Month: September 2010

Michael Grandage has announced today (1 October 2010) that he is stepping down as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse in order to pursue more freelance directing opportunities. He will leave in late 2011 after […]

Caroline O’Connor and her The Showgirl Within is the second imported musical theatre act I have seen in the space of a week at the Garrick. Jason Robert Brown’s concert performance on Saturday night was […]

Reece Shearsmith will star in Ghost Stories, the theatrical thriller co-written and co-directed by his League of Gentlemen fellow Jeremy Dyson, for two months from 9 November 2010 to 8 January 2011 at the West […]

Watch out for Keeping the Faith, a promising and politically charged, new British musical based around Northern soul hits from the 1970s. Written and directed by Fiona Laird, it was developed earlier this year with […]

Best known to theatregoers as a multi award-winning actor, and just opened in the West End this week in screen-to-stage political comedy Yes, Prime Minister, Henry Goodman is also an accomplished director. And today, he […]

The Young Vic’s forthcoming revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic The Glass Menagerie will feature a cast led by Olivier Award winner Deborah Findlay, alongside Sinead Matthews, Leo Bill and Kyle Soller. The production, which is […]

Curiously creepy and distressingly cute, On Ageing is a collage of middle-aged, and old, people's memories recounted by a cast of seven children aged between seven and 13 years on an all-white set that resembles […]

My daughter-in-law, Rosalind Malthouse, recently produced a widely reviewed and much commented on television series about old people finding their inner youth. The Young Ones — not to be confused with Rick Mayall and Nigel […]

Sebastian Faulks’ bestselling 1993 novel Birdsong has been brought to the stage thanks to playwright Rachel Wagstaff, who was famously persistent in her pursuit of the staging rights. Directed by Trevor Nunn, no stranger to […]

As previously tipped, the UK premiere of Bruce Norris’ satire Clybourne Park will transfer to the West End following its current, sell-out season at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. It will open at Wyndham’s […]