Whats On Stage

James Corden and Sheridan Smith will reunite to once again co-host the Winners' Concert for the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards, which takes place this year on Sunday 15 February 2009 at the West End's 1,100-seat […]

Samuel Adamson’s new play is set on the Kent coast in 1955, quite specifically, says the author in a programme note, a few days before Anthony Eden’s election, a few months before “Rock Around the […]

Martin Harvey (pictured), who recently joined the cast of Dirty Dancing in the West End (See News::E8821222856403, 1 Oct 2008), has won the Spotlight Best Male Dancer (Classical) prize at this year’s Critics' Circle National […]

From supping fine wine and cooking gourmet fish dishes to appreciating the finer points of Chopin nocturnes – one thing you can’t accuse Father David Anderton of in Ian McDiarmid’s stage version of Andrew O’Hagan’s […]

Critics were divided again this year in trying to determine which actor had done best by the Bard in 2008 – so, in the 20th annual Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, announced today (27 January 2009) […]

Martin Harvey (pictured), who recently joined the cast of Dirty Dancing in the West End (See News::E8821222856403, 1 Oct 2008), has won the Spotlight Best Male Dancer (Classical) prize at this year’s Critics’ Circle National […]

It's not entirely doom and gloom economically. Figures, released today by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), show that Theatreland has managed to beat – just – its own box office records again in 2008, […]

A busy week of major openings in London includes: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 26 January 2009 (previews from 22 January), John Tiffany directs the National Theatre of Scotland production of Be Near Me adapted by Ian […]

Has Joe Orton's subversive humour survived beyond the ‘Swinging Sixties'? As the current mini Orton festival continues this week with the West End opening of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Michael Coveney asks comedy stars Kathy Burke, […]

Chichester Festival will mount an extended season this summer, running at least one month and two shows more than usual. Early productions – featuring a starry line-up including Diana Rigg, Felicity Kendal and Michael Pennington […]