EDUCATING RITA is one of my all-time favourite plays. Willy Russel’s rich script is a lush playground for the two actors lucky enough to inhabit his words. The story is not unlike PIGMALION or MY FAIR ...

THERE'S SOMETHING innocent, and almost quaint, about "The Legend of Rita," set during the 1970s and 1980s in West Germany. A film about the exile of a radical who evades West German authorities by ...

Albany Civic Theater will stage a production of Willy Russell’s "Educating Rita" for a special fundraiser to continue to support its operations and building maintenance. The one-day-only production ...

Former EastEnders star Larry Lamb has landed a part in a new stage production of Educating Rita. The actor, who recently bowed out from his role as Walford villain Archie Mitchell, will appear in the ...

The Menier Chocolate Factory’s revival of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita couldn’t be more timely. With English universities hiking their course fees to three times their previous rates, the financial ...

Three months after opening at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Willy Russell season hits the West End to provide another high profile, surely successful transfer from the Southwark powerhouse. Also, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Rita White, a young Liverpudlian hairdresser enrolls in an Open University ...