Whats On Stage

New musical Rue Magique, based on the relationship between a south London prostitute and her teenage daughter, receives its world premiere at the King's Head theatre later this month (29 October 2008, previews from 21 […]

TV funnymen were out in force to cheer on their fellow, David Walliams, who's making his stage acting debut in Harold Pinter's No Man’s Land, which opened last night (7 October 2008, previews from 27 […]

Yes, but what does it all mean? Kenneth Tynan railed against the “gratuitous obscurity” of Harold Pinter's poetic 1975 play when it was first produced by Peter Hall at the National starring John Gielgud as […]

Perfect Pitch – the showcase for developing homegrown musicals, which is supported for a second year by Whatsonstage.com – has selected six promising musicals to present in its first-ever West End season, running from 25 […]

Amongst the major openings in London this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 6 October 2008 (previews from 11 September), Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests (Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden) […]

Ashley Walters achieved fame as Asher D of So Solid Crew (and notoriety in 2002, when he spent nine months in a young offenders' institute after being convicted of carrying a loaded hand gun) and […]

You could say that Waste by Harley Granville Barker is exactly the sort of play the National Theatre should be doing, and Samuel West's magisterial, superbly cast revival at the Almeida – the first in […]

Modern twists within Shakespeare's plays are not unusual and they do make the Bard's work accessible. Frantic Assembly's adaptation of Othello works on many levels, but is not without flaws. This ground breaking theatre company […]

One woman. Three men. And how they affect – and are affected by – a rural community in the 19th century. Landowners and their whims are not the only inconstant in these people's lives. There […]

Director Terry Hands was co-founder of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in 1964 before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966 as director of Theatregoround, then an associate. He was the RSC's joint artistic director (1976-86) […]