Casting Announced for Teddy Ferrara at the Donmar Warehouse
The Donmar Warehouse announces full casting for the UK premiere of Teddy Ferrara,Christopher Shinn’s insightful and revealing play, inspired by real events, explores society’s uncomfortable embrace of the outsider. Dominic Cooke will direct his first theatre production since leaving the Royal Court in 2013, with a full cast featuring Nancy Crane, Griffyn Gilligan, Nick Harris, Christopher Imbrosciano, Oliver Johnstone, […]
The Mousetrap – St Martin’s Theatre
Always one for a mystery, as well as an evening of theatre, I had a good feeling ‘The Mousetrap’ would become one of my all-time favourite shows when I finally came to see it. Happily, I was right. If you don’t know much about the world’s longest running play, Agatha’s Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ is now […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert – Sunderland Empire Theatre
Priscilla motored in to Sunderland this week with quite an unexpected bang. Starring Duncan James as disillusioned drag queen Tick (Mitzi), Priscilla (the bus) takes Tick from Sydney to Alice Springs at the request of his estranged wife Marion (Naomi Slights) to meet his 6 year old son Benji (Cameron Lant and Christian Odell-Lowery sharing […]
Full Cast Announced for In The Heights
Full casting is announced today for Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In The Heights, which returns to London in October following a critically acclaimed sell-out UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse in 2014. The production will transfer to King’s Cross Theatre on 3rd October 2015 and is booking for a limited four week period until 1st November […]
Looking for Lansbury – a celebration of a legend comes to St James Studio
We all know her as star of stage and screen from Auntie Mame to Murder She Wrote but who is Angela Lansbury? She was a wartime evacuee aged nine, cabaret star at 17, MGM contract player before she was 20, three-time Oscar nominee, star of musical theatre, serious drama and TV, granddaughter of one-time Labour […]
Beverley Knight and Matt Cardle LIVE FROM MEMPHIS in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust
Beverley Knight, Matt Cardle and their co-stars frrom the West End musical Memphis are to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins trust with a special late night concert at the Hippodrome Casino at 11.00pm on Thursday 24 September. This up close and personal evening will feature a live band and a variety of material including […]
Louise Plowright says Thank You to everyone who has supported her Cancer fight
West End star Louise Plowright was forced to unexpectedly leave the cast of Wicked the Musical in London in 2013 when she was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. Sadly this disease is currently untreatable in the UK and so a crowdfunding campaign was launched to raise a whopping £53,000 so that Louise can go abroad and […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – UK & Ireland Tour
Having read the novel that inspired this play and been blown away by Mark Haddon’s literary interpretation of Christopher Boone’s world, you would forgive me for being somewhat apprehensive of seeing this piece. From the minute I walked into the auditorium, however, at the Leeds Grand Theatre, I felt instantly at ease and excited for […]
X Factor Star Joe McElderry to star as Joseph in UK Tour
X FACTOR winner JOE MCELDERRY gets set to put on a dazzling coat of many colours as he steps in the title role of the UK’s longest running musical JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. Joe was just 18 when won the sixth series of The X Factor having been mentored by Girls Aloud star […]
JIM BROADBENT to star as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
Academy Award-winning actor Jim Broadbent makes his long-awaited return to the stage to play Scrooge in a new version of A Christmas Carol adapted by Patrick Barlow from Charles Dickens’ classic story of greed, grief, ghoulish ghosts and eleventh-hour redemption. From Scrooge and Tiny Tim to Bob Cratchit and Mrs. Fezziwig, Patrick Barlow’s imaginative adaptation of A Christmas Carol will bring some […]