is a British theatre actor. He trained at RADA in London alongside Jonathan Pryce.In 1988, he played George Green's Brother-in-law Cyril in London's Burning....
Gaslight: Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike is an English actor. She is perhaps best known for her portrayals of James Bond villainess, Miranda Frost in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice ....
, Kenneth Cranham
Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham is a film, television and stage actor who has appeared in Layer Cake , Gangster No. 1, Rome , Oliver! and many other films....
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1982 play written by David Mamet. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts?from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation, and burglary?to sell undesirable real estate to unwilling prosp...
: Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce is a Wales award-winning theatre and film actor/singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and marrying Irish actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s....
, Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor....
, Matthew Marsh
Matthew Marsh

Matthew Marsh may refer to:*Matthew Marsh *Matthew Marsh *Matthew Marsh ...
Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
: Danny Bayne, Susan McFadden
Susan McFadden

Susan McFadden is an actress and singer....
, Siobhan Dillon
Siobhan Dillon

Siobhan Patricia Dillon is an English people Actor and singer, who rose to fame when she performed in the United Kingdom talent show-themed television series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? on BBC One in 2006 in television....
Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls is a musical theater, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon....
: Don Johnson
Don Johnson

Don Johnson , is an United States actor known for his work in television and film. Johnson made his screen debut in the 1970 film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, but it wouldn't be until 1984 that Johnson would land his defining role....
, Ben Richards
Ben Richards

'Ben Richards' is an England actor. He is best known for playing Bruno Milligan in series 4 and 5 of the British Television drama Footballers' Wives and in series 1 and 2 of its spin-off Footballers' Wives: Extra Time....
, Samantha Janus
Samantha Janus

Samantha Zoe Janus is an England actor and singer, who is currently known for playing the role of Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders. She has previously been notable for her part as Mandy Wilkins in Game On , and also represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991....
, Amy Nuttall
Amy Nuttall

Amy Nuttall is a British actress and singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005....
Hairspray
Hairspray (musical)

Hairspray is a musical theatre with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan , based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray ....
: Michael Ball
Michael Ball (singer)

'Michael Ashley Ball' is an Olivier Award winning England actor, Singing, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius Pontmercy in Les Mis?rables , Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray '...
, Mel Smith
Mel Smith

Mel Smith is an English people comedian, actor, film director, writer, and producer....
, Tracie Bennett
Tracie Bennett

Tracie Bennett is a two time Laurence Olivier Award winning England stage and television actress. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy in Clapham, London....
, Ben James-Ellis
Ben James-Ellis

Benjamin James Ellis is an English people stage actor currently starring in the role of Hairspray #Principal roles in the West End theatre production of the musical Hairspray ....
, Rachael Wooding, Leanne Jones
In Celebration: Orlando Bloom
Orlando Bloom

'Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom' is an England actor. He had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean , and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Troy , Elizabethtown and Kingdom...
, Tim Healy
Tim Healy (actor)

Tim Healy is an England actor. He is best known for playing Dennis Patterson in the television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He is married to the actress Denise Welch....
, Lynda Baron
Lynda Baron

Lynda Baron is an England stage, film and television actress. Her most prominent role is probably that of the extremely busty Nurse Gladys Emanuel, the object of Arkwright's affection, in the BBC comedy series Open All Hours....
, Dearblah Malloy
Joseph
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second British musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice....
: Lee Mead
Lee Mead

Lee Stephen Mead is a British musical theatre actor, best known for playing the male lead in the 2007 London West End theatre revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat....
, Preeya Kalidas
Kean: Anthony Sher
King Lear
King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works....
: Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , is an England actor of theatre and film, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Academy Awards nominations....
, Frances Barber
Frances Barber

Frances Barber is an Olivier Award-nominated English actor with a long and distinguished stage career. She has also worked extensively in BBC, Granada and ITV television drama....
, Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy is a Scotland acting. He is best known for playing the Seventh Doctor of Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 and a brief return in a television movie in 1996....
Kismet
Kismet (musical)

Kismet is a Musical theater written in 1953 by Robert Wright and George Forrest , adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin, and produced by Charles Lederer....
: Michael Ball
Michael Ball (singer)

'Michael Ashley Ball' is an Olivier Award winning England actor, Singing, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius Pontmercy in Les Mis?rables , Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray '...
, Faith Prince
Faith Prince

Faith Prince is an United States actress and singer known primarily for her work on Broadway theatre.She was born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she dabbled in theater at E.C....
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors (musical)

Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood....
: Sheridan Smith
Sheridan Smith

Sheridan Smith is an English people actress.She is known for playing List of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps characters#Janet Keogh n.C3.A9e Smith in the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, in which Janet is the girlfriend, then wife, and finally widow of List of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps ch...
, Alistair McGowan
Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan is an England Impressionist , comedian and actor. McGowan is best known for his work with Ronni Ancona on The Big Impression , which spawned his culturally popular impressions of David Beckham, Sven-G?ran Eriksson, Gary Lineker, Nicky Campbell, Richard Madeley, Tony Blair, Ross Geller and Dot Cotton ....
, Mike McShane
Mike McShane

Mich?al McShane is an American actor, singer, and improvisational comedian who first became known through his appearances in the early 1990s on the British version of the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?...
Macbeth
Macbeth

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest Shakespearean tragedy and is believed to have been written some time between 1603 and 1606, with 1607 being the very latest possible date....
: Peter Duncan
Peter Duncan (actor)

Peter Duncan is a British actor and television presenter, best known as a presenter of Blue Peter and for his later family travel documentaries....
Macbeth
Macbeth

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest Shakespearean tragedy and is believed to have been written some time between 1603 and 1606, with 1607 being the very latest possible date....
: Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

Patrick Hewes Stewart, Order of the British Empire is an English film, television and Stage actor. He is also Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield....
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! is a jukebox musical with a book by Great Britain playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus....
: Linzi Hateley
Linzi Hateley

Linzi Hateley is an English stage actress who is currently starring as one of the leads in the West End theatre production of the musical Mamma Mia!....
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (musical)

Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly-titled Mary Poppins and the Disney 1964 Mary Poppins . The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Laurence Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre Choreography....
: Scarlett Strallen
Scarlett Strallen

Scarlett Strallen is a British stage actress who is making her Broadway theatre debut as of 9 October 2008 at the New Amsterdam Theatre playing the title role of Mary Poppins ....
, Gavin Creel
Gavin Creel

Gavin Creel is an United States actor and singer.Born in Findlay, Ohio, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre at the University of Michigan....
Menopause the Musical
Menopause the Musical

