Whats On Stage

Max Stafford-Clark has enjoyed an acclaimed and prolific directing career. In 1974 he founded Joint Stock, which premiered the work of writers including David Hare and Caryl Churchill, before becoming the longest-serving artistic director of […]

The award-winning 2006 Menier Chocolate Factory production of Little Shop of Horrors, which subsequently transferred to the West End for a six-month run in 2007, is to embark on a UK tour, beginning at the […]

Full casting has been announced for the Old Vic’s revival of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, which runs from 5 March to 9 May 2009 (previews from 26 February), in the recently reconfigured main house […]

Amongst the major openings in London this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 12 January 2009 (previews from 7 January), Steve Thompson’s new play Roaring Trade, directed by Roxana Silbert, premieres at Soho Theatre. Set on […]

As the long-anticipated revival of Oliver! opens in the West End this week, Roger Foss finds out from ‘people's' Nancy' Jodie Prenger and Burn Gorman, who plays her brutal lover Bill Sikes, why there's more […]

Comedian and actor Phil Nichol stars in the first major London revival of Sam Shepard's 1994 psychological thriller Simpatico, which opens this week's at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington. Born in Scotland and […]

As previously tipped (See The Goss::E8821217850469, 4 Aug 2008), Steven Berkoff's new stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1954 movie classic On the Waterfront is transferring to the West End. Following its try-outs last year at […]

Olivia Turnbull is the author of Bringing Down the House: The Crisis in Britain’s Regional Theatres, which was published in November. Here, she looks at the recent problems at the historic Bristol Old Vic, and […]

The French Institute in London today (7 January 2009) launched Paris Calling, the first ever Franco-British season dedicated to performing arts, which will present a wide array of contemporary drama, circus and dance productions at […]

When Cirque du Soleil last rolled into town in 2001 with Quidam (it's pronounced key-dam, Latin for an anonymous passer-by), Battersea Power Station formed a colossal art deco backdrop to a fairy-tale “Grand Chapiteau” circus […]