London's Theatre and Opera Season
London and Stratford theatre seasons are shaping up nicely for the coming Autumn and Winter, and there are some excellent theatrebreak offers for September now available. These cover best seats and accomodation in a top London or Stratford hotel.
If Shakespeare is your meat, all three parts of Henry VI form part of Shakespeare's new season at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon over the winter. Special trilogy arrangements covering seats for all three parts with 2 nights accomodation and breakfast at the Stratford Victoria. The Other Place has a new production of The Tempest. buffs of the Bard could manage all four plays and three overnights at this top hotel for £250, which is a bargain.
The RSC has a major new musical staging of that timeless novel The Secret Garden at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre By Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon, so you could leaven your Shakespeare diet with a musical evening at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
London's winter season has some goodies which I look forward to. The Seven Year Itch is going into the Queen's Theatre and will star Daryl Hannah... the most important question on the lips of the world seems to be whether she is going to buck the recent trend and keep her kit on... we wonder if Shakespeare sold his plays by suggesting that, for a few extra groats, young Master Stroggle drop his draws when he appeared as Juliet in ye fifth act?
Macaulay Culkin is expected to be a short term visit to London' s theatreland He of obnoxious Kiddywood films has grown up enough to play a young "Graduatesque" man who is seduced in a "Robinsonesque" manner by a French teacher almost double his age.Madame Melville is the play and October will be the month, though it is not clear yet this will be staged at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, (courtesy Her Majesty The Queen who owns the theatre), or the Lyric.
Title of the Month goes to Off-Broadway transfer Hedwig and the Angry Inch a comic tale of a tortured, obscure, transsexual-rock singer as she performs with her band The Angry Inch.This opens at the Playhouse from 19 September. Off-Broadway successes do not always travel well, as I know from my own bitter professional experience, having seen two New York hits sink beneath my feet in London's West End under a barrage of obloquy from the British theatre critics. It opens 19 September.
Some things never change. Proof of that can be seen at the Savoy Theatre from 15 September when the Gentlemen of Japan will be strutting through Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikardo. Other high points of musical joy come from Fame - The Musical, opening at the Victoria Palace ; Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Beautiful Game at his Cambridge Theatre; Napoleon at the Shaftesbury Theatre and Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens. Sometrhing for all tastes in that bunch.
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