Month: April 2010

First seen in 2004, Joe Penhall’s three-hander now seems both prescient yet also out-dated, its central protagonist Barry – a primetime TV comic masking marital problems and a drug habit – rather quaint in the […]

Actor Christopher Cazenove, a star of stage and screen best known for his role as Ben Carrington in the 1980s soap Dynasty, has died aged 64.In a statement released through his agent Lesley Duff, his […]

Two early plays by Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, first seen last October at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton, are more than a welcome addition to the National's repertoire: fascinating in themselves, they amount to […]

The Broadway transfer of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, originally scheduled for November this year, has been postponed until spring 2011.A statement from the show’s US producers to the New York Times cites complications […]

Esther Baker is the director of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, which opens this week at Trafalgar Studios 2 (7 April 2010, previews from 6 April).Presented by Synergy Theatre Project and performed by a company […]

Esther Baker is the director of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, which opens this week at Trafalgar Studios 2 (7 April 2010, previews from 6 April).Presented by Synergy Theatre Project and performed by a company […]

One of the most closely-watched constituencies in the forthcoming general election is Barking, where BNP leader Nick Griffin is standing against Labour incumbent Margaret Hodge. With that in mind, Barking’s Broadway theatre has announced a […]

The cast of Mark Haddon’s playwriting debut Polar Bears celebrated their opening night at the Donmar Warehouse last night (6 April 2010, previews from 1 April). Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the play depicts the struggles of […]

Polar Bears, the playwriting debut of bestselling author Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time), opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night (6 April, previews from 1 April) where it continues […]