Month: May 2010

Holding the Man, adapted by Tommy Murphy from the best-selling memoir by Australian Timothy Conigrave, received its UK premiere at Trafalgar Studios on Tuesday (4 May 2010, previews from 23 April), starring Kath and Kim’s […]

David Essex musical All the Fun of the Fair opened at the Garrick Theatre last week, with a cast led by the legendary pop crooner himself.Set against the backdrop of a travelling funfair and named […]

The day after the Broadway production Enron closes prematurely, the West End production of Lucy Prebble’s corporate fraud drama will welcome a new cast. From this Monday 10 May 2010 at the Noel Coward Theatre, […]

Yukio Ninagawa, best known for his epic Shakespearean stagings which have become a staple of previous Barbican bite seasons, this year offers a new take on a popular Japanese legend. The titular samurai Musashi fought […]

On Tuesday (4 May 2010, previews from 23 April) the same day that its Broadway transfers of La Cage Aux Folles and A Little Night Music received a total of 15 Tony nominations, the Menier […]

There's a great opening to Sarah Ruhl's re-imagining of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: the two lovers, played by Osi Okerafor and Ony Uhiara, bound on to the stage in swimwear. Orpheus gives his […]

After receiving news that its productions of La Cage Aux Folles and A Little Night Music have received a total of 15 Tony nominations (See News::E8831272976437, 4 May 2010), the Menier Chocolate Factory had further […]

Like father, like son. Nick Lloyd Webber, the 30-year-old son of Andrew Lloyd Webber by his first wife Sarah Hugill, is venturing increasingly into his father's realm. Already a songwriter, film and TV composer and […]

We're praying for good weather over the next three days for the sake of Laurie Sansom. Sansom, with two colleagues from the Royal and Derngate, Northampton (where he's artistic director), set out this morning (5 […]