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The Pirates Of Penzance

Published: 17 April 2008

If there was a list of ideal places to stage The Pirates Of Penzance, a replica galleon would probably be fairly near the top, possibly just underneath a desert island… Read More

The Last Five Years

Published: 17 April 2008

The unravelling of a couple’s relationship is often played out for all the world to see, with its simmering arguments, startling confessions, and a ‘he said, she said’ airing of… Read More

The Boy Friend

Published: 17 April 2008

Ah, the French Riviera: where young aristocratic English girls are sent to become fine women, ripe for marriage; where the sun always shines; where cheerfulness is almost constant. In Regent’s… Read More

The First Night Feature: Blonde Bombshells of 1943

Published: 17 April 2008

Based on his BAFTA award-winning The Last Of The Blonde Bombshells, which starred Dame Judi Dench, Ian Holm and Leslie Caron, Alan Pater’s stage version, Blonde Bombshells of 1943, swung… Read More

Under The Black Flag

Published: 17 April 2008

Have you ever wondered how Long John Silver lost his leg? Or why he wasn’t called Short John Silver? No? Well Simon Bent wants to tell you anyway, because his… Read More

Antony And Cleopatra

Published: 17 April 2008

Third to open in Shakespeare’s Globe’s The Edges Of Rome season is Antony And Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s history of the political powers of Egypt and Rome and the passion between Roman… Read More

The Canterbury Tales (Parts I & II)

Published: 17 April 2008

Bringing Chaucer’s epic story of pilgrims wending their way towards Canterbury to the stage is a gargantuan project, especially when you intend to use almost all of the tales. But… Read More

A History Of The World Backwards

Published: 17 April 2008

After last year’s two-week sell-out run at the Tricycle, it was inevitable that Robert Newman would return to the scene of his triumph with his new show, No Planet B… Read More

Eh Joe

Published: 17 April 2008

This production of Samuel Beckett’s play, adapted from the original television play by director Atom Egoyan, is an eerie, bizarre event which certainly does not make for an average night… Read More

See How They Run

Published: 17 April 2008

By the time the visiting Bishop of Lax proclaims ‘Sergeant, arrest most of these vicars!’ there are more men of the cloth on the Duchess stage than the non-ordained. How… Read More

On The Third Day

Published: 17 April 2008

During the televised search for a new play to put on in the West End, the panel of the Channel 4 programme The Play’s The Thing – producer Sonia Friedman,… Read More

The First Night Feature: Avenue Q

Published: 17 April 2008

It has been described as Sesame Street for adults, but new musical Avenue Q is much more than that. The show, which originated off-Broadway before leaping onto the Great White… Read More

Maria Friedman

Published: 17 April 2008

Maria Friedman is one of the world’s most renowned and versatile musical actresses, who has wowed audiences in a host of shows ranging from Oklahoma! to Chicago. She is currently… Read More

Fool For Love

Published: 17 April 2008

A desolate motel room: the bed is functional, but little else, the desk is cold and unloved. Through the windows, the flashing of the neon sign can be seen. This… Read More

A Voyage Round My Father

Published: 17 April 2008

In the programme notes to the Donmar Warehouse production of A Voyage Round My Father, 83-year-old playwright John Mortimer writes that he still refers to the standards by which his… Read More

Market Boy

Published: 17 April 2008

The National’s Olivier theatre plays host to an entire shopping centre this summer as it launches David Eldridge’s new play Market Boy. Featuring a cast of 30 actors – some… Read More

Bill Hicks: Slight Return

Published: 17 April 2008

Since  interpretation of Hicks’s views on such subjects as the Iraq war, the state of the music industry (Dido and Coldplay are particular targets), 9/11, the presidency of George W… Read More

Sunday In The Park With George

Published: 17 April 2008

Sam Buntrock’s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday In The Park With George opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory last year. Following much acclaim it has transferred to the larger Wyndham’s… Read More

Daniel Evans

Published: 17 April 2008

Daniel Evans has a voice that sounds like a warm breeze working its way idly through a grassy valley where sheep casually graze; a musical Welsh lilt to which you… Read More

Kim Cattrall

Published: 17 April 2008

Kim Cattrall is one of America’s most renowned actresses. She has won Golden Globe Awards, starred in Hollywood blockbusters and been a regular on stage in plays in virtually all… Read More

The Changeling

Published: 17 April 2008

In Cheek By Jowl’s 25th year, the innovative theatre company has found a home at the Barbican, where it will present two pieces each year for the next three years,… Read More

Coriolanus

Published: 17 April 2008

There are some things in life you just don’t do, such as tickling an angry lion or taunting an irritable crocodile. Yet no one taught the Romans that it is… Read More

Donkeys’ Years

Published: 17 April 2008

Michael Frayn’s comedy about a university reunion may have been written almost 30 years ago, but it could just as easily be set in an Oxbridge college today. The rooms… Read More

Motortown

Published: 17 April 2008

Simon Stephens won a 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for his play On The Shore Of The Wide World. Last night his new work Motortown had its premiere at the Royal… Read More

