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David Seidler's The King's Speech, from which the film was adapted, about how a speech therapist helped King George VI to overcome his stutter, with Charles Edwards, Jonathan Hyde, Emma Fielding, Joss Ackland, Ian McNeice, Michael Feast, Charlotte Randle, David Killick and Daniel...

Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its 50th Anniversary season. In the Festival Theatre: William Congreve's restoration comedy The Way Of The World, with Penelope Keith, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh; the premiere of Hugh Whitemore's A Marvellous Year For Plums, a political...

It's Official! As previously forecast here, Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, the comedy in which a vaudeville double act that broke up in acrimony is reunited for a television special, with Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, directed by Thea Sharrock, will open at the Savoy Theatre...

The National Theatre has announced new productions, which will include in the Olivier: Sophocles's Antigone, in a version by Don Taylor, directed by Polly Findlay; Shakespeare's Timon Of Athens, with Simon Russell Beale, directed by Nicholas Hytner; Tirso de Molina's Damned For Despair...

The spring season at the Soho Theatre will include A Walk On Part - The Fall Of New Labour, adapted from the diaries of former minister Chris Mullin by Michael Chaplin, with John Hodgkinson, directed by Max Roberts, from 21st March; Swamp Juice, written and performed by Jeff Achtem...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced its 2012/2013 winter season in Stratford-upon-Avon, comprising in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Russell Hoban's The Mouse And His Child, adapted by Tamsin Oglesby, about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who begin a dangerous quest...

The Society Of London Theatre is looking for 14 enthusiastic and knowledgeable theatregoers to join one of the judging panels for next year's Laurence Olivier Awards. Panellists will receive a pair of free tickets for all shows playing in the West End for a whole year starting on...