Cast announced for MIDNIGHT COWBOY – A NEW MUSICAL at Southwark Playhouse
The world premiere of MIDNIGHT COWBOY – A NEW MUSICAL will open at Southwark Playhouse Elephant. Who’s in the cast? EastEnders star Max Bowden, WhatsOnStage Award nominee Paul Jacob French and Tori Allen-Martin will star as Rico ‘Ratzo’ Rizzo, Joe Buck and Cass respectively. Also starring in MIDNIGHT COWBOY – A NEW MUSICAL will be Elena Breschi (Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, UK […]
Anna Morris’s Son of a Bitch comes to Southwark Playhouse
When a mother is captured on film calling her son the c-bomb in a split-second of rage, she questions the expectations and regrets that come with motherhood. A Fringe First winning show in 2024, Son of a Bitch is coming to Southwark Playhouse in February 2025. Anna Morris is a playwright, comedian and actress. She has […]
KENREX – the critically-acclaimed part True Crime, part Western transfers to Southwark Playhouse in 2025
Aria Entertainment and Sheffield Theatres are thrilled to announce that the world premiere of KENREX will transfer from Sheffield Theatres’ Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse to Southwark Playhouse Borough from 14 February – 16 March 2025. Following a sold-out run in Sheffield where it garnered multiple five-star reviews, KENREX is part True Crime, part Western, with a […]
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 […]