Month: October 2010

As previously tipped, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group (RUG) will sell four of its seven remaining West End theatres to former BBC and ITV chairman Michael Grade. RUG announced today that, after an “unsolicited […]

On the same day that it learned that it – along with all other organisations regularly funded by the Arts Council – would receive a 6.9% cut to its subsidy (of £2.3 million in 2010/11) […]

The full-text Hamlet at the National has prompted a splendid Radio 4 programmme by Michael Sheen who is himself slated to play the princely Dane at the Young Vic next autumn, directed by Ian Rickson. […]

Ena Lamont Stewart’s Men Should Weep, a Depression-era tenement tragi-comedy, a sort of Glaswegian blast of Clifford Odets, or Sean O’Casey, was written in 1947, revived by 7:84 (Scotland) at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982, […]

Last night’s packed house at the Garrick was boosted by over 180 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers, who enjoyed a spirited performance of When We Are Married from the high calibre cast. Three ‘happy’ couples are thrown into […]

Last night’s packed house at the Garrick was boosted by over 180 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers, who enjoyed a spirited performance of When We Are Married from the high calibre cast. Three ‘happy’ couples are thrown into […]

Arts Council England (ACE) has today (26 October 2010) unveiled how it plans to pass on the 29.6% cut to its budget, announced as part of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) last week, to […]

Joseph Stein, the book writer of Fiddler on the Roof and more than a dozen other Broadway musicals has died aged 98. Stein was born on 30 May 1912, growing up in the Bronx, New […]

Those buddy boy get-togethers round the old camp fire always end in tears; or, in the case of Red Bud by Californian playwright Brett Neveu – arriving in Sloane Square via Iowa and Steppenwolf in […]

For the fourth year running, London’s Evening Standard newspaper has published the longlist of contenders in its annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Winners will be announced at a star-studded awards ceremony at the reopened Savoy […]