Theatre News

WOS Mag: Jersey Boys Revealed, Fiennes & Shaw

| London's West End |

29 February 2008

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

Amongst the great features on offer in this latest issue are:

SEASONS OF LOVE – As the West End welcomes hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys, John Coleman explains why the much-loved music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons keeps on spinning over the decades.

JUST FIENNES AND DANDY – Roger Foss believes that Ralph Fiennes will have no trouble switching from playing comedy in God of Carnage in the West End to tragedy in Oedipus at the National

REVISITING SHAW – Was George Bernard Shaw a wise man of the theatre or just an old chatterbox? With major revivals of Major Barbara and Pygmalion in the offing, Michael Coveney talks to Nicholas Hytner and others to discover there’s more Shavian wisdom than wind.

We’ve also got all of your favourite regular magazine sections, including Headliners (news, previews and snippet interviews with Spamalot’s Alan Dale and The Man Who Had All the Luck’s Andrew Buchan), Up for Grabs competitions, Limelight pictures, this month’s What’s On Guide diary and listings, Brief Encounter (with Summer Strallen, The Sound of Music’s new Maria von Trapp via Hollyoaks), Recommended (theatregoer raves about recent openings) and, last but not least, Critical Comment, in which our columnist, Guardian critic Michael Billington, argues for over-60s friendly programming.

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 Theatregoers’ Club? Membership also gains you advance, discount booking on our ever-popular Outings and exclusive access to Whatsonstage.com Wednesdays and other discounts – click here for more information.

Readers and advertisers can also thumb through the complete issue page by page by clicking here.