Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
Long Day's Journey into Night (Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue)
Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
Noises Off (Novello Theatre)
One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic)
The Alternative Top 5
The King's Speech (Wyndham's Theatre)
Sweeney Todd (Adelphi)
Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace)
Ghost the Musical (Piccadilly)
Love, Love, Love (Royal Court)
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The Hairy Ape (Southwark Playhouse)
Can We Talk About This? (DV8 Physical Theatre at The Lowry, Salford)
Mad About The Boy (Iron Shoes at Unicorn Theatre)
The Pirate Project (Oval House)
The Real Thing (West Yorkshire Playhouse and English Touring Theatre at West Yorkshire Playhouse)
The Cherry Orchard (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory at Rose Theatre, Kingston)
What the Butler Saw (Vaudeville Theatre)
The Beekeeper (Blackeyed Theatre at Waterloo East)
Of Mice and Men (Watermill Theatre at Watermill Theatre Newbury)
Close the Coalhouse Door (Northern Stage and Live Theatre at The Lowry, Salford)
Detroit (Steppenwolf Theatre at Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre)
The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre)
Encounters: Dry Ice and You're Not Like Other Girls Chrissy (Bush Theatre)
A Slow Air (Tron Theatre Company at Tricycle Theatre)
Theatre Royal Stratford East has collaborated with New World Nigeria on a project called 30 Nigeria House that will award 30 young artists of Nigerian descent up to £3,000 to develop their work.
Newcastle-under-Lyme venue the New Vic is on the hunt for people’s memories for a celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Birmingham REP’s programme for this autumn and winter features a “stimulating season of plays in traditional theatre venues and more unusual spaces across the city”.
Derby actor Gwen Taylor will return to her home city this week to appear in Michael Morpurgo’s The Butterfly Lion.
A new co-production of Arnold Wesker’s revolutionary 1959 play Roots completes a short tour this week at Nottingham Playhouse.
Two Midlands venues have been awarded cash from Arts Council England’s Catalyst Arts scheme.
Three new plays will be the centrepiece of the Capital Theatre Festival which takes place this week in Birmingham.
Chichester Festival Theatre, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, is to have a new temporary space and a new chairman, with an ACE grant application having successfully completed its first stage an a forum on theatre with a panel including Janet Suzman.
The New Victoria Theatre, Woking is searching for talented local children to star in the nationwide tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific.
An exhibition of pictures by theatre photographer Nobby Clark will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Northern Broadsides.
Six theatre organisations in the North East have received grants from Arts Council England's Catalyst Arts funding stream.
Liverpool Playhouse's Autumn 2012 season features a new production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and an expanded programme in the Studio
Amongst one and two nights shows at the Palace Theatre and the Opera House in Manchester in June.
Moston-based MaD Theatre Company is to feature in a new episode of The Secret Millionaire.
Liverpool is set to become the city that never sleeps as Light Night Liverpool returns for 2012.
Theatre by the Lake's Summer Season up in Keswick gets properly under way this week.
The Lowry in Salford is now recognised for both its ‘Excellent' visitor experience and ‘Gold-Standard' restaurant.
The arena tour of Coronation Street musical Street of Dreams has been postponed by the producers after its opening in Manchester last week.
Newcastle's Live Theatre and new company Murmur gain the London 2012 Inspire Mark for The Prize
What's on in the region this week.
Buxton Opera House will soon be recruiting young talent for this year’s Christmas production Peter Pan.
The Regent Theatre in Stoke has announced that its talent search, Stoke’s Top Talent, is back.
Two world premieres, a UK premiere and the opening of a major tour are some of the highlights of the autumn season at Leicester’s Curve.
Thomas Hardy’s most popular story which was also his first major literary success gets the New Vic treatment this week in a new adaptation.
Billed as “one of the most exciting seasons of work that Northampton’s Royal and Derngate has ever staged”, Festival of Chaos starts this month with two world premieres.
Regional round-up for week beginning Sunday May 13.
Theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 14th May
Shakespeare's Globe to tour As You Like It;
Grist to the Mill's Punchline at Vibe Gallery; Scamp's Private Peaceful gets 2-week West End run; Site-specific devised show based on stories by London schoolchildren; SOOP bring WWII auxiliary units to Oxfringe; LeanerFasterStronger at Crucible; Coward and Novello pair up a Riverside studios; Ovalhouse’s first ever large-scale commission Be Good Revolutionaries; Nickelodeon's Dora comes to West End; WSF: Soldier in Every Son featuring RSC and National Theatre of Mexico;
Willetts and Webb in 42nd Street national tour; Will Young makes West End debut in Cabaret; Harrison Dowzell is 30th West End Elliot; Casting for Superstar arena tour;