Month: October 2010

Rumours began about three years ago that Nicholas Hytner was planning a production of Hamlet featuring the NT’s rising star, Rory Kinnear. At last, here he is. It has been worth the wait. Kinnear himself […]

Mike Leigh is set to return to the National Theatre with a new play next year. According to the Daily Mail, Leigh, whose last stage play Two Thousand Years premiered at the National in 2005, […]

Mike Leigh is set to return to the National Theatre with a new play next year. According to the Daily Mail, Leigh, whose last stage play Two Thousand Years premiered at the National in 2005, […]

Les Parents Terribles, which runs from 25 November to 18 December 2010 at Trafalgar Studios 2, will, according to the Daily Mail, feature a stellar cast of Frances Barber, Anthony Calf, Elaine Cassidy, Sylvestra Le […]

Tenor Alfie Boe, one of the stars of last Sunday’s special anniversary Les Miserables concerts, may give fans another birthday present by playing Jean Valjean in the West End run next year. The tenor told […]

Olivier and Whatsonstage.com Award-winner Rachel Weisz has apparently agreed to lead a revival of David Hare’s 1978 play Plenty. According to the Daily Mail, the production, which could open in late 2011, will be directed […]

Today (8 October 2010) is the 25th anniversary of Les Miserables, the record-breaking musical that has been seen by over 56 million people worldwide in 42 countries and in 21 languages. To mark the occasion, […]

Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is reportedly his first novel The Commitments, about a group of unemployed Dublin teenagers who form a soul band, into a stage musical aiming for a West End premiere in 2011/2012, […]

Arthur Miller’s lesser-known late play takes its title from Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass” when the Nazis rampaged through the Jewish community, destroying properties and triggering the first mass deportations to concent… Full published […]

Tennis balls bounce, projected on the curved wall of the bleakly stylish room in Lia and Nick’s home. The balls are a symbol – insistent but providing necessary cohesion – in Shelagh Stephenson’s new psychological […]