Month: July 2010

Following her current critical hit with After the Dance at the National, Thea Sharrock will direct another Terence Rattigan play, Cause Celebre at the Old Vic in March, as part of the centenary celebrations of […]

Sixty five years ago, Laurence Olivier famously paired The Critic with Oedipus Rex, an audacious double bill that contrasted the deepest tragedy with the purest farce. This pairing at Chichester is more orthodox: both plays […]

It's a damp and chilly venue, the labyrinthine Old Vic Tunnels underneath Waterloo Station, and it's a damp and chilly message we hear in Aftermath, a verbatim documentary drama compiled by the creators of The […]

Amongst the major London openings in the West End and beyond this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 12 July 2010 (previews from 4 July), York Theatre Royal’s production of The Railway Children pulls into a […]

Ingmar Bergman, Simon Callow and David Mamet… Three heavyweights of the contemporary arts scene have recently had new books out. Admittedly, Bergman’s is published with a little help from Jenny Worton, Bergman having passed away […]

According to the Daily Mail, Lisa Dillon, Tom Burke and Andrew Scott will star in a revival of Noel Coward’s 1932 comedy Design for Living at the Old Vic in September, directed by Anthony Page. […]

After pretending to lick cream from Rula Lenska’s hands on Celebrity Big Brother, perhaps nothing should surprise us about George Galloway. But this might raise a few eyebrows – the former MP is apparently writing […]

The cast of Wolfboy, the first full-scale musical to be staged at Trafalgar Studios 2, had a ‘howler’ last night as they celebrated their opening night (8 July, previews from 6 July). Paul Holowaty and […]

The original stars of the award-winning Donmar Warehouse productions of Merrily We Roll Along and Company will reunite for one-off concert presentations of the two musicals, held at the West End’s 980-seat Queen’s Theatre as […]

The original stars of the award-winning Donmar Warehouse productions of Merrily We Roll Along and Company will reunite for one-off concert presentations of the two musicals, held at the West End’s 980-seat Queen’s Theatre as […]