Year: 2009

Judi Dench will return to the role of Titania in Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Rose Theatre, Kingston next year, nearly 50 years after she first played the role in […]

The first winners of this year’s prestigious Fringe First Awards, celebrating high-quality new drama at the Edinburgh Festival, have been announced by The Scotsman newspaper today (14 August 2009). Amongst the winners is Dennis Kelly’s […]

There’s a rawness and inventiveness to Tête à Tête’s now annual opera festival which makes it a must-see for anyone interested in the development of new opera. Pick any day from the twelve of the […]

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Briers, who was to return to the stage for a final time next month (See News::E8831249033375, 31 Jul 2009), has withdrawn from Complicite's upcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. He's been replaced by Mark […]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