PARK THEATRE TO HOST FIRST EVER PARENT/CARER AND BABY PERFORMANCE
Following on from its first ever Relaxed Performance, the Park Theatre has today announced its first ever Parent / Carer and Baby performance, taking place on Tuesday 5 July at 11am. Tickets for The Quiet House, Gareth Farr’s hilarious and heart breaking new play about a couple’s journey to start a family, will cost £10, with […]
Burt Bacharach musical PROMISES, PROMISES comes to London for the first time since 1969
Promises, Promises the hit Broadway musical based on the multi Oscar-winning 1960 film The Apartment, with music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David and book by Neil Simon, is to get its first London production since its 1969 West End premiere. Promises, Promises, about a junior executive at an insurance company who sets out […]
What does Brexit mean for the world of theatre?
Following the referendum decision on the UK’s membership of the EU, the Society of London Theatre (“SOLT”) and UK Theatre Association (“UK Theatre”) express concern as to the future for the theatre sector – a sector in which the UK leads the world both in creativity and in business. Theatre and the performing arts play […]
SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES comes to the London Palladium this Summer!
The much-loved Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang take centre stage in an all-new family musical, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES, presented by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Life Like Touring. Featuring everyone’s favourite characters from one of television’s longest-running animated series, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES is set to thrill audiences in London for the very […]
Samantha Barks to star in THE LAST FIVE YEARS at St James Theatre
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will helm a new London production of his acclaimed musical The Last Five Years, playing at St. James Theatre from Friday 27 October. The Last Five Years is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical telling the story of Jamie and Cathy, two New Yorkers in their twenties who […]
PETER JAMES play NOT DEAD ENOUGH set for 2017 UK Tour
Following his 11th consecutive Sunday Times No.1 in the UK Book Charts and the huge sell-out success of The Perfect Murder and Dead Simple on stage, the thrilling work of multi-million selling author Peter James returns to theatres in January 2017 with the world premiere production of Not Dead Enough. Not Dead Enough was the […]
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL now playing at Sadlers Wells
Dancing With The Devil, a dynamic visual performance about an imaginary meeting between dying Russian superstar ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn in the last years of Nureyev’s life, will get its world premiere in five performances at the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, from Sunday 26 June – Wednesday 29 June. Dancing […]
FUNNY GIRL to tour the UK next year
It has been announced today that the hit musical Funny Girl will go on a major national tour in 2017. The 5 star production opens at Manchester Palace where it runs for a week from 20 February, before touring to venues including Milton Keynes Theatre, Liverpool Empire, Bristol Hippodrome, Stoke Regent Theatre, His Majesty’s Theatre […]
WICKED Young Writers Awards 2016 winners announced
In the wake of the Brexit vote, the world is in a dark place of uncertainty, with many people (myself included) shocked at the decision to leave the European Union. I was delighted to attend the Wicked Young Writers Awards at the Apollo Victoria Theatre today and be inspired by the young 5-25 year old […]
TRAVESTIES by Tom Stoppard comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory
With David Baddiel’s My Family – Not the Sitcom running at the Menier, Into the Woods in rehearsals in New York, Funny Girl and The Truth in the West End, and Tony-winner The Color Purple on Broadway, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces a major new revival of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties – the first London […]