Menopause, The Musical debuted March 28, 2001 in Orlando, Florida, in a 76-seat theatre that once housed a perfume shop. The original cast members were Shelly Browne as the Power Woman, Patti McGuire as the Iowa Housewife, Pammie O'Bannon as the Earth Mother and Wesley Williams as the Soap Star....
: Su Pollard
Su Pollard

Susan Georgina Pollard is an England comedy actor, most famous for her roles in the Situation comedy Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang, M'Lord?....
Monty Python's Spamalot: Peter Davison
Peter Davison

Peter Davison is an England actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the Fifth Doctor of Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984....
, Bill Ward
Bill Ward (actor)

Bill Ward is an England actor who played Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street....
, Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale Commander of the British Empire is a English actor. He has been described as "the greatest stage actor of his generation."...
, Hannah Waddingham
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week....
: Zoe Wanamaker
Zoe Wanamaker

Zo? Wanamaker Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England-United States actor best known for her role as Susan Harper in the United Kingdom television series My Family....
, Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale Commander of the British Empire is a English actor. He has been described as "the greatest stage actor of his generation."...
Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
: Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish people actor, singer, and adventurer who has had success in mainstream, independent film and Art film films....
, Chitewel Ejifor
Pinter's People: Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey

Mark Bailey , Stage name as Bill Bailey, is an England stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for his appearances on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI and Black Books....
, Geraldine McNulty
Geraldine McNulty

Geraldine McNulty is a United Kingdom stage and television actress.She has played the character of Mrs Raven in My Hero , and had guest appearances in Neverwhere, Gimme Gimme Gimme , The Vicar of Dibley and The Catherine Tate Show....
Rafta Rafta: Meera Syal
Meera Syal

Meera Syal Order of the British Empire is a British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actor, rising to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and becoming one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities....
Rent
Rent (musical)

Rent is a rock opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boh?me. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemianism Alphabet City, Manhattan, under the shadow of AIDS....
: Denise van Outen
Denise van Outen

Denise van Outen is an England actor and television presenter. Her most notable roles to date were as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both West End theatre and Broadway theatre....
, Siobhan Donaghy
Siobhán Donaghy

Siobh?n Emma Donaghy , is an English singer songwriter. Until September 2001, she was a founding member of English pop group the Sugababes, after which she was replaced by Heidi Range....
, Leon Lopez
Leon Lopez

Leon Lopez is an England actor, singer-songwriter and occasional model , best known for playing the role of "Jerome Johnson" in the Channel 4 Soap opera Brookside from 1998 to 2002....
Shadowlands
Shadowlands

Shadowlands is a 1985 in television television film, written by William Nicholson , directed by Norman Stone and produced by David M. Thompson for BBC Wales....
: Charles Dance
Charles Dance

Charles Dance, Order of the British Empire is an England actor, screenwriter and Film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains....
, Janie Dee
Janie Dee

Janie Dee is an award-winning English actress and singer.She is married to the actor Rupert Wickham....
Side by Side by Sondheim
Side By Side By Sondheim

Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical theatre revue featuring the songs of prolific Broadway theatre and film composer Stephen Sondheim. Its title is derived from a tune in Company ....
: Les Dennis
Les Dennis

Les Dennis is an England comedian, television presenter and actor perhaps best known as the host of Family Fortunes for 16 years....
, Christopher Cazenove
Christopher Cazenove

Christopher Cazenove is a British cinema, television and stage actor.Cazenove was born in Hampshire, and educated at the Dragon School, Eton College and Oxford University....
, Angela Rippon
Angela Rippon

Angela Rippon, OBE , is a well-known England television journalist, News presenter and presenter....
, Barry Cryer
Barry Cryer

Barry Charles Cryer Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom writer and comedian. Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen , Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost , Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richar...

*Swimming with Sharks
Swimming with Sharks

Swimming with Sharks is a 1994 United States black comedy comedy film/drama film, film director and screenplay by George Huang .It is also known as The Boss and Buddy Factor....
: Christian Slater

Christian Slater

Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an United States actor who has starred in films such as Heathers, Kuffs, True Romance and He Was a Quiet Man....
, Helen Baxendale

Helen Baxendale

Helen Baxendale is an English people actress, known for her roles in Cold Feet, Friends and Cardiac Arrest ....
, Matt Smith

Matt Smith (British actor)

Matthew Robert Smith is an English stage and television actor. Smith became an actor after a football-related back injury. His first performance was in Murder in the Cathedral as part of the National Youth Theatre....

The Country Wife
The Country Wife

The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early English Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocracy and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time....
: David Haig
David Haig

David Haig is an Olivier Award-winning England actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having been successfully cast in dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes....
, Patricia Hodge
Patricia Hodge

Patricia Ann Hodge is an England actor....
, Toby Stephens
Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens is an England theatre, television and film actor, best known for playing supervillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre ....
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone

The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical theatre with a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison....
: Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige

Elaine Paige Order of British Empire is an English people singer and actor best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school and made her first professional appearance on stage in 1964....
, Bob Martin
Bob Martin (comedian)

Bob Martin is a writer, actor, and comedian from Toronto, Ontario, Canada born in England circa 1963. He has both performed in and written many TV shows....
, Steve Pemberton
Steve Pemberton

Steve James Pemberton is an England comedy writer and performer, most famous as a member of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson....
The Dumb Waiter
The Dumb Waiter

The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature Harold Pinter written in 1957; it premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, on 21 January 1960....
: Lee Evans
Lee Evans

Lee Evans may refer to:* Lee Evans , English comedian and actor* Lee Evans , American football player* Lee Evans , American music producer, songwriter, musician, audio engineer, and the CEO of JAMBOX Entertainment...
, Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs is a United Kingdom actor born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, who is known for his performances as Death Eater Death Eater#Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series films, and as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the internationally-broadcast Television in the United States series Brotherhood ....
The Entertainer
The Entertainer (play)

Contextual Information The Entertainer is a full-length play written by John Osborne in 1957. After getting much publicity for his previous play, Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer was written involving similar themes to his last play....
: Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay (actor)

Robert Lindsay is an award-winning English people actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles in Citizen Smith, My Family, and Hornblower ....
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams that was originally written as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted . The play premiered in Chicago in 1944, and in 1945 won the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award....
: Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange

Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
, Ed Stoppard, Amanda Hale, Mark Umbers
The History Boys
The History Boys

The History Boys is a Play by English playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where there were 185 performances staged before it closed on 1 October 2006....
: Desmond Barrit
Desmond Barrit

Desmond Barrit is a Laurence Olivier Award winning, United Kingdom actor who has starred in productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre....
, Stephen Campbell Moore
Stephen Campbell Moore

Stephen Campbell Moore is an England actor, best known for his roles in the Alan Bennett play ?The History Boys? and its subsequent The History Boys ....
The Icons in London: Greg London
Greg London

Greg London is an American singer, actor, musician and Impressionist ....
The Last Confession: David Suchet
David Suchet

