Month: April 2010

Three women, three generations. Elaine Murphy’s debut play Little Gem, first seen in Dublin in 2008 and at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, deposits a Dublin grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter on three chairs and […]

Three-time Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman talks to Edward Seckerson about her first solo album for 12 years – The Great British Songbook. She talks about digging deep to unearth a repertoire she thought she […]

With flights in and out of London still grounded due to last week’s eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano, ticket agents have reported a significant number of requests for refunds and exchanges. In the West End, […]

Almost a year after the expenses scandal first broke, public ire still seems fresh – witness the take-off of Nick Clegg’s election aspirations as soon as the subject was raised in Thursday night’s debate. A […]

Following its Theatre Live! season last year, Sky Arts will broadcast another series of new plays this summer by writers including Eve Ensler, Frank McGuinness and Mark Ravenhill. Broadcasting every Wednesday from 9 June to […]

Latin and ballroom dance show Burn the Floor will run at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 21 July to 4 September 2010, filling the space between last month’s closure of Hairspray and the opening of Flashdance […]

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, 19 April 2010 (previews from 16 April), Little Gem, the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning debut play by […]

The title is best known as the movie in which Basil Rathbone stars as a sinister lothario with a penchant for wealthy single women, but the delightful dinner theatre in Berkshire reverts to the Agatha […]