Whats On Stage

Avenue Q, which closes on 28 March at the Noel Coward (See News::E8821224234903, 17 Oct 2008), has announced it will reopen at the Gielgud Theatre on 1 June 2009, where it’s initially booking to 26 […]

As 24 year-old identical twins, Harry and Luke Treadaway are not all that hard to tell apart, and they are well cast as different aspects of Berlin on either side of the wall in Mark […]

Television magician and mind control expert Derren Brown will return to the West End this summer, with his new live show Derren Brown: Enigma. Following a 41-date regional tour, the production will play for 30 […]

Winners for this year’s 33rd annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tonys and the UK’s most prestigious stage awards, were announced this evening at a star-studded ceremony held at the Grosvenor House, Park […]

Continuing its success in the Evening Standard (where it won four prizes), Critics’ Circle (another four) and our own Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards (five), the Donmar Warehouse has tonight (Sunday 8 March 2009) converted … […]

Winners for this year’s 33rd annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tonys and the UK’s most prestigious stage awards, are announced from 6.30 this evening at a star-studded ceremony held at the Grosvenor […]

Brian Friel has turned eighty this year and he was at the Old Vic on opening night to see this glorious revival by Anna Mackmin of what is certainly one of his very best plays, […]

Within the next year or so, there should be not one, but two new musicals based on Whoopi Goldberg films in the West End. Following Sister Act, which opens at the London Palladium this June […]

Most of the new voices emerging from the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme are those of the inner city, so Norfolk-born Molly Davies's first new play – which I saw in an earlier draft in […]

Playwright Peter Flannery must have watched the outstanding 1994 Oscar-winning Russian movie Burnt by the Sun and noted how the action covers one day, how many of the scenes have a theatrical quality of dialogue […]