Douglas Carter Beane’s award winning play The Little Dog Laughed is now premiering at the Garrick Theatre in London, featuring a star studded cast. Theatre tickets for the show are on sale now.

Mitchell is a young actor with what his cutting agent Diane describes as a “slight recurring case of homosexuality”. When Mitchell meets and falls in love with rent boy Alex, his hidden sexuality is at risk of exposure, which Diane is convinced will destroy his potential career. Then it turns out that Alex has a girlfriend, and things get a little complicated.

Leading the cast in the role of Mitchell is Rupert Friend, and Tamsin Grieg plays the acerbic Diane. They are joined by Gemma Arterton and Harry Lloyd.

Friend is a regular face on screen and has been seen previously in The Libertine, The Boy in Striped Pyjama’s and The Young Victoria. The Little Dog Laughed will be his debut in the West End.

Grieg first came to our attention as in quirky comedies The Green Wing and Black Books. She has since become a prominent figure on the West End stage appearing the RSC’s Much Ado About Nothing, God of Carnage at the Gielgud Theatre and Gethsemane.

Arterton first appeared on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe, before moving on to the silver screen in St Trinian’s and Quantum Of Solace, and Lloyd recently appeared in A View From The Bridge in the West End.

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For the first time in 13 years the hit dance show Tap Dogs returns to the West End. The show opens this June at the Novello Theatre and theatre tickets will be on sale through to September.

West End heartthrob Adam Garcia is set to star in the show, which premiered in Sydney in 1995 at the Sydney Theatre Festival. It then transferred to the Edinburgh festival, before enjoying a run at Sadler’s Wells. Tap Dogs finally made its West End debut at the Lyric Theatre in London on Shaftesbury Avenue. Following a worldwide tour, the show is ready to be reunited with London’s theatreland.

Tap Dogs is set on a construction site, where the men and women have grown up in the surroundings of the steel making industry. Dressed in vests, faded jeans and work boots, the construction workers begin to tap out rhythms with their feet, which evolves into a mesmerising series of movement and dance sequences using the materials of the site. Ladders, ropes, iron rods and water are just some of the equipment converted into musical instruments in this inspired performance. The show also contains touching elements of wit and humour, keeping the audience visually and mentally stimulated form beginning to end.

Tap Dogs has been choreographed by Dein Perry, who conceived the original show, which has gone on to win an Olivier award. Direction and design is by Nick Triffitt.

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Theatre tickets are currently on sale for Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn at the Orange Tree Theatre this spring.

Taking Steps will be directed by Alan Ayckbourn himself, and the cast includes Michael Simkins, Emily Pithon, Adrian McLoughlin, Anna Francolini, Matthew Cottle and Stephen Beckett.

Taking Steps takes place over 24 hours, and is set in a crumbling house where the action takes place over three floors. As the play opens we see Elizabeth, who is preparing to secretly leave her husband Roland. Her brother Mark meanwhile is preoccupied with the emergence of Kitty, his former lover who jilted him at the alter, and has been arrested by the police for soliciting. Roland returns home drunk to greet Tristram and Bainbridge, two solicitors with whom he wishes to negotiate the purchase of the decrepit house. Confusion and misunderstanding ensue throughout the course of one very long night in this brilliantly composed farce, for a truly unique London theatre experience.

The performance takes place ‘in the round’ at this highly regarded off West End venue, giving the audience a unique intimacy with the actors and the performance. It is therefore likely that theatre tickets will sell quickly. Taking Steps in the first ever production directed particularly for The Orange Tree by Alan Ayckbourn. His play Private Fears in Public Places played at The Orange Tree previously before transferring to New York.

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Sadler’s Wells has announced the new season of Lost Musicals, which will showcase three ‘neglected’ musicals at the Lillian Baylis Theatre in London and the National Portrait Gallery.

Lost Musicals has been running for 20 years, and gives director Ian Marshall Fisher the opportunity to showcase three musicals thought to have been lost in time. From some of the finest writers and composers of American Broadway musicals, this season brings us Paris by Cole Porter, The Day Before Spring by Frederick Loewe, and The Darling Of The Day, based on The Great Adventure by Arnold Bennett and adapted to musical by Jule Styne.

Paris follows the hilarious journey of Cora Sabbott, who follows her son to Paris in order to put a stop to his love affair with a French actress. This early Porter musical features the song ‘Let’s Do It’, and will be showing at The Lillian Baylis theatre in London.

Also at The Lillian Baylis Theatre is The Day Before Spring, a little known musical Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady, Gigi). A happily married woman attending a college reunion runs into her former lover, who has written a book about their affair. This particular production will feature lost material from the show, only recently recovered in 2009.

Lastly in The Darling Of The Day at the National Portrait Gallery, an artist fakes his own death to attain anonymity, but his work mysteriously continues to appear as he carries on painting.

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