The Play Continues To Go Wrong and Peter Pan Flys In For Christmas
The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award-winning box office hit, celebrates its first, triumphant year in the West End, and as a new booking period opens with tickets going on sale until 11 September 2016, the show’s phenomenal popularity with audiences looks set to continue. For a limited run over the festive season at […]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cast Announced
Casting has been announced for the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Music & Lyrics Limited production of the much-loved Sherman Brothers musical CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, opening at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds on 2 December, with a national press night on Thursday 10 December, for a nine-week season finishing on 30 January 2016. Jon Robyns (Memphis, […]
Mr Tom Says Goodnight Once More In the West End
Following a hugely successful West End season in 2012/13, this critically acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre adaptation of Michelle Magorian’s classic novel returns to London for a limited 10 week season. The story is brought beautifully to life in David Wood’s Olivier Award winning stage version. The production will play this Christmas at the Duke of York’s […]
Brokeback Mountain set to ride into London in 2016
PRODUCTION CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT Producer Tom O’Connell has announced that he has acquired the stage rights for Annie Proulx’s award winning short story BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. The movie Brokeback Mountain became a cultural phenomenon in 2005, winning multiple awards including Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Score but this powerful […]
Oresteia (Trafalgar Studios)
Oresteia is what they call a classic. A Greek trilogy that premiered in Athens in 458BC. It has been remade and portrayed differently around the globe for millennia. Most recently, Oresteia has moved to the West End after a sellout season at the Almedia theatre. Robert Icke’s interpretation has turned tradition on its head with […]
Gruesome Playground injuries – Basic Mountain
Phantom Owl are a Los Angeles-based theatre company “presenting new American theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.” This year presenting three plays: Fault Lines by Stephen Belber, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times by Neil Labute and Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, plus three one-person shows as part of their Flying Solo series. Joseph’s Gruesome Playground […]
The Christians – Gate Theatre
As something of a believer myself, I took my seat in the intimate theatre space above the Prince Albert in Notting Hill intrigued to see what ‘The Christians’ had in store for its audience. Sitting opposite me and staring back, the choir were already onstage and ready to burst into lively song once the show […]