Lead cast announced for SCISSORHANDZ: A Musical Reinvented at Southwark Playhouse Elephant
European premiere of Bredeweg’s critically acclaimed musical SCISSORHANDZ: A Musical Reinvented which will open at Southwark Playhouse Elephant from 23 January 2025 for an exclusive 10-week engagement. Who’s in the cast? Jordan Kai Burnett (Magic Mike Live Las Vegas, Romy & Michele the Musical, Seattle) will star as Scissorhands, a role she originated in the original Los Angeles production, […]
★★★★★ Cable Street returns to Southwark Playhouse – “as powerful today as it was in 1936”
The world premiere of CABLE STREET (Southwark Playhouse Borough – February/March 2024) – sold out before the show even opened! Now this thrilling new musical is returning for just 42 performances this Autumn – and the excitement and rush on tickets, once again shows that CABLE STREET catches the zeitgeist to tell this urgent story for today’s audiences. Where and when? 5* new […]
Y2K farce, I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire, comes to Southwark Playhouse
To cope with the absence of her father, neglect of her mother, and ridicule by her classmates, eighth grader Shelby Hinkley has put all of her time and energy into the only thing that matters in 2004: Spiderman. When leading a devout online fan club proves insufficient to her needs, Shelby decides to risk it […]
Police Cops: The Musical at Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
After highly successful runs at both the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Southwark Playhouse in 2023, Police Cops: The Musical is back. Promising to be bigger and better than ever, the all singing, all dancing, all guns blazing Police Cops returns to Southwark Playhouse and London audiences can return to the “US 80s” with more madness, […]
Mrs Orwell transfers to Southwark Playhouse
Following a hugely successful sell-out run at the Old Red Lion this summer, Tony Cox’s Mrs Orwell, starring Cressida Bonas and Peter Hamilton Dyer, will be transferring to Southwark Playhouse for a limited run this September (5-23). This exciting play is based on actual events. University College Hospital, London, 1949. George Orwell is in the […]
Stella Gonet to star in John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt, A Parable”
Stella Gonet is to star in Doubt, A Parable by John Patrick Shanley one of the most acclaimed plays in recent memory. Playing Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a conservative head nun and school principal who questions a priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, Stella said: “I was so excited to read this play. It […]
REVIEW: WORKING (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
Working is a genre-defining musical based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling 1974 book, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. Put simply, Working is a musical about the everyday American’s daily working life. Look a bit closer and it’s so much more! With a book by Grammy […]
Siubhan Harrison & Liam Tamne have Tea With Wilma
WORKING is the extraordinary genre-defining musical from Grammy and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell) based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with the American workforce: Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. The show has been adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, […]
TREVOR NUNN to direct new play DESSERT at SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
Following on from his success with Daytona at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket Oliver Cotton, has written a new play for our time, Dessert. Directed by Trevor Nunn the world premiere of this powerful, thought-provoking play about wealth, greed and the lengths to which people will go to claim what’s theirs, runs at Southwark Playhouse from […]
Magical tale KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE returns to SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
Kiki is back! Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out festive run at Southwark Playhouse, Kiki’s Delivery Service returns to The Large for a limited summer season. Kiki is a 13 year old witch and, as tradition dictates, it is time for her to leave home and family to make a new life for herself. Equipped with […]