Month: July 2010

Talk about going out with a bang! Sister Act finishes at the West End's London Palladium on 30 October 2010 and, if casting rumours prove true, its last few weeks could be its busiest ever. […]

Further details have been released about the forthcoming ballet featuring music by pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which was first announced last year (See News::E8831235394601, 23 Feb 2009). Entitled The Most Incredible Thing, it will […]

Simon Webbe, who rose to fame as a member of chart-topping boy band Blue, is currently playing Curtis Shank, the bad-boy lover of Deloris Van Cartier, in the West End run of Sister Act. Since […]

Steven Berkoff will give four Bible stories a ‘contemporary’ and ‘controversial’ twist when he premieres a series of one act plays at the New End Theatre next month. Biblical Tales, which opens on 3 August […]

Actor Geoffrey Hutchings, who was last seen in the West End in 2009 in the stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption, has passed away at the age of 71. He died suddenly in hospital on […]

Amongst the major London openings in the West End and beyond this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 5 July 2010, participatory show You Me Bum Bum Train, created by artists Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd […]

Amongst the major London openings in the West End and beyond this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 5 July 2010, participatory show You Me Bum Bum Train, created by artists Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd […]

Actor Simon Callow's latest book, My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Autobiography, is published today (5 July 2010). In the first foreword extract below, Callow explains the book's title and structure, which is followed by […]

The Royal Opera House website warns sternly of ‘scenes of nudity and violence’. But they’re not where you’d expect. Zipped into a succession of chaste white bridal gowns by her lascivious stepfather Herod, Salome waltzes […]

Our gossipmongers previously tipped that the screen-to-stage adaptation would open out-of-town next year in Manchester and then find a home at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre, with Olivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly is in […]