Hello all! Newsflash! Choreographer Gillian Lynne – about to be awarded a lifetime achievement award next month at the Olivier awards – has just said in The Guardian what many in the industry have been saying for a while – REALITY TV IS A DANGER TO THEATRE. Although now regarded as a truism amongst the… Read more »
Tonight is the World Premiere of a new musical at the Arts Theatre in London starring Faye Tozer, Dylan Turner and Mike McShane. THE TAILOR-MADE MAN is the true story of William Haines, the silent screen star who was fired by Louis B Mayer of MGM Studios because he was gay and refused to marry… Read more »
Terrible alliteration attempt but Shakespeare made up words too! Great news… It’s Friday and I have discovered a great offer for you lovely theatregoers… It has already opened but I wanted to let you know about a great deal to see James McAvoy in Macbeth at the Trafalgar Studios. You can see it on a… Read more »
Rupert Goold is set to take the helm of The Almeida Theatre in Islington when Michael Attenborough steps down in August this year. Attenborough – who will have been in the post for 11 years – said “I can pay Rupert no higher compliment than point to the fact that we are co-producing two shows… Read more »
The Society of London Theatre’s annual report on ticket sales have revealed that sales rose in 2012 by a modest 0.27%. All the more impressive when you consider London hosted the Olympics! Sales in theatreland racked up takings of 529.8 million pounds. The business we call show is booming. Don’t let them tell you different.… Read more »
Hi all! There’s a nothing like a good romance and David Hare’s The Judas Kiss at the Duke of York’s Theatre is nothing like a good romance, detailing as it does Oscar Wilde’s fatalistic love for Lord Alfred Douglas. It covers two nights of Wilde’s later life – the eve of his arrest at the… Read more »
Hello all! Life may be a CABARET, old chums, but they have to ring down the curtain some time and for the production at the Savoy it all comes to an end this month! If you want to see Will Young in lederhosen then you better get down to the Savoy before the 19th January.… Read more »
Agatha Christie’s iconic whodunnit The Mousetrap has been running on the West End now for 60 years. Sunday 18th November saw its 25,00th performance in St Martin’s Theatre – making it the longest running play on the West End – or indeed anywhere. After opening in The Ambassador’s Theatre in 1958 the play ran for… Read more »
G’day possums! I am just back from a jaunt down to Australia where the cultural arts are in fine form – but more of that anon… I left you with a rant about the rash of revivals about to infect our beloved West End and no sooner am I gone and don’t the creatives go… Read more »
They say all good things must come to an end. Likewise the same is true for Blood Brothers, which has announced it will close at the Phoenix Theatre in November 2012. Its one of those Marmite shows which you either love or you hate. Willy Russell’s musical is one of the longest running in history having… Read more »
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