New play GATE to be performed at the COCKPIT THEATRE
Following on from the acclaimed success of Pre-drinks/Afterparty at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Deadpan Theatre is now presenting new play GATE, a poignant and witty story of love and loss that asks what really happens to us after we die, what we leave behind and what we will become. GATE is written by Artemis […]
Full cast announced for COMMITTEE… (A NEW MUSICAL) at the DONMAR WAREHOUSE
The Donmar Warehouse today announces full casting for The Public Administration and Constitution Affairs Committee Take Oral Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids Company a new musical with music by Tom Deering, and book and lyrics by Hadley Fraser and Josie Rourke. Committee… (A New Musical) is edited from the parliamentary transcript of an oral […]
Further cast announced for QUEEN ANNE at the THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET
Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough alongside Emma Cunniffe as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Queen Anne. Completing the cast will be Daisy Ashford as Lady Clarendon, Sheena Bhattessa as Lady Somerset, Gabrielle Brooks as Jezebel and Lady Russell, Dave Fishley as King William III and Groom, […]
Alternate Dewey GARY TRAINOR takes on the lead role in SCHOOL OF ROCK
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Olivier award-winning production of School of Rock – The Musical today announces that Gary Trainor, having played the role of alternate Dewey since the show’s London premiere, will lead the cast as Dewey Finn from 17 May 2017, with Stephen Leask joining the cast as the alternate Dewey. For a third time […]
REVIEW: WHAT WOULD JULIE DO? (Pheasantry) ★★★★★
I’ve always seen musical theatre, or theatre in general really, as an idea of escapism. It’s one of the only situations we have left in the world where we can switch off our phones and rely purely on what’s on stage in front of us, as a way of moving away from our troubles outside […]
HALF A SIXPENCE set to go out with a flash, bang wallop in the West End
First presented at Chichester’s Festival Theatre, last summer’s hit Half A Sixpence will play its final performance in London on Saturday 2 September, having extended its limited season twice. Acclaimed by audiences and critics as a dazzling reinvention of the original musical and winning plaudits for both production and cast, the role of Arthur Kipps, […]
Understudy SAM O’ROURKE plays Arthur Kipps in HALF A SIXPENCE
At the beginning of 2017, I decided that 2017 would be the year I try to help champion understudies in theatre. It can be a thankless task, for a performer to take on a leading role in a theatre show, only for it to pass by unnoticed by press and media outlets. These hard working […]
REVIEW: PAPER HEARTS (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) ★★★★
After it’s successful run at last years Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Paper Hearts arrives Upstairs at the Gatehouse. The story tells of young Atticus Smith (Adam Small), an aspiring writer working in a bookshop trying to find his way in the real world while simultaneously living in the world of his novel, Angel Star which he […]
REVIEW: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Bridewell Theatre) ★★★★
Despite having won five Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 2006, The Drowsy Chaperone remains relatively ignored or unheard of by theatregoers. A hilarious 1920s romp complete with romantic mix-ups, fantastic caricatures and a soundtrack that will have you positively bouncing in your seat, what more could you wish for? Thankfully, Sedos theatre […]
REVIEW: WAITING FOR GOD (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) ★★★★
With audiences demanding evermore lavish and spectacular productions, it was a welcome return to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford for the stage version of Waiting for God. All of our favourite characters from the original BBC series return to Bayview, facing the dilemmas that come with growing old disgracefully. Nichola McAuliffe, playing Diana Trent is […]