Details of What's On
Last modified: 7 February, 1996
Fuller details on the theatres themselves are given here.
Includes booking numbers, nearest tube and available facilities.
There is a list of links to pages describing particular major
shows here. Ticket agent information
is here.
Key:
- M - Senior Citizens Matinee Scheme, midweek, subject
to availability
- S - Standby, reduced priced tickets available to students,
6th formers, senior citizens, UB40s on presentation of ID just
before the performance. Phone 0171 379 8900 after 14:00 for details
of the day's standby availability
- SU - Sunday Performance
- An Inspector Calls
- Garrick Theatre
By J B Priestley. The Royal National Theatre production, winner
of 19 major awards.
Times:
Key:
Tickets:
- Beauty and the Beast
- Destined for the West End some time in the future.
- Blood Brothers
- Phoenix Theatre
By Willy Russell, directed by Bob Tomson. Nature or nurture? A
mother is forced to give up one of her sons.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Thu 15:00, Sat 16:00. (165mins)
Key: M, S
Tickets: £9.50 to £27.50
- The Break of Day
- Royal Court
By Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Times: from 29Nov to 6Jan96
- Buddy
- Strand from 7Oct
The Buddy Holly Story. Running since 1989. Written by Alan Janes,
directed by Rob Bettinson.
Times: Tue-Thu 20:00. Fri 17:30 and 20:30. Sat 17:00 and
20:30. Sun 16:00 (150mins)
Key: S, SU
Tickets: Mon-Thu and Sun £9 to £25. Fri mat £4.50
to £12.50. Fri eve and Sat £12.50 to £28.50
- Cats
- New London Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber from the stories by T.S. Eliot ("Old
Possum's Book of Practical Cats"). Additional material by
Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe. Directed by Trevor Nunn. Designed
by John Napier, choreographed by Gillian Lynne. Time Out calls
it "the dancing moggie show". A song and dance show
based on Eliot's Jellicle cats which celebrated its 14th year
in 1995, when it was re-vamped. Almost the world's longest running
musical.
(lyrics)
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Tue and Sat 15:00. (165mins)
Key: S
Tickets: £10.50 to £30
- Communicating Doors
A new play written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn. With Julia
McKenzie, Adie Allen, John Arthur, Ken Bones, Laurence Kennedy,
Sara Markland. A 'who done it' or 'who will do it' as its a comedy
thriller with time travelling thrown in.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed and Sat 15:00.
Key: S
Tickets: £8.50 to £24
- Company
- Donmar Warehouse
Stephen Sondheim and George Firth. 1Dec95 to 2Mar96.
Times:
Key:
Tickets:
- Crazy for You
- Prince Edward
Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, book by Ken Ludwig.
Cleverly adapted from Girl Crazy. Laurence Olivier Awards
1993.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Thu and Sat 15:00. (150mins)
Key:
Tickets: £11.50 to £30
- Dead Funny
- Savoy
The Dead Funny Society gather, Benny Hill dies, an affair continues.
A comic play revolving around a couple with very different interests!
Second London run. By Terry Johnson with Belinda Lang, Kevin McNally.
Times: Mon-Fri 20:00, Sat 17:00 and 20:15. Wed at 14:30.
(165mins) From 19Sep.
Key: S
Tickets: £10 to £20 (Fri/Sat eve £12.50
to £22.50)
- Dead Guilty
- Apollo
Richard Harris' new thriller with Hayley Mills and Jenny Seagrove.
Times: Mon-Fri 20:00, Thu 15:00, Sat 17:00 and 20:15. (135mins)
Key: M, S
Tickets: £7 to £22 (Sat eve £25)
- Dealer's Choice
- Vaudeville
Written and directed by Patrick Marber (his first play). A Royal
National Theatre production. Evening Standard Awards Best
Comedy 1995.
Times: Mon-Fri 19:45, Sat 17:00, Sat 20:15, Wed 15:00.
(150mins)
Key: S
Tickets: £10 to £22.50
- Don't Dress for Dinner
- Duchess
By Marc Camoletti, adapted by Robin Hawdon, directed by Peter
Farago.
Times: Mon-Fri 20:00, Sat 17:00, Sat 20:30. (135mins)
Key: S
Tickets: £9 to £19.50
- The Duchess of Malfi
- Wyndhams
By John Webster, a horror tragedy. Cheek by Jowl production
Times: 27Dec to 20Jan96
Key:
Tickets:
- Fame, the Musical
- Cambridge
Not the movie ... but the same story
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed 15:00, Sat 15:00. (150mins)
Key: S
Tickets: £10 to £25
- The Fields of Ambrosia
- A new musical, book and lyrics by Joel Higgins, music by Martin
Silvestri. Very bad reviews - hence the short run!
Times: from 22Jan96 to 15Feb96
- Five Guys Named Moe
- Albery
Fifth year of performance. New production.
Times: Mon-Thu 20:00, Fri/Sat 18:00 and 20:45pm. (120mins)
Key: S
Tickets: £5 to £28 (Sat eve from £7.50.
Fri/Sat 18:00 shows top 4 prices 2 for 1).
- Funny Money
- Playhouse
Ray Cooney's new comedy. Stars Sylvia Syms, Henry McGee, Lynda
Baron, Trevor Bannister, Ray Cooney, Peter Ellis, Ron Aldridge,
Charlie Drake.
Times: Mon-Sat 20:00, Thu 15:00, Sat 17:00.
Key:
Tickets: £5 to £20
- The Glass Menagerie
- By Tennessee Williams. With Ben Chaplin, Mark Dexter, Claire
Skinner, Zoe Wanamaker.
