Whats On Stage

Richard Bean follows his well-crafted farcical thriller House of Games at the Almeida with another skilfully composed comedy for Max Stafford-Clark’s Out of Joint touring company. It’s as if Bean is atoning for the episodic […]

When Thomas Hengelbrock, director and founder of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, rediscovered and conducted Niobe for the Schwetzingen Festival in 2008 the Royal Opera House took the unusual step of offering the production a London […]

If you want to know what a director – a good theatre director, that is — actually does, you are going to have to read William Gaskill’s marvellous new book, Words into Action, published by […]

Krapp’s Last Tape, Beckett’s 50-minute monologue which was originally performed at the Royal Court in 1958 features Krapp who, each year on his birthday records a tape reflecting on the events in his life. The […]

Theatregoers at our Whatsonstage.com Outing to political satire Yes, Prime Minister at the West End’s Gielgud Theatre last night (24 September 2010) were treated to a post-show Q&A with principals Henry Goodman, Jonathan Slinger, David […]

Two important dates in the offstage West End calendar clashed yesterday, as the AGM of the Theatre Guild and the launch of Michael Codron’s biography by Alan Strachan went head to head within a hundred […]

Two important dates in the offstage West End calendar clashed yesterday, as the AGM of the Theatre Guild and the launch of Michael Codron’s biography by Alan Strachan went head to head within a hundred […]

Michael Crawford will play the Wizard in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Wizard of Oz, co-starring opposite Over the Rainbow winner Danielle Hope. The production opens at the West End’s London Palladium on 1 […]

Michael Crawford will play the Wizard in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Wizard of Oz, co-starring opposite Over the Rainbow winner Danielle Hope. The production opens at the West End’s London Palladium on 1 […]

Peter Hall’s Bath Theatre Royal production of The Rivals will transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, previewing from 10 November 2010, according to the Daily Mail. The production, which stars Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, […]