Year: 2009

Poor old Sir John Gielgud, who died in 2000, would be horrified and deeply upset that a play about his prosecution for cottaging while tipsy in a London lavatory in 1953 – the year of […]

Three West End musicals – recent Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live and longer-runners Hairspray::E8821193825547 and Dirty Dancing – have all announced extensions to their booking periods. At the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Thr… Full […]

Three West End plays – recent arrivals Defending the Caveman and Alan Bennett's Enjoy::E8821219136056 and long-running thriller The Woman in Black::E0563919956 – have announced extensions to their booking periods. Christopher Luscombe's re… Full published article […]

A decade after he made his West End debut in Defending the Caveman, Australian comedian and television presenter Mark Little is currently reprising Defending the Caveman at the 400-seat Leicester Square Theatre (formerly The Venue) […]

A Little Night Music::E8821228384935 may be the next Menier Chocolate Factory Sondheim revival to cross the pond – and with some starry familial casting to boot. Mother and daughter British actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha […]

For those who've been counting, we've already had nine seasons of Big Brother and six series of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, with no apparent end in sight to the screen incarnations of the […]

Sadler’s Wells have confirmed that pop duo the Pet Shop Boys (pictured) are working on an electronic-influenced ballet, which will make its debut at the Islington venue in 2011. The new work will be choreographed […]

Amongst the major openings in London this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 23 February 2009 (previews from 12 February), Evening Standard theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh’s Plague Over England transfers to the Duchess Theatre, following […]