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Dateline: 19th March, 2006

Casting for the Gate's Celebration of Pinter
Notting Hill's Gate Theatre has announced the casting for its celebration of Nobel Prizewinner Harold Pinter, which runs from 27th March to 6th May.

The celebration comprises a double bill of two of Pinter's short plays, A Slight Ache (1959) and A Kind of Alaska (1982) and the performances from 27th to 31st (which includes the press night on 30th) are already sold out.

Directed by Claire Lovett and Thea Sharrock, the cast is Niall Buggy, Michael Byrne, Anna Calder-Marshall, Diana Hardcastle, and Hugo Thurston.

Gala Nights at the King's Head
Islington's Kings Head Theatre, in association with Dragonfly Films, is to present a series of gala evenings to add a gallery of 100 seats, refurbish the theatre and create its own productions. Working conditions at the theatre, they acknowldge, are "less than ideal" and so to address that and the size of the theatre they have begun a drive to raise the roof, add seats, refurbish the ground floor, push back the stage to make it larger, and create a green room and better dressing room for actors, while maintaining the atmosphere.

The gala events will be held on Sunday and Monday evenings throughout the year. Some of these evenings will be musical tributes, Variety, interviews, informals and high profile play readings.

Among those who have confirmed are Linda Marlowe, Peter Straker, Steven Berkoff, James Taylor Quartet, Toby Young & Lloyd Evans, Frances Ruffelle and her jazz band, Sir John Mortimer, Anita Dobson, Mandy Muden and an evening with Dr Robert Le Fever. High profile readings include The Rainmaker with Brendan Coyle and Clare Booth Luce’s The Women. London’s top Musical Directors Mike Reed and Mike Dixon will be doing a tribute evening to King's Head founder Dan Crawford and a Vivian Ellis tribute evening.

More details can be obtained by calling the box office on 020 7226 1916.

Steptoe to Close Early
Steptoe and Son in "Murder at Oil Drum Lane" (Comedy Theatre) is to close on 15th April, one week earlier than planned. It will have run for two months.

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©Peter Lathan 2006