- Grease
- Dominion
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed 15:00, Sat 15:00. (150mins)
Key: S
Tickets: £10 to £27.50 (Wed mat £7.50 to
£20)
- Hamlet
- "The quintessential Hamlet of the nineties: Arthur Smith."
The Guardian. Arthur describes it as "Annonyingly pretentious
but not very long"
Times: (42mins) 1995: 27Oct, 28Oct, 3Nov, 4Nov, 10Nov,
11Nov
- Harry and Me
- Royal Court
By Nigel Williams
Times: from 19Oct to 18Nov
Key:
Tickets:
- Hobson's Choice
- By Harold Brighouse. With Frank Thornton, Nichola McAuliffe,
Graham Turner.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Sat 15:00.
Key:
Tickets:
- The Hothouse
- Comedy Theatre
By Harold Pinter. Directed by David Jones.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Thu 15:00, Sat 16:00.
Key:
Tickets: £9 to £22.50
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Old Vic
By Oscar Wilde. Directed by Terry Hands. With Barbara Leigh-Hunt,
Philip Franks and Roger Allam.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed 15:00, Sat 15:00. (150mins) Ends
18Nov.
Key: S
Tickets: £6 to £22
- Indian Ink
- Aldwych
Tom Stoppard's latest play, with Niamh Cusak, Margaret Tyzack
and Paul Bhattacharjee.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed and Sat 15:00. (160mins)
Key:
Tickets: £10 to £25
- Jolson
- Victoria Palace
Starring Brian Conley.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed and Sat 15:00. Previews 23Oct
and opens 26Oct
Key:
Tickets:
- Les Miserables
- Palace
By Alain Boubli, Claude-Michel Schonberg and Herbert Kretzmer.
Based on Victor Hugo's novel, great set, on view all over the
world!
( lyrics)
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Thu and Sat 14:30. (195mins)
Key:
Tickets: £7 to £30
- Mack and Mabel
- Piccadilly Theatre, from Oct 24th.
By Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart. With Howard McGillin, Caroline
O'Connor and Kathryn Evans. Twenty years after opening on Broadway
Mack and Mabel reaches London for the first time (only one previous
UK showing known, circa 1980, Leicester?). Evening Standard Drama
Awards, Best Musical 1995. The story of the relationship between
Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Wed/Sat 15:00
Key:
Tickets: £17.50 to £30 (Sat eve £32.50)
- Martin Guerre
- Prince Edward
The new Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg musical (fim
version of this story was Sommersby).
Times: from 22May96
Key:
Tickets:
- The Master Builder
- Haymarket Theatre Royal
By Henrik Ibsen, translated by Peter Hall and Inga-Stina Ewbank.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Wed/Sat 15:00
Key:
Tickets: £10 to £24, Sat £10 to £26
- Miss Saigon
- Drury Lane
By Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. Since 1989.
( lyrics)
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Wed and Sat 15:00. (165mins)
Key:
Tickets: £8.50 to £30
- The Moustrap
- St Martin's
By Agatha Christie, directed by Ian Watt-Smith. Opened on 25 Nov
52 (originally at the Ambassadors)
Times: mon-sat 20:00, tue 14:45, sat 17:00. (135mins)
Key:
Tickets: £8 to £22
- Oliver!
- London Palladium
By Lionel Bart, directed by Sam Mendes. Stars Jim Dale.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed/Sat 14:30 (150mins)
Key:
Tickets: £10 to £30
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Her Majesty's
By Andrew Lloyd Webber, libretto by Charles Hart, directed by
Harold Prince.
(lyrics).
The Phantom Appreciation Society
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Wed and Sat 15:00. (150mins)
Key:
Tickets: £9 to £30
- The Roy Orbison Story
- Whitehall Theatre
Formerly Only the Lonely at the Picadilly. Devised by Bill
Kenwright, book by Shirley Roden and Jon Miller. Peter Howarth
and guest P.J.Probey.
Times: Tue-Thu 20:00, Fri and Sat 17:30 and 20:30, Sun
16:00 (165mins)
Key: M, S, SU
Tickets: £12 to £25 (Fri mat £6 to £12.50)
- Starlight Express
- Apollo Victoria
By Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richrd Stilgoe. New production.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Tue and Sat 15:00. (150mins)
Key: M, S
Tickets: £12.50 to £30
- Sunset Boulevard
- Adelphi
By Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Winner of 7 Tony Awards. Elaine Page till
Jan 8th then Petula Clark returns.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:45, Thu and Sat 15:00. (160mins)
Key: M
Tickets: £15 to £32.50
- Taking Sides
- Criterion
By Ronald Harwood, directed by Harold Pinter, with Daniel Massey
and Michael Pennington. About the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler
and whether he was a Nazi collaborator.
Times: Mon-Sat 19:30, Wed and Sat 14:30. (150mins)
Key: S
Tickets: £7 to £22.50
- Tommy
- Shaftesbury
By Pete Townsend, originally an album by The Who, also a film.
The Broadway production, winner of 24 major awards. Booking now
open.
Times: from 5Mar96
Key:
Tickets:
- The Wind in The Willows
- Old Vic
Book by Kenneth Grahame adapted by Alan Bennett. The RNT's
production.
Times: from 29Nov
Key:
Tickets:
- The Woman in Black
- Fortune
Written by Susan Hill, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. Running
since 1988. David Burke and Andrew Havill star.
Times: Mon-Sat 20:00, Tue 15:00, Sat 16:00. (110mins)
Key: M, S
Tickets: £8.50 to £20
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