Month: May 2010

Alfie Boe is a Tony Award-winning, chart-topping English tenor, currently starring in English National Opera’s new production of Bizet’s early masterpiece The Pearl Fishers.Boe got his first big break care of Baz Luhrmann, who cast […]

What a barnstorming return this is for Nick Grosso, a writer who’s been off the theatrical radar for nearly ten years. This is kitchen sink drama, only now the sink sits on a faux-granite worksurface […]

I’m with Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream on this one: “I am amazed, and know not what to say.” Paradise Found is a bizarrely dreadful musical about the Shah of Persia trying to kickstart […]

The Finborough Theatre will continue its 30th anniversary year with a summer season of premieres from writers including Peter Nichols (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg) and Suzan-Lori Parks (TopDog/UnderDog) –  along with […]

Jonathan Harvey’s new play Canary, set in Liverpool over five decades, had its London premiere this week (24 May 2010) at the Hampstead Theatre, where it continues to 12 June as part of a national […]

This is a rather strange creation – watching it, you’d never believe that it’s technically the most up-to-date political satire in London. Joe McGann plays a generic recently elected Tory minister (we assume he’s Tory, […]

The Edinburgh Comedy Awards, which have previously been sponsored by Perrier and Intelligent Finance, have found a new partner this year – Fosters lager. The flagship awards, which have been won over the years by […]

We hear that Sienna Miller may be returning to the London stage to appear in the adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong, which premieres at the Comedy Theatre on 29 September 2010 (previews from 18 September), […]