Whats On Stage

Curious times at the Bush. After all the fuss over nearly losing the Arts Council grant, the place has subsided into virtual silence, with a series of technical problems, a makeshift programme and most recently […]

Skins and About a Boy screen star Nicholas Hoult (pictured) will make his West End debut appearing alongside Mel Giedroyc and Hollyoaks' Ciara Janson, also making her West End debut, in the stage adaptation of […]

Actor-director Douglas Hodge stars as drag queen Albin in Terry Johnson's acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory production of Broadway musical comedy La Cage Aux Folles, now transferred to the West End. As an actor, he has […]

The latest “theatre essay” by director Mick Gordon and neuropsychologist Paul Broks is a tense domestic comedy dressed up as a demonstration of emotional dysfunction. It looks good, like a low budget Complicite-style space odyssey […]

Apparently, Ronald Harwood plays are like buses: you wait for ages and then two come along at once. The two – so we hear – are a revival of 1995's Taking Sides::E8821217414305 and Harwood's new […]

While the majority of writing traffic seems to flow from theatre to television or film, it's always encouraging to see the occasional reversal of direction. Ian Kennedy Martin – who, after decades of TV success […]

What does the future hold for the development of new British musical theatre? As part of this year's Perfect Pitch – the showcase for homegrown musicals, which is supported for a second year by Whatsonstage.com […]

Ciaran Hinds (pictured) and Rory Kinnear will star in Peter Flannery's new stage adaptation of the 1994 Oscar-winning Russian film Burnt by the Sun (Utomlyonnye solntsem), which receives its world premiere, directed by Howard Davies, […]

Actress Melanie La Barrie has been performing professionally on stage since she was eight years old. Having grown up in Trinidad, and hosted a daily morning programme on Trinidad's main radio station, she now lives […]

Amongst the major openings in London this week are: OPENING MONDAY, 10 November 2008, Shelagh Stephenson's docu-drama The Long Road returns to the Soho Theatre after a sell-out run at the same venue earlier this […]