Whats On Stage

There can't be many writers of provocative contemporary American drama who can also act in sitcoms and do voiceovers for Toy Story. Step forward Wallace Shawn, whose many achievements are being celebrated in a dedicated […]

After three sell-out dates last week, playwright David Hare (pictured) will next month reprise his script-in-hand reading of Wall, his meditation the Israel-Palestinian conflict, for ten more performances at the Royal Court. The 40-minute piece, […]

Festival director Jonathan Mills has announced the programme for the 63rd Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) – the parent to the larger Edinburgh Fringe – which runs this year from 14 August to 6 September across […]

As the RSC seems to have given up on Shakespeare's precursors and contemporaries, it’s great news that the National is reviving Christopher Marlowe's first play, and in such a fine, insidiously involving production as this […]

Whatsonstage.com took over Trafalgar Studio 2 last night (24 March 2009), selling out to full capacity the 100-seat theatre – and prompting a desperate queue for returns – for our Outing to the stage adaptation of […]

Helena Blackman became familiar to millions as the runner-up on BBC casting show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? in 2006. Since then, she’s starred in productions of Gypsy, The Wizard of Oz […]

London's Royal Court will make double inroads into the Royal Shakespeare Company later this year, with Court artistic director Dominic Cooke helming the RSC's Christmas production of Arabian Nights, and actor and former Court associate […]

Note: This review dates from 15 February 2009, when this production premiered at the Jermyn Street theatre.It’s April 1929 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. A man wanders on to the stage, and, sitting on a bench, takes […]

Alexia Khadime will return to the starring role of Elphaba in Wicked at the West End’s Apollo Victoria theatre from 11 May 2009, taking over again from Whatsonstage.com Award winner Kerry Ellis, for whom she […]

A powerhouse performance by Jonathan Pryce just about keeps Athol Fugard’s strange 1975 play afloat, although the audience has to work hard to figure out the metaphor in the story of a reclusive engineer who’s […]