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 Edwardian 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: Noises Off at the Novello Theatre. Lindsay Posner directs a new production of Michael Frayn's irresistable, multi-award-winning backstage comedy, Noises Off. From a disastrous dress rehearsal where the cast fumble their entrances and exits, to bothersome props and a final performance of missed cues and forgotten lines, Noises Off explores the explosive personal relationships that lead to off-stage shenanigans and on-stage bedlam. Noises Off received its premiere in 1982 at the Lyric Hammersmith, where it featured a cast including Patricia Routledge, Paul Eddington and Nicky Henson. After receiving strong reviews, it transferred to the Savoy theatre, where it ran until 1987, winning both an Evening Standard Theatre Award and an Olivier Award

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English and Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Backstage tour of the flagship National Theatre on London's South Bank or the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Go behind-the scenes to see the auditoriums, front-of-house, scenic workshops and backstage technical areas.

Lunch: Excluded.

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

Dinner: Included.

Evening: Collaborators at the National Theatre.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian 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: Posh at The Duke of York's Theatre.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Breakfast: Full English and Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Field trip to Leighton House, one of London's best kept secrets. Located on the edge of Holland Park in Kensington, the house is one of the most remarkable buildings of the 19th century. The house was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896). Built to designs by George Aitchison, it was extended and embellished over a period of 30 years to create a private palace of art. The Arab Hall is the centerpiece of the house. Designed to display Leighton's priceless collection of over a thousand Islamic tiles, mostly brought back from Damascus in Syria, the interior evokes a compelling vision of the Orient. The house's pseudo-Islamic court has featured as a set in various film and television programs, such as Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Brazil, and an episode of the British television drama series Spooks, as well as the music videos. Leighton House, which has reopened to the public after a £1.6m restoration, is a testimony not simply to one man and his vision but to a particular moment in British cultural history. Visitors gazed at the spectacular Arab Hall, with its golden dome and indoor fountain. Meanwhile, closer acquaintances, including members of the royal family, might attend one of Leighton's famous musical soirées in the cavernous studio which doubled as an assembly room, complete with minstrels' gallery. Intimate friends might be invited to spend the evening in the dining room, a red jewel-box hung with glittering Middle-Eastern ceramics and set off by crimson floorboards. Fellow artists, meanwhile, could lounge in the Silk Room, a cosy second studio space where Leighton, always a generous collector of other people's work, stacked his recent purchases on chairs. Today performers from around the world stage events in against dramatic backdrops.

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Free afternoon

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: The Tempest at the Roundhouse Theatre.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Breakfast: Full English and Continental breakfast in the hotel.

Morning: Concert at Wigmore Hall - Natalie Clein, Cellist.

Lunch: Excluded.

Afternoon: Field trip to the nation's treasure house the V&A- to view the Theatre Galleries.

Dinner: Excluded.

Evening: Free evening.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Breakfast: Full English and Continental breakfast in the 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: One Man, Two Guv'nors at the Haymarket.

Lodging: Radisson Edwardian 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