Hay Fever

Published: 17 April 2008

It is always an event not to be missed when seven-time Laurence Olivier Award winner Dame Judi Dench takes to the West End stage, and last night was no exception.… Read More

Footloose The Musical

Published: 17 April 2008

Footloose the film rates near the top of the list of classic teen movies; the ones where misunderstood kids move to new towns, trouble follows them, but at the end… Read More

Breakfast With Mugabe

Published: 17 April 2008

After its initial run in Stratford as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s New Works season, Anthony Sher’s production of Breakfast with Mugabe now transfers to London’s Soho theatre. The… Read More

Mack And Mabel

Published: 17 April 2008

Jerry Herman is the only composer/lyricist in history to have had three musicals exceed 1,500 consecutive performances on Broadway. Mack And Mabel, a show that Herman considers a ‘favourite child’,… Read More

Philip Quast and Matt Rawle

Published: 17 April 2008

In a year that promises to be a boon time for fans of musical theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita is among the first of the eagerly awaited… Read More

Jason Donovan

Published: 17 April 2008

It takes a special kind of guy to invent sweets that play tunes, raise two children, be at ease dancing with a bamboo cane and fly a car with a… Read More

Summer Strallen

Published: 17 April 2008

Summer has come to Regent’s Park’s Open Air theatre in more ways than one this year. Joining the season of long days and exposed flesh is actress Summer Strallen who,… Read More

Tom Conti

Published: 17 April 2008

Tom Conti is starring in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell at the Garrick until 2 September. He talks to Laura North about cigarettes, alcohol and falling asleep. The date for my… Read More

Philip York

Published: 17 April 2008

He’s enjoyed a long career as a company actor, with frequent appearances for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, but now Philip York has taken the plunge and… Read More

Antony Costa

Published: 17 April 2008

Antony Costa has already lived a hell of a life. For five years he was one quarter of Blue, one of the world’s most lauded and applauded pop acts. He… Read More

The Crucible at the Gielgud theatre

Published: 17 April 2008

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible now transfers to London’s Gielgud theatre after a successful run in Stratford. Written in response to the McCarthy communist hunts… Read More

Smaller

Published: 17 April 2008

Carmel Morgan’s list of television writing credits includes Shameless, Reintarnation, Brookside and Coronation Street, and now she has turned her talent for sharp observations of British society to theatre. Her… Read More

Movin’ Out

Published: 17 April 2008

The 2,348-seat Apollo Victoria has long been home to some of the West End’s most famous musicals. Now, sandwiched between Saturday Night Fever and the Broadway transfer of Wicked, which… Read More

Members Only

Published: 17 April 2008

It’s been a while since the Trafalgar Studios hosted an English translation of a French comedy. The last, when the theatre was still the Whitehall, was the hugely successful, long-running… Read More

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

Published: 17 April 2008

Ken Kesey’s novel about life in a psychiatric institution in 1960s America has been adapted for the stage by Dale Wasserman, and had a sell-out run at the Gielgud theatre… Read More

Denis Quilley

Published: 17 April 2008

With an early career that included selling toys at Selfridges and washing up at the Dorchester, I guess you could say that veteran actor Denis Quilley has worked in all… Read More

Reece Shearsmith

Published: 17 April 2008

Reece Shearsmith takes a very different view of himself to much of the entertainment world. As a member of The League Of Gentlemen he created one of the most lauded… Read More

Belinda Lang

Published: 17 April 2008

After a troublesome start, with previews being cancelled due to Judi Dench being ill, Hay Fever finally kicked off at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. For Belinda Lang, playing Myra Arundel… Read More

Cheryl Baker

Published: 17 April 2008

The career of Cheryl Baker has been nothing if not varied. Starting as a session singer, Baker found fame as one quarter of British 80s popsters Bucks Fizz, who collected… Read More

Christian Slater & Alex Kingston

Published: 17 April 2008

Due to popular demand, Tamara Harvey and Terry Johnson’s production of Dale Wasserman’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is back in the West End for a limited run until… Read More

Timothy West

Published: 17 April 2008

Behind the stage of the Trafalgar Studio 1 is a corridor-like space packed with chairs, props and a couple of radiators; a scene reminiscent of a church jumble sale or… Read More

Megan Dodds

Published: 17 April 2008

My Name Is Rachel Corrie is the one-woman play based on the real-life writings of a young American peace activist who lost her life in Gaza. A sell-out success during… Read More

Whistle Down The Wind

Published: 17 April 2008

In the Deep South of America, 15-year-old Swallow finds a man hidden and bleeding in her father’s barn. When she asks who he is, his first reaction is to exclaim… Read More

My Name Is Rachel Corrie

Published: 17 April 2008

My Name Is Rachel Corrie, which sold out runs at both Royal Court theatres, was due to transfer to the New York Theatre Workshop this spring. Following discussions about the… Read More

The Old Country

Published: 17 April 2008

Alan Bennett’s play about a traitor in exile is set entirely in a house in the middle of a forest. As Timothy West’s Hilary points out, it could be almost… Read More

Period Of Adjustment

Published: 17 April 2008

It’s an odd experience to come in from the snow, only to find that it is snowing inside, but this is the experience shared by last night’s audience at the… Read More

