Watch In-Depth Theatre Training, Workshops and Q&A’s From Theatre Professionals
FREE online training, masterclasses, workshops and Q&A’s are now available to all professional and aspiring performers. Launched by casting directors Pearson Casting, the Collective Creative Initiative (CCI) is bringing performers and industry experts together while they are unable to work due to the Covid-19 pandemic. And since its launch in June more than 50,000 hours […]
The Turbine Theatre Present An Outdoor Entertainment Series Including Hair The Musical
A specially curated festival of live entertainment for all the family comes to The Turbine Theatre later this month. Presented on a safe and socially distanced jetty next to the iconic Battersea Power Station, the prominent production will be Hair – An Outdoor Concert, Directed by Arlene Phillips will play 4-6 September 2020. The cast […]
‘Showstopper! The (Socially Distanced!) Improvised Musical’ To Broadcast Live Online Show
With over 600 tickets sold, 1,911 suggestions for musical theatre styles, songs and settings, and a total of 1,184 views for their first ever socially distanced livestream, Olivier Award winners and Fringe favourites The Showstoppers are back with another socially distanced and completely improvised smash hit musical on Friday 28 August at 7:30pm! Using state-of-the-art […]
Giles Terera to star in The National Theatre’s first production after lockdown this October
The National Theatre announces its commitment to begin creating new work again, with plans to resume socially-distanced live performances in the Olivier Theatre in late October. A new one-person play, DEATH OF ENGLAND: DELROY, by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams, will be directed by Dyer, and performed by Giles Terera. The production team, together with […]
London’s Tristan Bates Theatre announces reopening and first production
Following the announcement from government that indoor theatre can return with social distancing, Defibrillator, in association with The Actors Centre, announces the world première of Gemma Lawrence’s new play Sunnymead Court. From her balcony, Marie blasts out the same tune, every day at 11am. On hers, Stella tends to red geraniums bursting with colour and […]
60 Hour Shakespeare to perform Richard II to raise money for theatre workers affected by COVID-19
This August Bank Holiday, 60 Hour Shakespeare invites audiences through the looking-glass, to this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, where the Plantagenet King, Richard II, sits upon the ground and asks this sceptre’d isle to yield stinging nettles to his enemies. The King has returned from Ireland to find the formerly banished […]
Broadway production of ‘Diana – A New Musical’ to be filmed and released on Netflix in controversial move for live theatre
Diana – A New Musical, telling the story if the life of Princess Diana, opened on Broadway on 2 March 2020 and played for just ten days before all New York theatres were closed down due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The production is currently suspended until September 6, 2020 but as we have seen in […]
West End ‘Christine’ Kelly Mathieson says Phantom show closure came as a ‘massive shock’
150 days since the last performance of The Phantom of the Opera in the West End, the most recent actor to play Christine, Kelly Mathieson, has said it came as a massive shock when the cast, crew and orchestra were released from their contracts with the news that the show would be overhauled with a […]
UK Theatres told they can reopen from tomorrow
On 17 July 2020, the UK Government announced that theatre’s would be allowed to reopen (with socially distanced audiences) from 1 August 2020. But the day before this was due to happen, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced this was to be delayed with concerns it may not be safe to do so. Now, two weeks […]
David Hunter and Caroline Kay release The Space Between cast recording
Following a flurry of five star reviews for their Musical Short, The Space Between, West End star David Hunter (Waitress, Kinky Boots) and actor/singer-songwriter Caroline Kay have released a cast recording of the show’s music. The pair wrote the Musical entirely in lockdown, having never met in person. They communicated exclusively through WhatsApp messages and […]