West End Theatre Series

This summer the Science Museum presents the world premiere of The Energy Show: explosive family theatre for curious minds. Live at the Science Museum’s new theatre space, this electrifying show runs for 6 weeks only. Book tickets from £9.50 here Annabella and Phil, two futuristic science students, race against time to prove their knowledge of energy. With help from virtual lab-assistant, i-nstein, and a steampunk workshop full of gadgets and chemicals, they demonstrate live experiments on stage. Methane bubbles set alight to make fireballs, liquid nitrogen freezes flowers and hydrogen rockets are fired into the audience. Stand back - theatre just got dangerously exciting! Produced by the Science Museum, this fast and furious summer show is suitable for everyone aged 7+. Tuesdays to Sundays at 11.30 and 13.30.

CRAZY HORSE PARIS presents Forever Crazy, the ultimate cabaret entertainment experience that has been seducing audiences in Paris for over 60 years. Forever Crazy is an extravagant and opulent production taking place in a purpose-built luxurious venue on London's Southbank. Featuring a cast of ten dazzlingly beautiful classically trained dancers, this lavish spectacle takes place against the backdrop of stunning lighting and visual effects which serve to make this show an artistic masterpiece.

The performance doesn't get any punchier, the reviews don't any better - here is the latest trailer from the outstanding musical theatre show Sweeney Todd.

Check out the latest eruptions of this vibrant show! Tickets http://www.stomplondon.com/ | Facebook http://on.fb.me/aIbWDY | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf

Starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, this ‘wickedly funny’ (Guardian) production of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘magnificent masterpiece’ (Evening Standard) is set to thrill West End audiences at the Adelphi Theatre from March. A five star, sell-out smash hit at Chichester Festival Theatre with standing ovations every night, audiences and critics agree – this ‘mesmerising and enticing’ (Financial Times) musical is unmissable. Laced with dark humour, dazzling wit and an infectious score, it tells of Sweeney Todd's return to London after years of false imprisonment, and his savage quest for justice and retribution. Aided and abetted by pie-shop owner, Mrs Lovett, he sets out to avenge the wrongs done to him and his family many years before… Directed by Jonathan Kent and designed by Anthony Ward, Sweeney Todd comes to London for a strictly limited season. Don’t miss MICHAEL BALL giving ‘the performance of his life’ (Daily Mail) with the ‘show stopping’ IMELDA STAUNTON(Mail on Sunday) in what promises to be the theatrical event of the year. For tickets visit www.sweeneytoddwestend.com or call 0844 811 0053

Tickets http://www.officepartyshow.com/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/6hL3v | Twitter http://ow.ly/6jZ2A | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Are you ready to party? See what the press and public had to say about the Product Solutions riotous annual Office Party.

Tickets http://www.deathandthemaidentheplay.com/ | Facebook http://on.fb.me/oFfTK8 | Twitter http://bit.ly/rKlVuT | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Olivier Award-winning and critically acclaimed Death and the Maiden returns to the West End in a new production, 20 years since it first premiered at the Royal Court. Jeremy Herrin, Associate Director of the Royal Court, directs Thandie Newton, Tom Goodman-Hill and Anthony Calf.

Tickets http://www.slavasnowshow.co.uk | Facebook http://ow.ly/5k3mF | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf The multi award winning international sensation, Slava's Snowshow has delighted and thrilled audiences in over 80 cities around the globe including New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro and Moscow. This Christmas experience a joyous dream-like world which will touch both your heart and funny bone, culminating in a breathtaking blizzard leaving you literally knee deep in snow!

Tickets http://www.backbeatlondon.com/ | Facebook http://on.fb.me/9HQ5JD | Twitter http://bit.ly/vj6Gzy | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf **** "The Beatles are back in town. Backbeat is a back-story to cherish" Fiona Mountford - Evening Standard ***** Ian Shuttleworth - Financial Times Backbeat is now open at London's Duke of York's Theatre! Directed by the award-winning David Leveaux, Backbeat features all-time rock 'n' roll classics including Love Me Do, PS I Love You, Twist & Shout, Rock 'N' Roll Music, Long Tall Sally, Please Mr Postman and Money - live on stage as performed by 'The Beatles'.

Tickets http://www.crazyforyouthemusical.com/ | Facebook http://on.fb.me/uBXWo9 | Twitter http://bit.ly/u4ODYT | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Stars and Celebrities went crazy on the Opening Night Gala of Crazy for You, the Smash Hit Gershwin Musical.