David Suchet , Order of the British Empire is an England actor, known for his work on United Kingdom television. He is recognised for his Royal Television Society- and Broadcasting Press Guild Awards award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 United Kingdom TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now , alongside Matthew Macfadyen a...
The Letter: Jenny Seagrove
Jenny Seagrove

Jennifer Ann Seagrove is an English actor. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and rose to fame playing the lead in a TV dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance and the 1983 film Local Hero....
, Anthony Andrews
Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews is an England actor, best known for his role in Brideshead Revisited playing the doomed Sebastian Flyte, winning an Emmy for his performance....
The Lord of the Rings: Laura Michelle Kelly
Laura Michelle Kelly

Laura Michelle Kelly is an Olivier Award-winning England actress and singer who achieved critical acclaim in the role of Mary Poppins in the musical theater of the same name....
, Malcolm Storry, Jerome Pradon
Jérôme Pradon

J?r?me Pradon was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France on 3 June 1964. He is an actor and singer who has performed in the West End theatre, Paris and various other places around the world....
The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running United Kingdom musical theater, opening in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, and developed by O'Brien in collaboration with Australian theater director Jim Sharman....
: Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien

Richard Timothy Smith better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English-born, New Zealand-raised writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer....
, Danny Baker
Danny Baker

Danny Baker is an England comedian, journalist, screenwriter and presenter of radio presenter and television presenter....
, Suzanne Shaw
Suzanne Shaw

Suzanne Shaw is an English actress, singer and television personality. She is most famous for winning the talent contest Popstars and subsequently being a member of the band Hear'Say....
The Rose Tattoo
The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo is a Tennessee Williams play. It opened on Broadway theatre in February 1951, and a film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italy-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same....
: Zoe Wanamaker
Zoe Wanamaker

Zo? Wanamaker Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England-United States actor best known for her role as Susan Harper in the United Kingdom television series My Family....
The New Statesman
The New Statesman

The New Statesman was an award-winning United Kingdom sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative Party government of the time....
: Rik Mayall
The Seagull
The Seagull

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major Play by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896 in literature....
: Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , is an England actor of theatre and film, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Academy Awards nominations....
, Frances Barber
Frances Barber

Frances Barber is an Olivier Award-nominated English actor with a long and distinguished stage career. She has also worked extensively in BBC, Granada and ITV television drama....
, William Gaunt
William Gaunt

William Charles Anthony Gaunt is an England actor, sometimes credited as Bill Gaunt....
The Seagull
The Seagull

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major Play by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896 in literature....
: Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin A. Scott Thomas, Order of British Empire is a highly acclaimed Olivier Award- and BAFTA-winning, two-time Golden Globe-, Academy Award-, and Cesar Award-nominated British actress with French citizenship....
, Carey Mulligan
Carey Mulligan

Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. Her credits include the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice and the 2005 Bleak House of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House, as well as the well received Doctor Who episode, "Blink ."...
, Mackenzie Crook
Mackenzie Crook

Paul Mackenzie Crook is an English actor, comedian, and environmentalist, best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office and Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films films....
, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Order of the British Empire , is a British actor....
The Sound Of Music
The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
: Connie Fisher
Connie Fisher

'Connie Fisher' is a British actress and singer, who won the BBC One talent contest, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?Fisher was delighted to be named Maria: "I feel on top of the world, thanks very much....
, Aoife Mulholland
Aoife Mulholland

'Aoife Mulholland' is an Irish people actress, and musical theatre performer from Salthill, Galway on the west coast of Ireland. Aoife is a successful leading lady in London West End of London: she has played many lead and notable roles, such as Roxie Hart in Chicago , at the Cambridge Theatre and for 18 months as Maria von Trapp in T...
The Vegemite Tales
The Vegemite Tales

The Vegemite Tales is a comedy theatrical production written by Australian playwright Melanie Tait. The play revolves around the lives of a group of young antipodeans share_house a flat in London....
: Blair McDonough
Blair McDonough

Blair McDonough is an actor who is best known for playing the role of Stuart Parker in the Australian TV soap opera Neighbours. He first shot to fame in 2001, when he finished runner-up in the inaugural season of the reality television series Big Brother Australia....
, Jonathon Dutton
Jonathon Dutton

Jonathon Dutton is an actor who started his career playing the role of Wayne "Tad" Reeves in the Australian television series "Neighbours".He also featured in the British comedy series 'Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps', playing the character of David Fish, and Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us, playing Jeff....
Treats
Treats

Treats is a 1975 in literature play by Christopher Hampton about a love triangle....
: Billie Piper
Billie Piper

Billie Paul Piper is an English singer and actress.She began her career as a pop music singer when she was a teenager but is now best known for portraying Rose Tyler, companion to Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she reprised in 2008....
, Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall

Christopher "Kris" Marshall is an England actor best known for his role as Nick Harper in My Family....
, Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox

Laurence Fox is an England actor best known for his leading role as Sergeant#Police Usage Detective Sergeant James Hathaway in the United Kingdom TV drama series Lewis ....
War Horse: Paul Chequer
Paul Chequer

Paul Chequer is an actor most famous for starring in the British drama As If as Jamie Collier in Channel 4 from 2001 to 2004 and the BBC Three drama Sinchronicity, as Nathan, in 2006....
Whipping It Up: Richard Wilson, Robert Bathurst
Robert Bathurst

Robert Guy Bathurst is a United Kingdom actor. Bathurst was born in Ghana and raised in Republic of Ireland and England. He took up amateur dramatics while at boarding school and continued acting with the Cambridge Footlights at university, alongside reading for a degree in law....
Wicked
Wicked (musical)

Wicked is a musical theatre with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L....
: Kerry Ellis, Dianne Pilkington
Dianne Pilkington

Dianne Pilkington is an English actress.She trained at the Guildford School of Acting in England, and since then has made many notable appearances, in both tours and in the West End....
, Helen Dallimore
Helen Dallimore

Helen Dallimore is an Australian actor.Dallimore was born Melbourne and grew up in Oxford, England and Sydney, Australia. She trained at National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1995....
, Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes Order of the British Empire is a British character actress, who has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and as a voice artist....
, Susie Blake
Susie Blake

Susie Blake is a United Kingdom actress....
, Nigel Planer
Nigel Planer

Nigel George Planer is an England actor, novelist and playwright. He was educated at Westminster School, the University of Sussex at Brighton, and LAMDA....
and Kate Embleton.

