Year: 2010

Comedian and actor Roy Hudd is best known for his long-running Radio 2 series The News Huddlines, and not West End appearances. Strange considering his myriad of theatrical credits including Fagin in Oliver!. This week […]

Martin Guerre isn't the only musical that Boublil and Schonberg are revisiting. Boublil also told The Stage newspaper that he and his long-time writing partner are reworking another, more recent collaboration: Marguerite::E8821211358864, which premie… Full […]

Craig Revel Horwood’s 2007 actor-musician makeover of the 1996 West End musical Martin Guerre was so effective that it’s inspired the show’s authors, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, and original producer and rights-holder… Full published […]

That wonderful but only fairly well known actor Guy Henry is about to become a national institution: he follows Barbara Windsor and Roberta Taylor into soap stardom this week by joing Holby City as the […]

Eighty-seat performance space The New Red Lion opens in Islington today (18 October 2010), located round the corner from its parent venue, pub theatre the Old Red Lion. The new venue, situated in what used […]

Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are: OPENING TUESDAY, 19 October 2010 (previews from 12 October), Jon Lee and Julie Atherton star in the Landor Theatre’s revival […]

Last year’s “Terror” season at Southwark Playhouse began with a punter (or a plant) being forcefully ejected; this year, the corpse on the trolley during Sarah-Louise Young’s opening song is that of another schmuck whose […]

The planned West End production of Christmas pantomime Puss in Boots, which was due to run at the Arts Theatre from 30 November 2010 (previews from 18 November) to 9 January 2011, has been cancelled […]

The last time I saw Kim Cattrall laid out in wait for a man, she was stripped stark naked and dotted about with sushi. That was in the first Sex and the City film. Last […]

There were bare midriffs and leg warmers aplenty at the Shaftesbury Theatre last night (14 October 2010, previews from 27 September), as Flashdance – The Musical hosted its starry gala opening. Among the myriad famous […]