Month: July 2010

How to define The Butler? Others have dubbed it ‘Pinter on stilts’ and ‘Cirque du Soleil for grown-ups’, but I’d say a ‘smorgasbord of silliness’ is probably closer to the mark. Some profundity lies in […]

With a forthcoming TV chatshow and a national tour of Hairspray to think about, you would think Michael Ball had got enough on his plate. But according to the Daily Mail, the multi-award winning musical […]

There was a lot of love flowing round the Menier Chocolate Factory as the company of Trevor Nunn’s chamber revival of Aspects of Love celebrated their opening night (15 July 2010, previews from 3 July).The […]

York Theatre Royal’s epic site-specific staging of The Railway Children has extended its residency at Waterloo Station into next year.Now booking to 2 January 2011, the production is staged in the former Eurostar terminal and […]

Aspects of Love has always been the odd man out in the Andrew Lloyd Webber catalogue: an unconventional musical about deeply unconventional people, but with some of the composer's finest music, and lyrics to match […]

The latest interview in our occasional series on Theatreland’s new artistic directors is with Steve Marmion, who takes over from Lisa Goldman at the Soho Theatre later this month.Marmion has been a literary associate at […]

“Everybody’s got the right to their dreams” is how we are introduced to nine assassins – or would-be assassins – of American presidents, from Abe Lincoln all the way up to Ronald Reagan. This seems […]

Jeff Goldblum has returned to the London stage to star in Terry Johnson’s revival of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, the Old Vic’s first West End production beyond its home on the Cut, at the […]