2008

Absurd Person Singular
Absurd Person Singular

Absurd Person Singular is a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn. Divided into three acts, it documents the changing fortunes of three married couples. Each act takes place at a Christmas celebration at one of the couples' homes on successive Christmas Eves....
: Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks

Jane Horrocks is an England actor, musician, and singer....
, Jenny Seagrove
Jenny Seagrove

Jennifer Ann Seagrove is an English actor. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and rose to fame playing the lead in a TV dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance and the 1983 film Local Hero....
, John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair

John Gordon Sinclair is a Scotland actor most famous for playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl.Sinclair joined the Glasgow Youth Theatre after he visited one night and met fellow fan of Canada progressive rock group Rush , Robert Buchanan....
, David Bamber
David Bamber

David James Bamber is a British actor, known for his television and theatre work. He is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art....
, David Horovitch
David Horovitch

David Horovitch is an England actor best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple .David Horovitch trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the 1960s....
Billy Elliot The Musical
Billy Elliot the Musical

Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical theatre based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall ....
: Jackie Clune
Jackie Clune

Jackie Clune is a female comedy cabaret performer/writer, actor, and broadcasting who has previously done a Karen Carpenter act. She has appeared on popular British comedy trivia shows such as the award winning TV panel show QI, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Staying-in Show and has had a small role in a number of episodes of...
, James Gaddas
James Gaddas

James Gaddas is an England actor probably best known for playing prison governor Neil Grayling in ITV's Bad Girls between 2002 and 2006. Prior to this he played Vinnie Sorrell in Coronation Street between 1999-2000, and had a supporting role in ITV's "Medics" ....
Blood Brothers: Lyn Paul
Lyn Paul

Lyn Paul, born Lynda Susan Belcher , is an England pop music singer. She changed her name to Lyn Paul before joining the international pop group The New Seekers in 1970....
, Helen Hobson
Cabaret
Cabaret (musical)

Cabaret is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
: Amy Nuttall
Amy Nuttall

Amy Nuttall is a British actress and singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005....
, Julian Clary
Julian Clary

Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....
, Alistair McGowan
Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan is an England Impressionist , comedian and actor. McGowan is best known for his work with Ronni Ancona on The Big Impression , which spawned his culturally popular impressions of David Beckham, Sven-G?ran Eriksson, Gary Lineker, Nicky Campbell, Richard Madeley, Tony Blair, Ross Geller and Dot Cotton ....
Chicago
Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....
: Duncan James
Duncan James

Note that this article is about the British artist, not the Australian artist of the same name who is famous for the single "Speed of Life".Duncan Matthew James Inglis is an England singer, actor and television presenter, formerly of the popular boy band Blue ....
, Clive Rowe
Clive Rowe

Clive Rowe is a United Kingdom actor who won the 1997 Laurence_Olivier_Awards for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his role as Nicely Nicely Johnson in the National Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls....
, Bonnie Langford
Bonnie Langford

'Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford' is an England actor and entertainer. She came to prominence as a child actor in the early 1970s then subsequently became a companion of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who and has appeared on stage in various musicals such as Peter Pan: The Musical, Cats and The Pirates of Penza...
, Brenda Edwards
Brenda Edwards

Brenda Edwards is an English people Singer and Actress who rose to fame after reaching the final stages of second series of the Reality TV programme The X Factor ....
, Zee Asha
Zee Asha

Zee Asha is a British pop and dance singer. She has toured as a backing vocalist with Boy George and Culture Club and acted in the original London production of Taboo ....
, Suzanne Shaw
Suzanne Shaw

Suzanne Shaw is an English actress, singer and television personality. She is most famous for winning the talent contest Popstars and subsequently being a member of the band Hear'Say....
, Aoife Mulholland
Aoife Mulholland

'Aoife Mulholland' is an Irish people actress, and musical theatre performer from Salthill, Galway on the west coast of Ireland. Aoife is a successful leading lady in London West End of London: she has played many lead and notable roles, such as Roxie Hart in Chicago , at the Cambridge Theatre and for 18 months as Maria von Trapp in T...
Dealer's Choice
Dealer's choice

Dealer's choice is a style of poker where each player may deal a different poker variants. As the deal passes clockwise around the table, each player chooses a variant which is either played just for the current hand or for an entire orbit....
: Roger Lloyd Pack
Roger Lloyd Pack

Roger Lloyd Pack is an England acting, he is best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses....
, Samuel Barnett
Samuel Barnett (actor)

Samuel Barnett is an England actor. He has performed on stage, film, television and radio, and achieved recognition for his work on the stage and film versions of The History Boys by Alan Bennett....
, Malcolm Sinclair
Malcolm Sinclair

Malcolm Sinclair is a United Kingdom Stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as 'Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher' in the television series Pie in the Sky , although he has an extensive number of film, television and theatre roles to his credit....
Fat Pig
Fat Pig

Fat Pig is a play by Neil Labute, in which slim male office-worker Tom falls for an extremely overweight librarian Helen, but then has to deal with a plot hatched by his co-workers to sabotage the relationship....
: Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall

Christopher "Kris" Marshall is an England actor best known for his role as Nick Harper in My Family....
, Robert Webb
Robert Webb (actor)

Robert Webb is an England comedian, actor and writer, and one half of the Mitchell and Webb double act, alongside David Mitchell ....
, Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop

Kevin Bishop is an England actor, writer and comedian....
, Kelly Brooke
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
: Henry Goodman
Henry Goodman

Henry Goodman is a British theatre actor. He trained at RADA in London alongside Jonathan Pryce.In 1988, he played George Green's Brother-in-law Cyril in London's Burning....
Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
: Danny Bayne, Susan McFadden
Susan McFadden

Susan McFadden is an actress and singer....
, Siobhan Dillon
Siobhan Dillon

Siobhan Patricia Dillon is an English people Actor and singer, who rose to fame when she performed in the United Kingdom talent show-themed television series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? on BBC One in 2006 in television....
, Ray Quinn
Ray Quinn

Raymond Quinn is an English actor, singer, and dancer. In 2006, he finished second in talent show The X Factor....
, Natalie Griffiths, Clare Ryder
Hairspray
Hairspray (musical)

Hairspray is a musical theatre with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan , based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray ....
: Michael Ball
Michael Ball (singer)

'Michael Ashley Ball' is an Olivier Award winning England actor, Singing, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius Pontmercy in Les Mis?rables , Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray '...
, Mel Smith
Mel Smith

Mel Smith is an English people comedian, actor, film director, writer, and producer....
, Tracie Bennett
Tracie Bennett

Tracie Bennett is a two time Laurence Olivier Award winning England stage and television actress. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy in Clapham, London....
, Ben James-Ellis
Ben James-Ellis

Benjamin James Ellis is an English people stage actor currently starring in the role of Hairspray #Principal roles in the West End theatre production of the musical Hairspray ....
, Rachael Wooding, Leanne Jones, Ian Talbot
Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
: David Tennant
David Tennant

David Tennant is a Scotland actor. Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV role as the Tenth Doctor in BBC's Doctor Who as well as in Casanova , and his film role as Death Eater#Barty Crouch, Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ....
, Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

Patrick Hewes Stewart, Order of the British Empire is an English film, television and Stage actor. He is also Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield....
,Oliver Ford Davies
Oliver Ford Davies

Oliver Robert Ford Davies is a British actor and writer.From the King's School, Canterbury, he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society ....
Ivanov
Ivanov (play)

Ivanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.Ivanov was first performed in 1887 in literature, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy....
: Kenneth Brannagh, Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough

Andrea Louise Riseborough is an award-winning England actress, best known for her performance as intern Kirsty MacKenzie in the BBC Two drama Party Animals ....
, Kevin R McNally, Malcolm Sinclair
Malcolm Sinclair

Malcolm Sinclair is a United Kingdom Stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as 'Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher' in the television series Pie in the Sky , although he has an extensive number of film, television and theatre roles to his credit....
Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys is a documentary film-style musical theatre based on the lives of one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, The Four Seasons ....
: Ryan Molloy
Ryan Molloy

Ryan Molloy is a British singer, songwriter and actor, who replaced Holly Johnson as the lead singer in Frankie Goes to Hollywood . He has also been successful in musical theatre, appearing in a number of hit musicals in the UK....
, Glenn Carter
Glenn Carter

Glenn Carter is an English stage actor and singer-songwriter known particularly for his leading roles in musical theatre staged in London's West End theatre, the pinnacle of the commercial theatre profession in the United Kingdom....
, Stephen Ashfield
Stephen Ashfield

Stephen Ashfield is a British actor. He was born in in Glasgow, Scotland, and since graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has enjoyed a successful stage career....
Joseph
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second British musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice....
: Lee Mead
Lee Mead

Lee Stephen Mead is a British musical theatre actor, best known for playing the male lead in the 2007 London West End theatre revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat....
, Lewis Bradley
Lewis Bradley

Lewis Bradley is a British musical theatre actor, who came third place in the BBC Reality television talent show Any Dream Will Do .He was later chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber to understudy the part of Joseph....
Marguerite: Ruthie Henshall
Ruthie Henshall

Valentine Ruth Henshall , known as Ruthie Henshall, is a English people singer, dancer and actor.Henshall was born in Bromley, South East London, England....
, Alexander Hanson
Alexander Hanson

Alexander Hanson may refer to:* Alexander Contee Hanson, American lawyer, publisher, and statesman* Alexander Hanson , British actor...
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! is a jukebox musical with a book by Great Britain playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus....
: Linzi Hateley
Linzi Hateley

Linzi Hateley is an English stage actress who is currently starring as one of the leads in the West End theatre production of the musical Mamma Mia!....
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (musical)

Mary Poppins is a Walt Disney Theatrical musical based on the similarly-titled Mary Poppins and the Disney 1964 Mary Poppins . The West End production opened in December 2004 and received two Laurence Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre Choreography....
: Scarlett Strallen
Scarlett Strallen

Scarlett Strallen is a British stage actress who is making her Broadway theatre debut as of 9 October 2008 at the New Amsterdam Theatre playing the title role of Mary Poppins ....
, Gavin Creel
Gavin Creel

Gavin Creel is an United States actor and singer.Born in Findlay, Ohio, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre at the University of Michigan....
Mind Reader: Derren Brown
Derren Brown

Derren Victor Brown is an England Magic , mentalist, Painting and self-professed sceptic regarding paranormal phenomenon. He was born in Croydon, South London, educated at Whitgift School, where his father Bob was head of swimming, and studied Law and German language at the University of Bristol....
Monty Python's Spamalot: Peter Davison
Peter Davison

Peter Davison is an England actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the Fifth Doctor of Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984....
, Bill Ward
Bill Ward (actor)

Bill Ward is an England actor who played Charlie Stubbs in Coronation Street....
, Alan Dale
Alan Dale

Alan Hugh Dale is a New Zealand actor. As a child Dale developed a love of theatre and also became a Rugby union player. After retiring from the sport he took on a number of professions to support his family, before deciding to become a professional actor at the age of 27....
, Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar

'Sanjeev Bhaskar,' Order of the British Empire is a British comedian and actor, best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No....
, Marin Mazzie
Marin Mazzie

Marin Mazzie is a Tony Award-Nominated United States actress and singer best known for her work in musical theater....
, Hannah Waddingham
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week....
: Zoe Wanamaker
Zoe Wanamaker

Zo? Wanamaker Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England-United States actor best known for her role as Susan Harper in the United Kingdom television series My Family....
, Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale Commander of the British Empire is a English actor. He has been described as "the greatest stage actor of his generation."...
Never Forget
Never Forget (musical)

Never Forget is a jukebox musical with a book written by Daniel Brockelhurst, Guy Jones and Ed Curtis, based on the 1990s songs of boyband Take That, written by Gary Barlow....
: Teddy Kempner, Dean Chisnall
Oedipus
Oedipus

Oedipus was a Greek mythology monarch of Thebes, Greece. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family....
: Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an England actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show , The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon , The Constant Gardener , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the Harry Potter , and In Bruges....
Oliver!
Oliver!

Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
: Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson

'Rowan Sebastian Atkinson' is an England comedian, actor and writer, famous for his work on the classic sitcoms Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line and Mr....
, Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman

Burn Gorman is an United States-born United Kingdom actor and musician. Burn is most known for his roles as Owen Harper in Torchwood and as William Guppy in Bleak House ....
, Harry Stott
Harry Stott

Harry Stott , from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, is a Great Britain stage and television actor. His theatre experience includes the role of Michael Banks in the West End theatre production of Mary Poppins for which he also sang in the cast recording....
, Gwion Jones, Laurence Jeffcoate, Jodie Prenger
Jodie Prenger

Jodie Prenger is an English people actress and singer. She was the winner of BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything on 31 May 2008....
Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
: Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish people actor, singer, and adventurer who has had success in mainstream, independent film and Art film films....
, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Order of the British Empire , is a British actor....
, Kelly Reilly
Kelly Reilly

Kelly Reilly is an England actress....
Pygmalion
Pygmalion (play)

Pygmalion is a Play by George Bernard Shaw loosely inspired by Pygmalion . It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class...
: Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith

Tim Pigott-Smith is an English people film and television actor....
Rain Man
Rain Man

Rain Man is a 1988 in film drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive, selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his millionaire estate to his brother, Raymond, an Autism Savant syndrome, of whose existence he was unaware....
: Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett

Joshua Daniel Hartnett is an American actor. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and as Matt Eversmann in the true story Black Hawk Down , alongside Ewan McGregor, William Fichtner, and Eric Bana....
, Adam Godley
Adam Godley

Adam Godley is a United Kingdom actor....
Rent
Rent (musical)

