Month: July 2009

Elusive, evanescent, pointilliste: David Storey’s Home is a difficult play to make work, and Stephen Unwin’s revival in the Peter Hall season at Bath goes a long way to making you feel there is maybe […]

George Bernard Shaw’s 1928 play “set in the future” may not have fared all that well in recent revivals involving Peter O’Toole and Penelope Keith (in separate versions) but Peter Hall’s hugely enjoyable product… Full […]

Model Jamelia and actress Lisa Faulkner were among those who brought their children along for a special performance of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt at the Duchess Theatre today (15 July 2009) to mark […]

In line with our continuing expansion of UK performing arts coverage, Whatsonstage.com is pleased to announce our new dedicated dance section – www.whatsonstage.com/dance. Edited by leading dance journalist Sarah Frater, the new section … Full published […]

Really good one-act plays are a rarity these days – lots of new plays are just too short – so it’s a treat, up to a point, to see Peter Hall’s seventh summer season in […]

Arts Council England today announced the final details of its organisation-wide restructure aimed at meeting the government’s requirement that it saves 15 percent on its grant in aid administration costs by 2010. The new measures, […]

Three-time Olivier Award winner Clare Higgins will make her Almeida Theatre debut this autumn to take the title role in the first major London revival of Nicholas Wright's Mrs Klein (See News::E8831242731897, 19 May 2009), […]

David Kramer started his career as a singer/songwriter in his native South Africa, performing satirical songs at folk clubs and campus concerts in the early 1980s. He sang in English and Afrikaans and, when he […]