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Clean Break is Charged at Soho
Women’s theatre company Clean Break will bring together six of Britain’s finest contemporary female playwrights at the Soho theatre this autumn for a cycle of shows entitled Charged. Donmar debuts Spelling Bee in 2011
The Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will receive its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse next spring as part of a season that also includes the first major London revival of Harold Pinter’s Moonlight and Schiller’s Luise Miller. Nigel Lindsay is Shrek
Nigel Lindsay will have to get used to feeling a little green at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane next year as he takes on the role of Shrek in the forthcoming musical adaptation which opens in May 2011. Goldberg withdraws from Sister Act
Whoopi Goldberg, who is currently playing the role of Mother Superior in Sister Act, has had to withdraw from the rest of her run due to family illness. Clybourne Park
Following his dissection of middle class guilt in The Pain And The Itch, American playwright Bruce Norris turns his biting wit onto the subject of prejudice across a period of 50 years. Autumn Access London Theatre brochure out now
The new Access London Theatre brochure is now available and contains details of over 120 assisted performances taking place across London’s Theatreland this autumn. Wicked soars into its fifth year
The witches of Wicked will defy gravity to soar into their fifth year in the West End; the Laurence Olivier Award-winning musical extends its booking period today to 29 October 2011. Sophie Thompson
As Sophie Thompson prepares to return to the London stage, she chats to Matthew Amer not about her famous family, but about being voted a bitch, Fruit Pastilles and unemployment. Backstage: David Stringer, Wardrobe Master
Whether it be dealing with an enthusiastic opera singer, learning the Spanish words for body armour or finding the nearest dry cleaner to any given theatre, the life of a Wardrobe Master is an unusual one. David Stringer, the quick-change king of Legally Blonde The Musical, talks through his job with Caroline Bishop. Graham and Beaumont find Enlightenment in Hampstead
Julie Graham and Daisy Beaumont will star in Shelagh Stephenson’s Enlightenment at the Hampstead theatre from 30 September to 30 October (press night 6 October). Van Outen, Stenson and Dillon go Blonde
TV judge, West End star and new mum Denise Van Outen is to return to the London stage in October, when she joins Sheridan Smith in the cast of Legally Blonde The Musical. |
