A bespoke one-off experiential festival takes place in the heart of London next month to attract new audiences in a post-Covid environment with an indoor & outdoor mix of short events followed by equal intervals of fresh air. Box office … Continue reading Tickets now on sale for f r a g m e n t s – The Waste Land 2022
Following a sell out premiere in Bradford and Manchester in 2021, Peaceophobia will perform at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 18 – 21 May and Brighton Festival 25 – 29 May. Conceived in Bradford and co-directed by young women from Common … Continue reading Peaceophobia returns with new dates for 2022
New York’s Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed and multi award-winning production of Lerner & Loewe’s much loved MY FAIR LADY will embark on a UK and Ireland tour from September 2022 following a limited engagement at the London Coliseum this summer. My … Continue reading My Fair Lady to embark on a UK tour from September 2022
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh are delighted to announce that Louis Gaunt will join the cast of Mary Poppins from 22 June 2022 to play the iconic role of Bert, replacing Charlie Stemp whilst he performs as Bobby in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Crazy for You this summer. Based … Continue reading Louis Gaunt to play Bert in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre
The show will open at Theatre Royal Bath from 30 March 2022 before travelling to Cambridge Arts Theatre, Malvern Theatre, Leicester Curve, Theatre Royal Brighton, Newcastle Theatre Royal, and Theatre Royal York. Mathew Horne will play Lenny, Teddy’s enigmatic brother. He will be joined on stage by comedian and musician Keith Allen who will play the brutal patriarch, Max. Four time Olivier Award nominee Ian Bartholomew will play Sam. Teddy will be played by Sam Alexander. Geoffrey Lumb, recently seen in the West End in Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and The Light, will appear as Joey. Shanaya Rafaat will take on the role of Ruth. … Continue reading Full cast announced for The Homecoming on tour
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch release rehearsal images as the 10th anniversary production of Tom Wells award- winning, irresistibly funny and tender play, The Kitchen Sink prepares to open on 17 Mar Playing Martin is Ken Bradshaw (War Horse, The National Theatre), with Sally George as Kath (The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Park Theatre), Dominic Jones as Billy (Growth, Paines Plough/UK Tour), Joseph Reed as Pete (The Nobodies, Chalk Line Theatre/UK Tour), and Matilda Tucker as Sophie (Dangerous Liaisons, Playground/STARZ). Things aren’t going to plan for one Yorkshire family. Martin’s milk float is falling apart and something’s up with Kath’s sink. Billy’s trying to get into art school with a portrait of Dolly … Continue reading INSIDE The Kitchen Sink rehearsals at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
National Youth Theatre raised £350k to support young talent and widen access to arts on Monday night at their Nostalgic Fantastic fundraising gala in association with EON Productions, TikTok and Netflix with support from Cath Kidston, Omega, Think Publishing, Champagne Bollinger and Soho House, and with thanks to the David Pearlman Foundation and Stelio & Susie Stefanou. The event was attended by National Youth Theatre Royal Patron HRH The Earl of Wessex, NYT Patrons Rosamund Pike and Hugh Bonneville and alumni Regé-Jean Page, Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù, Rob Rinder, Ben Miles, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Lynette Linton, Lolita Chakrabarti, Clive Mantle, Daisy Lewis and … Continue reading National Youth Theatre raises £350k to support young talent
Fighting Irish, will make its world premiere at the Belgrade Theatre from Sat 2 – Sat 16 April as part of the Theatre’s Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 programme. The cast will be led by Louis Ellis as ‘Jarlath McGough’, Christian James (Magic Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong) as ‘Sean McGough’, Daniel Krikler (The Normal Heart, National Theatre) as ‘Martin McGough Jr’, Peter Losasso as ‘Jimmy McGough’, Andrew Fettes as ‘Billy Duffin’, George McCluskey as ‘Frank Bannon’, Dan McGarry as ‘Joe Lawless’, Rosalind Steele (The Provoked Wife, RSC) as ‘Eileen McGough’, Colm Gormley as ‘Martin McGough Sr’ and Eddy Payne in multiple roles. Set in Dublin in 1979, Fighting Irish follows Jarlath McGough, Coventry’s newest light-heavyweight champion, as he returns to … Continue reading Casting announced for Fighting Irish at the Belgrade Theatre
Joshua Glenister will play the accused, Leonard Vole, opposite Lauren O’Neil as Romaine. David Michaels will play Sir Wilfrid Robarts QC. He is joined by Peter Landi as Mr Mayhew, Richard Teverson as Mr Myers QC, and James Hayes as Mr Justice Wainwright. The company is completed by James Alper, Lily Blunsom-Washbrook, Jonathan Brenner, Simon Butteriss, Vicki Davids, William Donaldson, Nick Hardie, Andrew Hollingworth, Mandi Symonds, Naomi Taylor, Matt Weyland, and Donnavan Yates. Now in its fourth year, Witness for the Prosecution has captured the imagination of thousands gripped by the case of Leonard Vole, accused of murder in cold blood. Director Lucy Bailey (Oleanna, Theatre Royal Bath/ West End) thrillingly places the audience in the thick of the action as Christie’s enthralling … Continue reading Seventh cast announced for Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution
