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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 […]

Full cast announced for the UK Tour of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Bill Kenwright presents the highly anticipated first ever UK tour of the Tony and Olivier award winning LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, which opens at New Oxford Theatre on Thursday 5th January. JOHN PARTRIDGE will play the iconic role of ‘Albin’, who moonlights as star drag act Zaza at the infamous La Cage aux Folles nightclub. […]

Edinburgh Fringe hit show HEADS UP heads out on UK tour

Following a solid sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the multi-award winning theatre-maker’s depiction of the life of a city at the brink of an apocalypse embarks on a UK tour 22 February – 10 June 2017 This compelling new performance written and performed by Kieran Hurley (Beats, Chalk Farm, Hitch) and co-directed by Alex […]

REVIEW: DICK WHITTINGTON (Milton Keynes Theatre) ★★★★

This years pantomime at Milton Keynes theatre made headline news last week, when Stacey Soloman floated in on her bubble, apparently reading her lines off of a clipboard for the first performance. But apart from that, was she any good in her panto debut? I went along to find out! Dick Whittington has heard that […]

REVIEW: RICKY WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★★★

The purpose of any good pantomime is to imbue audiences with a sense of comfort, good humour and seasonal cheer. So how about one that plunges its audience into a socio-political satire dripping with painful truths? Astonishingly, Ricky Whittington & His Cat, the newest work from comedy powerhouse Fight in the Dog, manages to mix […]

Tom Parker, Danielle Hope, Louisa Lytton and Darren Day to star in GREASE UK Tour

Grease is the word! The hit 70s musical returns in 2017 for a UK tour, opening in Manchester on 10 March 2017. Casting for the tour includes Tom Parker (The Wanted) who makes his musical theatre debut playing Danny Zuko, Danielle Hope (Over the Rainbow winner) who plays Sandy, Louisa Lytton (Strictly Come Dancing, EastEnders) […]