New season of talks and events announced at the National Theatre
Talks and events at the National Theatre start this year with The Jungle – exploring the issues on 6 January. The talk will explore the issues raised in the play as well as the refugee situation more widely with panel members from Good Chance Theatre directors Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy, Nico Stevens (COO, Help […]
Could your child be the next Tina Turner?
The West End production of TINA will hold open auditions on Saturday 13 January 2018 for the opportunity to portray Anna Mae, the 11 year-old Tina Turner, with the adult cast of the musical. The company are looking for black and mixed race girls between the ages of 9 – 12 years old, under 4’ […]
THE WIZARD OF OZ to spend Christmas 2018 in Blackpool
Following the smash hit show Peter Pan at Blackpool Opera House this year, 2018 will see audiences following the yellow brick road to spend an unforgettable Christmas with Dorothy and her friends in the merry old land of Oz as the musical adventure The Wizard of Oz runs from Friday 7th December to Sunday 30 […]
Cast announced for Tennessee Williams’ SUMMER AND SMOKE at the Almeida Theatre
The cast is announced for Rebecca Frecknall’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic Summer and Smoke at the Almeida Theatre from Saturday 24 February – Saturday 7 April 2018. The girl who said ‘no’ — she doesn’t exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her. In the heat […]
Take a look at what’s coming up in 2018 on the London theatre scene
Girl From The North Country plays at the Noel Coward Theatre until 24 March 2018 before Quiz, the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? scandal opens 31 March and runs until 16 June 2018. Poldark star Aidan Turner then makes his West End debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore 23 June – 8 September 2018. Heisenberg: […]
SCHOOL OF ROCK celebrates 500 performances in the West End
Last night, 30 December 2017 the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock – The Musical celebrated 500 performances at the New London Theatre. The kids and adult cast gathered on stage before the milestone performance to celebrate the show’s achievement. Based on the 2003 film starring Jack Black, SCHOOL OF ROCK is Andrew Lloyd […]
Listen now to Michael Ball and Petula Clark in SUNSET BOULEVARD: IN CONCERT
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1994 and recorded at Cork Opera House in Ireland, you can now listen to Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical Sunset Boulevard – live in concert on BBC iPlayer. Starring Petula Clark as Norma Desmond and Michael Ball as Joe Gillis, plus Michael Bauer as Max Von Mayerling, Emma Williams as […]
Special 100th anniversary UK tour of A SPOONFUL OF SHERMAN
The double Oscar-winning Sherman Brothers – Richard M Sherman & Robert B Sherman – wrote more motion picture musical songs and scores than any other songwriting team in film history and became one of the most formidable songwriting teams in family entertainment. From 1964 onwards their unparalleled partnership produced unforgettable music for dozens of films, […]
Tyrone Huntley set to get ANGRY in 2018
Chronicles of Narnia star Georgie Henley and Tyrone Huntley will star in the world premiere of Philip Ridley‘s new show Angry at the Southwark Playhouse in February 2018. They will perform the series of five gender-neutral monologues on subjects as diverse as refugees, millennial anger, and interstellar travel. All five monologues will be performed by […]
The Other Palace Theatre “out of order” for those with accessibility issues
As a campaigner for promoting accessibility in theatre, it has saddened me to hear stories over the past few months of the lift being out of order at The Other Palace Theatre. If you have been to The Other Palace (formerly the St James Theatre), then you will know that the main auditorium is on […]