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......

New writing theatre company Paines Plough are presenting an absolutely cracking new way to see plays this autumn and making us think that there should be more theatre programmed like this. New writing, an exciting theatre space, a sensible time slot, a hot snack and a drink are all included in the ticket price and you can be on your way having had your culture fix by 8pm when other theatres are raising the......

Anyone who has ever surfed the internet in a quest for enlightenment about British theatre will undoubtedly have come across the West End Whingers’ blog. By now, Andrew and Phil have become internet blogging stars, doing for theatre what Belle de Jour did for prostitution with only slightly less lubricant. Andrew and Phil have ranted against ticket prices, bar prices, fringe theatre and the general state of affairs since 2006, accumulating a huge fan......

Woody Allen's co-workers and relations have today EXCLUSIVELY revealed that he adores filming in London. Really? We hadn't noticed – especially considering the twaddle he came up with for Match Point. (One pet hate of ours – why do filmmakers photographing London insist on warping its geography? Miss Johansson walks a long way for a drink after a failed audition, from the Royal Court to the Audley, near Grosvenor Square, W1. Just a small......

Tanika Gupta's new play Sugar Mummies has opened at the Royal Court Theatre and runs until 2 September. This comedy-drama looks at female sex tourism in Jamaica - white women (usually older types) going to the islands for easy sex and companionship; the men enjoy the unofficial "pay" they get, in cash or in lieu. Four women hang around on a beach, lapping up the attention of the young men who buzz around them,......

A very very quick heads up here, because if we're not quick it will totally sell out. Unfortunately it's pretty sold out already, with 3 £100 tickets, and some £350 tickets left. If you're a Rocky Horror Show fan though then this is your dream come true and money is probably no object. Joining together for one special Rocky Horror performance in aid of Amnesty international will be a cast including Gary Amers, Michael Ball,......

"I don't blame the war. The war was alright. I miss it. It's just you come back to this." Motortown opens tomorrow night at the Royal Court Theatre - a new play by Olivier Award Winning playwright Simon Stephens (Best New Play 2006 for On The Shore of the Wide World performed at the National Theatre). Written during the London bombings last year, Motortown "is a fierce, violent and controversial response to the anti-war......

Formed out of members of Art of Noise & The Auteurs, we first came across Infantjoy while wallowing in 'OMG SARAH NIXEY IS BACK!!!111!!' induced glee a few months ago. Guest starring on their working of 'Silent Night', we were intrigued by this duo who seemed to produce mesmerizing, elegant instrumental music. Almost cinematic sounding, their concept album Where The Night Goes is based on the idea that 'each track takes place at a......

On Saturday, the Royal Court had already taken over their own building with performances and decided that they would send some of it over the road and out into the open air - Sloane Square to be precise - to complete their domination of the area. There was a bit of moustache / attache case madcap madness, some sort of romance that involved two boys and a girl, umbrellas, fake moustaches, red balloons and......

Where would we be without the Royal Court Theatre? Snuggled next to Sloane Square tube station and beaming benevolently on the Chelsea shoppers thronging London's fashionable King's Road, this playhouse for new writing and new drama was where the angry young man was born, where post-war British theatre took shape and eventually abolished the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of the stage, where the new wave, new shock of British dramatists and writers exploded into national......

A broadsheet recently uncovered the findings from a survey of British people’s sexual habits, one of which revealed that something like 47% of us had cheated on a partner. Shocking? Well, not in the emotional landscape of Stella Feehily’s play O Go My Man (an anagram of monogamy) currently running to rave reviews at the Royal Court. Granted her landscape is modern Ireland, which, according to one of her characters is “apolitical and amoral,......

Psychosomatic illness comes in for a grilling elsewhere in Richard Bean’s translation of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac (pictured), tackling the industry of counterfeit illness as a farce - or more aptly French farce. Currently running to rave reviews at The Alemeida, Almeida Street, N1. With Theatre 503’s home undergoing a face-lift, it has taken to the road, quite literally, staging its latest play Last Tuesday by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies on a London bus.......

On 21st June, the ratcheted-rental-threatened London Eye shames its greedy landlords (the South Bank Centre) by hosting a special event to raise awareness of Third World Debt and its attendant trade issues. Flight 5065 aims to promote Cafedirect's Fairtrade range and to raise awareness of the issues prior to the G8 conference, which takes place 6th-8th July and has the African economy on its agenda for discussion. Make Poverty History is one of the......

Londonist has somewhat of a love/hate thing going on with the theatre, love the idea of going, hate actually being there (3 encores? really? it was good, but if you want unconditional love and adulation buy a puppy), but still we keep going in the hope of having a breakthrough theatre experience. Maybe that elusive theatrical epiphany could come at the hands of Tim Fountain: Sex Addict. Actually we doubt it, but Tim's one......