Month: April 2009

It's five years since Nigel Cole's warm-hearted movie about ladies “of a certain age” stripping for charity hit the large screen, and now playwright Tim Firth has adapted his own script (co-written with Juliette Towhidi) […]

Following the recent spate of screen-to-stage musicals, it looks like hit alt-rock show Spring Awakening could be set to reverse the trend. Empire film magazine is reporting that director Joseph "McG" McGinty Nichol spent his […]

Since opening in Stratford-upon-Avon last December, Kneehigh Theatre’s raunchy update of the Don Juan story – created in association with the RSC and supported by the quiescent Bristol Old Vic – has toured the country […]

Edward Bennett became the country's most famous understudy when, at just a few hours' notice last December, he took over from an injured David Tennant in Hamlet in the West End, winning critical acclaim and […]

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – during this shortened Bank Holiday week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Tuesday 14 April 2009, Matthew Kelly returns to the West End in […]

All is revealed this month when, following a sell-out UK tour, Calendar Girls transfers to the West End. As the WI ladies dare to bare themselves in Theatreland, writer Tim Firth tells Roger Foss why […]