Month: October 2010

In advance of the usual panto season, Snow White and the Seven Designers is running this week at the Garrick Theatre (12 to 16 October 2010) in aid of Dementia UK, and Elaine Paige and […]

What is great acting? Hard to define, but you know it when you see it. And Robert Lindsay as Aristotle Socrates Onassis in a new play by Martin Sherman first seen in the Chichester Minerva […]

Speaking to Whatsontage.com theatregoers at our Club outing to Enlightenment at the Hampstead Theatre last night (11 October 2010) Edward Hall, the venue’s new artistic director, revealed he wants to stage a new musical in […]

Andrew Lloyd Webber and a host of celebrities today (12 October 2010) gathered to mark the centenary of the London Palladium, which opened on Boxing Day 1910, with a celebration attended by Michael Ball, Lesley […]

Clifford Odets’ The Country Girl opened last night (11 October 2010) at the Apollo Theatre reuniting Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove, who played on-again off-again lovers on the BBC’s now cancelled Judge John Deed. With […]

The West End moves to Buckinghamshire tonight (12 October 2010) as the country’s largest theatre owner, the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), inaugurates its 39th venue in the UK, the new £42 million Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, […]

All sorts of memories are set loose by the revival of Clifford Odets’ The Country Girl at the Apollo last night. It was on this same stage, in 1983, that Martin Shaw played the ambitious […]

Clifford Odets’ The Country Girl opened last night (11 October 2010) at the Apollo Theatre reuniting Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove, who played on-again off-again lovers on the BBC’s now cancelled Judge John Deed. With […]

Thirty years after Martin Shaw played a demanding young theatre director in The Country Girl at the Apollo, he returns to the same stage in the same play (and with the same producer, Bill Kenwright) […]

Rufus Norris’ production of The Country Girl opened last night (11 October 2010) at the Apollo Theatre, bringing together Judge John Deed stars Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove on stage. The play, which centres on […]