Year: 2009

It may have only taken home one Tony Award, for Tim Hatley's costumes (See News::E8831244445213, 8 Jun 2009), but a shortage of trophies isn't deterring Shrek's producers from pushed forward with plans for the Broadway […]

Exactly a month after I had been so drained by a monochrome Lulu, I was back at the Royal Opera for another first night conducted by music director Antonio Pappano. Ah, what a difference not […]

Given the lack of notice that the major London companies have given to the 50th anniversary of Bohuslav Martinu's death, Garsington Opera is to be applauded for mounting the UK premiere of his late comedy […]

Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin, in ENO’s production by “new wave” circus director Daniele Finzi Pasca, is a feast of silk-waving and aerial acrobatics. Whether it has any more substance than the parachute of material… […]

Fresh from his screen success in The Wire and in Endgame, in which he played Nelson Mandela, actor Clarke Peters will return to his theatrical roots – though he won’t be treading the boards himself. […]

The New Connections festival of new plays about young people performed by pupils at schools and colleges around Britain is nothing but good news, in theory at least, and all hail Bank of America for […]

Actress Susan Wooldridge plays the “handbagging” role of Lady Bracknell in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s classic 1895 comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, which starts previews tomorrow at the Open Air Theatre in […]

One of the more off-beat venues audiences can take in a performance this month is the Barbican Centre car park, where next week (9 July) a new installation opens showcasing the work of theatre-maker Graeme […]

After a brief holiday, Avenue Q has relocated from the Noël Coward to the slightly larger Gielgud. Nothing has been lost in transition, though the Sesame Street-with-sex puppet musical is inevitably beginning to show signs […]