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News: Pubs and theatre. An age-old pairing.
This exciting project will no doubt resonate with anyone that has ever stepped into a pub, so this February, grab your pint of Drunken Nights and witness something completely original and unique.
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News: The 28 Day Project launches wonderful opportunities
The 28 Day Project is an exciting initiative offering emerging talent a step into the film business.
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Have you got the Star Wars X Factor?
Thousands turned away at open auditions after standing in the rain for hours.
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News: TheatreCraft returns to help young people’s backstage careers
The 8th annual event returns to the Royal Opera House later this month.
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BLOG: Theatre: the best casino shows around the world
Casinos around the world offer some of the best theatrical entertainment you can find.
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BLOG: 5 Best Actors in Superhero Cinema
Is “superhero” acting any less challenging?
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Blog: Films to study for inspiration
Watching great actors can often inform your own work.
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Blog: Shakespeare experimenting with the limits of contemporary drama
Briony Rawle heads to Yorkshire and takes a closer look at Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
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Review: Bat Boy, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
A campy fun musical with bite screams Douglas Mayo.
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Review: Visitors, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Barney Norris first full-length play is an exquisitely written examination of love and loss, writes Alex Delaney.
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Review: 1984, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This fresh vision of 1984 feels like a rediscovery of Orwell’s dystopia, writes Sophia Longhi.
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Review: Secret Theatre – Show 4, Lyric Hammersmith ✭✭✭✭
This review comes with a capitalised, emboldened and even italicised, SPOILER ALERT. That should do, writes Briony Rawle.
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Gossip: Chris Noth Makes West End Debut Thanks to Ronnie Wood???
Chris Noth, aka Sex and the City’s Mr Big, will be making a West End debut of sorts tonight – he’s acting as emcee for An Evening with Ronnie Wood[readmore]
Tuesday 19th October 2010 -
Interview: WOS TV: Up Close With … Roy Hudd
Comedian and actor Roy Hudd is best known for his long-running Radio 2 series The News Huddlines, and not West End appearances. Strange considering his myriad of theatrical credits including[readmore]
Monday 18th October 2010 -
Gossip: Boublil & Schonberg Revisit Marguerite???
Martin Guerre isn't the only musical that Boublil and Schonberg are revisiting. Boublil also told The Stage newspaper that he and his long-time writing partner are reworking another, more recent[readmore]
Monday 18th October 2010 -
Gossip: Actor-Musician Martin Guerre Revived in 2011???
Craig Revel Horwood’s 2007 actor-musician makeover of the 1996 West End musical Martin Guerre was so effective that it’s inspired the show’s authors, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, and original[readmore]
Monday 18th October 2010 -
Blog: Guy opens a New Chapter
That wonderful but only fairly well known actor Guy Henry is about to become a national institution: he follows Barbara Windsor and Roberta Taylor into soap stardom this week by[readmore]
Monday 18th October 2010 -
News: New Red Lion Opens with Themed Comedy Season
Eighty-seat performance space The New Red Lion opens in Islington today (18 October 2010), located round the corner from its parent venue, pub theatre the Old Red Lion. The new[readmore]
Monday 18th October 2010 -
News: Opening: Tomorrow, Tribes, La Soirée & Primadoona
Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are: OPENING TUESDAY, 19 October 2010 (previews from 12 October), Jon Lee and Julie Atherton star[readmore]
Monday 18th October 2010 -
Review: Terror 2010: Death & Resurrection **
Last year’s “Terror” season at Southwark Playhouse began with a punter (or a plant) being forcefully ejected; this year, the corpse on the trolley during Sarah-Louise Young’s opening song is[readmore]
Sunday 17th October 2010 -
News: Puss in Boots Forced to Cancel Christmas at Arts
The planned West End production of Christmas pantomime Puss in Boots, which was due to run at the Arts Theatre from 30 November 2010 (previews from 18 November) to 9[readmore]
Friday 15th October 2010 -
Blog: Kim Comes Home as Cleo
The last time I saw Kim Cattrall laid out in wait for a man, she was stripped stark naked and dotted about with sushi. That was in the first Sex[readmore]
Friday 15th October 2010