Month: July 2009

It’s tricky with Janacek’s Kát’a Kabanová to know where to put an interval. After the first act is too soon but placing it before the brief third act can break the concentration and disrupt the […]

The first Troilus and Cressida at the Globe is not the best I’ve seen, nor the worst, by a long chalk, and Matthew Dunster’s production keeps an audience busy with its parade of characters in […]

TV presenter and comedian Richard Blackwood will make his West End debut in the transfer of Debbie Allen’s Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which has a limited season at […]

Every week our theatregoer reporter Corinne Furness trawls the web to find some of the best gems from the myriad theatre-related blogs and condense them into one easy-to-read “Best of the Blogs” round-up each Friday. […]

The long-awaited £28m redevelopment of Liverpool’s Everyman theatre has been given the go-ahead after Arts Council England pledged to invest £12.8m in the project. The Everyman, which was created in 1964 in a converted chapel […]

American Katori Hall’s new play The Mountaintop, about the final hours of Martin Luther King, transferred to Trafalgar Studios this week (20 July 2009, previews from 16 July), following its acclaimed premiere at Battersea’s Theatre503 […]

The story of Enron, the energy company that became, at the time, America’s biggest bankruptcy, sounds so fantastic that it could have been fashioned from the pen of a particularly imaginative writer. The fact that […]

Rupert Goold and his Headlong company returned to the Chichester Festival Theatre last night (22 July 2009, previews from 11 July), premiering Lucy Prebble’s play ENRON, about the infamous collapse of the US energy company. […]