Month: July 2010

It is not unusual to come across ‘site specific’ or ‘promenade’ performances in either the worlds of theatre or opera today. There does, however, still seem something novel about spending an afternoon experiencing an outdoor, […]

Following its runs at the Barbican, Complicite’s multi award-winning play A Disappearing Number will return to the London stage in September, when it will receive its West End premiere running for 19 performances only at […]

George Büchner was 21 when he wrote Danton’s Death – a revolutionary himself, he was hiding from the police at the time. Some have claimed the play to be the greatest political tragedy ever written, […]

York Theatre Royal artistic director Damian Cruden conceived and directed the epic site-specific staging of The Railway Children, which has recently taken over the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo Station, where it’s already extended its […]

The Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn will find itself serving a very different audience to their usual patrons next Thursday as it opens its doors for a performance of The Great Game: Afghanistan specially for the Ministry […]

Tom Cruise has said he wants to make his theatrical debut on the West End stage. Speaking to the Evening Standard whilst across in the UK promoting his new flick, Knight and Day the Hollywood […]

Whisked away on a boat to the seemingly isolated Trinity Buoy Wharf at eleven o’clock at night, there’s definitely something adventurous about the prospect of Hotel Medea. As other shows bring their curtains down, Medea’s […]

Amongst the major London openings in the West End and beyond this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 26 July, Over the Rainbow finalist Lauren Samuels joins the cast of the hit west end show Grease […]

Australian stage and screen star Caroline O’Connor, who won a Whatsonstage.com Award for Best Solo Performance for the play Bombshells in 2004, will return to the West End in September with a new one-woman show, […]

Sheridan Smith’s last performance as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde will be Saturday 23 October she has revealed to fans on her Twitter feed. There has been no announcement about who will be replacing Smith, […]