Rent is a rock opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boh?me. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemianism Alphabet City, Manhattan, under the shadow of AIDS....
: Jessie Wallace
Jessie Wallace

Jessie Wallace is an English actress....
, Siobhan Donaghy
Siobhán Donaghy

Siobh?n Emma Donaghy , is an English singer songwriter. Until September 2001, she was a founding member of English pop group the Sugababes, after which she was replaced by Heidi Range....
, Leon Lopez
Leon Lopez

Leon Lopez is an England actor, singer-songwriter and occasional model , best known for playing the role of "Jerome Johnson" in the Channel 4 Soap opera Brookside from 1998 to 2002....
Shadowlands
Shadowlands

Shadowlands is a 1985 in television television film, written by William Nicholson , directed by Norman Stone and produced by David M. Thompson for BBC Wales....
: Charles Dance
Charles Dance

Charles Dance, Order of the British Empire is an England actor, screenwriter and Film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains....
, Janie Dee
Janie Dee

Janie Dee is an award-winning English actress and singer.She is married to the actor Rupert Wickham....
, John Standing
John Standing

Sir John Ronald Leon Standing, 4th Baronet is an England actor....
Speed-the-Plow
Speed-the-Plow

Speed-the-Plow is a play by David Mamet which is a satirical dissection of the American movie business, a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films Wag the Dog and State and Main ....
: Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey is an American character actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television....
, Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor. He often portrays quirky, intense or eccentric characters. He is also known for his distinctive appearance and staccato delivery of lines....
, Laura Michelle Kelly
Laura Michelle Kelly

Laura Michelle Kelly is an Olivier Award-winning England actress and singer who achieved critical acclaim in the role of Mary Poppins in the musical theater of the same name....
That Face
That Face

That Face is a two act play by Polly Stenham. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London on April 26, 2007, directed by Jeremy Herrin....
: Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Vere Duncan is a United Kingdom Tony Award-winning actor. She is a noted stage actress, winning the Tony Award for Private Lives....
, Matt Smith
Matt Smith (British actor)

Matthew Robert Smith is an English stage and television actor. Smith became an actor after a football-related back injury. His first performance was in Murder in the Cathedral as part of the National Youth Theatre....
, Hannah Murray
Hannah Murray

Hannah Murray is an England actress. She is best known for playing the role of Cassie Ainsworth, a gentle, 'spacey' teen girl with an apparent eating disorder and unstated mental illness in E4 's Drama/Comedy, Skins , a role which, along with most other cast members, she left at the end of the show's second series, following an announcem...
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps may refer to:* The Thirty-Nine Steps, an adventure and espionage novel by John BuchanOr works adapted from the novel:...
: Josefina Gabrielle
Josefina Gabrielle

Josefina Gabrielle is an Olivier Award-nominated stage actress and film actress, best known for her performances in hit West End theatre musicals and plays....
The God of Carnage: Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an England actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show , The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon , The Constant Gardener , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the Harry Potter , and In Bruges....
, Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning United Kingdom actress.Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, McTeer attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating....
, Ken Stott
Ken Stott

Kenneth Campbell Stott is a Scotland actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in television....
, Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Greig

Tamsin Greig is an Olivier Award-winning United Kingdom actress. She is known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books and Caroline Todd in Green Wing....
The History Boys
The History Boys

The History Boys is a Play by English playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where there were 185 performances staged before it closed on 1 October 2006....
: Desmond Barrit
Desmond Barrit

Desmond Barrit is a Laurence Olivier Award winning, United Kingdom actor who has starred in productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre....
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on 14 February 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London.Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining pseudonym to escape unwelcome social obligations....
: Penelope Keith
Penelope Keith

Penelope Anne Constance Keith, Order of the British Empire, Deputy Lieutenant is an English people actor well known in the United Kingdom for her television career....
The Lord of the Rings: Laura Michelle Kelly
Laura Michelle Kelly

Laura Michelle Kelly is an Olivier Award-winning England actress and singer who achieved critical acclaim in the role of Mary Poppins in the musical theater of the same name....
, Malcolm Storry, Jerome Pradon
Jérôme Pradon

J?r?me Pradon was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France on 3 June 1964. He is an actor and singer who has performed in the West End theatre, Paris and various other places around the world....
The Mikado
The Mikado

The Mikado or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan....
: Alistair McGowan
Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan is an England Impressionist , comedian and actor. McGowan is best known for his work with Ronni Ancona on The Big Impression , which spawned his culturally popular impressions of David Beckham, Sven-G?ran Eriksson, Gary Lineker, Nicky Campbell, Richard Madeley, Tony Blair, Ross Geller and Dot Cotton ....
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas....
: Jo Brand
Jo Brand

Josephine "Jo" Grace Brand is an England comedienne....
The Sea: David Haig
David Haig

David Haig is an Olivier Award-winning England actor and FIPA Award-winning writer. He is known for his versatility, having been successfully cast in dramatic, serio-comic and comedic roles, playing characters of varied social classes....
, Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins

Dame Eileen June Atkins Order of British Empire is an award-winning England actress and occasional screenwriter....
, Marcia Warren
Marcia Warren

Marcia Warren is an English stage and television actor. On stage, she has appeared in the 1986 London production of Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati and in the 2008 production of The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket....
, Russell Tovey
Russell Tovey

Russell Tovey is a United Kingdom actor....
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
: Connie Fisher
Connie Fisher

'Connie Fisher' is a British actress and singer, who won the BBC One talent contest, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?Fisher was delighted to be named Maria: "I feel on top of the world, thanks very much....
, Aoife Mulholland
Aoife Mulholland

'Aoife Mulholland' is an Irish people actress, and musical theatre performer from Salthill, Galway on the west coast of Ireland. Aoife is a successful leading lady in London West End of London: she has played many lead and notable roles, such as Roxie Hart in Chicago , at the Cambridge Theatre and for 18 months as Maria von Trapp in T...
, Summer Strallen
Summer Strallen

Summer Strallen is an England actress who has performed various roles on stage and screen. She is currently portraying the role of Maria Von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of The Sound of Music at the London Palladium....
The Vortex: Felicity Kendal
Felicity Kendal

Felicity Ann Kendal, Order of the British Empire is an English actor who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work.Born in 1946, Kendal spent much of her childhood in India, where her father managed a touring repertory company....
, Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens

Daniel Jonathan Stevens is a United Kingdom actor. He was educated at Tonbridge School and University of Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge he was a member of Cambridge Footlights and read English Literature at Emmanuel College....
, Annette Badland
Annette Badland

Annette Badland is an England actress.Her training took place at East 15 Acting School, London. She has appeared in many television roles including Bergerac , 2point4 children, Jackanory, The Demon Headmaster , The Worst Witch , The Queen's Nose and Coronation Street, as well as an early appearance in series...
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , starring Judy Garland....
: Gary Wilmot
Gary Wilmot

