Whats On Stage

While Gipsy Kings musical Zorro will be moving out of the Garrick next month (See News::E8831234206977, 10 Feb 2008), it's likely to be followed by more music – A Little Night Music::E8821228384935 to be precise. […]

There’s a vivid speech in the first act of Three Days of Rain about Walker’s mother, Lina, throwing herself through a glass window in the family’s eleven-room Manhattan apartment. When we meet Lina in the […]

Omid Djalili (pictured) will become the first Iranian to portray Charles Dickens’ legendary Jewish creation Fagin in Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, when he takes over from fellow actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson in Cameron Mackintosh’s record-… Full published […]

The Royal Court's season of new plays about Germany starts with The Stone by Marius von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade and directed by Ramin Gray. It's stark, it's short (one hour's playing time), it's […]

Sometimes you fall in love with a play, and like love, not always for the most logical of reasons. David Greig’s Damascus is a house and place of dreams. I remember a night, very similar […]

Amongst the major openings in London this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 9 February 2009 (previews from 5 February), Off the Wall, a season of new plays about Germany, begins at the Royal Court Downstairs […]

After her sole theatre credit in 1986, Sadie Frost appeared in films including Dracula and The Krays. She took a career break to raise four children and has more recently concentrated on her fashion label […]

It is extraordinary that London is seeing Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Elia Kazan's great movie On the Waterfront – in Steven Berkoff's stage adaptation – opening within a week of each […]

Having seen Rupert Goold set The Tempest in an Arctic wasteland and Macbeth in Soviet Russia, it comes as little surprise to see King Lear clad in a floral dress twirling a parasol. While I’d […]

Alan Ayckbourn will be seventy this April and, although he has physically slowed down since his stroke three years ago, getting about with the aid of a stick and his constant companion and second wife […]