Trade

Published: 17 April 2008

The RSC brings its second annual season of new work to London from Stratford, showcasing five British and American playwrights who focus on international themes. Debbie Tucker Green kicks off… Read More

Gavin Creel

Published: 17 April 2008

Mary Poppins has been a sell-out success since it opened in London two years ago, bringing the characters of PL Travers to life on stage. Nearly as famous as the… Read More

Sinatra At The London Palladium

Published: 17 April 2008

The stars were out in force for the world premiere of the new musical Sinatra At The London Palladium. The black tie and the red carpet seemed entirely appropriate given… Read More

The Winterling

Published: 17 April 2008

A burnt out barn complete with animal skull looming over the fireplace, a circular saw blade sitting in the grate and its own personal mad moorland hobo with a hatred… Read More

Pete And Dud: Come Again

Published: 17 April 2008

It is seems to be the season for shows about comedy double acts. First we got Steptoe And Son in Murder At Oil Drum Lane; now we have arguably Britain’s… Read More

As You Like It at the Novello theatre

Published: 17 April 2008

Following A Midsummer Night’s Dream, cavorting in the forest continues at the Novello theatre with As You Like It, the last of the four comedies presented by the Royal Shakespeare… Read More

Resurrection Blues

Published: 17 April 2008

How would people react if the Son of God returned to the world now, revealing himself as a guerrilla in a revolutionary war? This is a question, whether Miller meant… Read More

The Cut

Published: 17 April 2008

Sir Ian McKellen is back in the West End hot on the heels of receiving the Special Award at this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards last Sunday. In Mark Ravenhill’s new… Read More

Joseph Mydell

Published: 17 April 2008

Ah, the month of March; in any normal country it would be the time of year when spring is in the air. In London, though, everything is still decidedly wintry,… Read More

Kris Marshall

Published: 17 April 2008

Over the last few years, Kris Marshall has become one of the most recognised faces on the British screen. A stint in the hugely popular BBC sitcom My Family was… Read More

Anita Dobson

Published: 17 April 2008

The role of Hamlet’s mother Queen Gertrude is not the happiest of parts, but the woman who is occupying it at the New Ambassadors theatre is one very happy lady,… Read More

Laura Wade

Published: 17 April 2008

Last year was probably one of the finest in the life of young playwright Laura Wade; she achieved something many more experienced playwrights rarely do by having two new plays… Read More

Nancy Carroll

Published: 17 April 2008

Nancy Carroll is starring alongside Charlotte Rampling and Antony Calf in Martin Crimp’s acclaimed new version of Marivaux’s The False Servant at the National Theatre. Laura North met her to… Read More

Steptoe And Son in Murder At Oil Drum Lane

Published: 17 April 2008

The dirty old man and his long-tortured son are back, but this time on the stage. During the 1960s and 1970s, sitcom Steptoe And Son was one of the UK’s… Read More

David Troughton

Published: 17 April 2008

David Troughton looks like a Shakespearean lead, which is a good thing, because he is one. Nestling somewhere in between craggy and handsome, with a not insignificant dollop of rugged… Read More

The Big Interview: Blue Man Group

Published: 17 April 2008

You’ve seen the posters on the tube and maybe heard a thing or two about mess, waterproof ponchos and (horrors!) audience participation. But the quirky New York import Blue Man… Read More

Hamlet at the New Ambassadors theatre

Published: 17 April 2008

With two plays in the West End this spring (The Old Country opens in March), English Touring Theatre is on a roll. Director Stephen Unwin, former recipient of the Shakespeare’s… Read More

Honour

Published: 17 April 2008

Diana Rigg, Martin Jarvis and Natascha McElhone are currently treading the boards at Wyndham’s theatre in a marital drama by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by David Grindley. Caroline Bishop… Read More

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Novello Theatre 2008

Published: 17 April 2008

The third instalment in the RSC’s Comedies season, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opened last night at the Novello. Shakespeare’s much-loved tale of fairies cavorting in the woods, love spells and… Read More

Missing Persons

Published: 17 April 2008

Greg Hicks is widely regarded as one of the finest stage actors of his generation. The classical theatre regular, who was last seen in London playing Coriolanus at the Old… Read More

Believe What You Will

Published: 17 April 2008

Philip Massinger’s Believe What You Will was originally written about Sebastian, King of Portugal. When the censor decreed the subject too sensitive to be broached, Massinger shifted the setting and… Read More

All My Sons star James Hazeldine

Published: 17 April 2008

Tonight the National Theatre plays host once again to Arthur Miller’s powerful drama All My Sons, a drama which caused a great stir when it originally opened just two years… Read More

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Published: 17 April 2008

Edward Albee’s play has had several incarnations since it was first a Broadway hit in 1962. The married couple around which the plot centres has created some weighty pairings through… Read More

The Creeper

Published: 17 April 2008

It is nine years since Ian Richardson last set foot on a West End stage. Perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Francis Urquhart in the TV drama… Read More

Derren Brown

Published: 17 April 2008

Begoateed, whimsical, and able to read you as easily as the top row of letters on an optician's test board, Derren Brown is one of the cult faces of 21st… Read More
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