Whats On Stage

“Everybody’s got the right to their dreams” is how we are introduced to nine assassins – or would-be assassins – of American presidents, from Abe Lincoln all the way up to Ronald Reagan. This seems […]

Jeff Goldblum has returned to the London stage to star in Terry Johnson’s revival of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, the Old Vic’s first West End production beyond its home on the Cut, at the […]

Heads of major arts organisations including the Arts Council, National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company have appealed directly to prime minister David Cameron in a bid to avoid "catastrophic" funding cuts in the imminent Spending […]

Avenue Q has posted closing notices at Wyndham’s Theatre. It will finish on 30 October 2010, after more than four years and three homes in the West End. There are no plans to move the […]

Every revival of both parts of Henry IV – six hours of comedy, history and tragedy commingled – confirms their greatness as a panoramic view of England on the move across its widest social range. […]

The Theatres Trust’s fifth annual Theatre Buildings at Risk register (TBAR), published today, highlights a number of theatres at risk of “imminent demolition”. They include Workington Opera House, which its owners intend to demolish and […]

Starkest East London: Punchdrunk and ENO slug it out inside a drab modern building. The promenade kings in a site-specific collision with grand opera. This is high-risk drama: could be great art or car crash. […]

A rare revival of Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing will be staged at the Whatsonstage.com Award-winning Union Theatre from 29 September to 23 October 2010, with a cast led by Anna-Jane Casey and Gary Milner.Featuring […]

Jeff Goldblum's brilliant duel with Kevin Spacey two years ago in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow was a highlight in the recent annals of the Old Vic. Goldblum's pairing with Mercedes Ruehl in Neil Simon's 1971 Broadway […]

Forty years after the seminal film version, a special adaptation of E. Nesbit’s classic 1906 novel The Railway Children pulled into Waterloo Station last night (12 July 2010, previews from 4 July) to commence a […]