Month: July 2010

The first major London revival of Martin McDonagh’s modern classic The Beauty Queen of Leenane opened at the Young Vic on Wednesday (21 July 2010, previews from 15 July) with a cast led by Susan […]

With a pop up hat, waistcoat and knowingly jaunty wink, Lisa Hammond dances around the stage belting out the annoyingly catchy lyrics to “Cheeky Face”. It’s a Dickensian song and dance number and a direct […]

Peter Hall’s production of Twelfth Night at the National Theatre will star Simon Callow in the role of Sir Toby Belch, joining previously announced Rebecca Hall’s Viola (See News::E8831264078654, 21 Jan 2010). The production, a […]

The new Waterloo East Theatre, which we reported on last month (See News::E8831277217424, 22 Jun 2010), has announced its inaugural season. The venue is a non-for-profit receiving house that will also stage its own community […]

Billy Elliot collaborators Elton John and Lee Hall are apparently teaming up again for a musical version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. "I’m deep into it, writing songs for pigs and other four-legged friends" Hall […]

The National Theatre keeps returning to Georg Büchner’s thrilling 1835 drama of the French Revolution – Michael Grandage’s NT debut production is the third after Jonathan Miller’s (in 1971) and Peter Gill’s (in 1982) &#82… […]

Real-life husband and wife Alexander Hanson and Samantha Bond will star together on stage for the first time in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, which according to today’s Daily Mail, will […]

As previously tipped, the musical version of Love Story, inspired by Erich Segal’s best-selling weepie novel and subsequent 1970 film, will transfer to the West End following its premiere this summer at Chichester Festival. According […]

Over the Rainbow runner up Sophie Evans is to join competition winner Danielle Hope in the cast of The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium early next year. Sophie will play the role of […]