Alan Strachan News

A hit in London during the 1970s, Cole: A musical memoir based on the words and music of Cole Porter, was produced by John McCluggage and his wife Alexandra Urbanowski, both current residents of Manchester, New Hampshire, in California in the 1990s.

This years winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography is: My Life in Pieces by Simon Callow.

Tracie Bennett will play Judy Garland in the West End premiere of Peter Quilter's End of the Rainbow. Directed by Terry Johnson, End of the Rainbow combines humour and heartbreak to capture both the drama of Garland's final performances in London and her controversial life off stage.

A new West End production of W. Somerset Maugham's The Letter will star Jenny Seagrove and Anthony Andrews

Maureen Lipman will be playing the worst singer in the world on stage at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre this Autumn in a new play, Glorious, based on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins.