Month: June 2010

Carrie Fisher could be following in her mother Debbie Reynolds’ footsteps by bringing her one-woman show to the West End. The Star Wars actress has adapted her recent autobiography Wishful Drinking into a stage show, […]

Simon Gray’s The Late Middle Classes received its long-awaited West End premiere at the Donmar Warehouse last night (1 June 2010, previews from 27 May).The play centres on a young boy trapped between two types […]

The autumn season at Sadler’s Wells will culminate in a “completely revised” production of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella – first seen in the West End back in 1997. The production, which runs from 30 November 2010 […]

How long before we see not just two Lloyd Webber musicals in the West End, but West End musicals by two Lloyd Webbers? Nick Lloyd Webber, the 30-year-old son of Andrew Lloyd Webber by his […]

Eleven years after The Late Middle Classes’ inaugural production, Simon Gray’s 1999 play finally received its West End premiere at the Donmar Warehouse last night (1 June 2010, previews from 27 May). The original production’s […]

There was a rumour, never confirmed, that “theatrical politics” kept Simon Gray's The Late Middle Classes out of the West End ten years ago, linked to a  snobbish assertion that a boy band musical (rather […]

As previously tipped, not content with two separate productions running simultaneously in London, impresario Cameron Mackintosh will also present Les Miserables in a massive, star-studded, one-off concert at The O2 on Sunday 3 October 2010. […]

Dianne Pilkington recently moved shows in the West End, from playing Glinda in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria to leading the new cast of The 39 Steps at the Criterion, which she joined on 26 […]

The winner of our Whatsonstage.com Miranda Sings competition has been confirmed as Damien Kavanagh, whose entry "Amanda/Miranda – Womanizer" was chosen from over 60 videos by Miranda (aka actress Colleen Ballinger) herself. As his prize, […]