Whats On Stage

The genre-defying Latitude Festival – which was awarded Special Achievement in Regional Theatre at last year’s TMA Awards (See News::E8821225034326, 26 Oct 2008) – has announced the line-up for its 2009 weekender event, which takes […]

A powerhouse performance by Jonathan Pryce just about keeps Athol Fugard#8217;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#8217;s […]

Alexia Khadime will return to the starring role of Elphaba in Wicked at the West End#8217;s Apollo Victoria theatre from 11 May 2009, taking over again from Whatsonstage.com Award winner Kerry Ellis, for whom she […]

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

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 […]

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, […]

The genre-defying Latitude Festival #8211; which was awarded Special Achievement in Regional Theatre at last year#8217;s TMA Awards (See News::E8821225034326, 26 Oct 2008) #8211; has announced the line-up for its 2009 weekender event, which takes […]

Kafka's short story A report for an academy barely runs to ten pages, and Colin Teevan's adaptation (slightly too modernised) for Kathryn Hunter's extraordinary performance in the Maria studio of the Young Vic is a […]

Amongst the major London openings– in the West End and further afield – this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 23 March 2009 (previews from 10 March), ahead of a star-studded gala premiere tomorrow, Jason Donovan, […]

Former Teachers co-stars Adrian Bower and James Lance (pictured) will reunite in May for the world premiere of Ordinary Dreams, a new dark comedy by Marcus Markou which will have a limited season fron 14 […]