Kirsty Bushell to star in Michael Boyd’s The Cherry Orchard
Full casting announced for Bristol Old Vic and Royal Exchange Theatre co-production
Full casting announced for Bristol Old Vic and Royal Exchange Theatre co-production
A review of The Cherry Orchard in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre starring Zoe Wanamaker and Conleth Hill
What’s opening in the West End this week including David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado, Zoe Wanamaker and James Corden at the National and The Lord of the Flies.
ZOE WANAMAKER in The Cherry Orchard
Zoe Wanamaker and Kenneth Cranham star in Olivier Award winner Howard Davies’ new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at the National Theatre.
Nicholas Hytner announces plans for 2011 and beyond at the National Theatre
OLIVIER AWARDS – Best Lighting Winners
If theatre mirrors life then you would expect 2009 to be a bad year for the performing arts in London: economic downturns and credit crunches sound like gloomy news for our discretionary entertainment spending. But West End theatre box office figures have kept on going up in recent years, and the huge number of new productions sailing into town during 2009 could mean that Theatreland manages to buck the trend. THE GREAT REVIVAL The RSC, National Theatre, Donmar and Old Vic dominated straight drama in the West End in 2008, and they haven’t finished yet. Big hitters coming to …