Month: March 2010

Here’s a production full of “night’s black agents”, literally throwing dark shadows across the stage. Declan Donnellan’s fast-paced interpretation allied to Nick Ormerod’s stark, monochrome set emphasises the darkness within the play, with little con… […]

Avenue Q last night (24 March 2010) celebrated its move into Wyndham’s Theatre, its third West End home, with a post-show housewarming party, where celebrities including Chris Evans, Jenni Falconer, Dawn Porter, Chris O’Dowd, Kirsten […]

The National Theatre’s revival of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard, in a new translation by Andrew Upton, completes a triumphant hat-trick of Russian plays (following Philistines and Burnt by the Sun) for director Howard Davies. […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company has confirmed dates for its musical version of Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel Matilda. The musical will be one of the final productions at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Courtyard Theatre (prior to next year… […]

After the success of Take That musical Never Forget last year, could band member Gary Barlow be set to write his own musical? Barlow was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1990s, and […]

Booker-winner Ian McEwan is apparently developing an opera adaptation of Atonement, his 2001 novel that was adapted for the big screen with Keira Knightley and James MacAvoy. McEwan said in a public discussion held on […]

The Great Game: Afghanistan, the Tricycle Theatre’s acclaimed cycle of work dedicated to Afghan history and culture, is returning to the Kilburn venue this summer, running from 31 July until 29 August 2010 (previews from […]

The British theatre has done well by the brilliant plays of Mikhail Bulgakov, but it is thirty years since the RSC staged The White Guard; Howard Davies’ superb National Theatre revival, in a fleet, funny […]