Samantha Bond to star in The Lie at the Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory today announces that Samantha Bond will play Alice in Florian Zeller’s The Lie in a translation by Christopher Hampton. The production sees the return of Zeller, Hampton and director Lindsay Posner to the Menier following the huge success of The Truth in 2016, which later transferred to the West End and […]
REVIEW: The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (Menier Chocolate Factory) ★★★★★
Sometimes, the best show’s are the hardest ones to write reviews for. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is quite possibly the best musical I have ever seen. Having never read the books or watched the television series, I went along to this show with no expectations. By the time I left […]
THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 ¾ – THE MUSICAL opens at the MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY
The Menier Chocolate Factory today announces a brand new production of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ – The Musical which opens in Adrian’s 50th birthday year. Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary’s musical of Leicester’s favourite teen has undergone a period of further development since its original production at Curve […]
Terrence Rattigan’s LOVE IN IDLENESS transfers to the West End
With Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom taking up residence in the West End, Funny Girl on the road as part of a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces the West End transfer of their current critically acclaimed revival of Terence Rattigan’s Love in Idleness. Trevor Nunn directs Eve […]
Felicity Kendal and Maureen Lipman to star in LETTICE AND LOVAGE at the Menier Chocolate Factory
With She Loves Me currently running at its home base, Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom landing in the West End, and Funny Girl starting a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory announces today that Trevor Nunn will direct Felicity Kendal and Maureen Lipman in Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage. The […]
Full cast announced for Terence Rattigan’s LOVE IN IDLENESS at the Menier Chocolate Factory
With She Loves Me currently running at its home base, Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom taking up residence in the West End, and Funny Girl in rehearsals ahead of a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces full casting for their major new revival of Terence Rattigan’s Love in […]
Trevor Nunn returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory to direct LOVE IN IDLENESS and LETTICE AND LOVAGE
With She Loves Me currently running at its home base, Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom to open shortly in the West End, and Funny Girl in rehearsals ahead of a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory announces today that Trevor Nunn returns to direct major works from the two of […]
REVIEW: SHE LOVES ME (Menier Chocolate Factory) ★★★★
In these troubled and dark times, all we need is some festive delight to wind things up. A seasonal confection if you will. And whilst there are many holiday silver screen classics and countless replays of Love Actually to watch on TV, this is a theatre version of a festive romantic-comedy. Who’d have thought a […]
TRAVESTIES starring Freddie Fox transfers to the Apollo Theatre
Patrick Marber’s critically acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties transfers to the West End in 2017 for a limited run at the Apollo Theatre – with over 100 tickets at each performance at just £20. The production opens on 14 February, with previews from 3 February, and runs until 29 April. The production broke box […]
Check out these rehearsal images of Freddie Fox and the cast of TRAVESTIES
Tom Stoppard’s Travesties – the first London revival in over 20 years is set to open at the Menier Chocolate Factory on 22 September 2016. Patrick Marber directs Clare Foster (Cecily), Freddie Fox (Tristan Tzara), Tom Hollander (Henry Carr), Forbes Masson (Lenin), Peter McDonald (James Joyce), Amy Morgan (Gwendolen), Sarah Quist (Nadya) and Tim Wallers […]
