Month: July 2010

Sitting alongside the traditional Shakespearean stalwarts in the Globe’s summer season is Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn. The life of Henry VIII’s second wife is of course familiar, but Brenton’s interpretation of it is new. … […]

With the start of the Edinburgh Fringe just a week away (6 August 2010), the Whatsonstage.com Edinburgh microsite is already filling up with news, features, blogs and interviews. And from next week, we’ll also be […]

The Donmar Warehouse’s upcoming production of King Lear, starring Derek Jacobi, will become the second non-National Theatre production to be broadcast to over 300 cinemas in 22 countries around the world as part of the […]

The Donmar Warehouse’s upcoming production of King Lear, starring Derek Jacobi, will become the second non-National Theatre production to be broadcast to over 300 cinemas in 22 countries around the world as part of the […]

Producers have confirmed that, as previously tipped, Amanda Holden will play Princess Fiona in next year’s West End transfer of Shrek the Musical. The production, which opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 7 […]

Jenna Russell is playing the Baker’s Wife in the Open Air Theatre’s season closing revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, which opens on 16 August (previews from 6 August 2010). The musical, which is […]

Shoshana Bean, best known for playing Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway, will headline two concerts (8pm and 11pm) at the Ambassadors Theatre on 17 August 2010. Shoshana Bean – Live in the West End is […]

Corrie!, the stage show version of Coronation Street, Britain’s longest-running soap opera, will star familiar face from ‘the street’ Charles Lawson as narrator. Lawson, who played Jim McDonald in the soap from 1989, remained as […]

Corrie!, the stage show version of Coronation Street, Britain’s longest-running soap opera, will star familiar face from ‘the street’, Charles Lawson, as narrator. Lawson, who played Jim McDonald in the soap from 1989, remained as […]

As previously tipped, Michael Gambon will tackle Samuel Beckett's monologue Krapp’s Last Tape in a limited season from 15 September to 20 November 2010 at the Duchess Theatre. The production transfers from Dublin's Gate Theatre […]