FOOTLOOSE: THE MUSICAL steps out on tour in 2017 and comes to London’s Peacock Theatre for a limited run
Following a smash-hit 2016 tour which saw over 160,000 people cut loose across the UK, Footloose: The Musical will burst back onto the stage in 2017 when an International Tour launches from New Wimbledon Theatre on Friday 21 April. The tour will include a strictly limited West End season at the Peacock Theatre, playing for […]
Hannah Grover and Marc Pickering join Julie Atherton in JANUARY: THE MUSICAL REVUE
Julie Atherton is one of the West End’s most versatile entertainers, with a distinctive voice and unmatched comic timing.The Preston-born star is well known as a supporter of new writing in musical theatre. She’s always done the same in her recordings, and that continues in her latest album. ‘Rush of Life’. Best known for creating […]
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE makes its London premiere at The Vaults
In an exhilarating first time collaboration between Pinter Commission winning Brad Birch and BAFTA-nominated Kenneth Emson, This Must Be The Place makes its London premiere at Vault following an acclaimed debut performance at Latitude Festival 2016. The production is staged by Poleroid Theatre – the company behind triple Off West End Award nominated Free Fall […]
New production of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy HENCEFORWARD… heads out on tour
A BRAND NEW production of Alan Ayckbourn’s classic comedy Henceforward… comes to Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre where it will play from Thursday, January 19 to Saturday, January 28. All alone, high up in an isolated, derelict suburban tower block, avant-garde composer Jerome struggles vainly to complete his life’s masterwork about love. With the help of […]
A YEAR FROM NOW comes to the VAULT Festival
14 VOICES. 5 ACTORS. ONE YEAR. This new production from RedBellyBlack Theatre is a fascinating combination of verbatim and physical theatre, using movement and audio narrative, that asks 14 people ‘where do you see yourself a year from now?’. Children, nonagenarians, new parents and trauma survivors talk to the audience about their perspective on the […]
Dirty Dancing perform the iconic ‘lift’ on ice for the first time
DIRTY DANCING CELEBRATES A FANTASTIC CHRISTMAS WEST END SEASON WHILST LOOKING AHEAD TO INTERNATIONAL DATES & A NINE MONTH UK TOUR IN 2017 Lewis Griffiths (‘Johnny’) and Katie Hartland (‘Baby’) celebrated the London season of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage by performing the iconic lift on the ice (for the very first […]
LETTERS TO WINDSOR HOUSE comes to the Soho Theatre
LETTERS TO WINDSOR HOUSE by Sh!t Theatre is set to play at London’s Soho Theatre 31 Jan – 11 Feb 2017 A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people’s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance… The multi award-winning duo, SH!T THEATRE, follow up their smash-hit show Women’s […]
Musical whodunit MURDER FOR TWO to open at the Watermill Theatre
The Watermill Theatre announces the cast for the British premiere of Murder For Two, the first production in The Watermill’s 50th anniversary year, celebrating its national and international success as a producing theatre. A recent Off-Broadway hit, Murder For Two will be directed by Luke Sheppard, whose previous productions include the Olivier award-winning musical In […]
Icarus Theatre Collective presents Hamlet UK Tour
Icarus Theatre Collective presents their sexy, bloody and fast-paced tour of Hamlet. This gripping ensemble reimagining embraces Shakespeare’s brutality and amplifies the exhilaration and violence of one of the greatest plays ever written. The King of Denmark is dead. Consumed with grief, Prince Hamlet avenges his father’s death with devastating consequences for his family and […]
What will we moan about next? Gay actors playing it straight?
2016 seems to have been the year where we threw our toys out of the pram about diversity in theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber recently expressed concern that there aren’t enough black actors being cast in principal roles in theatre. Sonia Freidman then contradicted this statement by saying it had taken thirty five years to get […]