A popular contemporary opera? An oxymoron, no? There are, of course, many music enthusiasts that would run a mile from Philip Glass in the cinema, or the concert hall, let[readmore]

Hattie Morahan, Barnaby Kay and Fenella Woolgar will join Toby Stephens in Anna Mackmin’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s award-winning 1982 play The Real Thing, which runs from 21 April to[readmore]

Corks were popping and champagne flowing last night (24 February 2010) at the Leicester Square Theatre, where Kylie Minogue's stylist William Baker, who previously “remixed” Rent in the West End,[readmore]

Exeter’s Northcott Theatre has gone into administration, it has been announced. According to a press statement from Arts Council England, the decision was made at a meeting of the Board[readmore]

Actor Iain Glen made his directorial debut this week, helming a production of Ibsen's 1881 classic Ghosts, in a new version by Frank McGuinness, in which he also stars with[readmore]

The worlds of TV sci-fi and musical theatre have collided in a bonus track on John Barrowman’s forthcoming solo album.
Recorded exclusively for the iTunes version of the album, "The Doctor[readmore]

In adapting his 1995 novel for the stage, Pat McCabe acknowledges the debt The Dead School owes to Tadeusz Kantor's The Dead Class, that haunting Polish masterpiece of ancient memories[readmore]

London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall
A couple of weeks ago I was bemoaning the fact that Prokofiev’s The Gambler was based on a novel by Dostoevsky rather than[readmore]

After transforming Wuthering Heights into a Bollywood-style musical last year (See News::E8831236987989, 19 Feb 2009), British Asian theatre company Tamasha will stage a Pakistan-set interpretation of Lorca’s The House of[readmore]

Phil Willmott’s award-winning musical Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi, written for and premiered as part of Liverpool’s reign as European City of Culture in 2008 (See News::E8821197313298, 12[readmore]