Producers have this morning announced that the West End run of The King’s Speech has posted closing notices and will now end its run on May 12th. The show had originally been booking until July 21st. The King’s Speech started life as a stage play but never made it to the stage, instead being diverted…
The route from film to stage is now a well-established one but, for The King’s Speech, the journey is slightly more complex. Originally written as a stage play, it was never produced but instead jumped straight to the big screen. Following the huge success of the film, the journey has now gone full-circle with the…
It is the moment theatre-goers dread, those ominous slips of paper in the programme and the announcement of ‘due to the indisposition of…’. When the show in question is only a three-hander and has an acclaimed international cast, the sense of foreboding is only heightened. One also feels sorry for the understudy, doubtless nervous already…
In many ways it seemed inevitable; David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s onscreen double act in Dr Who bore more than a passing resemblance to Benedict and Beatrice that a production of Much Ado About Nothing could never be far behind. The star pairing has, of course, garnered a media storm and is set to be…
There is perhaps a danger when going to see a show that has received almost universal rave reviews that the actual product can never quite live up to the hype. Clybourne Park has received a raft of glowing reviews for both its original run at the Royal Court and now for its transfer to the…