AFTER ORLANDO comes to the PARK Theatre raising money for Stonewall
On the six month anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Chaskis Theatre presents After Orlando. After Orlando is a global theatre action in response to the Florida attack: a playwright driven project comprising over seventy short pieces specifically written and curated by emerging and established international voices in theatre, including Neil Labute, Winter […]
DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY comes to the ARTS Theatre
Following a highly acclaimed UK tour and New York run, Fringe First Award winning Dirty Great Love Story makes its anticipated West End debut, in a new production, at the Arts Theatre in 2017. Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, […]
FLASHDANCE – THE MUSICAL to tour the UK in 2017
FLASHDANCE – THE MUSICAL returns to the UK for the first time since 2011, and will arrive at Glasgow King’s Theatre on 31 July 2017 to start a UK tour, finishing in Milton Keynes on 21 July 2018. For full details of tour venues and dates, visit www.flashdanceuktour.co.uk Prepare to be blown away with an […]
Stars line up for A MERRY CHRISTMAS CABARET supporting Cancer Research UK
Feeling festive!? A whole host of West End Musical theatre performers will belt out festive tunes for charity. This year A Merry Christmas Cabaret will be supporting The Louise Plowright Bursary and also Cancer Research UK. Our aim is to raise £250,000 for The Louise Plowright Bursary for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to […]
Cast announced for EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE at the Crucible Theatre
Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres Robert Hastie today announces the cast for the world première of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s new musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Jonathan Butterell directs Daniel Anthony (Levi), Mina Anwar (Leigh), Luke Baker (Dean), Courtney Bowman (Fatimah), Tamsin Carroll (Miss Hedge), Charles Dale (Hugo), Raj Ghatak (Sandra Bollock), Barney […]
Cast announced for the Young Vic production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Joe Hill-Gibbins returns to the Young Vic’s Main House stage with a bold new production featuring Michael Gould as Oberon, Anastasia Hille as Titania and Leo Bill as Bottom. Lovers Lysander and Hermia are played by John Dagleish and Jemima Rooper; Demetrius and Helena by Oliver Alvin-Wilson and Anna Madeley. Matthew Steer plays Peter Quince. […]
Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins to star in CAROUSEL at the English National Opera
Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins will star for the first time together in the West End as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of 41 performances at ENO’s […]
REVIEW: A GIRL AND A GUN (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” – Jean-Luc Godard; and all you need to attend this show is an open mind and nerves of steel. Louise Orwin, a performance artist who uses theatre to portray messages relevant to modern society, follows the huge success of ‘Prettyugly’ (a show […]
REVIEW: CANDIDE (Bridewell Theatre) ★★★★
Based on Voltaire’s novella of 1759, this story concerns the naive young man Candide and his adventures on both sides of the Atlantic (and a few mishaps along the way). Candide is an innocent who, at the outset, lives in Baron of Thunder-Den-Tronk’s castle in the Westphalia region of Germany, and wants nothing more than […]
REVIEW: TESTOSTERONE (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★★★
TESTOSTERONE is a new collaboration between acclaimed transgender actor and writer Kit Redstone and award-winning company Rhum and Clay at the New Diorama Theatre, mixing the visual theatre skills of Rhum and Clay with Redstone’s direct storytelling. This is the true story of Redstone’s first experience of a male gym changing room at the age of […]