Icarus Theatre Collective presents Hamlet UK Tour
Icarus Theatre Collective presents their sexy, bloody and fast-paced tour of Hamlet. This gripping ensemble reimagining embraces Shakespeare’s brutality and amplifies the exhilaration and violence of one of the greatest plays ever written. The King of Denmark is dead. Consumed with grief, Prince Hamlet avenges his father’s death with devastating consequences for his family and […]
What will we moan about next? Gay actors playing it straight?
2016 seems to have been the year where we threw our toys out of the pram about diversity in theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber recently expressed concern that there aren’t enough black actors being cast in principal roles in theatre. Sonia Freidman then contradicted this statement by saying it had taken thirty five years to get […]
Full cast announced for the UK Tour of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Bill Kenwright presents the highly anticipated first ever UK tour of the Tony and Olivier award winning LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, which opens at New Oxford Theatre on Thursday 5th January. JOHN PARTRIDGE will play the iconic role of ‘Albin’, who moonlights as star drag act Zaza at the infamous La Cage aux Folles nightclub. […]
Check out these images of Gemma Arterton as Joan Of Arc in SAINT JOAN at the Donmar Warehouse
Joan: daughter, farm girl, visionary, patriot, king-whisperer, soldier, leader, victor, icon, radical, witch, heretic, saint, martyr, woman. Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published in 1924, not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play […]
Edinburgh Fringe hit show HEADS UP heads out on UK tour
Following a solid sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the multi-award winning theatre-maker’s depiction of the life of a city at the brink of an apocalypse embarks on a UK tour 22 February – 10 June 2017 This compelling new performance written and performed by Kieran Hurley (Beats, Chalk Farm, Hitch) and co-directed by Alex […]
The Royal Court Theatre release Podcast series starting with Enda Walsh
The Royal Court Theatre have released the first in a 12 part series of podcasts with leading playwrights. The Playwright’s Podcast goes live at www.royalcourttheatre.com/podcasts with a new episode released every Friday over the next 12 weeks. Throughout the series Royal Court Associate Playwright Simon Stephens talks to April De Angelis, Rachel De-lahay, Tanika Gupta, […]
A Festival of New Plays by Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners come to Theatre503
Showcasing the winners of Synergy’s national prison scriptwriting competition, Homecomings is a festival of new work by prisoners and ex-prisoners about getting out and going home featuring Glory Whispers by Sonya Hale and The Monkey by John Stanley. Synergy creates ground-breaking work which harnesses the energy, instincts and life experiences of prisoners, ex-prisoners and young […]
REVIEW: DICK WHITTINGTON (Milton Keynes Theatre) ★★★★
This years pantomime at Milton Keynes theatre made headline news last week, when Stacey Soloman floated in on her bubble, apparently reading her lines off of a clipboard for the first performance. But apart from that, was she any good in her panto debut? I went along to find out! Dick Whittington has heard that […]
OUT THERE ON FRIED MEAT RIDGE ROAD comes to the White Bear Theatre in January
With a run of over six months at Pacific Rep Theatre in Los Angeles, Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road is a hillbilly comedy with a heart of gold. Writer and actor Keith Stevenson, who originated the role of JD in Los Angeles, hails from Keyser, West Virginia, the hometown of the actual Fried […]
REVIEW: LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST AND MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★
This double-bill by the Royal Shakespeare Company will delight everybody who prefers their Shakespeare play “as it was meant to be” starting with the lavish stage design by Simon Higlett reminiscent of the interior shots of Downton Abbey, a replica of the Elizabethan manor at Charlecote Park, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon. The production also features beautiful […]