ATW NewsClips - London

The Times UK

Atkins, the most 'astonishingly lucky person'
She loves lewd limericks, hates sentimentality, and turned down Colin Farrell; Lucy Powell meets the feisty Eileen Atkins

Short plays: the survival of the one-act wonder
Short plays have been sadly neglected for too long. Why don't theatres like them?

The Guardian

Me and Cilla, Live Theatre, Newcastle
They say it gets earlier every year, but we are only just out of June, and already club singer Cilla Stephenson is fretting about Christmas. She is having the neighbours round for festive ...

The Music Man, Chichester Festival
Meredith Willson's musical trounced West Side Story at Broadway's Tony Awards in 1958. Watching Rachel Kavanaugh's joyous Chichester revival, one begins to see why...

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Lyn Gardner: What to see this week
Jacqui Honess: Tell Out My Soul: First night fever
Sanjoy Roy: Big Dance starts tomorrow. Get ready to come alive

Daily Telegraph

'It was so much fun!'
Meryl Streep talks about having the time of her life making the movie of Mamma Mia!
* The Mamma Mia! dream team
* Pierce Brosnan on Mamma Mia!

The Rake's Progress: the TV vision of the world's greatest director
Robert Lepage talks to Jasper Rees about staging Stravinsky.

Whatsonstage.com

* Flamen'ka Dances to Lyric for Eight Weeks, 22 Sep
* Juliette Binoche & Akram Khan Premiere In-I Dance

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

New Theatre Company Presents Four Free Plays
Art.Official.Intelligence, a new theatre company dedicated to new writing, will present four short plays by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Matt Morrisson, Luke Norris and Paul...

London Theatre Guide

First Night Feature: In My Name
Contemporary issues should be the lifeblood of new writing, feeding playwrights with situations and themes to explore and examine. Yet the 7/7 bombings that hit central London have been relatively untapped.