Month: May 2010

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been asked to make £88 million of savings as part of the planned £6.2 billion public spending cuts for 2010/11, announced today by new Chancellor George […]

Corey Johnson recently took over from Samuel West as Jeffrey Skilling in Rupert Goold’s award-winning production of Lucy Prebble’s Enron at the Noel Coward Theatre. Born in the United States but now based over here, […]

Charlotte Eilenberg’s 2002 debut, The Lucky Ones, won her the Olivier and Critics’ Circle Awards for Most Promising Playwright. Sadly, this therapy-centred follow-up fails to fulfil that promise, despite offering occasional glimpses of it. The […]

Pandora is the latest offering from Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, a theatre company that aims to bring the creative energy of diverse communities to stories from classical civilisation. The short plays which make […]

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 24 May 2010 (previews from 19 May),  Jonathan Harvey’s new play Canary, set in Liverpool […]

Sebastian Faulks' 1993 novel Birdsong, set during the First World War, will cross over to the stage this autumn with a world premiere adaptation, directed by Trevor Nunn, which will have a limited season from […]

Danielle Hope, an 18-year-old student from Urmston in Greater Manchester, has won the BBC’s Over the Rainbow casting show and landed the role of Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Wizard of Oz, […]