Plays At The Garrick To Run £15 Front Row Mobile Lottery With TodayTix
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company have announced a partnership with TodayTix in which they will run a £15 Front Row Mobile Lottery via the TodayTix App for all productions of the inaugural Plays at the Garrick season. The Front Row Lottery will open from midnight for performances that day and close four hours prior to the chosen performance. Customers who share their entry via Twitter or […]
Pierce Brosnan Fronts Campaign For OVALHOUSE Move To Brixton
For the past 50 years, opposite The Oval Cricket Ground, London’s Ovalhouse has been the home to experimental, radical and overlooked artists seeking to make theatre and performance that speaks to a world beyond the mainstream. This week, Hollywood leading man and former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan has become the face of a major fundraising […]
Wind In The Willows The Musical to have World Premiere
The highly-anticipated major new musical theatre adaptation of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS created by Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe is confirmed to open at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth from 8th October 2016, followed by The Lowry in Salford from 26th October 2016 prior to opening in London’s West End. Based on Kenneth Grahame’s treasured […]
Cast Announced For Ben Hur At The Tricycle Theatre
Full casting is announced today for Ben Hur – Tim Carroll directs Alix Dunmore, Richard Durden, John Hopkins and Ben Jones. The production opens on 24 November, with previews from 19 November, and runs until 9 January 2016. They said it was unachievable! They said it couldn’t be done! But now the team behind the Olivier […]
The Royal Court’s HANGMEN Transfers To The West End
Following a sell out run at the Royal Court Theatre, producers Robert Fox, Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions and Royal Court Theatre Productions are delighted to announce that Matthew Dunster’s production of Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen will transfer to the West End for a strictly limited season. Previewing from 1 December, the production will have […]
REVIEW: Master Of The Macabre (The Vaults, Waterloo)
Well… as the saying goes: “From the sublime to the ridiculous”. After witnessing a charming revival of a neglected musical at the Landor last night, I had the unfortunate experience of sitting through one of the silliest and, quite frankly, insulting evenings of “magic theatre” I have ever endured. The only thing that was remotely […]
REVIEW: The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
The Play That Goes Wrong debuted at the Duchess Theatre in London’s West End in September 2014 and has been cracking up audiences ever since. The winner of Best New Comedy in the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards, it’s the brain child Mark Bell, with the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s very physical attempt at a 1920s murder mystery. Just imagine how many things […]
Martin Barrass to star as Mr Perks in The Railway Children from October 17
Martin Barrass will star as Mr Perks in the Olivier Award-winning production of Mike Kenny’s stage adaptation of E. Nesbit’s novel The Railway Children – Live on Stage from Saturday 17 October 2015. Martin first played Mr Perks in the 2009 production at York Theatre Royal where he revived the role earlier this year to […]