Month: June 2010

Shunt’s latest site-specific show Money::E8831257154612 has extended its run by a further three months, and is now booking until 25 September 2010.The show is staged on a three-storey set in a former tobacco warehouse on […]

The new season at Leicester Curve includes the world premiere of Akram Khan’s new dance piece Vertical Road, a Christmas production of The King and I starring Janie Dee, and new version of Hot Stuff, […]

Miss Lilly Gets Boned or The Loss of All Elephant Elders is a suitably cheeky title for this mischievous new play by Bekah Brunstetter. It is perhaps a tad dismissive too, with the elephant part […]

Playwright, screenwriter and novelist Alan Plater has died from cancer at the age of 75. Born and raised in the north east of England (first Jarrow, then Hull), he rose to prominence as a scriptwriter […]

More rumours about Shrek, which looks like a shoo-in for the Theatre Royal Drury Lane now that Oliver! has posted closing notices there for January. According to today’s Daily Mail, the screen-to-stage musical is likely […]

Full casting has now been confirmed for this autumn's John Simm-headed offering of Hamlet, which runs at Sheffield Crucible from 22 September to 23 October 2010 (previews from 16 September). John Nettles – best known […]

Following the early closure of The Fantasticks on Saturday (26 June 2010), the Duchess Theatre will find itself home to a certain pipe-smoking detective, with Peter Egan and Robert Daws leading the cast in The […]

Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove, who starred together in TV's Judge John Deed, will reunite on stage in a revival of Clifford Odets' 1950 play The Country Girl. Following a tour launching from Windsor next […]