Satire and sketch comedy was a vital part of West End theatre in the 1960’s but we don’t see a great deal of it these days so I was surprised to hear that veteran director Max Stafford-Clark still regards it as “a pungent corrective to political pomposity and ambition.”
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Here is where you will read about new shows, upcoming productions, and West End gossips!
03 Mar
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Political Satire Returns to the West End
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 3 2016, 13:27
19 Jan
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A New Musical from the Co-Creator of International Hit THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Abridged) Opens in Victoria
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, January 19 2016, 11:39
MISS ATOMIC BOMB, a new musical with book, music & lyrics By Adam Long, Gabriel Vick & Alex Jackson-Long sounds intriguing. It will launch at The St James’s Theatre in March. Adam Long is the co-creator, writer and director of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Abridged), which ran off-Broadway and in the West End for nine years and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy. So he knows all about creating a hit show.
19 Jan
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ENO Announce 7 performances of a rarely staged masterpiece
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, January 19 2016, 09:52
The piece is regarded as one of the best examples of the “Bel Canto” style in which the drama is expressed through vocal lines of extraordinary beauty and grandeur that demand exceptional technical control.
Its most famous aria CASTA DIVA has been a showcase for many of opera's most acclaimed sopranos including Giuditta Pasta who created the role, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé and Cecilia Bartoli. But the work is also noted for its powerful choral episodes and two magnificent duets for the two sopranos.
07 Dec
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Friends star Matthew Perry returns to the West End with his own play
By Phil Willmott Monday, December 7 2015, 14:11
The American sit-com FRIENDS which ran from 1994 to 2004 has been a permanent background to our lives ever since it captured the world with its vision of loveable and witty twentysomethings starting their adult lives in Manhattan. It’s repeated across the globe, all the time, on satellite TV channels and is as popular as ever with young viewers.
It’s big news then that one of the stars, Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the highly rated, critically acclaimed series, is to take the lead in a new West End production of his own play, THE END OF LONGING at the Playhouse Theatre.
17 Nov
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The Maids comes to the Trafalgar Studios
By Oliver Mitford Tuesday, November 17 2015, 14:47
The Jamie Lloyd Company have announced the next production to join the line-up as part of the next Trafalgar Transformed season at the West End’s Trafalgar Studios - The Maids by Jean Genet will open on the 20 February and run through to the 21 May 2016.
Directed by Jamie Lloyd, The Maids has not been seen on the London stage for over 20 years. Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton adapt this version of Genet’s classic play.
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