This month we throw the director into the spotlight with a small heap of practical guides, including John Caird’s hefty Theatre Craft: A Director’s Practical Companion from A to Z[readmore]

Billy Bragg and his band will appear at the Wellcome Collection from 19 April to 12 May 2010 in Pressure Drop, a ‘part play, part gig, part installation’ with original[readmore]

Amongst the major London openings – in the West End and further afield – this week are:
OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 15 March 2010 (previews from 10 March), Penelope Skinner's black comedy[readmore]

Ahead of the Olivier Awards on Sunday (21 March 2010), we’ve put together a selection of video clips from the annual nominees lunch, which took place at the Haymarket Hotel[readmore]

You could never accuse Andrew Lloyd Webber of not working hard. Just days after premiering his Phantom follow-up, Love Never Dies, it’s straight on to the next big project: his[readmore]

The Barbican Centre’s 2010/11 programme will include the UK premiere of a ‘dramatised concert’ retelling of the life of an Austrian serial killer, starring Hollywood star John Malkovich.
Titled The Infernal[readmore]

In a week when theatre blogging became a news story in itself critic David Cote put forward the case for why professional theatre critics are still needed. Esther at Gratuitous[readmore]

Former Hear’Say singer Noel Sullivan, who is currently making his West End debut as Danny in Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre, has hinted he will star in Flashdance when it[readmore]

Welsh actor and singer Noel Sullivan rose to fame as a member of the pop group Hear’Say, who were formed by winners of the 2001 reality show Popstars.
Since the[readmore]

Anna Nicole, Richard Thomas’ long-planned opera based on the life of the late American glamour model and reputed “gold-digger” Anna Nicole Smith, will receive its world premiere at the Royal[readmore]