Month: April 2009

As jukebox musicals go, Shout! has a bigger record collection than most. Almost 40 songs are featured (some only in part) during the course of a show not so much dripping with nostalgia as drowning […]

What will survive of us is love, Philip Larkin said, and this skilful plundering of the last autobiographical volumes of Simon Gray, by the author himself (before he died in 2008) and his friend Hugh […]

Comedian Frank Skinner (pictured) will return to the West End’s Lyric Theatre this autumn for a third stint of his Monday-night cabaret residency (See News::E8831236790938, 12 Mar 2009). Ten extra dates – weekly from 12 […]

Before it’s started previewing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sean Mathias’ revival of Samuel Beckett’s 1955 classic Waiting for Godot, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, has extended its limited season by a month (See […]

Former X Factor finalist Maria Lawson has joined the cast of Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live, which has extended its run at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue by another four months. Following a 2006 […]

A press conference was held today to announce the Stories of the World initiative, one of the ten major projects being organised at part of the four-year London 2012 Cultural Olympiad (See News::E8821222341789, 25 Sep […]

Before it’s started previewing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sean Mathias’ revival of Samuel Beckett’s 1955 classic Waiting for Godot, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, has extended its limited season by a month (See […]