Month: June 2010

Anyone walking down Shaftesbury Avenue last night might have been surprised by the number of excited teenage girls waiting outside the Queen’s Theatre.The reason they were there was to catch a glimpse of US pop […]

As we reported yesterday (See Photos::E8831277127128, 21 Jun 2010), this year’s West End Live was a record-breaker, with over 250,000 people heading to Leicester Square to watch the stars of Theatreland strut their stuff.Shows taking […]

In 1841, the mad poet John Clare began a four-day walk from an asylum in Epping Forest back home to Northamptonshire. That journey, or at least the idea of re-rooting oneself in one's native background, […]

This year’s BBC Proms in the Park on 11 September with feature performances from Oliver! star Kerry Ellis and Queen guitarist Brian May. The annual Hyde Park extravaganza – now in its 15th year – […]

Forbes Masson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s long ensemble, with which he is currently playing Merlin in Mike Poulton and Gregory Doran epic staging of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. Masson rose to fame […]

As we previously Tweeted, Gemma Arterton will star as Hilda Wangel opposite Stephen Dillane as Harvard Solness in Ibsen's The Master Builder, running at the Almeida Theatre from 18 November 2010 to 8 January 2011 […]

Amid the distractions of the World Cup and now Wimbledon, the West End received a welcome boost over the weekend as 250,000 people flocked to West End Live in Leicester Square. The event – the […]

After various workshops, Christopher Hampton’s musical version of Daphne Du Maurier’s classic 1938 novel Rebecca could be hitting the West End next year, possibly following Priscilla Queen of the Desert into the 1400-seat Palace Theatre. […]

Following the success of the Histories in 2008, the Royal Shakespeare Company will return to London's Roundhouse for ten weeks from 30 November 2010 to 5 February 2011 with eight plays performed by one company […]