Tickets http://rockofagesmusical.co.uk/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/5qXyn | Twitter http://ow.ly/5qXzo | Youtube http://ow.ly/5wh3I | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Watch exclusive footage from the star studded Gala Night of Rock of Ages The Musical!

Tickets http://rockofagesmusical.co.uk/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/5qXyn | Twitter http://ow.ly/5qXzo | Youtube http://ow.ly/5wh3I | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Check out the London cast of Rock of Ages in action at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Crowds and critics love it! Learn more about London’s greatest guilty pleasure at http://www.rockofagesmusical.co.uk/.

Tickets http://www.batmanlive.com/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/4NHQT | Twitter http://ow.ly/4NHPe | Podcast http://ow.ly/4NI3U | Youtube http://ow.ly/4OweB Watch footage from the Batman Live opening night in Manchester on 19th July and hear what the audience and critics thought about the spectacular show!

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Tickets http://www.railwaychildrenwaterloo.com/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/5Eh87 | Twitter http://ow.ly/5Ehb3 | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf After a record breaking run with four star reviews across the board E. Nesbit's classic returns with performances from 19 June. Leading the cast as Station Master Perks is comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke (Just A Minute, QI and Have I Got News For You) London's breath-taking theatrical event is once again staged at the former Eurostar terminal where a 1,000 seat venue has been built around the railway tracks with audiences seated either side. The production features the amazing Stirling Single, a beautiful 60 tonne steam locomotive. Don't miss the chance to join Bobby, Peter and Phyllis as they tell the story of how they became The Railway Children.

Tickets http://www.yesprimeminister.co.uk/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/59eGr | Twitter http://ow.ly/59eNB | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Yes, Prime Minister is now back in the West End for 10 weeks until the 17th September – see what the celebs and MP’s thought of the show in our press night video!

Tickets http://www.tenorthemusical.co.uk/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/4NYaP | Twitter http://ow.ly/5jn8A | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf | Youtube http://ow.ly/5jnue This brand-new production is directed by Olivier award-winning director IAN TALBOT (High Society, Anything Goes) and includes some of the West End's finest performers including the Olivier award-winning MATTHEW KELLY and JOANNA RIDING.

Tickets http://www.ButleyLondon.com | Facebook http://ow.ly/54BtY | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf **** "Butley shines like a gold coin." The Guardian **** "Electric. Dominic West is amazing." The Times **** "Intense & Striking.” Evening Standard Dominic West, star of hit US drama The Wire, plays rapier-tongued lecturer Ben Butley in a major new revival of Simon Gray’s award-winning comedy. Ben Butley is having a monumentally bad start to the term. So bad, he’s making sure everyone else has a worse one. Over the course of a day he discovers that his estranged wife is divorcing him for the most boring man in London and, even worse, that his beloved protégé and best friend is leaving him too. Once a brilliant and charismatic professor, Butley suddenly finds his life and relationships self-combusting in a matter of hours. Butley might be going down, but he sure as hell is going down fighting. Employing his trusty arsenal of mischievous irony and gleeful wit, Butley diverts attention from his unravelling life by entangling his students and colleagues in his own dangerous blend of trouble and fun.

Tickets http://www.betrayaltheplay.com/ | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf ***** "MAGNIFICENT... the finest production I have seen of Pinter's masterpiece" Daily Telegraph Sometimes you'll find there can be three people in a marriage... Over a period of nine years, we are shown the high price of passion and the damage inflicted by desire. Harold Pinter's remarkable play explores how our loves and our losses echo and accumulate through time. An Olivier award winning play, which premiered at the National Theatre in 1978, Betrayal is now considered a modern classic. This brand new production stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Douglas Henshall and Ben Miles, in a limited run until 20 August. Director Ian Rickson, who directed Harold Pinter himself in the heralded Krapp's Last Tape, has had many recent successes, including the critically acclaimed Jerusalem, The Children's Hour and The Seagull, as well as a production of Pinter's The Hothouse at the National Theatre in 2007.

Tickets http://www.slavasnowshow.co.uk | Facebook http://ow.ly/5k3mF | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf The multi award winning international sensation, Slava's Snowshow has delighted and thrilled audiences in over 80 cities around the globe including New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Rio de Janiero and Moscow. This Christmas experience a joyous dream-like world which will touch both your heart and funny bone, culminating in a breathtaking blizzard leaving you literally knee deep in snow! Major UK tour this Autumn and Royal Festival Hall, London this Christmas.

