Month: June 2009

Kursk was the name of the Russian nuclear submarine in the naval disaster of 2000: over a hundred Russian seamen died in an onboard explosion and two dozen survived in an airtight part of the […]

Lindsay Posner's revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic Broadway musical Carousel::E8821228298066 has posted closing notices at the West End's Savoy Theatre. Following a regional tour, the production, starring Lesley Garrett, opened on 2 Dece… Full […]

The Royal Court has announced its autumn 2009 season, which includes new works from British playwrights Mike Bartlett, Tim Crouch, Lucy Prebble and Michael Wynne. The new season also features a week of events to […]

Shakespeare’s delightful rural comedy is punctuated by an array of coincidences and plot contrivances that modern audiences often find risible. It’s easy enough to explain them away by referring to the magical properties of the […]

We know, of course, that we did mention The Norman Conquests::E8821223369907 in yesterday's news coverage of the Tony Awards in New York (See News::E8831244445213, 8 Jun 2009), but perhaps in our Billy Elliot zeal, we […]

Daily Telegraph critic Dominic Cavendish made his playwriting – and producing – debut with his adaptation of George Orwell's 1939 novel Coming Up for Air, which received strong reviews when it had its world premiere […]