Month: March 2010

Stephen Sondheim’s second Broadway show as both composer and lyricist (following A Funny Thing) infamously lasted just nine performances in 1964, but the original cast album featuring Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick is a classic, […]

Winners for this year’s 34th annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tonys and the UK’s most prestigious stage awards, are being announced this evening at a star-studded ceremony held at the Grosvenor House, […]

The Laurence Olivier Awards is one of biggest and most star-studded dates in the theatrical calendar, and the 34th annual Oliviers, which take place tonight (Sunday 21 March 2010) at the Grosvenor House Hotel on […]

Thank goodness for Sir Charles Mackerras. Opportunities to hear the 84 year old conduct are treasurable, doubly so when it’s his beloved Janacek. He drew a translucent, at times glowing, performance of one of the […]

Jerry Springer aside, Nicholas Hytner's reign at the National Theatre isn't known for its musical output. But we hear that the NT will be getting back into the musical theatre game later this year, by […]

This year's staging of Romeo and Juliet, care of ever-ascendant director Rupert Goold, is full of violent delights and is the product of great intellectual vigour and heterogenic layering, as evidenced by the pluralism of […]

Winners of the 34th annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tonys and the UK’s most prestigious stage awards, are announced this Sunday evening, 21 March 2010 (See News::E8831265630290, 8 Feb 2010). Full coverage […]