 | Video: Les Mis flash mob crusades at St Pancras 15 May 2013 Passengers at St Pancras got a shock earlier this week when nearly 1000 people sang "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from hit show Les Miserables, the film of which was recently released on DVD. .... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Finsbury hails its local Park Theatre opening 15 May 2013 What a truly wonderful surprise. London has a beautiful new neighbourhood theatre, the Park in Finsbury Park, and it hasn't - so far - cost the taxpayer a penny. It's the culmination of a dream of art.... More... |
 | Charlie & the Chocolate Factory reschedules two previews due to 'unforeseen problems' 14 May 2013 The producers of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have "reluctantly" rescheduled the first two previews of the new Roald Dahl musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. According to press material,.... More... |
 | Review Round-up: Young Vic revives Ibsen's Public Enemy 14 May 2013 Richard Jones' production of Ibsen's Public Enemy opened at the Young Vic this week (13 May 2013). The play follows a doctor's discovery of his town's toxic water supply and the drama that unfurls .... More... |
 | NYT stages rep season at Ambassadors, Bonneville made patron 14 May 2013 The National Youth Theatre (NYT) will stage a West End rep season at the Ambassadors Theatre later this year, featuring plays by James Graham, Michael Lesslie and Lolita Chakrabarti.The season, which .... More... |
 | Public Enemy 14 May 2013 The art of saying the unpopular truth is always attractive, and in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, which David Harrower has rewritten for ace director Richard Jones as Public Enemy (from a literal.... More... |
 | Ten of the Best: Theatre 'flops' ripe for reinvention 13 May 2013 Defining a theatre 'flop' is no straightforward task. A general rule of thumb could be that it makes less money than it costs to stage. But it's not always that simple. Shows which have actually.... More... |
 | Competition: Win a piece of theatre history! 13 May 2013 To launch our new partnership with GroSocial, we're giving away copies of archive theatre programmes and posters through our Whatsonstage.com Facebook page.To enter, simply like us on Facebook and sig.... More... |
 | Sons Without Fathers 13 May 2013 Chekhov's unfinished first play is best known as Platonov but director Helena Kaut-Howson reverts to the closer Russian title of "Fatherlessness" in her spiky and colloquial translation, first seen .... More... |
 | Opening: Young Vic's Public Enemy, Liza (on an E) & Royal Court's Victorian in the Wall 13 May 2013 Among this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further afield, are Public Enemy at the Young Vic, Liza (on an E), the Royal Court's Victorian in the Wall, and more: .... More... |