Last night London's Luvvieland came together for their annual award ceremony, the Oliviers. Having received 11 nominations across 10 categories, it looked like being Hairspray's night. And Londonist is happy to confirm what we already knew: the show is a deserved winner of the Best New Musical accolade. In addition, Leanne Jones (Best Actress in a Musical) rocks as the optimistic teen, Tracy Turnblad; Tracie Bennett (Best Supporting Role in a Musical) is similarly......

As we ease out of the austerity, self-denial and penny-pinching of January, so too the arts world comes even further out of its shell. This week sees a whole host of exciting openings. Take your pick; payday's passed and February's just round the corner! Be the first Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious opera about love, corrupt local government, marriage, executions and heroics, The Mikado comes to the Gielgud Theatre from Wednesday. Alistair McGowan stars as......

A man has escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison. Seen him? Alan Cumming married his boyfriend in London on Sunday. Want cheap theatre tickets? The Annual Get Into London Theatre campaign has started, It's the news every Mac geek have been looking forward to - Apple announced their iPhone this afternoon Photo taken from Gilgongo's photostream.......

So. Farewell then You were the V & A's Theatre Museum in Covent Garden You struggled to stay open and get in visitors But in the end You’re going to have to close It’s final: the decision has been made to close the V & A’s Theatre Museum Covent Garden site at the end of this year or beginning of next year. The Museum’s collection will be re-absorbed into a permanent exhibition at the......

Budging The only fringe theatre venue in Leicester Square is to close in September. The tiny 150 seat Sound Theatre has sat shoulder to shoulder with the biggest of West End dross-peddling venues (Mama Mia is still playing at the Prince of Wales...) in the same block as the Swiss Centre since June last year, but while Sound's restaurant, bar and nightclub willmove to new Leicester Square premises, the theatre will not be joining......

The Theatre Museum will not be closed - yet. The ventilator has not been switched off quite yet, though there is a hand hovering near the plug. Usually ignored by tourists for the flashier and better laid out museums of South Kensington, this quiet subsidiary of the Victoria and Albert museum in Covent Garden has been in the limelight of late. When two applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund were rejected, its future was......

One of the London bombers, who worked part-time in a fish and chip shop, has left an estate worth £121,000. The IPCC decision on whether any legal action should be taken against the officers who shot Jean Charles de Menezes, should be delivered within the next few days. The four people arrested under the law banning 'unauthorised protests' near parliament were up in court yesterday. The fifth Get into London Theatre campaign has begun this......

Going to the theatre is a potential minefield of inconvenience. Uncomfortable seats, overpriced ice-cream and a mile-long queue for the toilets – how can that compete with the comfort of your living room sofa, home cooking and 666 channels of homogenised fluff on Sky? If you pick a duff show to boot, you’ll probably be sat there (in aforementioned uncomfortable seat) mentally listing these very aggravations, fantasising about your remote control. If you pick......