Month: September 2010

Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 13 September 2010, John Fulljames kicks off the Young Vic’s 40th anniversary season with an 80-strong community […]

A surprise revival of two earlier N F Simpson plays at the Donmar Warehouse three years ago reminded us of what we’d been missing for so long: this blissfully funny, now 91 year-old, playwright is […]

A dead man’s will goes missing and his illegitimate daughter turns up to spoil the family’s eager division of an estate worth £200,000, or £15m in today’s currency. Pinero’s 1908 potboiler is a fascinating retriev… […]

The programme for Jonathan Miller’s staging of Mozart’s third Da Ponte opera includes some neatly reasoned apologias for the tale’s dubious morals and its implication that a woman’s place is in the wrong. In the […]

Woman’s theatre company Clean Break will premiere six new plays by female playwrights, with a series of pieces about women, crime and justice at the Soho Theatre this November. EV Crowe, Sam Holcroft, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, […]

The first new play by a female playwright to be presented at Shakespeare’s Globe, old or new, is a restrained foray into madness – good idea – in a fictional early 18th century asylum run […]

The UK premiere of Shrek the Musical next year will be significantly altered from the production that closed on Broadway earlier this year, including the addition of several new characters. Speaking to the Daily Mail’s […]

The planned West End premiere of Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet will feature homegrown British stars, found via a nationwide search that launches next week. Producers are looking for actor-musicians to play 1950s rock ‘n’ […]

Talk about some festive fun at the National! Catherine Tate, Neil Stuke and Mark Gatiss will feature in an all-star ensemble in Marianne Elliott’s new production of Season’s Greetings, Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980 comedy about a […]