STAGETEXT to host its second Captioning Awareness Week
Stagetext, the leading captioning charity for the arts and cultural sectors, will host its second Captioning Awareness Week from 14 to 19 November 2016. The week aims to raise awareness of captioning and live subtitling in cultural venues, which give deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences equal access to arts events such as theatre […]
60,000 new tickets to go on sale for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD including access performances
A further 60,000 tickets for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD will be released for sale on Tuesday, 22 November 2016, at 11am GMT, for performances from 13 December 2017 – 4 February 2018. Tickets are priced from £15 per part and for every performance there will be over 300 tickets at £20 or less per […]
2016 West End Wilma Award winner Kerry Ellis joins ENCORE RADIO!
2016 West End Wilma Award winner Kerry Ellis joins ENCORE RADIO! The award-winning star of Wicked, Rent and Les Miserables will host her own 3-hour show every Saturday afternoon. She has conquered the West End and Broadway, winning awards on both sides of the Atlantic as Elphaba the green-faced star of Wicked. Now Kerry Ellis, who […]
Sheena Easton, Tom Lister, Jasna Ivir and Norman Bowman set to dance into 42nd Street
Sheena Easton – the Grammy Award winning artist who has sold over 20 million records around the world – is to make her West End debut in the forthcoming production of 42nd Street. Easton, who remains the only artist in history to have top five records on five major Billboard charts, will perform the iconic […]
REVIEW: LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS (N16 Theatre) ★★★★
LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS is a comedy review played out by five gloriously energetic, crazy, young performers. It contains (as they say on television) scenes of a sexual nature and mild’ish bad language and is all the better for it. Georgia Wilkinson’s impression of a cupboard should be a part of the curriculum of every […]
REVIEW: THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN (Barons Court Theatre) ★★
An undisputed staple in the contemporary theatre repertoire, the works of Bertolt Brecht have endured the last 70 or so years due to their timeless themes and exploration of moral relativism and social construct. The Good Person of Szechwan forces us to question what actually makes someone a ‘good person’ and explores the delicate balance […]
REVIEW: RUBBER RING (The Pleasance) ★★★★
Rubber Ring is the debut play by Norfolk playwright James McDermott. It’s produced by Velvet Trumpet, a company that aim to present work exploring unexamined lives, championing the work of those we don’t usually see on stage. This tale of growing up in Norfolk is exactly that. McDermott explains, “Rural LGBT stories were rarely represented […]
REVIEW: THE GLENN MILLER STORY (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★
Tommy Steele made his stage debut at Sunderland Empire on 5th November 1956, a month before his 20th birthday. So it seems fitting he should celebrate his 60 years in the business performing at the Empire in the Glenn Miller Story. It’s a difficult review to write because all the single elements of the show […]
REVIEW: KING LEAR (Old Vic) ★★★
This past year, with the celebration of Shakespeare’s 400th birthday, has seen many a production of King Lear. Even with the production at the Old Vic, there is also another running at the Barbican at the very same time. But with the much anticipated return of Glenda Jackson to the stage, the Shakespeare celebrations seem […]
West End Wilma Charity Single – out now!
West End Wilma presents The 2016 Wilma Awards Charity Single “NO AWARDS FOR YOU” A song for bad losers everywhere In aid of the National Autistic Society Available for digital download now on Itunes and Amazon and other good music download sites Based on the song ‘Tell Me It’s Not True’ from the Musical Blood Brothers Lyrics […]