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 […]
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: THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (Donmar Warehouse)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, written by Bertolt Brecht in the 1950s and set in the 1930s, is a satyrical allegory based on Hitler’s rise to power as well as the career of the gangster Al Capone. ‘Ui’ a small time hood, has his sights set on taking over the Chicago cauliflower business, whatever […]
PARK Theatre hold Relaxed & Dementia Friendly performance of tick, tick… BOOM!
The Park Theatre have held three Relaxed Performances so far, for The Buskers Opera, The Albatross 3rd & Main and Finders Keepers as well as one Dementia Friendly Performance: Killing Time, as part of their mission to help make theatre accessible to as many people as possible. Park Theatre have now announced their next Relaxed Performances […]
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD set to open on Broadway in 2018
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two set to open on Broadway Spring 2018 at the Lyric Theatre Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, have today confirmed that the production will have its Broadway premiere in the Spring of 2018 at the newly renovated Lyric Theatre in New York. As previously announced, the […]
Cast announced for NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL UK Tour
NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL is set to open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Friday 20 October 2017. Daniel Boys will play ‘Paul Maddens’, Sarah Earnshaw ‘Jennifer Lore’ and Simon Lipkin ‘Mr Poppy’. They will be joined by Andy Barke, Jamie Chapman, Jemma Churchill, Gary Davis and Katia Sartini. Further casting and childrens casting to be announced […]