This week on my Twitter feed is another fairly subdued one, with the casting for Michael Grandage's just-announced West End season and the BBC's Hollow Crown series of Shakespeare adaptations the main source of excitement. I know, it's like a non-stop party round here ( Read more... )

While the Old Vic have been marking Terence Rattigan's centenary with his final play, Trevor Nunn at the TRH has looked earlier in the playwright's career. Written while Rattigan was serving on RAF bombers flying raids over Germany, Flare Path is named after the row of lights that help pilots take off and land, and aims to similarly illuminate what ( Read more... )

This is the sort of thing I normally post on a Friday but if you're not on Twitter (where her name was trending last night) you shouldn't have to wait until the end of the week: The awesome Julie Atherton singing a song by composer Michael Bruce, "Portrait of a Princess." As well as being a lot of fun the video has loads of cameos from her ( Read more... )

It's a bit of a gamble taking someone to a new show as a Christmas present but fortunately Legally Blonde was a hit as far as my sister was concerned. Plugged as coming from the people behind Hairspray, that only refers to the design team as far as I can tell, but then I guess when the visuals are as important as they are to these two shows then ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went with vanessaw and her daughter to the matinee of Little Shop of Horrors at the Duke of York's Theatre. The production, like last year's Sunday In The Park With George, is a transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory. As is becoming a habit, I took a photo of the outside of the theatre, complete with Audrey II smashing out of the windows.


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