Stalwart stage and screen icons James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave have teamed up for an intriguingly-cast new production of William Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING in the UK and the very first shots of the acclaimed actors in action onstage in the current West End revival that opened last month are now available to view.

The starring cast members of Andrew Lloyd Webber's highly anticipated new historical scandal-based West End musical STEPHEN WARD convened to perform songs from the score with the world renown composer himself on hand and four songs from the show are now available to hear in full.

Internationally celebrated composer Andrew Lloyd Webber discusses the impetus behind his new musical endeavor STEPHEN WARD and discusses how the history of the period-set piece aligned with his own life as part of a new chat in honor of the premiere of a handful of songs from the score at a UK press launch earlier today.

The starring cast members of Andrew Lloyd Webber's highly anticipated new historical scandal-based West End musical STEPHEN WARD convened to perform songs from the score with the world renown composer himself on hand and the first full song has now leaked.

A source exclusively confirms to BroadwayWorld that a new bio-musical based on the life of iconic stage and screen star Richard Burton is set to hit the West End in 2015.

A preliminary peek at West End stage superstar Sheridan Smith and popular crossover personality David Walliams in the hotly anticipated new West End revival of William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is now available to view - and, it's quite a trip!

Tickets for the highly anticipated revival of mega-musical sensation MISS SAIGON in the West End went on sale earlier today and producer Cameron Mackintosh as well as the musical's creators, Claude-Michael Schonberg and Alain Boublil, made a spectacular entrance to much excitement by the long line of awaiting fans awaiting their chance to grab first tickets to the first return production of the show.

first look at the starry cast of the new Michael Grandage production of William Shakespeare's classic comedy A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM deep in rehearsal for the new West End production is now available to view, featuring show stars Sheridan Smith and more.

Three extensive new behind-the-scenes promotional featurettes for the forthcoming West End page-to-stage adaptation of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY are now available to view, highlighting the creative team and cast of the exciting new musical hard at work on bringing the show to the stage.

The recent revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway mega-hit A CHORUS LINE in the West End closed short of its anticipated limited run earlier this month, yet the production lives on via the stories of its cast members in a fascinating and very meta new documentary on the production and its players, OFF THE LINE.

Iconic stage and screen stars Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones take on Shakespeare together in the West End with a new Mark Rylance-directed production of the comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and an endearing new poster has been revealed for the upcoming Old Vic production.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's celebrated and rightly classic musical THE SOUND OF MUSIC is currently enjoying a West End run courtesy of the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and an eye-grabbing new trailer for the hit revival has been unveiled in honor of the environmental production's recently announced extension through September 14.

Multi-award-winning lyricist Sir Tim Rice attended the first rehearsals for the new West End musical FROM HERE TO ETERNITY earlier this week and a photo of the Broadway/Hollywood/West End notable has appeared marking the occasion.

A saucy and visually arresting - if admittedly more than slightly BRADY BUNCH-esque - new trailer for the forthcoming West End revival of Shakespeare's hallowed comedy A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM has arrived, featuring the attractive and talented cast of the brand new, Michael Grandage-directed production.

Go behind the scenes of the West End's biggest new stage spectacular, CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, based on the classic Roald Dahl's children's book, in a new series of backstage shots depicting the convivial company of the new musical.

Acclaimed theatre, film and opera director Richard Eyre opens up about his new role as helmer of an Andrew Lloyd Webber world premiere with the upcoming opening of STEPHEN WARD as well as sheds some light on what makes the septuagenarian so virile and able to direct six shows in the next year in a fascinating new interview.

Members from the current West End casts of long-running hits THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and LES MISERABLES will convene to join former footballers and some A-list stars at Hayes Lane in Bromley for a special charity soccer game to benefit the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The gorgeous first poster for Tony Award-winning actor and passionate director Mark Rylance's new UK production of William Shakespeare's classic comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING starring Hollywood/Broadway/West End icons James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave has been unveiled. Depicting two embracing lovers in silhouette astride suitcases packed and ready for travel, the mostly sepia-hued, monochrome image expertly depicts the romantic allure of the oft-performed canonical comic trifle.

International stage sensation and long-running West End hit MAMMA MIA! offered a glamorous special engagement for fans and passers-by last week in the UK byway of a Summer family tea party featuring many members of the new cast of the hit ABBA-scored musical.

In a fascinating new interview with Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on the podcast program THE CONVERSATION, Broadway/Hollywood icon Angela Lansbury reveals plans to reprise her Tony Award-winning role of Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's BLITHE SPIRIT in London's West End this Christmas.

The heralded West End revival of the time-bending Stephen Sondheim/George Furth showbiz musical MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG will be filmed and is set to be released digitally as part of the online performing arts channel Digital Theatre.

Multi-award-winning stage and screen lyricist Don Black talks about his current collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Christopher Hampton on the new historically-based West End musical STEPHEN WARD and much more in a new interview.

Internationally recognized stage and screen superstar Kim Cattrall and rising Broadway headliner Seth Numrich currently star in the West End in the rapturously received Old Vic production of the Tennessee Williams classic SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH and the stately leading players switched roles with their cast-mates for a recent special one-off performance.

The comely cast of the new West End musical FROM HERE TO ETERNITY recently posed for a steamy series of Hawaii-set shots for use in promotional posters and advertisements for the forthcoming tuner and a series of behind-the-scenes shots of the extensive shoot have now been revealed.

DOWNTON ABBEY star and notable stage and screen actor Hugh Bonneville took to the stage for a special string of performances as none other than God himself in the current UK production of SPAMALOT beginning this week.