Last Friday, the longlist for the first winner of the Women’s Prize for Playwrighting was revealed. The scheme was created by Ellie Keel Productions and Paines Plough last year, in order to showcase aspiring female playwrights. Keel and Plough’s longlist will be reduced into a shortlist with careful consideration from their expert judging panel in […]

Just last week, we announced that Phantom of the Opera was closing after thirty-four years, but this week, the Phantom saga has continued. Andrew Lloyd Webber responded to news of the show’s closure saying: “As far as I’m concerned Phantom will reopen as soon as it is possible”. It now appears that Lloyd Webber was […]

Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of the hit musical Cats, has criticised the recent film adaption of the show. Lloyd Webber originally based the musical on T.S Eliot’s poetry collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939). Months on from the widely criticised film, Lloyd Webber largely blamed film director Tom Hooper for its failure.  In an interview […]