It is not hard to find the parallels of the current world we live in with the post-war era in which this is set. Times of austerity where many are having to learn to live with less, set in a time of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It is 1947, war has ended but Britain's citizens are suffering under the burden of ...

In 2011, Cameron Mackintosh produced Betty Blue Eyes, a musical adaptation of Alan Bennett's film A Private Function. It was critically acclaimed, but after poor sales the show closed. Now though it's ...

Exclusive: Stiles and Drewe’s Betty Blue Eyes musical will be revived in London for the first time this spring. Based on Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray’s film A Private Function and featuring a book ...

"A Private Function," scripted by Alan Bennett, centered around Betty, an adorable pig, who is being illegally reared to ensure the local dignitaries can celebrate the Royal Wedding with a lavish ...

Cue a musical comedy that, though it has a book by two Americans (Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman), stays pretty close to the English obsessions of class, hen-pecked husbands and smalltown Yorkshire ...