Month: June 2010

As part of his great project to tell the 20th century history of black Americans on the stage, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a key document, and one of his finest plays […]

After the Bridge Project, Sam Mendes has said the next theatre production he'll direct will be the new musical version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which his company Neal Street Productions has been […]

Mike Stock, a member of hit songwriting partnership Stock Aitken Waterman and winner of eight Ivor Novello awards, has written a new musical for children, which will premiere at the Leicester Square Theatre in the […]

Producers of the Calendar Girls tour have announced a third new cast, who will start performances in Cardiff on 27 July. The new cast will feature Elaine C Smith (Chris), Denise Black (Cora), Jean Boht […]

Arthur Miller's great moral witch hunt drama The Crucible is an unexpected opener to the summer season in Regent's Park, but the power and glory of the play carries through a long, long evening. Timothy […]

Penny Woolcock’s new production of The Pearl Fishers opens with a stunning coup de theatre. As the music of the prelude starts the curtain rises to reveal a beautiful projected image of light filtering through […]

Former glamour model Abi Titmuss will continue her budding stage career in a production of John Philips’ new musical Dolly Daydream at the Barons Court Theatre later this month. Set in a Yorkshire mill town […]