Whats On Stage

It’s not so easy to high-five with knives, but the scything gestures and cutting shapes of hand movements in Matthew Bourne’s glorious fairytale suggest a communal dance relationship between the hand-sheared boy and the suburban […]

One year before he was lost in an air-bound spying mission in 1944, the French writer and adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupery published his extraordinary children's story, The Little Prince, in which a pilot crashes in […]

David Tennant (pictured) missed last night's preview performance of Hamlet (8 December 2008) due to a back injury, although it is believed he will return for tonight's opening. It's the first performance Tennant has missed […]

David Suchet (pictured) and Elizabeth McGovern will join Richard Dreyfuss in the world premiere of Joe Sutton's new political drama Complicit, directed by his Hollywood peer Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic (See News::E8821225705662, 3 […]

Amongst the major openings in London this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 8 December 2008 (previews from 28 November), the Young Vic celebrates Christmas Brazilian-style with Amazonia, a production inspired by the stories and culture […]

The new so-called “Holocaust musical” Imagine This has posted closing notices at the West End's New London theatre, where it had been booking until 28 February 2009. It will now have its final performance on […]

Attempting to produce for the stage what many argue is Charles Dickens‘ greatest book is always going to be a challenge. However, the Library Theatre's new production, adapted by Neil Bartlett, not only conveys the […]

Yes, it's that time of year again – ‘Tis indeed the season to be all things festive. Theatrically speaking, this means an onslaught of pantomimes, musicals, literary adaptations, and some more avant-garde fringe choices. The […]

Pele Productions and The Lowry had a huge hit with their last trip to Kansas four years ago, so you cannot blame them for revisiting The Wizard Of Oz again, this Christmas. This time around […]

As previously tipped (See The Goss::E8821223313909, 6 Oct 2008), the West End will soon get another dose of Alan Ayckbourn, with the transfer of the prolific playwright's own production of his 1985 black comedy Woman […]