Month: June 2010

Rumours are circling online that there will be a hiatus at the end of the current booking period of Love Never Dies in order to make changes to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom follow up. There […]

Terence Rattigan’s “lost” play After the Dance begins with a butler opening the French windows while a young man taps away on a typewriter and an older man snoozes on the sofa under a copy […]

Full casting has been announced for Trevor Nunn’s forthcoming revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, which opens at the Menier Chocolate Factory on 15 July 2010 (previews from 7 July). Joining the previously […]

August Wilson’s modern classic Joe Turner’s Come and Gone opened at the Young Vic last week (3 June 2010, previews from 27 May), with a cast including Delroy Lindo, who starred in the play’s original […]

The new season at the Rose Theatre, Kingston will include, as previous rumoured, a revival of Noël Coward’s Hay Fever starring Celia Imrie, directed by the venue’s artistic director Stephen Unwin. The Christmas show will […]

It’s 40 years since Erich Segal’s monster hit novel and Hollywood film, 40 years since we first learned that love meant never having to say you’re sorry – so the musical version has been a […]

Steph Fearon, who reached the semi-finals of the BBC’s recent Over The Rainbow casting show, will star in a fringe production of the musical revue Smokey Joe’s Cafe next month. The show, which opens at […]

Delroy Lindo, who is currently starring in the Young Vic’s revival of August Wilson’s modern classic Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, has hinted he may return to the venue in a directing capacity. Lindo, who […]

Mayor of London Boris Johnson today unveiled the second version of his draft Cultural Metropolis strategy, pledging to maintain funding for the arts during the 2012 Olympics. A news release from the Mayor’s office in […]

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – this week are: OPENING TUESDAY, 8 June 2010 (previews from 27 May), Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance is revived at the […]