Month: November 2010

The Ivy, the exclusive London restaurant which boasts a celebrity clientele and has its bookings filled up three months in advance, is reportedly celebrating 20 years of fine dining by staging a new play by […]

Ten years after its premiere at the National Theatre, Joe Penhall’s enthralling Blue/Orange makes a comeback in a production from the Tiata Fahodzi company directed by Femi Elufowoju, jr, that re-casts the male patient and […]

There’s a bit of a hoo-ha over alleged plagiarism in the runaway successful Downton Abbey on Sunday night television. Viewers have claimed that author Julian (Gosford Park) Fellowes has lifted scenes from Little Women and […]

The Old Vic has announced the initial participants for its seventh annual fundraising theatre challenge, The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala, which this year takes place on Sunday 21 November 2010. Star names lined up […]

The world premiere of Whatsonstage.com – THE MUSICAL takes place on Monday 8 November 2010 at London’s King’s Head Theatre, where we’ll be coming up with a brand new musical from scratch, with your help […]

A hymn to companionship, music and the sea Novecento is a love song set in a time when romance infused the everyday and men were still legends. Alessandro Baricco’s rich monologue, part of new season […]

Whatsonstage.com Award winner Patina Miller will reprise her role as disco diva Deloris van Cartier in the Broadway transfer of screen-to-stage musical Sister Act, which opens on 20 April 2011 (previews from 24 March) at […]

Two contrasting play revivals are opening at powerhouse Off-West End venues later this month, and here’s a selection of recently-released rehearsal shots to give a flavour of what’s in store… Ian Talbot’s revival of Ken […]

Ena Lamont Stewart’s 1947 play Men Should Weep has received a rare revival at the National Theatre, where it opened in the Lyttelton Theatre on 26 October 2010 (previews from 18 October). Set in the […]