Month: April 2009

It was a great idea of director Michael Kingsbury and script writer Brian Cooke to recreate five years ago the “live” recording sessions of the radio programme Round the Horne. The high nostalgia quotient mixed […]

The current touring production of Othello, which stars comedian Lenny Henry making his stage acting debut in the title role, is rumoured to be heading for a West End stage later in the year. The […]

Michael Frayn’s 1975 comedy Alphabetical Order is set in the cuttings library of a provincial newspaper where disorder reigns. A new girl arrives to tidy things up, but things fall apart anyway until, in a […]

Pinter meets Ionesco in this absorbing, disturbing, darkly comic tale of fear, anxiety and manipulation. In ten short scenes we witness the progress of a friendship that is created and developed over the period of […]

London theatregoers have a few days left to catch playwright David Hare performing Wall::E8831240218049, his new 40-minute monologue on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, at the Royal Court this week. However, if they want to see Wall::E8831240218049 […]

This year’s Almeida Summer Festival will have a distinctly avant-garde flavour, with companies Slung Low, the TEAM and Gulp all presenting new work alongside Tiata Fahodzi, who make a return following their week-long residency at […]

Samantha Spiro, Sean Campion and Joseph Mydell are amongst the actors leading the charge this summer at the Open Air Theatre, where the annual repertory runs from 15 May to 12 September 2009. It’s the […]