Month: August 2009

American alcoholic puppet Randy makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with his new show, Randy’s Postcards from Purgatory. As an only child born into a modern-day vaudeville family in Wichita, Kansas, Randy spent his childhood traversing […]

Catwalk Confidential, Robyn Peterson’s one-woman show about her time as a supermodel, will transfer directly to the West End’s Arts Theatre for a limited four weeks from 9 September to 3 October 2009 (previews from […]

Mirza Tahir Hussain is a British subject from Leeds who spent 18 years on death row in a Rawalpindi prison for allegedly murdering a taxi driver in Pakistan. He tells the Scottish journalist Don Mackay […]

Richard Briers, who was to return to the stage for a final time next month (See News::E8831249033375, 31 Jul 2009), has withdrawn from Complicite's upcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. He's been replaced by Mark […]

Theatregoers at our Whatsonstage.com Outing to last night’s performance of Shall We Dance were given extra insights into the development of the Richard Rodgers’ dance tribute by its creator, director, choreographer and star, Adam Cooper, […]

Pantomime will return to the heart of the West End this Christmas, with the newly-refurbished Arts Theatre announcing it will stage Susie McKenna and Steve Edis’ adaptation of A Christmas Carol, with a cast led […]

David Troughton will join Kevin Spacey in Trevor Nunn’s Old Vic production of Inherit the Wind, which opens on 1 October (previews from 18 September), running until 20 December. Troughton plays Matthew Harrison Brady, the […]

New Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans has announced the appointment of Paul Miller, Lyndsey Turner and Richard Wilson as associate directors ahead of his first season, which commences in February 2010 (See News::E8831239121613, 8 […]

New Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans has announced the appointment of Paul Miller, Lyndsey Turner and Richard Wilson as associate directors ahead of his first season, which commences in February 2010 (See News::E8831239121613, 8 […]

A new ‘pulp fiction detective musical’ by Richard O’Brien and Richard Hartley, the team behind The Rocky Horror Show, will begin a short tour in the Autumn. The Stripper, billed as a ‘burlesque and bullets […]