Month: June 2010

Our Big Debate polls are back! And, following the conclusion of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the BBC’s latest programme Over the Rainbow, the first in our new series poses a question that’s been attracting lots […]

Sebastian Horsley, the self-styled dandy, artist and writer, has died aged 47. The news comes just two days after the premiere of the play adapted from his memoirs, Dandy in the Underworld. A statement from […]

Lulu is all things to all men, a fact reflected by her assortment of pet names – ‘Mignon’, ‘Eve’, ‘Lolly’, ‘Katya’. In this Gate/Headlong production, she’s a blonde bombshell (Sinead Matthews) with a husky voice […]

Award-winning theatre and film directors Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry will lead the team behind the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Boyle will be artistic director with Daldry as executive producer, working […]

National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner has revealed further details of planned upgrades to its South Bank home, which were first announced in 2008 (See News::E8821221666823, 17 Sep 2008). In an article for the […]

If one thing is clear from Ingmar Bergman’s gloomy Oscar-winning 1961 film Through a Glass Darkly, adapted for the stage by Jenny Worton, and directed by Michael Attenborough, it’s a warning about where to book […]

Last night (15 June 2010) saw the opening of Australian import Tap Dogs at the West End’s Novello Theatre, where Adam Garcia has tapped back into his dance training to lead the all-male cast (See […]

How spiffing! All round good egg Daisy Meredith's thrilling adventures are back onstage! This year's school play at Grangewood School for Young Ladies follows her fabled adventures chronicled by Denise Deegan. How she arrives as […]

Several upcoming London plays – at the Young Vic, Royal Court, Shakespeare’s Globe and in the West End – have recently confirmed further casting. At the Young Vic, leading Irish actors Rosaleen Linehan (The New […]

Tim Fountain has adapted this play from the outrageously funny autobiographical book by Sebastian Horsley, a regular character around Soho. Horsley is an artist, a recovering heroin addict, a sexual predator and a failed suicide […]