Month: July 2009

Bellini’s Norma and Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice may not appear to have a lot in common but both operas have inspired scores, each is crowned with an aria much more famous than the rest and, […]

This disarmingly modest South African musical by David Kramer – who had a big success here ten years ago with his Olivier Award-winning Kat and the Kings::E0331391179 – is a tale of Koos Sas, the […]

The Container is one of those plays which cannot be enjoyed or viewed as an evening's entertainment, something to do before heading off to other social engagements (this piece is only an hour long). To […]

Every week our theatregoer reporter Corinne Furness trawls the web to find some of the best gems from the myriad theatre-related blogs and condense them into one easy-to-read “Best of the Blogs” round-up each Friday. […]

Emmy Award winner Lucy Cohu will make her West End debut when she joins fellow screen stars John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox in the West End premiere of Andrew Bovell's 1996 emotional thriller […]

In an imaginative piece of programming, the Festival Theatre follows its production of Oklahoma!::E8831245924735 with The Grapes of Wrath. Thirty years after the action of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, we get to see what […]

In 1961, Keith and Viv Nicholson from Castleford, Yorkshire won £152,319 on the Pools, worth around £5 million today. He was a miner, she worked in a liquorice factory, and for better or worse, it […]