In Transit: Overnight flight to London.

Arrive To: London. Individual car transfers to the hotel.

Lunch: A light lunch is served in the hotel.

Afternoon: Welcome meeting with the course director at 5:00pm in the hotel.

Dinner: In the hotel.

Evening: At leisure.

Lodging: Radisson Blu Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English and Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Lecture: "Shakespeare's World" followed by a production briefing on tonight's performance.

Lunch: In the hotel.

Afternoon: Free afternoon.

Dinner: In the hotel.

Evening: Following a sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the stunning musical revival of Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth embarks on an exclusive 12 week season at the Harold Pinter theatre from 23 April. 7:45pm This 'dazzling' (D Telegraph) five star hit has been thrilling audiences with its 'electrically alive' (Independent) performances. Winner of the 2012 Critics’ Circle Best Musical award, this show is a must-see production Triple Olivier award-winner Maria Friedman makes an extraordinary directorial debut, with outstanding performances from a flawless cast, including Mark Umbers - ‘Impeccably played’ (Guardian), Damian Humbley - ‘Terrific’ (Independent) and Olivier award-winner Jenna Russell - ‘Superb’ (Financial Times). Set over three decades in the entertainment business Merrily We Roll Along charts the turbulent relationship between three friends Franklin, Charley and Mary. Starting in 1980 and travelling backwards in time, this powerful and moving story features some of Sondheim’s most beautiful songs including Good Thing Going, Not a Day Goes By and Old Friends.

Lodging: Radisson Blu Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English and Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Backstage tour of a flagship West End theatre. Go behind the scenes to see the auditoriums, front-of-house, scenic workshops and backstage technical areas.

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Lecture: History of London's Theatre 1660-20th Century".

Dinner: Included.

Evening: Relatively Speaking at the Wyndams Theatre 7:30pm By Alan Ayckbourn Felicity Kendal, Kara Tointon, Max Bennett and Jonathan Coy star in Alan Ayckbourn's classic comedy, Relatively Speaking at the Wyndham’s Theatre directed by Lindsay Posner. In Relatively Speaking Greg only met Ginny a month ago but has already made up his mind that she's the girl for him. When she tells him that she's going to visit her parents, he decides this is the moment to ask her father for his daughter's hand. Discovering a scribbled address, he follows her to Buckinghamshire where he finds Philip and Sheila enjoying a peaceful Sunday morning breakfast in the garden, but the only thing is – they're not Ginny's parents. Relatively Speaking was Alan Ayckbourn's first great West End success and turned him into a household name. When the show opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967, the critics hailed the arrival of a great new comic talent. 2 hours including an interval

Lodging: Radisson Blu Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English and Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Lecture: "20th Century Theatre".

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Free afternoon.

Dinner: In the hotel.

Evening: The Cripple of Inishmaan a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh in the Noel Coward Theatre: Set on the remote island of Inishmaan off the west coast of Ireland, word arrives that a Hollywood film (Man of Aran) is being made on the neighboring island of Inishmore. The one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life. Martin McDonagh’s comic masterpiece examines an ordinary coming of age in extraordinary circumstances and confirms his position as one of the most original Irish voices to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. Daniel Radcliffe plays the title role in the first major London revival of The Cripple of Inishmaan since its premiere at the National Theatre in 1996. Director Michael Grandage. Set and Costume Designer Christopher Oram. Lighting Designer Paule Constable.

Lodging: Radisson Blu Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Take a unique hands-on theatre workshop- The Rehearsal Room-Practical workshop. Workshop objectives: To provide an engaging, practical and fun introduction to the process of rehearsing theatre. To demonstrate that the rehearsal room is a space for exploration and a safe place to try out alternatives away from an audience. To highlight the range of choices actors and directors have available to them when approaching text. A brief physical and vocal warm up, with an explanation of why this is important for an actor – the body as an actor’s instrument. Using very simple pieces of text, participants will be introduced to the following concepts, and shown how they can be used to influence the audience’s experience and create radically different theatrical scenarios. This will be through a mixture of demonstration by the workshop leaders and practical experience by volunteers from the group. Then in groups move on to directing a scene facilitated by the actors leading the workshop

