In amongst the stellar West End revivals of late " not least "mother of all musicals" Gypsy with Imelda Staunton and David Mamet's American Buffalo starring Damian Lewis and John Goodman " a…
Less than two days after the star-studded gala to bid farewell to Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, his successor Matthew Warchus is making headlines with an inaugural year-long season and comman…
The most moving moment for me every year at the Olivier Awards ceremony is the tribute sequence, during which the industry remembers colleagues who have passed away during the previous 12 mo…
What were your red carpet memories from this year's Laurence Olivier Awards? A week before this year's event on Sunday 12 April 2015, having been quietly dropped from the media invitation li…
I'm still reeling after the thrillingly heated and thought-provoking panel discussion I hosted last night at Trafalgar Studios 2. This was the second in a series of post-show events I've pro…
Taking over from Paul Kerryson as the new artistic director at the Curve in January, Nikolai Foster is causing waves not only in Leicester but up and down the country thanks to two simultane…
The inaugural #LoveTheatre day back in November caused quite a stir. Theatre " and more specifically #lovetheatre " was trending up and down the country. Now, here we are today, the 54th ann…
Last summer, Jamie Lloyd‘s Trafalgar Transformed production of Richard III attracted negative press for the alleged bad behaviour of young Sherlock fans come to (loudly and at inapprop…
How far have we come with feminism since August Strindberg was writing in the 1880s? "About halfway," said Polly Toynbee on Monday night at Trafalgar Studios, in the first of a series of pos…
I had a curious but highly enjoyable afternoon this past Friday, when I dropped in on lovely chappies Tim McArthur and Nathan Matthews, presenters of the weekly Curtain Up show on London rad…
Last year, Tooting Arts Club's site-specific Sweeney Todd – staged in Harrington's, one of London's oldest pie shops " topped myriad critics 'best of #theatre2014' lists. And, with its…
For the last General Election, on 6 May 2010, I went to a party at the Paramount Club at the top of Centrepoint. All night we waited up, for no dramatic climax, no result. This time round, I…
In the years that I ran WhatsOnStage, the site's Discussion Forum, a.k.a. "The Board", was often the bane of my life. Producers would pull me aside on press nights to complain about it " ins…
Reporting from Manchester, my guest contributor Glenn Meads recently met up with director-producer James Baker, who is making waves at The Kings Arms in Salford. Londoners, take note. Great …
For all the planning and preparation I’ve been doing with Mark Shenton over the past few months, even I am a little taken aback by the response to our launch yesterday of MyThea…
I was touched and heartened by the outpouring to the news last week that I finally won my unfair dismissal claim against the new owners of WhatsOnStage. Amongst many of those responses was a…
It’s been 455 days since I was walked out of the offices of WhatsOnStage, the company that I co-founded. And today I can finally officially and publicly say: I did nothing wrong and sh…
I offered my own take on yesterday’s 2015 Laurence Olivier nominations yesterday. But my view is only one, of course. The shortlists announcement was live-streamed across myriad platfo…
The biggest surprise for me at today's Olivier nominations event at the ritzy Rosewood London hotel was just how much this event has grown in a few short years. Celebrating nominees: you're …
I just love a good post-show Q&A and, frankly, I miss doing them as often as I used to in my WhatsOnStage days. My firm belief is that a well-run Q&A can not only give theatregoers g…
On St David’s Day, Sunday 1 March 2015, Welsh actor Michael Sheen gave the performance of his life. Not at the National Theatre or any of the world stages (and screens) that he has gra…
The Off-West End play has very much been the thing for me in the past few weeks of theatregoing. Here are five (four of them brand-new plays) worth squeezing into your theatregoing calendar …
Two-time Tony Award-winning bio-musical Beautiful, based on the early life and career of singer-songwriter Carole King, received its West End premiere at the Aldwych Theatre last night. What…
If I had a bigger flat with lots of nice empty walls, I'd be ringing Hampstead Theatre and putting my name on a waiting list for some of the props in the current production of Peter Souter's…
If I had a bigger flat with lots of nice empty walls, I'd be ringing Hampstead Theatre and putting my name on a waiting list for some of the props in the current production of Peter Souter's…