Whats On Stage

I once had the misfortune of watching Tim Fountain get cajoled into drinking a glass of fresh urine during the course of a slightly riotous performance of his notorious one-man show, Sex Addict at the […]

The hit comedy Boeing-Boeing received such brilliant reviews when it was in the West End, that you may be expecting an absolute laughter-riot. But, like a dodgy flight, it fluctuates, never quite becoming the hysterical […]

Frank Wedekind’s 1891 Spring Awakening, banned in most European countries for over fifty years, was given its first “private” performance in Britain at the Royal Court in 1963 in the same season as Barry Reckord’s […]

Alan Bennett's 1980 play, first seen in this fine production by Christopher Luscombe at the Theatre Royal Bath last August, just gets darker and bleaker. Funny isn't really the word any more, and Luscombe's suggestion […]

A busy week of major openings in London includes: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 2 February 2009 (previews from 27 January), Alison Steadman and David Troughton lead the cast in Christopher Luscombe’s new production of Alan Bennett’s […]

Newcomer Patina Miller has, after a year-long search, been cast to star in the stage version of Sister Act, playing the role of Deloris Van Cartier, the part played in the original film by Whoopi […]

Donmar regulars Penelope Wilton (pictured) and Kevin R McNally will play Gertrude and Claudius, mother and step-father to Jude Law, in Michael Grandage's upcoming production of Hamlet, which runs from 3 June (previews from 29 […]

Stephanie Abrahams is a 42 year-old violinist stricken with multiple sclerosis who embarks on a series of therapy sessions with a German psychiatrist, Dr Feldmann, in his comfortable consulting room. The bookshelves in Lez Brotherston’s […]

Any Dream Will Do star Lee Mead, who recently hung up his dreamcoat in the West End (See Photos::E8831231767437, 12 Jan 2009), has reportedly proposed to girlfriend Denise Van Outen.According to the Daily Mirror, 27-year […]

The Richard Dreyfuss affair with the London theatre has not been happy. Some years ago he had a modest success, and mixed reviews, in a Neil Simon comedy. More recently he was dropped from The […]