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Free afternoon

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: The Tempest at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre By William Shakespeare 6:30pm The Tempest with Roger Allam returning to play Prospero, Colin Morgan as Ariel in his Globe debut and Jessie Buckley as Miranda. Directed by Jeremy Herrin 'WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON.' Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach. Inspired by reports of the first English colonies in the West Indies and imbued with a spirit of magic and the supernatural, The Tempest is Shakespeare’s late great masterpiece of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment. Jeremy Herrin’s previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes 2011’s much loved Much Ado About Nothing. Roger Allam won the Olivier Award for best actor for his role as Falstaff in Henry IV parts 1 & 2 at the Globe in 2010. Other recent credits include The Thick of It (BBC) and Tamara Drewe (Film). Colin Morgan is best known for playing Merlin in the long running BBC series Merlin. This production will employ Renaissance costumes and staging

Lodging: Radisson Blu Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Concert at Wigmore Hall 11:00am. Philip Higham cello Robert Thompson piano Programme Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 1 in Bb Op. 45 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 About this concert Among works worthy of wider recognition, few can compete with Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata No. 1 in Bb Op. 45. The three-movement composition, completed in October 1838, appears to have been influenced by earlier models. Philip Higham, winner of the 2008 Bach Leipzig and 2009 Lutoslawski Competitions, performs the piece in company with Beethoven’s G minor Cello Sonata of 1796

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Field trip to the nation's treasure house the V&A- to view the Theatre Galleries. On a field trip, experience the world-famous Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), new home to the theatre collection. Theatre and performance galleries are dedicated to the performing arts, displaying works of art, costumes, ephemera, video recordings, puppets, posters and photographs. The V&A's Theatre Collections hold the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and other forms of live entertainment. The collections were founded in the 1920s when a private collector, Gabrielle Enthoven, donated her extensive collection of theatrical designs, memorabilia, books and photographs to the Museum. She continued to add to her collection, and worked on it as a museum volunteer until her death in 1950. Since that period, the collection has continued to grow, and has provided a home for many other significant objects and archives. Between 1987 and 2007, some of this material was housed at the V&A's branch museum in Covent Garden, the Theatre Museum. New galleries devoted to the performing arts opened at the V&A in South Kensington in 2009.

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: Free evening.

Lodging: Radisson Blu Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in th hotel.

Morning: Field trip to London's vibrant Bankside and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Exhibition. Founded by the pioneering American actor/director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work, and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of education and performance. Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition explores the life of Shakespeare, the London where he lived, and the theatre for which he wrote. Find out about extravagant Elizabethan costumes, Renaissance instruments and how they were used, and the dramatic stories of the first Globe crossing the Thames, and the new Globe being reconstructed on Bankside. See the costume collection which explains the process of designing, making and fitting costumes for Shakespeare’s stage, and for the productions at the new Globe. In Special Effects Touch screens bring to life the last word in Elizabethan special effects. See and hear the kinds of instruments that Feste first sang to, or those that played the dead Hamlet off the stage. See a full-size recreation of a 17th-century printing press. The field trip continues on to the Tate Modern--the gallery of international modern art situated on Bankside. Tate Modern displays the Tate collection of international modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the modern day. Tate Modern is more than just an art gallery. The amazing space of the Turbine Hall - has housed a succession of installations which have caught the imagination of the public.

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Critical round-up. Meet with a leading theatre critic such as Benedict Nightingale of the Times or Kate Basett of the Independent on Sunday and discuss the shows you've seen. Farewell meeting.

Dinner: In the hotel with the course director.

Evening: Passion Play by Peter Nichols at the Duke of York's Theatre. Directed by David Leveaux. 7:30pm. Spring 2013 sees multi Olivier Award-winner Zoë Wanamaker return to the West End in Passion Play, Peter Nichols’ celebrated black comedy about love and infidelity. Comfortably married for 25 years, James and Eleanor’s world is upended when James agrees to a secret rendezvous with their recently widowed friend Kate. As the lies mount up, the affair strips the marriage bare and reveals the illicit desires and hidden passions that lie beneath the everyday facade. A glorious meeting of humour, eroticism and duplicity, this modern classic and winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play makes a much-anticipated return to the West End, reuniting Director David Leveaux (Arcadia, The Late Middle Classes, Betrayal) with Zoë Wanamaker (Harry Potter, BBC1’s My Family and most recently in the West End in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons) for the first time since their Olivier Award-winning collaboration on Electra (Donmar Warehouse/Broadway).

Lodging: Radisson Blu Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast: Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Car transfers to the airports for return flights to North America.

Meals Included: Breakfast