Whats On Stage

Blur singer-songwriter Damon Albarn (pictured) has teamed up with site-specific specialists Punchdrunk and BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis for a new theatre piece, It Felt Like a Kiss, which premieres at this summer#8217;s Manchester International Festiva… […]

The bubble hasn#8217;t exactly burst over the Donmar West End season, but Madame de Sade, by the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, translated by Donald Keene, is a severe disappointment following the delights of Ivanov and […]

London-born stage and screen actress Natasha Richardson (pictured) #8211; the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and wife of Liam Neeson #8211; was confirmed dead last night (18 March 2009) in New York after sustaining a head […]

Jonathan Pryce – who starts performances this week in Athol Fugard's rarely seen 1975 play Dimetos at London's Donmar Warehouse – will return to the Liverpool Everyman later this year to star in Harold Pinter's […]

It's a truism that the British have a taboo about death. It might have been true once but these days, judging by the excessive interest shown in dying celebrities, non-celebrities, journalists and anyone else in […]

The late Paul Scofield#8217;s life and work will be celebrated this week at the National Theatre with a memorial held on the first anniversary of the actor#8217;s death (See News::E8821206021481, 20 Mar 2008), this Thursday […]

Sir Peter Hall has announced details of his seventh annual summer repertory season at the Theatre Royal Bath, which includes the world premiere of Another Door Closed, Peter Gill's first new play in six years, […]

Tom Stoppard#8217;s 1993 modern classic Arcadia will receive its first major London revival this summer at the West End#8217;s Duke of York#8217;s Theatre, with a cast including the author#8217;s son, Ed Stoppard. The new production, […]

Actor Toby Jones stars in the European premiere of Jez Butterworth's surreal play about sexual desires in British suburbia, Parlour Song, which starts previews this week at the Almeida Theatre. Since winning an Olivier for […]

Ahead of the opening of the VA museum’s new Theatre Performance Galleries on Wednesday (16 March 2009), the doors were opened this morning to give journalists a preview of what’s on offer from the new […]