Gary Owen Wilmot is an England actor, writer, comedian, impressionist and singer. He rose to fame in the 80s through a number of television appearances, and subsequently moved into theatre....
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking , by Joan Didion , is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne . Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was immediately acclaimed as a classic in the genre of mourning literature....
: Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
Twelfth Night: Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi Order of the British Empire is an England actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British....
Under the Blue Sky: Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate is an England actress, writer and comedienne. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four British Academy Television Awards....
War Horse: Paul Chequer
Paul Chequer

Paul Chequer is an actor most famous for starring in the British drama As If as Jamie Collier in Channel 4 from 2001 to 2004 and the BBC Three drama Sinchronicity, as Nathan, in 2006....
Wicked
Wicked (musical)

Wicked is a musical theatre with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L....
: Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis

Kerry Ellis is a British stage actress who has starred as Elphaba in the West End theatre and Broadway theatre productions of the musical Wicked ....
, Dianne Pilkington
Dianne Pilkington

Dianne Pilkington is an English actress.She trained at the Guildford School of Acting in England, and since then has made many notable appearances, in both tours and in the West End....
, Susie Blake
Susie Blake

Susie Blake is a United Kingdom actress....
, Nigel Planer
Nigel Planer

Nigel George Planer is an England actor, novelist and playwright. He was educated at Westminster School, the University of Sussex at Brighton, and LAMDA....
, Harriet Thorpe
Harriet Thorpe

Harriet Thorpe is an England actress.She was in the mid-to-late 1990s British television sitcom 'The Brittas Empire', playing Carole Parkinson, the receptionist who was prone to depression and fits of emotion who permanently kept her children with her, in drawers under her desk and would sometimes be seen feeding them or washing their clot...
, Desmond Barrit
Desmond Barrit

Desmond Barrit is a Laurence Olivier Award winning, United Kingdom actor who has starred in productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre....
, Alexia Khadime
Alexia Khadime

Alexia Khadime is an English actress, known for her roles in musical theatre and on United Kingdom television. She recently starred as Elphaba in the West End theatre production of Wicked , a role for which she has won critical acclaim....
Zorro
Zorro (musical)

Zorro is a musical theatre with music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron, and a book and lyrics by Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson, based on the 2005 mock biography Zorro: A Novel, the first origin story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende....
: Emma Williams
Emma Williams

Emma Williams may refer to:*Emma Vyssotsky , nee Emma Williams, American astronomer*Emma Kennedy, real name Elizaeth Emma Williams, British comedian...
, Matt Rawle

2009

Avenue Q
Avenue Q

Avenue Q is a Musical theatre conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics, and directed by Jason Moore . The book is by Jeff Whitty....
: Daniel Boys
Daniel Boys

Daniel Boys is a British musical theatre actor, best known for his popular appearance in the BBC series Any Dream Will Do in 2007....
A View From the Bridge
A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway....
: Ken Stott
Ken Stott

Kenneth Campbell Stott is a Scotland actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in television....
Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls is a 2003 in film Great Britain comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. The screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi is based on the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research under the auspices of the British Women's Institute....
: Lynda Bellingham
Lynda Bellingham

Lynda Bellingham is a Canada-born England actor....
, Sian Phillips
Siân Phillips

Si?n Phillips, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people actress....
, Gaynor Faye
Gaynor Faye

Gaynor Faye is an England actress. She is famous for playing the role of Judy Mallett in the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 until 1999....
, Patricia Hodge
Patricia Hodge

Patricia Ann Hodge is an England actor....
, Brigit Forsyth
Brigit Forsyth

Brigit Forsyth is a British actress, who is best known for her long-running role as Thelma Ferris in the BBC comedies The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads....
Carousel
Carousel

A carousel , or merry-go-round, is an amusement ride consisting of a rotation platform with seats for passengers. The "seats" are traditionally in the form of wooden horses or animals, which are often moved mechanically up and down to simulate Horse gait#Gallop, to the accompaniment of Music loop circus music....
: Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett

Lesley Garrett Order of the British Empire is an England soprano, broadcaster and media personality....
Chicago
Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....
: Aoife Mulholland
Aoife Mulholland

'Aoife Mulholland' is an Irish people actress, and musical theatre performer from Salthill, Galway on the west coast of Ireland. Aoife is a successful leading lady in London West End of London: she has played many lead and notable roles, such as Roxie Hart in Chicago , at the Cambridge Theatre and for 18 months as Maria von Trapp in T...
Enjoy: Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman

Alison Steadman Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England actor....
Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
: Danny Bayne, Jimmy Osmond
Jimmy Osmond

James Arthur "Jimmy" Osmond is a singer, actor, and businessman....
Hairspray
Hairspray (musical)

Hairspray is a musical theatre with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan , based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray ....
: Michael Ball
Michael Ball (singer)

'Michael Ashley Ball' is an Olivier Award winning England actor, Singing, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius Pontmercy in Les Mis?rables , Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray '...
, Ben James-Ellis
Ben James-Ellis

Benjamin James Ellis is an English people stage actor currently starring in the role of Hairspray #Principal roles in the West End theatre production of the musical Hairspray ....
, Leanne Jones, Ian Talbot
Hamlet
Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....
: Jude Law
Jude Law

Jude Law is an England actor, film producer and film director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first TV role in 1989....
Imagine This
Imagine This

Imagine This is a musical theatre with music by Shuki Levy, lyrics by David Goldsmith and a book by Glenn Berenbeim. Set in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, it focuses on a family of actors trying to stage a play about the siege at ancient Masada to inspire hope and optimism within the Jewish community....
: Peter Polycarpou
Peter Polycarpou

Peter Polycarpou is a United Kingdom stage and TV and film actor. He played Chris Theodopolopoudos in the hugely successful TV series Birds of a Feather....
Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys is a documentary film-style musical theatre based on the lives of one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, The Four Seasons ....
: Ryan Molloy
Ryan Molloy

Ryan Molloy is a British singer, songwriter and actor, who replaced Holly Johnson as the lead singer in Frankie Goes to Hollywood . He has also been successful in musical theatre, appearing in a number of hit musicals in the UK....
, Glenn Carter
Glenn Carter

Glenn Carter is an English stage actor and singer-songwriter known particularly for his leading roles in musical theatre staged in London's West End theatre, the pinnacle of the commercial theatre profession in the United Kingdom....
, Stephen Ashfield
Stephen Ashfield

Stephen Ashfield is a British actor. He was born in in Glasgow, Scotland, and since graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has enjoyed a successful stage career....
Joseph
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second British musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice....
: Lee Mead
Lee Mead

Lee Stephen Mead is a British musical theatre actor, best known for playing the male lead in the 2007 London West End theatre revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat....
, Gareth Gates
Gareth Gates

