Whats On Stage

This year’s BBC Proms in the Park on 11 September with feature performances from Oliver! star Kerry Ellis and Queen guitarist Brian May. The annual Hyde Park extravaganza – now in its 15th year – […]

Forbes Masson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s long ensemble, with which he is currently playing Merlin in Mike Poulton and Gregory Doran epic staging of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. Masson rose to fame […]

Amid the distractions of the World Cup and now Wimbledon, the West End received a welcome boost over the weekend as 250,000 people flocked to West End Live in Leicester Square. The event – the […]

As we previously Tweeted, Gemma Arterton will star as Hilda Wangel opposite Stephen Dillane as Harvard Solness in Ibsen's The Master Builder, running at the Almeida Theatre from 18 November 2010 to 8 January 2011 […]

After various workshops, Christopher Hampton’s musical version of Daphne Du Maurier’s classic 1938 novel Rebecca could be hitting the West End next year, possibly following Priscilla Queen of the Desert into the 1400-seat Palace Theatre. […]

Following the success of the Histories in 2008, the Royal Shakespeare Company will return to London's Roundhouse for ten weeks from 30 November 2010 to 5 February 2011 with eight plays performed by one company […]

Dominic West, best known to TV fans from The Wire, seems to have got the theatre bug again after his recent stint in Life Is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse. Our chief critic and […]

Amongst the major London openings in the West End and beyond this week are: OPENING TUESDAY, 21 June 2010 (previews from 15 June), Moira Buffini’s new Greek myth-inspired play Welcome to Thebes premieres at the […]

The Royal Court has been transformed into a boxing ring for Roy Williams' new play, Sucker Punch. A new circle has been built to face to the old one, so we look down on the […]

Katie Mitchell is on record stating that Idomeneo is “very difficult” to bring off as a director. She certainly proved it with her ugly, perverse and wilful production. The slate grey sea frontcloth, visible as […]