Month: August 2010

Shortlists are announced today (19 August 2010) in Edinburgh for the Musical Theatre Matters: UK Awards, sponsored for the second year in a row by Whatsonstage.com. Barbershopera: Apocalypse? No!, the latest from the a capella quartet, […]

Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods is being given a unique outdoor performance this summer at the Open Air Theatre. A frequently revived show, Sondheim’s musical reworking of tales by the Brothers Grimm includes many fairytale […]

Dougal Irvine’s musical comedy Departure Lounge will open at the new Waterloo East Theatre on 30 September 2010 (previews from 28 September) with a cast lead by Chris Fountain and Verity Rushworth. The show, which […]

Sally Dexter will join the cast of Sister Act as Mother Superior when Whoopi Goldberg leaves the production at the end of her limited season on 31 August 2010. Dexter, whose previous West End credits […]

Theatregoers at our Whatsonstage.com Outing to OperaUpClose’s groundbreaking new translation of La Boheme at the Soho Theatre last night (16 August 2010) also had the pleasure of a candid and informative post show Q&A with […]

Theatregoers at our Whatsonstage.com Outing to OperaUpClose’s groundbreaking new translation of La Boheme at the Soho Theatre last night (16 August 2010) also had the pleasure of a candid and informative post show Q&A with […]

Pleasance at Ghillie Dhu12-30 August, 20.15Frances Ruffelle is rocking at the Ghillie Dhu, but I’m not sure about her material; the song material, that is, not her costume, which is as scruffily chic and silky […]

Sondheim’s witty, sideways tribute to Grimm and Perrault might have been written to be presented here on a balmy August evening. Real trees sway gently in the breeze behind Soutra Gilmour’s ladders-and-stairs set with its […]

If you were worried that all of theatre's great and good had decamped to Edinburgh this month, the turnout last night (16 August 2010, previews from 5 August) for the opening of Into the Woods, […]

Former Coronation Street star Kevin Kennedy will return to the West End to join the cast of Queen musical We Will Rock You, which will lead it into its tenth year at the Dominion Theatre […]