Month: September 2010

The Old Vic’s production of Noël Coward’s provocative romantic comedy Design for Living opened last night (15 September 2010, previews from 3 September), marking the play’s first appearance on a London stage in over 15 […]

Noël Coward’s ménage à trois comedy Design for Living has received its first London outing in over 15 years at the Old Vic, where it opened last night (15 September 2010, previews from 3 September). […]

Following the success of last year’s Terror 2009 Season, experimental company The Sticking Place will return to Southwark Playhouse with their annual offering of classic, cult and contemporary horror theatre, just in time for Halloween. […]

While, as reported yesterday, The Rivals aims for a West End transfer in early 2011, another one of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 18th-century comedies will be revived at the Barbican Theatre next spring. Sheridan’s 1777 classic […]

Galt MacDermot and William Dumaresq’s The Human Comedy was a famous flop on Broadway in the 80s. This has not deterred the Young Vic, however, from giving this little-known musical a second chance. The story, […]

Theatrical luminaries including Ian McKellen and Richard Wilson attended the gala night of the National Youth Theatre’s latest production Relish at Tramshed in Shoreditch last night (14 September 2010). The show, which is written by […]

A shorter version of this play about the Americans commandeering the mujahideen as their “ears” in the Pakistan war was part of the Tricycle’s Great Game: Afghanistan project last year. Now, commissioned by the Lincoln […]

This is the third incarnation of Complicité’s multi-award-winning production, but the show has lost none of its brilliance since it was last seen at the Barbican in 2008. Two great romances are presented to us […]

First produced for the stage in 1775, you might think that the then contemporary characters and situations, regularly played out in the streets and assembly rooms of Bath and which are so richly drawn in […]

Several West End plays – Ghost Stories, The Mousetrap and The 39 Steps – have recently announced extensions to their booking periods. Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s theatrical thriller, Ghost Stories has announced it has […]