Lipman and Waddingham sing A Little Night Music

Maureen Lipman, Hannah Waddingham (pictured, right), Alexander Hanson and I’d Do Anything runner-up Jessie Buckley have been confirmed in the cast of Trevor Nunn’s production of Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, which plays at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 22 November.

Mine

Unique theatre company Shared Experience comes to Hampstead theatre with Polly Teale’s new provocative and topical play Mine. Charlotte Marshall was in the first night audience.

In The Red And Brown Water

Tarell Alvin McCraney scored a critical success with his debut at the Young Vic last year, The Brothers Size, which is now simultaneously revived in the studio while a bigger, altogether bolder production of that play’s prequel, In The Red And Brown Water, consumes the main stage.

Eclectic spring season for Young Vic

The Young Vic will team up with English National Opera (ENO) once again for a multimedia exploration of Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas next spring.

Les Misérables cheers up for 23rd anniversary

There were smiles and cheers all round at the Queen’s theatre last night, where London’s longest running musical Les Misérables celebrated its 23rd London birthday.

Friedman: No Man’s Land is “monumental work of art”

Producer Sonia Friedman described Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land as a “monumental work of art”, following the opening of the Rupert Goold-directed production starring Michael Gambon, David Bradley, David Walliams and Nick Dunning, last night.

Paulette Randall

Matthew Amer meets the be-jewelled Radio Golf director to discuss all things from August Wilson to technophobia.

Paulette Randall

Matthew Amer meets the be-jewelled Radio Golf director to discuss all things from August Wilson to technophobia.

The Broken Space Season

After a series of leaks left the Bush theatre unable to turn on its stage lights, undaunted, the theatre decided to create a novel selection of plays, all of which could be staged as the natural light outside was falling. Charlotte Marshall was in the first night audience to experience theatre in the dark.

No Man’s Land

Rupert Goold’s recent productions of The Tempest, Macbeth, The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot and Six Characters In Search Of An Author have seen the director du jour stamp his authority on well known texts, using all manner of directorial tricks to create an engaging atmosphere for a 21st century audience.