Month: June 2010

Staff at Battersea’s Theatre503 were delighted, if surprised, to receive an "unprecedented number of bookings" for recent show Venison, a short play about deer-hunting by upcoming playwright Tom Morton-Smith. However, they soon found out that […]

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 14 June 2010 (previews from 7 June), Anthony Weigh’s Like a Fishbone premieres at the […]

After making a splash in her pantomime debut last year in Wimbledon, Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson will reprise her role as the Genie of the Lamp in Aladdin for First Family Entertainment, this time at […]

Following last year’s triumphant epic of mini-plays about Afghanistan, soon to visit America, the Tricycle turns its attention to women in British politics: surely they could not overcome the handicap of their own ambitions once […]

The Donmar Warehouse painted the town Red last night (13 June 2010) in New York, when its world premiere production of the John Logan two-hander took home six big prizes, including Best New Play, in […]

The Donmar Warehouse painted the town Red last night (13 June 2010) in New York, when its world premiere production of the John Logan play took home six big prizes in the 64th annual Tony […]

The Fantasticks may be a phenomenon in New York, where it's clocked up more than 40 years Off-Broadway, but it's failed once more to emulate that long-running success in London. The latest UK offering of […]

A reworked West End production of The Fantasticks opened to critics at the refurbished Duchess Theatre this week (9 June 2010, previews from 24 May).The record-breaking Off-Broadway musical, which has been running for more than […]

The Donmar Warehouse has announced full casting for Dennis Kelly’s new version of The Prince of Homburg, which runs from 27 July to 4 September 2010 (previews from 22 July). Joining the previous announced Charlie […]

Antony Sher will lead the cast in a new revival of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass at the Tricycle Theatre later this year. The production, which will be directed by Iqbal Khan and designed by Mike […]