Month: August 2010

After his Royal Court and West End success opposite Mark Rylance in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, for which he was Whatsonstage.com and Olivier Award nominated, Mackenzie Crook will return to the stage next month to star […]

Busted pop star Matt Willis and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt will lead the cast of screen-to-stager Flashdance The Musical, which has its West End premiere on 14 October 2010 (previews from 27 September) at the Shaftesbury Theatre, […]

You start at the Traverse, board a bus, and fetch up in a brothel on the other side of town, where a teenaged Nigerian girl has been pressed into sexual service. She was so looking […]

Daniel Kitson, the bearded bard of the everyday extraordinary, has excelled himself. He wanted, he says, to fill the first moments of the morning with something silly and sad and wonderful. He’s done that, and […]

Many people mistake Hardeep Singh Kohli for a stand-up comedian, something he flat out denies, but you can see how people make the mistake given the Glaswegian’s jovial writing and broadcasting. One thing that Hardeep […]

Tired of having to sing pop songs when playing sing-a-long console games, when what you really want is a good, old fashioned musical theatre belt? Well worry no more, as some of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning African American playwright Suzan-Lori Park’s 1999 play In the Blood will receive its European premiere next week at the 50-seat Finborough Theatre in Earl’s Court, west London. Originally the production was due t… […]

Rumours are flying about the upcoming Legally Blonde cast change with Sheridan Smith, who plays Elle until 23 October 2010, and Jill Halfpenny who plays Paulette, both leaving the production. Recent rumours that Laura Bell […]

There is little denying that the price of Edinburgh Fringe tickets has crept up in recent years. As Theo Bosanquet highlighted on the editors’ blog yesterday (10 August 2010), comedy prices in particular, with tickets […]

West End stars Jon Lee (formerly of S Club 7) and Julie Atherton will star in a major new fringe production of British composer Laurence Mark Wythe’s award-winning musical Tomorrow Morning, which will run at […]