REVIEW: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★★
Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s has seen many incarnations including plays, an un-aired television series and a short lived 1966 musical. Capote’s endearing characters and the beautiful film adaption, starring a young Audrey Hepburn, has inspired generations. Based on Capote’s masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning Finalist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, […]
THE LIBERTINE starring Dominic Cooper announces further casting
Further cast members are announced to join the previously confirmed star Dominic Cooper in Stephen Jeffreys’ sexually charged masterpiece The Libertine this autumn. Directed by Olivier and Tony Award-winning Terry Johnson, the play will have a limited run from 31 August to 17 September at Bath Theatre Royal as part of the theatre’s 2016 summer […]
West End Wilma – Review Round-Up
Take a look at all the shows that have been reviewed over the past week on westendwilma.com … REVIEW: Russian Dolls (King’s Head Theatre) ★★★★ Russian Dolls was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize in 2013 before winning the Adrian Pagan award last year. Based on the real-life story of an Islington version of Hilda, Kate Lock’s […]
REVIEW: How the Other Half Loves (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Awkward situations. Perhaps one of the worst case scenarios for the stereotypical British person. We don’t handle them well and if we do find ourselves in said awkward situation, we tend to ignore it. However, in the theatre we adore them, especially the humour that arises from them. Alan Ayckbourn writes awkward scenes extremely well […]
Cast announced for Alan Ayckbourn’s HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
One secret love affair. Two disaster-bound dinner parties. Three couples headed for trouble. Casting has been announced for Bill Kenwright’s new West End production of Alan Ayckbourn’s farcical tale of matrimonial mishaps, How The Other Half Loves. The 1969 classic – the first of Ayckbourn’s plays to be staged on Broadway – returns to London […]
REVIEW: BAD JEWS (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Bad Jews, by Joshua Harmon has been on quite the journey since it debuted off-broadway in 2012. It’s UK premiere was at Bath’s Ustinov Studio in 2013, before transferring to London’s St James Theatre in 2014 and then the Arts Theatre in the West End in 2015. Continuing its success, 2016 has seen yet […]
Last chance to see Taken at Midnight – ends 14 March
Jonathan Church’s world premiere production of Taken At Midnight by Mark Hayhurst, which ends on 14th March 2015, enters the last four weeks of its run next week. Returning to the West End after a five-year absence, Penelope Wilton has received critical and public acclaim in the role of Irmgard, the mother of celebrated lawyer Hans Litten who puts Hitler […]