Whats On Stage

If opera is to pull in new and young audiences, it’s works like Doctor Atomic that are likely to do it. The mix of contemporary resonance, political and moral musing and exciting new music, that […]

Steven Berkoff has directed the stage adaptation of the 1954 Oscar-winning film On the Waterfront, which is now transferred to the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket, where Berkoff has also joined the cast as psychopathic […]

Arts Council England has announced it will reduce its staff numbers by 24 percent in order to meet the  government’s requirement that it saves 15 percent on its grant in aid administration costs by 2010. […]

John Wilson’s classic First World War play For King and Country is brought to a fresh generation of theatregoers in a major new production, directed by Tristam Powell, which launches a two-month, seven-venue tour today […]

Michael Rosen’s popular picture book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is coming to the West End later this year in an adaptation directed by Sally Cookson, which premiered last month at the Bristol Old […]

Over a year since its six-month stint in the West End, the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Messrs Ashman and Menken’s B-movie horror spoof musical Little Shop of Horrors has hit the road. Matthew White’s […]

Three West End musicals – recent Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live and longer-runners Hairspray::E8821193825547 and Dirty Dancing – have all announced extensions to their booking periods. At the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Thr… Full […]

Poor old Sir John Gielgud, who died in 2000, would be horrified and deeply upset that a play about his prosecution for cottaging while tipsy in a London lavatory in 1953 – the year of […]

Three West End plays – recent arrivals Defending the Caveman and Alan Bennett's Enjoy::E8821219136056 and long-running thriller The Woman in Black::E0563919956 – have announced extensions to their booking periods. Christopher Luscombe's re… Full published article […]

A Little Night Music::E8821228384935 may be the next Menier Chocolate Factory Sondheim revival to cross the pond – and with some starry familial casting to boot. Mother and daughter British actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha […]