Doctor Who: Time Fracture is now booking through September 2022. The show was initially supposed to close in April but this adventure across time and space has taken root at UNIT HQ in Mayfair, having literally weathered storms and the … Continue reading Doctor Who Time Fracture extends its booking period to September 2022
Leicester’s Curve theatre will present its annual New Work Festival in March. The festival will celebrate work from Midlands artists with performances, workshop and activities running from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 March. This year will see the world premiere of Katie Arnstein’s Sticky Door (Saturday 12 March), a five-star storytelling show with songs about sex, stigma and cystitis. About the show and the opportunity, Beccy D’Souza, producer of Sticky Door, said: “We’re super excited to bring Sticky Door to Curve for its regional premiere. Sticky Door premiered at VAULT 2020, just before…well you know… and has since had a short run at Pleasance London in August 2021, but … Continue reading Curve’s New Work Festival to return this march
New photographs have been released for But I’m A Cheerleader: The Musical. The show will run at the Turbine Theatre from 18 February to 16 April 2022. But I’m A Cheerleader: The Musical will feature Alice Croft as Megan, the high school senior who just loves cheerleading. She will be joined on stage by Evie Rose Lane who will play Graham, Oliver Brooks as Dad/Larry, Edward Chitticks as Jared/Rock, Damon Gould as André, Tiffany Graves as Mary Brown, Jodie Jacobs as Mom/Lloyd, Lemuel Knights as Mike, Harry Singh as Jalal, Jodie Steele as Kimberly/Hilary, Aaron Teoh as Dolph and Kia-Paris Walcott as … Continue reading INSIDE But I’m A Cheerleader at the Turbine Theatre
Leading this glorious production are Sam Lips as Don Lockwood, Charlotte Gooch as aspiring actress Kathy Selden, Ross McLaren as Don’s slapstick sidekick Cosmo Brown and Jenny Gayner as the strangulated silver-screen siren, Lina Lamont. They will be joined on tour by Faye Tozer who will reprise her role as Lina Lamont … Continue reading Cast announced for UK Tour of Singing in the Rain
Jodie Comer, the Emmy and Bafta Award-winning star of BBC’s Killing Eve, will make her stage debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award winning play, Prima Facie. She will play Tessa in this gripping, one-person play which takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game. Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister who loves to win. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. An unexpected event forces … Continue reading Rebecca Lucy Taylor to join the creative team for Prima Facie and Jodie Comer to make her west end debut
Birmingham Royal Ballet today announces its programme plans from May 2022 – March 2023. In a big year for the city, the season includes several highlights in Birmingham during the year that it hosts the Commonwealth Games, as well as … Continue reading Birmingham Royal Ballet announces 2022/23 Season
The Park Bench Plays will be broadcast on Sky Arts (Freeview Channel 11) on Monday 7 February 2022 at 11pm. Brainchild of The Rep’s Artistic Director, Sean Foley, The Park Bench Plays is a series of short Plays commissioned by The Rep during lockdown. Filmed on location out and about in Birmingham, each of the five micro plays is set on the most common of lockdown meeting places, the park bench, and reflects, in a different way, on life amidst the pandemic. The Park Bench Plays are written by five of country’s best playwrights; Tanika Gupta (Lions and Tigers/The Empress), Bryony Lavery (Frozen/The Lovely Bones), Robin French (Cuckoo/Rebel Music), David Edgar (Nicholas Nickleby/Pentecost) and Janice Connolly (Mrs Barbara … Continue reading Birmingham Rep’s The Park Bench Plays to be Broadcast on Sky Arts
The upcoming season of Frantic Assembly will include a revisited production of Othello and a thrilling new take on Kafka’s Metamorphosis. They will also launch the Frantic Assembly STUDIO, a innovative new digital ressource platform for teaching drama in secondary schools. … Continue reading Frantic Assembly announces plans for 2022 including a production of Othello
Leading the cast of this gripping new musical is ex Sugababe Amelle Berrabah. She will be joined on stage by Emmerdale’s star Nicole Faraday and Wendi Harriott. She previously shot to fame when she appeared on ITV’s The Voice. Soul Sisters tells the story of Dionne, Monique, & Rachael, who have known each other for 30 years yet nothing can prepare them for the revelations that unfold during a reunion at a Soul Weekender. Together, they face the real, honest truth and express themselves in the only way they know how – through the very music that brought them together. Soul Sisters is an exhilarating new … Continue reading World Premiere of Soul Sisters to tour the UK this Spring
