Month: February 2009

Theatregoers at our sold-out Whatsonstage.com Outing last night (26 February 2009) to Alan Ayckbourn’s own production of his bittersweet 1985 comedy Woman in Mind, starring Janie Dee at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre, were treated […]

Dates and further casting have now been announced for productions opening in the National Theatre's next booking period, from May to July 2009, including NT artistic director Nicholas Hytner's highly anticipated staging of Greek tragedy […]

There is an inordinate amount of huffing and puffing in Isfahan Calling, Philip de Gouveia's new play about a covert radio propaganda exercise in the desert. The idea is to discredit the regime in Tehran […]

London already plays host to an annual ‘gorilla run’ in aid of conservation, and a host of ‘santa runs’ every Christmas, but now there’s a new kid on the wacky charity run block. The producers […]

If opera is to pull in new and young audiences, it’s works like Doctor Atomic that are likely to do it. The mix of contemporary resonance, political and moral musing and exciting new music, that […]

Steven Berkoff has directed the stage adaptation of the 1954 Oscar-winning film On the Waterfront, which is now transferred to the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket, where Berkoff has also joined the cast as psychopathic […]