Year: 2010

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 22 February 2010 (previews from 17 February), Chennai-based playwright Anupama Chandresekhar’s new play Disconnect, set […]

For her main stage debut, with her third major play, the promisingly talented Bola Agbaje creates a cheeky black version echo of the Royal Court's most famous debutant, John Osborne, with an ironing board, a […]

Lionel Jeffries, one of the great British character actors of the last century, who died on Friday (19 February 2010), aged 83, started and finished his illustrious career in productions of European classics by Peter […]

3-4 Picton Place, LondonPhilip Ridley’s play caused a storm (and no shortage of walkouts) during its premiere at the Chocolate Factory in 2005, largely due to the involvement of a child actor in scenes alluding […]

The TENTH ANNUAL Whatsonstage.com Awards were announced on Sunday (14 February 2010) at a star-studded concert at the West End’s 1200-seat Prince of Wales Theatre. What a way to spend Valentine's Day! We've now uploaded […]

The Old Vic has acquired tunnels beneath Waterloo Station to create a new, non-profit performance space for a series of at least four shows and art installations this year. The new space, which will be […]

The three heroes of French playwright Gerard Sibleyras' elegiac comedy, in Tom Stoppard's sensitive translation, are comrades thrown together by the fortunes of war long after the event. Henri, Philippe and Gustave live in a […]

Regional powerhouse Sheffield Crucible officially reopened on Wednesday (17 February 2010, previews form 11 February) after a two-year, £15.3 million renovation (See News::E8821253695457, 23 Sep 2009), with Ibsen's 1882 classic An Enemy of the People… […]