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Fresh from her award-winning success as Velma von Tussle in Hairspray, for which she won best supporting performance in a musical prizes at both the Whatsonstage.com and Laurence Olivier Awards this year, Tracie Bennett (pictured) […]

The stage version of Girl With a Pearl Earring transferred this week to the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket, where it's booking for a limited season until 1 November (See 1st Night Photos::E8821222770161, 30 Sep […]

Could it be magic? Not quite, but this entertaining show based around songs by Barry Manilow does have that feel-good factor, which just about stops it from entering Juke Box musical hell. As the lead […]

Although it dates from the same year as Miss Julie in 1888, Strindberg's Creditors is less well known and far less performed. And yet it feels so much more mysteriously modern a play, and in […]

Author Tracy Chevalier (pictured, right) was amongst the guests at last night’s opening of Girl With a Pearl Earring at the Theatre Royal Haymarket (29 September 2008, previews from 24 September). Adapted from Chevalier’s 1999 […]

What is the point of this show? It's not terrible, but it's hardly exciting. Actor/playwright David Joss Buckley has avowedly gone back to the wonderful, spry 1999 novel of Tracy Chevalier – transformed into a […]

The latest Hollywood movie getting the song and dance treatment may come as a bit of a surprise. American Psycho – the Musical, based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis and subsequent film […]

A special gala is being held next month to mark the centenary of James Bond creator Ian Fleming's birth. The Story of James Bond – A Tribute to Ian Fleming will take place at the […]

A special gala is being held next month to mark the centenary of James Bond creator Ian Fleming's birth. The Story of James Bond – A Tribute to Ian Fleming will take place at the […]