Gareth Paul Gates , is a singer hailing from Bradford, England. He came second in the first series of the ITV talent show Pop Idol. Gates overcame a stutter through the McGuire Programme, qualifying as a speech coach in 2004 ....
La Cage Aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles

La Cage aux Folles is a musical theatre with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret and subsequent 1978 France-Italy La Cage aux Folles , the musical focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring Drag queen entertainment,...
: Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge

Douglas Hodge is a United Kingdom actor, director, and musician who trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .He is a council member of the National Youth Theatre for whom, in 1989, he co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing about the Amazon rain forests staged at the Almeida Theatre....
, Graham Norton
Graham Norton

Graham William Walker is an Irish people actor, comedian and television presenter. He is known by his stage name Graham Norton....
, Tracie Bennett
Tracie Bennett

Tracie Bennett is a two time Laurence Olivier Award winning England stage and television actress. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy in Clapham, London....
Madame de Sade
Madame de Sade

Madame de Sade is a 1965 play written by Yukio Mishima. It was first published in English, translated by Donald Keene by Grove Press and is currently out of print....
: Dame Judi Dench
Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
, Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike is an English actor. She is perhaps best known for her portrayals of James Bond villainess, Miranda Frost in Die Another Day and Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice ....
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! is a jukebox musical with a book by Great Britain playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus....
: Linzi Hateley
Linzi Hateley

Linzi Hateley is an English stage actress who is currently starring as one of the leads in the West End theatre production of the musical Mamma Mia!....
Monty Python's Spamalot: Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar

'Sanjeev Bhaskar,' Order of the British Empire is a British comedian and actor, best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No....
No Man's Land
No Man's Land (play)

No Man's Land is a Play by 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first produced and published in 1975....
: Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon

Michael John Gambon, Order of the British Empire is a British Academy Television Awards-winning Irish people-born United Kingdom actor who has worked in theatre, television and film....
, David Walliams
David Walliams

David Walliams is an England comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile....
, David Bradley
David Bradley

David Bradley may refer to:*David Bradley *David Bradley , American director*David Bradley , British actor*David Bradley , British actor...
Oedipus
Oedipus

Oedipus was a Greek mythology monarch of Thebes, Greece. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family....
: Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an England actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show , The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon , The Constant Gardener , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the Harry Potter , and In Bruges....
Oliver!
Oliver!

Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
: Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson

'Rowan Sebastian Atkinson' is an England comedian, actor and writer, famous for his work on the classic sitcoms Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line and Mr....
, Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman

Burn Gorman is an United States-born United Kingdom actor and musician. Burn is most known for his roles as Owen Harper in Torchwood and as William Guppy in Bleak House ....
, Harry Stott
Harry Stott

Harry Stott , from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, is a Great Britain stage and television actor. His theatre experience includes the role of Michael Banks in the West End theatre production of Mary Poppins for which he also sang in the cast recording....
, Gwion Jones, Laurence Jeffcoate, Jodie Prenger
Jodie Prenger

Jodie Prenger is an English people actress and singer. She was the winner of BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything on 31 May 2008....
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan

Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK he has sold in excess of 3 million records, and his d?but album Ten Good Reasons was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies....
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
: Summer Strallen
Summer Strallen

Summer Strallen is an England actress who has performed various roles on stage and screen. She is currently portraying the role of Maria Von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of The Sound of Music at the London Palladium....
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California....
: Dave Willetts
Dave Willetts

Dave Willetts is an England singer and actor known for having leading roles in West End theatre musical theater.Willetts is something of an enigma in that he has had no formal singing, dancing, or acting lessons....
Three Days of Rain
Three Days of Rain

Three Days of Rain is a play by Richard Greenberg.The play centers on Walker, his sister Nan, and their childhood friend Pip, who all meet in an unoccupied loft in lower Manhattan in 1995 to divide the legacy of their late fathers, who were partners in a renowned architecture firm....
: James McAvoy
James McAvoy

James Andrew McAvoy is a Scotland stage and screen actor known for his roles in Atonement , The Last King of Scotland , Wanted , Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, and the British TV series Shameless....
, Nigel Harman
Nigel Harman

Nigel Harman is an England actor who is most famous for his role as Dennis Rickman in the UK soap opera EastEnders....
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island....
: Keith Allen
Keith Allen

Keith Philip George Allen is a Wales-born United Kingdom actor, comedian, singer-songwriter, artist and author....
Twelfth Night: Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi Order of the British Empire is an England actor and film director. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British....
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters wait for someone named Godot. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere....
: Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , is an England actor of theatre and film, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Academy Awards nominations....
, Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

Patrick Hewes Stewart, Order of the British Empire is an English film, television and Stage actor. He is also Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield....
War Horse: Paul Chequer
Paul Chequer

Paul Chequer is an actor most famous for starring in the British drama As If as Jamie Collier in Channel 4 from 2001 to 2004 and the BBC Three drama Sinchronicity, as Nathan, in 2006....
Well
WELL

The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL, is one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation. It currently has about 4,000 members....
: Natalie Casey
Natalie Casey

Natalie Casey is an English people actor. She is best known for her long running roles in the TV series Hollyoaks and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps....
Wicked
Wicked (musical)

Wicked is a musical theatre with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L....
: Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis

Kerry Ellis is a British stage actress who has starred as Elphaba in the West End theatre and Broadway theatre productions of the musical Wicked ....
, Dianne Pilkington
Dianne Pilkington

Dianne Pilkington is an English actress.She trained at the Guildford School of Acting in England, and since then has made many notable appearances, in both tours and in the West End....
, Harriet Thorpe
Harriet Thorpe

Harriet Thorpe is an England actress.She was in the mid-to-late 1990s British television sitcom 'The Brittas Empire', playing Carole Parkinson, the receptionist who was prone to depression and fits of emotion who permanently kept her children with her, in drawers under her desk and would sometimes be seen feeding them or washing their clot...
, Desmond Barrit
Desmond Barrit

Desmond Barrit is a Laurence Olivier Award winning, United Kingdom actor who has starred in productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre....
, Alexia Khadime
Alexia Khadime

Alexia Khadime is an English actress, known for her roles in musical theatre and on United Kingdom television. She recently starred as Elphaba in the West End theatre production of Wicked , a role for which she has won critical acclaim....
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Zorro
Zorro (musical)

Zorro is a musical theatre with music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron, and a book and lyrics by Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson, based on the 2005 mock biography Zorro: A Novel, the first origin story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende....
: Emma Williams
Emma Williams

Emma Williams may refer to:*Emma Vyssotsky , nee Emma Williams, American astronomer*Emma Kennedy, real name Elizaeth Emma Williams, British comedian...
, Matt Rawle

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