Month: April 2010

The dance card is filling up nicely for the musical adaptation of Alan Bennett’s 1984 film A Private Function. In addition to the musical duo of Stiles & Drewe (aka the British musical writing partnership, […]

As the former artistic director of both the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Trevor Nunn has had plenty of experience running buildings. So he may enjoy having a short burst of it again […]

Scabrously funny, disgustingly smug, and deeply disturbing, Laura Wade’s brilliant new play Posh shows a group of public school rich boys behaving badly in an Oxfordshire private dining club and lamenting their loss of a […]

As previously tipped, Simon Russell Beale will star in a new West End revival of Ira Levin's comic thriller Deathtrap. According to today's Daily Mail, he'll be joined in the revamped version, directed by Matthew […]

In September the Tricycle Theatre will stage the British premiere of the Guthrie Theater/Berkeley Repertory Theater production of Tiny Kushner, a collection of five one-act plays written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner. Running […]

With the election just weeks away, we’re focusing on issue-fuelled writing this month, and there’s fierce competition among our contenders. Tackling the issue of gun culture, we have the young Nigerian playwright Bola Agbaje, with […]

Following its current run at west London’s Lyric Hammersmith, where it finishes its extended season this Saturday, Ghost Stories will transfer to the West End. The stage thriller, co-written and co-directed by The League of […]

Darius Campbell (formerly Danesh), last seen on stage in Trevor Nunn’s ill-fated musical mounting of Gone with the Wind, will turn his hand to opera when he sings the lead in Bizet’s Carmen at the […]