Month: June 2010

Hands up which beady-eyed Lion King fans noticed the recent changes to the show? According to Variety, the Disney long-runner has cut nine minutes off the running time of productions worldwide – and a representative […]

As previously reported on Whatsonstage.com, a Kylie Minogue musical is currently in development, based on hits from the pint-sized Aussie popstar’s chart-topping career. Now the plot has thickened, with Minogue telling ITV’s This Morning recently […]

Londoners will have a chance to see the Tony Award-winning, all-American cast of Hair::E8831271245795 in a different guise at 8pm on Sunday 11 July 2010, when they decamp to the West End’s Prince of Wales […]

Nicholas Garrett’s Don Giovanni is a lithe, wiry lothario who infects the stage like love’s disease. In a vain attempt to avoid being contaminated by his squalid presence, the gentlemen take snuff and the ladies […]

Over the Rainbow finalist Lauren Samuels will make her West End debut as Sandy in Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre next month (26 July 2010). Samuels, who will play the role through to 22 January […]

The centrepiece of the 51st Ludlow Festival is Ben Crocker's revival of Shakespeare's tautest tragedy, not best suited to the outdoor arena, perhaps, but grippingly arranged against the atmospheric castle walls with long walkways and, […]

Following her current acclaimed West End turn in All My Sons, Zoe Wanamaker will reunite with director Howard Davies back at the National Theatre to star as Madame Ranevskaya in a new production of Chekhov’s […]

JB Priestley's 1938 drawing-room comedy When We Are Married is gearing up for a return to the West End this autumn in a new production, directed by Christopher Luscombe and starring Roy Hudd and Rosemary […]