Whats On Stage

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 […]

It’s a superlative time for alternative memoirs this month, with offerings from Steven Berkoff and Stephen Sondheim. Berfkoff’s autobiography, Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent, is highly intimate, focusing on family life and friends and ene… […]

Actor Harry Treadaway, who opens in the Royal Court’s production of Nina Raine’s Tribes on 20 October, is best known for his appearance in Ibsen’s Ghosts::E8831267004510 which played the Duchess Theatre earlier this year. His […]

In the glossy programme, which I don’t buy (at £10) but borrow from a little boy, Doctor Who’s introduction promises “a dangerous and electrifying experience” and urges us to “have fun”. Well which is it, […]

Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 11 October 2010 (previews from 6 October), Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove star in Rufus Norris’ revival […]