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Love Never Dies – but will Lloyd Webber’s new musical?
The much anticipated follow-up to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, has had mixed notices with the first round of critics.
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Olivier Awards to be broadcast live on Radio 2 and online
The prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 for the very first time.
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Noel Cowards’s Private Lives wins over the critics
Sex and the City temptress Kim Cattrall is the talk of the town as her West End play proves a huge hit.
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Keira Knightley leads the nominations at Olivier launch
Some of the UK’s hottest actors gathered for the launch of this year’s 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards.
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Blog: Vermin plaguing theatres, claim Equity. Is it that serious?
An Equity survey claims more than three quarters of West End performers and stage managers confirm there’s a vermin problem in the workplace.
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Are you ready to take a bite of the big apple?
Launch of the TS Eliot Exchange between the US and the UK, is being launched tomorrow at the Old Vic by Jeremy Irons and James Earl Jones.
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Photos: Surviving Actors first convention proves a huge hit
Surviving Actors, the UK’s first actors’ convention held in central London on 30th January, was a huge success.
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Blog: How irritating are today’s theatre audiences?
How many times have you been to the theatre and had to deal with an extra ‘performance’ coming from the auditorium? What are the audience habits that annoy you?
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Theatre Review: Love Never Dies – Adelphi
Ignore all that spiteful nonsense out there on blogosphere from “Phans” and critics alike that should know better, writes Josh Logan.
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Film Review: Invictus – Cinemas Nationwide
Yet another “man with a mission” film from Clint Eastwood, but without the usual violent outcome, writes John Ayton.
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Theatre Review: King Lear – RSC – Courtyard Theatre
Rupert Bridgwater reviews RSC’s King Lear and discovers a bold and magnificent all round production.
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Preview: Kim Cattrall opens in Private Lives at Vaudeville
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will take centre stage in Private Lives, the Noel Coward 1929 comedy classic.
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Interview: Brief Encounter With … Noel Sullivan
Welsh actor and singer Noel Sullivan rose to fame as a member of the pop group Hear’Say, who were formed by winners of the 2001 reality show Popstars.
Thursday 11th March 2010
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News: ROH Premieres Anna Nicole Smith Opera in 2011
Anna Nicole, Richard Thomas’ long-planned opera based on the life of the late American glamour model and reputed “gold-digger” Anna Nicole Smith, will receive its world premiere at the Royal [...]
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Review: London Assurance
Nicholas Hytner’s revival of Dion Boucicault’s Victorian comic potboiler is perfectly enjoyable, with pleasurable performances by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw, but it’s not revelatory.
Thursday 11th March 2010
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Radio: WOS Radio: Glen & Sharp Confront Ghosts at Q&A
Theatregoers at our Whatsonstage.com Outing to Ghosts at the Duchess Theatre on Tuesday (9 March 2010) were treated to an exclusive post-show Q&A with stars Iain Glen (who also directs) [...]
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Round-up: Review Round-up: Is Love Finest Since Phantom?
Critics have now had their first glimpse of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-heralded follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera, which premiered at the Adelphi Theatre last night [...]
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Photos: 1st Night Photos: Starry Love Never Dies Premiere
The stars were out in force at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre last night (9 March 2010, previews from 22 February) for the world premiere of Love Never Dies, Andrew [...]
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Review: Love Never Dies
The first thing to say is: this is not just a sequel. The sensational score of Love Never Dies, jagged with yearning, throbbing with melancholy, purple with pain, is both [...]
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Review: Albert Herring
Royal Academy Opera at the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, London
Wednesday 10th March 2010
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News: Flashdance Musical Rips into Shaftesbury in Sep
As previously tipped (See The Goss::E8831264188798, 25 Jan 2010), Flashdance – The Musical will receive its West End premiere at the Shaftesbury Theatre later this year, with an expected opening [...]
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News: Rose Scores First Transfer with Hall’s Bedroom
Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce will return to the West End this month, when Peter Hall’s revival, seen last autumn at the Rose Kingston, transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre [...]
Tuesday 9th March 2010
Gossip: Sullivan Follows Grease with Flashdance???
Former Hear’Say singer Noel Sullivan, who is currently making his West End debut as Danny in Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre, has hinted he will star in Flashdance when it [...]
Thursday 11th March 2010



