This new 90-minute play by Joe White makes for some uncomfortable viewing! Both of the protagonists are alcoholics, though we are not told why, but perhaps that is too simplistic in the scope of the play. Their persistent drinking leads to blackouts of time and memory and they live on a blend of real and…
Another classic novel gets the musical theatre treatment as, after a short break and with an updated score, From Here to Eternity opens at the Charing Cross Theatre. November 1941 and for the men of ‘G’ Company, based in Hawaii, life is pretty monotonous. Company Commander Captain Dana Holmes (Alan Turkington), in fact, the entire…
PW Productions announce that after 33 extraordinary years in London’s West End, the theatrical sensation that is Susan Hill’s THE WOMAN IN BLACK will play its final performance at The Fortune Theatre, London on Saturday 4 March 2023. Producer Peter Wilson said today, “The Woman in Black’s miraculous theatricality has never faltered. Out of a…
Disney Theatrical Productions today announces that their critically acclaimed production of Frozen is extending until 18 June 2023 due to public demand. With music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, book by Jennifer Lee, and directed by Michael Grandage, the production opened at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in August last year, and has…
The Doctor, created by writer/director Robert Icke, is a curious hybrid of a play. It works as an homage to Professor Bernhardi, a 1912 comedy/drama by Austrian dramatist Arthur Schnitzler, which Icke updates and imbues with the punishing wail of social media, the indignation of interest groups, the punch-drunk power of identity politics, and questions…
Barry Diller and Sonia Friedman announced today that Matthew Modine and Cecilia Noble will lead the new company of the critically acclaimed production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird – a new play by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Bartlett Sher, currently running at the Gielgud Theatre, West End. Matthew Modine’s iconic portrayals in films such as…