Tickets http://www.tenorthemusical.co.uk/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/4NYaP | Twitter http://ow.ly/5jn8A | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf | Youtube http://ow.ly/5jnue It’s 1934, and the world’s greatest tenor Tito Merelli has come to Cleveland, Ohio, to save its Grand Opera Company by singing Otello. When he is unexpectedly incapacitated, Max, the Opera Director’s meek assistant, is given the daunting task of finding a last-minute replacement. Chaos ensues - including a scheming soprano, a tenor-struck ingénue, a jealous wife, shrimp gone bad and the Cleveland Police department. This brand-new production is directed by Olivier award-winning director IAN TALBOT (High Society, Anything Goes) and includes some of the West End’s finest performers including the Olivier award-winning MATTHEW KELLY and JOANNA RIDING.

Tickets http://www.shrekthemusical.co.uk/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/4NXLz | Twitter http://ow.ly/4NXRk | Podcast http://ow.ly/4NXUz | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Y3ZL Stars of stage and screen hit the green carpet at Drury Lane to celebrate the opening night of Shrek The Musical in London!

Tickets http://www.midnighttango.co.uk/about/ | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace have dazzled television audiences for six series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing with their stunning Tango routines. Now they have created their own live show, Midnight Tango, a breathtaking evening bringing to life all the drama, sensuality and elegance of this most exciting of dance forms. Midnight Tango is set in a late-night bar in downtown Buenos Aires. Vincent and Flavia will be joined by ten of the finest Tango dancers in the world, and, between them, they will take the audience on a journey into the heart of this intoxicating city, as danger and excitement, joy and jealousy, pain and passion combine into a spectacular and explosive evening.

Tickets http://ow.ly/5aOFN | Facebook http://ow.ly/5aOBy | Twitter http://ow.ly/5aODo | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf The celebrated Ealing comedy-- THE LADYKILLERS comes to life on stage this Autumn in a hilarious and thrilling new adaption by Graham Linehan (Father Ted) and directed by Sean Foley (The Play What I Wrote). Featuring a stellar cast of some of the finest stage and screen comedy actors including BAFTA winner Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It) as Professor Marcus along with James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley), Ben Miller (The Armstrong and Miller Show), Stephen Wight (Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer) and Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe with Marcia Warren as the sweetly innocent Mrs Wilberforce.

Tickets http://ow.ly/4QjJx | Facebook http://ow.ly/4Qkm9 | Twitter http://ow.ly/4Qkfr | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf The Flying Karamazov brothers are limbering up, sharpening their knives, and dry cleaning their kilts as they enter final preparations for their strictly limited run at the Vaudeville Theatre from 9th June. If you want to find out a little more about what to expect from these lovable rogues... watch now!

Tickets http://www.yesprimeminister.co.uk/ | Facebook http://ow.ly/59eGr | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Twitter http://ow.ly/59eNB | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf Check out our brand new trailer in celebration of our return to the West End on July 6!

Tickets http://www.ButleyLondon.com | Facebook http://ow.ly/54BtY | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru Dominic West, star of hit US drama The Wire, plays rapier-tongued lecturer Ben Butley in a major new revival of Simon Gray's award-winning comedy. Ben Butley is having a monumentally bad start to the term. So bad, he's making sure everyone else has a worse one. Over the course of a day he discovers that his estranged wife is divorcing him for the most boring man in London and, even worse, that his beloved protégé and best friend is leaving him too. Once a brilliant and charismatic professor, Butley suddenly finds his life and relationships self-combusting in a matter of hours. Butley might be going down, but he sure as hell is going down fighting. Employing his trusty arsenal of mischievous irony and gleeful wit, Butley diverts attention from his unravelling life by entangling his students and colleagues in his own dangerous blend of trouble and fun. Duchess Theatre from 31 May.

Tickets http://ow.ly/4Z0mn | Facebook http://ow.ly/4Z0o7 | Youtube http://ow.ly/4Z0ru | Twitter http://ow.ly/4Z0K4 | Podcast http://ow.ly/4Z0pf ***** Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail ‘The RSC’s new musical version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda is a triumph: enchanting, bold and ingenious’ Evening Standard ‘The show only ended an hour ago, and I’m already longing to see it again’ Daily Telegraph Following a sensational sell-out season at The Courtyard Theatre, the RSC’s production of MATILDA THE MUSICAL transfers to London’s West End this October. Roald Dahl’s much-loved story bursts into life on stage in this brand new musical version by Dennis Kelly and award-winning musician and comedian Tim Minchin. Children and adults alike will be thrilled and delighted by the story of the special little girl with an extraordinary imagination. Her parents think she is a nuisance and she thinks, quite rightly, they are only interested in watching telly. Life is not much better at school, where the monstrous headmistress Miss Trunchbull terrifies both students and teachers alike. Then one day Matilda discovers she has a very special power and decides it's time the grown-ups were taught a lesson. Be warned, the children are revolting… MATILDA THE MUSICAL previews at the Cambridge Theatre from 18 October.

