Cassio Operatic Society

Amongst the major London openings this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 17 August 2009 (previews from 14 August), the National Youth Theatre returns to the Soho Theatre with Six Pack, a series of six new plays, each one with a single body part a...

Judi Dench will return to the role of Titania in Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre, Kingston next year, nearly 50 years after she first played the role in Hall's 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company production. Runn...

Rumours are swirling that the Royal Court production of Jez Butterworth's epic new play Jerusalem is in line for both a West End transfer and a possible movie adaptation. The play, which stars former Globe artistic director Mark Rylance and Offic...

The BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall For those who attended one of the half dozen staged performances at English National Opera in 1986, The Mask of Orpheus was an unforgettable event. The sheer power and expressiveness of the BBC Symphony Orches...

The Open Air Theatre's production of Hello Dolly! opened to critics this week (10 August, previews from 30 July), marking the show's first major London revival since 1982, when Danny La Rue played the title role at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Tak...

Rumours are swirling that the Royal Court production of Jez Butterworth's epic new play Jerusalem is in line for both a West End transfer and a possible movie adaptation. The play, which stars former Globe artistic director Mark Rylance and Offic...

Every week our theatregoer reporter Corinne Furness trawls the web to find some of the best gems from the myriad theatre-related blogs and condense them into one easy-to-read “Best of the Blogs” round-up each Friday. Between now and the end of August...

The 2009 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) kicks off this evening (14 August) with the traditional opening concert at Usher Hall, which this year features a performance of Handel's Judas Maccabaeus by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Edinburgh...

There’s a rawness and inventiveness to Tête à Tête’s now annual opera festival which makes it a must-see for anyone interested in the development of new opera. Pick any day from the twelve of the festival and you&#821...

The first winners of this year's prestigious Fringe First Awards, celebrating high-quality new drama at the Edinburgh Festival, have been announced by The Scotsman newspaper today (14 August 2009). Amongst the winners is Dennis Kelly’s la...

Theatregoers at our Whatsonstage.com Outing to last night’s performance of Shall We Dance were given extra insights into the development of the Richard Rodgers’ dance tribute by its creator, director, choreographer and star, Adam Cooper, ...

Richard Briers, who was to return to the stage for a final time next month (See News::E8831249033375, 31 Jul 2009), has withdrawn from Complicite’s upcoming production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. He’s been replaced by Mark Rylance in the lead role o...

Judi Dench will return to the role of Titania in Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre, Kingston next month, nearly 50 years after she first played the role in Hall's 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company production. Ru...

Mirza Tahir Hussain is a British subject from Leeds who spent 18 years on death row in a Rawalpindi prison for allegedly murdering a taxi driver in Pakistan. He tells the Scottish journalist Don Mackay of the Daily Mirror, who visits him, that h...

Using the poems of the new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, Linda Marlowe has created gallery of mythical women avengers telling their side of the story, and it’s a literally fabulous fringe lunchtime treat. Marlowe gives the low down on Sa...

TALENT, Victoria Wood’s hilarious comedy set backstage at a local talent night, is revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in a new version directed by Wood herself. Come on our hosted Whatsonstage.com Outing on 6 October 2009 and get your top-price ticket, a FREE programme and access to our EXCLUSIVE post-show Q&A with the cast - all for £25!

Catwalk Confidential, Robyn Peterson’s one-woman show about her time as a supermodel, will transfer directly to the West End’s Arts Theatre for a limited four weeks from 9 September to 3 October 2009 (previews from 4 September), following...

From now until the end of August, we're concentrating on - guess what? - Edinburgh and we're going weekly rather than fortnightly with our regular video picks feature, in conjunction with the Whatsonstage.com Television channel, a rapidly expanding a...

From now until the end of August, we're concentrating on - guess what? - Edinburgh and we're going weekly rather than fortnightly with our regular video picks feature, in conjunction with the Whatsonstage.com Television channel, a rapidly expanding a...

David Troughton will join Kevin Spacey in Trevor Nunn's Old Vic production of Inherit the Wind, which opens on 1 October (previews from 18 September), running until 20 December. Troughton plays Matthew Harrison Brady, the pro-creationism lawyer (...