Theatre News

WOS Mag: Lesley Garrett & Steppenwolf’s August

Editorial Staff
London's West End

The latest edition of our sister print title What’s On Stage Magazine is out today (Friday 26 September 2008), available in 35 participating London theatres as well as selected hotels, restaurants and tourist bureaux.

Amongst the great features on offer in the October 2008 issue are:

  • HITTING ALL THE RIGHT NOTES – Soprano Lesley Garrett, who will be singing at this year’s ninth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards nominations event (See News, 30 Oct 2008), tells Roger Foss why she’ll never walk alone in Carousel.

  • YOUR VOTE COUNTS – Find out how the voting works for the only “Peoples’ Choice” theatre awards. (In addition to online voting here on the website from Monday, magazine readers can also write in to have their voices be heard.)

  • PERFECTLY PITCHED – With the Perfect Pitch Showcase and Imagine This in the West End this month, new musicals are back on the agenda.

  • IN STEP WITH STEPPENWOLF – As the Chicago-based Steppenwolf Company returns to the National with August: Osage County, Michael Coveney praises an American institution.

    We’ve also got all of your favourite regular magazine sections, including Headliners (news, previews and Talking Heads snippet interviews), Up for Grabs competitions, Limelight pictures, this month’s What’s On Guide diary and listings, Brief Encounter (with actor David Morrissey, who makes a rare return to the stage this month in Neil LaBute’s In a Dark Dark House at the Almeida), Recommended (theatregoer raves about recent openings) and, last but not least, Critical Comment, in which our columnist, Guardian critic Michael Billington, who recommends the directing experience to his peers.

    Copies of the magazine at its various outlets are often scooped up very fast. To get future copies sent to your home, why not subscribe to our Whatsonstage.com Theatre Club? Full membership also gains you advance, discount booking on our ever-popular Outings, exclusive access to Whatsonstage.com Wednesdays and other free ticket and discount offers – click here for more information.

    Readers and advertisers can also thumb through the complete issue page by page by clicking here. PLUS, now you can carry this – or any – issue of What’s On Stage Magazine on your own website for no cost whatsoever. Digital versions like the one above can be loaded via the simple addition of some “embed” code which can be copied and pasted into any website. To find out more and obtain the necessary codes, all you need to do is click here.