Month: May 2017

Joe Orton’s classic farce LOOT to play at PARK Theatre

Joe Orton’s classic farce LOOT will run at London’s Park Theatre from Thursday 17 August – Sunday 24 September. It will then transfer to the Watermill Theatre from 28 September – 21 October. The production marks the 50th anniversary of Joe Orton’s death on 9 August 1967, and just months after LOOT’s award-winning West End […]

REVIEW: GANGSTA GRANNY (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★★

David Walliams’ best selling children’s book has been brought to life on stage by The Birmingham Stage Company. The story is told through the eyes of 11 year old Ben (Ashley Cousins) who every Friday night is sent to his ‘boring’ granny’s house (Gilly Tompkins) for the night while his selfish parents go ballroom dancing. […]

LUCIE JONES joins the cast of THE WEDDING SINGER tour

Welsh musical theatre star and Eurovision hopeful Lucie Jones is to join the cast of The Wedding Singer, (the hilarious musical based on the hit film Adam Sandler film), after she performs in Kiev this weekend where she will represent the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Lucie joins the show in Aberdeen and […]

Julia Donaldson’s WHAT THE LADYBIRD HEARD makes its West End debut

Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’ bestselling picture book What the Ladybird Heard makes its West End debut this summer. This glittering tale of two crafty robbers, one tiny ladybird and a whole farmyard of fun will open at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on 5 July, running until 10 September, prior to a major UK […]

DECLAN BENNETT and TYRONE HUNTLEY reprise their roles in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Declan Bennett will return to the role of Jesus in the Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar this summer. Also returning this summer are Tyrone Huntley with his award-winning performance as Judas, and David Thaxton and Peter Caulfield as Pilate and Herod. With direction by Timothy Sheader, design by Tom Scutt, choreography by […]

Cast announced for THE QUENTIN DENTIN SHOW at the TRISTAN BATES THEATRE

Luke Lane (The Quentin Dentin Show, Above The Arts; King John, Shakespeare’s Globe; A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Henry V, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Shauna Riley (The Quentin Dentin Show, Above The Arts/Edinburgh Fringe; Bas, Prague Fringe; Sasha, Seventh Dream Ventures), Max Panks (Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Park Theatre; Lost Boy The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre and Finborough […]

REVIEW: ALL OUR CHILDREN (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★★★

‘They’re just children, aren’t they? Just children.’ Any story that involves the Holocaust is likely to be harrowing, yet amidst all of the sorrow are tales of bravery, determination and love: the risks people took to speak out against the Nazi regime; those who saved countless people… but all too often forgotten are the ordinary […]

Lewis Carroll’s THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK makes its West End debut

The West End première of a brand-new family musical inspired by the creator of Alice and Wonderland’s beloved classic poem, The Hunting of the Snark made its world première in Cardiff at the Sherman Theatre last year followed by a run at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. This family musical adventure opens at […]

Full cast announced for the London production of MAMMA MIA! from 12 June

Joining the previously announced Sara Poyzer, Kate Graham, Jacqueline Braun, Richard Trinder, Alasdair Harvey, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, Georgina Castle, Christopher Jordan-Marshall, Bobbie Little, Harriet Bunton, Damian Buhagiar, Nye Rees and Caroline Deverill in the global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! at London’s Novello Theatre from Monday 12 June 2017, will be Alishia-Marie Blake, Stuart Hickey, Mark […]