Lindsay Lohan to make West End debut in Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre

Lindsay Lohan will make her West End debut later this year in a production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre.

Directed by Lindsay Posner, the production will open on 2 October 2014 (previews from 24 September). It runs to 29 November.

The play focuses on an ambitious Hollywood producer and his decision, brought about by his seduction by a sexy temp (Lohan), to film a novel about a nuclear catastrophe and the end of the world rather than the star-laden, sure-fire hit brought to him by his grovelling sidekick.

The original Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow starred Madonna while the British premiere was mounted by the National in 1989. It was recently revived at the Old Vic starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum.

Tamsin Greig to make musical debut in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbeck's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a musical adaptation of the Spanish movie of the same name by Pedro Almodovar, which closed early on Broadway in 2011, is set to open in London. According to The Daily Mail, the tuner, starring Olivier winner Tamsin Greig, will begin previews on on December 20, with opening night set for January 12, 2015 at the Playhouse Theatre. Bartlett Sher, who directed the Great White Way incarnation, will helm the reworked, scaled down, U.K. production.

Greig won the Olivier for Much Ado About Nothing and received an Olivier nod for The Little Dog Laughed. Her screen credits include Green Wing, Black Books, Episodes and Emma.

Tamsin Greig said: "I am excited, thrilled and terrified to have been invited to collaborate with artists of the calibre of Pedro Almodóvar, Bart Sher, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane to perform in a musical. If it's true that you are only as good as the company you keep, then I am in very safe hands. And I feel very fortunate to have been encouraged – well, bullied – by my agent to have singing lessons, to learn new skills and to experience other creative mediums. I have also run out of excuses why I can't do it!"

1984 will extend its run at the West End’s Playhouse Theatre by five weeks

Due to unprecedented demand, a 5 week extension is announced today for the Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida Theatre production of 1984, a critically acclaimed adaptation by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan.


The production will now run at the West End’s Playhouse Theatre until 23 August 2014 (previously 19th July 2013), prior to a second UK tour in the autumn, as previously announced.  Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 opened in the West End on 28 April, transferring directly from the Almeida Theatre.