Take four entertainers who are musicians, comedians, acrobats, dancers, jugglers and philosophers. They’re not Russian, they don’t fly and they’re not brothers. But they are the funniest, most thought provoking, kilt-wearing, clever idiots in town. For tickets and more information please visit http://fkb.com/uk/ You can also like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/fkb and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/FKB_London for all the latest news.

THIS SUMMER’S NEW MUSICAL COMEDY HIT OPENS AT THE GIELGUD THEATRE 2 JUNE This joyous new musical based on the award-winning West End and Broadway comedy, is a riotous and unpredictable explosion of mistaken identities and unexpected romance. It’s 1934, and the world’s greatest tenor Tito Merelli has come to Cleveland, Ohio, to save its Grand Opera Company. When at the last minute he is incapacitated, chaos ensues… This brand-new production directed by the Olivier award-winning Ian Talbot stars the Olivier award-winning Matthew Kelly. An uproarious plot, glorious songs, a dazzling set and sumptuous costumes. Don’t miss the show that’s got the lot! * * * * ‘A RIP-ROARING NIGHT OUT THAT HAS ALL THE ESSENTIALS OF A WEST END HIT’ Whatsonstage.com For tickets and more information please visit http://www.tenorthemusical.co.uk/ You can also like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/tenorthemusical

Devised and directed by Zimmermann & de Perrot, performed by Groupe Acrobatique de Tangier Thursday 21 – Monday 25 April 2011, Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall Weaving together contemporary performance and traditional Moroccan acrobatics, Chouf Ouchouf is a witty and highly skilled evocation of the energy, joy and urgency of life in Tangiers. With live music and a set that floats apart and reassembles to represent the many faces of a bewildering and exciting landscape, the performers go in search of the city's beating heart. ‘With an insouciant brilliance, they fill the stage with multiple back-flips, dizzying cartwheels, perilous human pyramids and vaulting trampoline stunts… everyone was spellbound.’ The Guardian on the company’s previous show Taoub Suitable for ages seven to adult. http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/dance-performance/tickets/chouf-ouchouf-55914

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Tickets http://www.shrekthemusical.co.uk/ | Subscribe http://ow.ly/4Y3ZL | Facebook http://ow.ly/4NXLz | Twitter http://ow.ly/4NXRk | Podcast http://ow.ly/4NXUz Catch a sneak preview of London's hottest new musical as leading cast members Nigel Lindsay (Shrek), Richard Blackwood (Donkey), Nigel Harman (Lord Farquaad) and Amanda Holden (Princess Fiona) sing the classic Shrek anthem 'I'm A Believer'. Featuring exclusive behind the scenes footage.

FOUR TIMES WINNER BEST PLAY, INCLUDING OLIVIER AWARDS 2011! ***** “Outrageously funny and provocative. A firecracker of a play.” Daily Telegraph ***** “Hilarious and harrowing. Out of this world… essential.” Independent Acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, the Royal Court's sell out smash hit comedy must end 7th May. Clybourne Park follows hot on the heels of ENRON and Jerusalem both of which also transferred from the Royal Court becoming landmark theatrical events of 2010. Hailed 'Shockingly Entertaining' and 'Appallingly funny' this devastating satire explores the ever contentious themes of race and property ownership from two time periods – 1959 and 2009 – and leaves the audience asking whether the issues festering beneath the floorboards are actually the same despite the 50 year time difference.

Winner of 7 awards in London, including the Laurence Olivier Award for BEST NEW MUSICAL, Legally Blonde is the award-winning sensation that has taken the West End by storm. Now in its second fabulous year, Legally Blonde is booking through until March 2012. **** ‘PERFECTION. Ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish.’ The Independent **** ‘Musical Theatre at its best – great songs, witty lines. Smart, sassy, spectacular.’ Daily Telegraph College sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods doesn’t take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone ‘serious’, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law School! Led by Tony award-winning and Olivier nominated choreographer Jerry Mitchell, this is one of the most fashionable tickets in town!

The party after the 5 star press night performance of Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Sienna Miller, James Purefoy and Sheridan Smith.