West End
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Hamilton: first cast members revealed for West End productionInitial names announced ahead of London opening of the record-breaking Broadway musical – but no word on the lead role
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsEscaped Alone returns, Gary Barlow opens his musical The Girls, Vault and Manipulate add to the festival fare and The White Devil walks again
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Hamilton West End tickets appear on resale sites despite anti-tout measuresLess than two hours after tickets for musical’s London run went on early sale, Viagogo lists several at £999-£2,500 each
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Theatregoers face paying £200 to see Broadway hit Hamilton in LondonCost of premium seats for hip-hop musical reignites debate on West End ticket prices
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Tristram Kenton's stage photos of the year – in picturesTristram Kenton captures theatre, dance and comedy performances for the Guardian. Here are some of his best stage shots of 2016, from David Threlfall’s Don Quixote to Gemma Arterton’s Nell Gwynn
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London theatres at risk of demolition – archive, 197121 December 1971: A redevelopment of Covent Garden threatens the existence of several famous West End theatres
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Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – oh, what a lovely warChristopher Luscombe’s double dose of comedies begins elegantly, but when Lisa Dillon and Edward Bennett let fly in Much Ado, it becomes a festive romp
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Dreamgirls review – fantastic ride on the showbiz rollercoasterGlee’s Amber Riley gives a gutsy performance in the UK premiere of the Broadway musical that bursts with snappy numbers and tight dance routines
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The Play That Goes Wrong to transfer to BroadwayJJ Abrams will co-produce US version of Mischief Theatre company’s comedy, which began in front of four people above a pub
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsThe RSC’s Cymbeline moves to the Barbican in London, there are world premieres by David Greig and Ron Hutchinson at the Arcola, and Red Cape celebrate everyday heroism in Newbury
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Damian Lewis returns to West End for revival of Edward Albee playHomeland and Wolf Hall star will appear in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at Theatre Royal Haymarket in spring 2017
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Nagasaki the musical? The label bringing West End disasters back to lifeWhether finding those responsible for putting Jack the Ripper onstage or unearthing early work by Jeff Wayne and Tim Rice, Stage Door’s reissues are worth making a song and dance about
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Wicked in the West End: 10 years of defying gravity – in picturesWicked is celebrating its 10th birthday at the Apollo Victoria theatre in London. Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the music and lyrics, reflects on his show about the ‘ultimate outsider’
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsHarriet Walter stars as Prospero at the Donmar’s new site, Mark Gatiss joins The Boys in the Band at the Park, London, and, in Edinburgh, a 2,500-year-old story of women seeking asylum
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Don't underestimate the understudiesUnderstudies power West End shows and many use social media to say when they’re taking over a lead role. But those in Cameron Mackintosh Ltd’s productions must wait for permission first
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Plan your week’s theatre: top ticketsMaxine Peake arrives as Blanche DuBois in Manchester, Maria Aberg’s Doctor Faustus is at the Barbican and the Tron tells of the life of Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer
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A rough magic: what Harry Potter and fringe audiences have in commonThe Edinburgh festival provides many with their first theatre experience and the same goes for the West End’s Potter spectacular. There are no rules for enjoying a show – all you need is your imagination
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child review – duel of dark and light carried off with dazzling assuranceIt’s convoluted, but the latest expansion of the Potter universe is thrillingly staged, with time travel and age-old quests given a dash of post-Freudian guilt
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child wins eight prizes at WhatsOnStage awards