Whats On Stage

Promising playwright Orlando Wells’ latest offering The Tin Horizon combines cunning wit, profound reflections and gritty psychological aspects to provide a testing but highly entertaining evening at Battersea’s Theatre503. The play centres on… Full published […]

It's five years since Nigel Cole's warm-hearted movie about ladies “of a certain age” stripping for charity hit the large screen, and now playwright Tim Firth has adapted his own script (co-written with Juliette Towhidi) […]

Following the recent spate of screen-to-stage musicals, it looks like hit alt-rock show Spring Awakening could be set to reverse the trend. Empire film magazine is reporting that director Joseph "McG" McGinty Nichol spent his […]

Since opening in Stratford-upon-Avon last December, Kneehigh Theatre’s raunchy update of the Don Juan story – created in association with the RSC and supported by the quiescent Bristol Old Vic – has toured the country […]

Edward Bennett became the country's most famous understudy when, at just a few hours' notice last December, he took over from an injured David Tennant in Hamlet in the West End, winning critical acclaim and […]

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – during this shortened Bank Holiday week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Tuesday 14 April 2009, Matthew Kelly returns to the West End in […]

All is revealed this month when, following a sell-out UK tour, Calendar Girls transfers to the West End. As the WI ladies dare to bare themselves in Theatreland, writer Tim Firth tells Roger Foss why […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company today (9 April 2009) unveiled “The Big Picture” at its home in Stratford-upon-Avon. The gigantic image, measuring 21 metres in width x 12 metres in height, is displayed on the front […]

Plays in verse have drifted in and out of fashion over the past 50 years, but we seem to be a witnessing a slow resurgence. Personally, I welcome any attempt to move the drama away […]

Mathew Horne (pictured) is off again at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, where he is the title star in the revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane, now in the final week of its limited […]