The hit Broadway musical Hair has announced closing notices at the West Ends Gielgud Theatre, despite opening to rave reviews in April this year. Hair will now be closing three months earlier than originally billed, with theatre tickets booking until 4th September.

The Tony Award winning show has graced the London theatre with the full American cast, which includes Gavin Creele in the lead role of Claude, previously been seen playing Bert in the West End hit Mary Poppins. Other cast members include Will Swenson as Berger and Cassie Levy as Sheila.

According to a spokesperson on behalf of the American producers, they do not wish to re-cast the show following the Broadway company run, giving us “14 weeks to see this extraordinary company and a bit of West End history”.

Hair is set in New York during the late 1960s, in a time of freedom, love and drugs. However when Claude is drafted for the Vietnam war, all is disrupted, and he and his hippy tribe take us on a musical fight for free love and world peace.

The score includes numbers such as “Let the Sun Shine In”, “Aquarius’ and “Good Morning Starshine”. The music is written by Galt Mac Dermot with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni.

The musical was last seen in the West End at The Shaftesbury Theatre in 1968, and was the first to open after Lord Chamberlains censorship was abolished in Britain.

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The 1993 best-selling novel Birdsong by writer Sebastian Faulkes has been adapted for the stage, and will run at the Comedy Theatre in the West End from September this year. Theatre tickets for Birdsong are available to buy now.

Trevor Nunn is set to direct this war time epic with Becky Barber, the recent recipient of Stage One Start Up Funds £25,000 award for new producers, co-producing the show as part of her West End debut. Rachel Wagstaff has adapted the play from the original novel. Her BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Girl at the Lion D’or is part of the Birdsong trilogy, which also includes Charlotte Gray.

Birdsong centres on the life of Stephen Wraysford, beginning during his time in pre-war France staying in the house of a successful factory owner. Here he falls passionately in love with the factory owner’s wife Isabelle, and they embark on an illicit affair that will change their lives forever.

When Wraysford returns to France years later, he is a soldier in the First World War. His memories of the love he found here are the only thing to keep him going through the treachery of war fare, and the infamously gruesome Battle of the Somme.

Director Trevor Nunn is a legendary name in the West End, as the former artistic director of the RSC and the National Theatre in London. Recent productions include A Little Night Music and Inherit The Wind.

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The Globe is revered for its dedication to the work of William Shakespeare, and this season Dominic Dromgoole will direct Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2. Theatre tickets are on sale now.

Starring in the show is Roger Allam, seen most recently at the Menier Chocolate Factory theatre in London, playing Albin/Zaza in La Cage Aux Folles, and Oliver Cotton. Allam will play notorious fat knight and coward Falstaff, whilst Cotton plays Henry IV.

Henry IV Part 1 begins with Henry Bolingbrooke’s reign after deposing Richard III, an action that has left him with both personal and political unrest. Furthermore he has now made enemies of the Earls Worcester and Northumberland, and Edmund Mortimer, whom Richard had proclaimed heir to the throne. Meanwhile Henry’s son and heir Prince Hal has relinquished his royal duties to drink in taverns with the likes of low life Falstaff, causing the country and the King to question his worthiness to the throne.

In Henry IV Part 2 Prince Hal separates from Falstaff, who joins the army during a second rebellion. Hal continues his acquaintance with the low life crowd. King Henry’s disappointment in his son causes him great concern, and Henry falls sick.

Roger Allam’s previous work includes God of Carnage (UK tour), Afterlife at the National Theatre in London and Boeing Boeing.

Cotton recently performed at the Manchester Library Theatre in Gates of Gold. Other credits include The Royal Hunt for The Sun (National Theatre) and Piano Forte (Royal Court).

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Theatre tickets are now on sale for Headlong Theatre’s Salome at the Hampstead Theatre in London this summer. The play by Oscar Wilde will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, and stars Zawe Ashton, Jaye Griffiths and Con O’Neill.

Headlong Theatre’s Salome will premier at The Curve Theatre in Leicester, which is co-producing the show. Rupert Goold is artistic director, and promises a vivid and contemporary take on Oscar Wilde’s tragedy.

Salome is the central character. Her proposition to prisoner John the Baptist is repudiated, for which she is mercilessly angry. When King Herod commands that she perform for him the dance of the seven veils, she demands something in return – the head of John the Baptist.

Previous credits from Zawe Ashton include Glynn Maxwell’s The Frontline at The Globe Theatre in London, and the Lawrence Olivier award winning play Gone Too Far at The Royal Court.

Con O’Neill plays King Herod, and has previously appeared at The Royal Court in Faces In The Crowd, the Vaudeville in Female of The Species, the Comedy Theatre in Prick Up Your Ears and the Tricycle Theatre in The Caretaker.

Griffiths (Herodias) is best known for his screen credits which include Silent Witness, Criminal Justice and The Bill. He has also appeared on stage at the Tricycle Theatre in Seize The Day and Category B.

Headlong Theatre’s previous productions include The Last Days of Judas, Faustus, Six Characters In Search in Of an Author and recent West End transfer Enron.

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