Whats On Stage

Ira Levin’s 1978 comic thriller Deathtrap has received its first West End revival thanks to director Matthew Warchus, who helms a cast led by Simon Russell Beale and Glee star Jonathan Groff. Russell Beale plays […]

The cast of Matthew Warchus’ revival of Deathtrap celebrated their opening night at the Noel Coward Theatre last night (7 September 2010, previews from 21 August), watched by a host of fellow actors including Sue […]

Ira Levin's 1978 Deathtrap followed Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth in being a superior thriller masquerading as a charade. In the film, Michael Caine snogged Christopher Reeve, and director Matthew Warchus incorporates that one change into this […]

Last night (6 September 2010) Whatsonstage.com theatregoers battled the London tube strike for an Outing to the world premiere production of Shoes at Sadler’s Wells – and, despite the transport troubles, stayed on afterwards for […]

As Hit Me! The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury hits the West End this week after its success at last month’s Edinburgh Fringe, a new musical inspired by the Blockheads’ frontman prepares to premiere […]

Lebanese playwright Wajdi Mouawad tells a sad story of the civil war in his country that assumes the dimension of a Greek tragedy, atmospherically enhanced by the bricks and dampness of the Old Vic Tunnels, […]

The Cock Tavern Theatre in Kilburn is staging a nine-week Edward Bond season, kicking off later this month, including the UK premiere of his 1993 play Olly’s Prison, the first professional production of 2005’s The […]

Another Broadway musical aiming to muscle its way into the West End in 2011 is Million Dollar Quartet. The show takes its title from the name given to what's considered one of the greatest impromptu […]

“Turn your phones off” or “no filming in the venue”. That’s what so many perceive as being Front of House (FOH) staff at a theatre. Stood there in their black and white uniforms, big smiles […]

As a freelance journalist, I once interviewed the co-authors of a manual entitled A Guide to Surviving Life as a Mistress, two women who knew exceedingly well of what they wrote, having spent decades as […]