Whats On Stage

An industry VIP event this evening in Leicester Square will get Theatreland fully in the West End Live mood. But the Whatsonstage.com team will be back tomorrow morning to kick things off properly from 11am […]

Having been so enthusiastic about the most recent Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of a classic story (the wonderful Arabian Nights from last Christmas), I arrived in Stratford with high hopes for their latest venture – […]

The first round of across-the-board cuts promised by the new government amounts to a loss of another £19 million from Arts Council England’s 2010/11 budget from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and […]

British film star Ben Barnes will return to the stage to star as Stephen Wraysford in the world premiere stage version of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong, according to today's Daily Mail. The adaptation of the best-selling […]

A new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly opened at the Almeida Theatre last night (16 June, previews from 10 June). Adapted by Andrew Upton (who translated Philistines at the NT in […]

Chatter has been revving up around the expected West End transfer of Broadway screen-to-stage musical Shrek. Previously tipped for the London Palladium – which is no longer available with The Wizard of Oz succeeding Sister […]

Helen McCrory is currently starring in the Donmar Warehouse’s revival of Simon Gray’s The Late Middle Classes, which continues to 17 July. McCrory has a long association with the Donmar, where previous credits include Old […]

Our Big Debate polls are back! And, following the conclusion of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the BBC’s latest programme Over the Rainbow, the first in our new series poses a question that’s been attracting lots […]

Sebastian Horsley, the self-styled dandy, artist and writer, has died aged 47. The news comes just two days after the premiere of the play adapted from his memoirs, Dandy in the Underworld. A statement from […]

Lulu is all things to all men, a fact reflected by her assortment of pet names – ‘Mignon’, ‘Eve’, ‘Lolly’, ‘Katya’. In this Gate/Headlong production, she’s a blonde bombshell (Sinead Matthews) with a husky voice […]