Year: 2009

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This year Kes celebrates 40 years of being on page, screen and stage and this new co-production by Liverpool Playhouse and The Touring Consortium continues to beat the heart of the story. Barry Hines’ A […]

“Youth’s a stuff will not endure”, sings Feste in Twelfth Night, and Cougar in Philip Ridley’s second major play – revived as part of Hampstead’s 50th anniversary season – insists on no more than 19 […]

Following hot on the heels of the NT Live scheme, which launched back in June (See News::E8821231944266, 14 Jan 2009), Shakespeare’s Globe has announced that it too will screen productions to a global cinema audience […]

Actors including Mark Rylance, Harriet Walter, David Tennant, Richard Wilson and Matthew Kelly turned out at the Royal Court last night (22 September, previews from 17 September) to catch the opening night of Rupert Goold’s […]

The forthcoming Broadway transfer of Trevor Nunn’s acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music will feature a new-look cast, led by Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones and the five-time Tony Award […]

Arlene Phillips is directing and choreographing a new “dance musical spectacular”, entitled Sacred Flame, which will receive its world premiere at the O2 Arena on 28 December and star Marti Pellow. Phillips launched the production […]

The exciting thing about Lucy Prebble’s Enron is its revelation that there is no business like big business, and a second viewing confirms the gutsiness and vitality of her second major play, the best look […]

There is one terrifying incident at the centre of this powerful but only partially engrossing new Polish play that tracks the lives of ten school friends in the small town of Jedwabne in the north […]