VISIT “Pantoland” at The London Palladium

Donny Osmond, Julian Clary, Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers, Gary Wilmot, Jac Yarrow and Sophie Isaacs are set to star in Pantolandat The Palladium. They will be joined by world-famous The Tiller Girls and Australian speciality act Glame Oz. The Twins FX will also make their grand return with their spectacular special effects. The show is set to continues to 9 January 2022 for a strictly limited five week run. It will be directed by Michael Harrison with choreography by Karen Bruce, set design by Ian Westbrook, costume design by Hugh Durrant, lightning design by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Gareth Owen. They will be joined by composer … Continue reading VISIT “Pantoland” at The London Palladium

Beauty and The Beast to suspend all performances until Saturday 18 December at The Belgrade Theatre

Despite safety mesures being in place and understudy actors, The Belgrade Theatre has announced that some of their Panto Company have recently tested positive for Covid. This means all live performances have to be suspended, including live performances of Beauty and the Beast until Saturday 18 December at the earliest. Here’s what The Belgrade Theatre had to say about the performances : “Knowing this would always be a risk during the ongoing pandemic, we have taken the precaution of creating a professionally filmed version of our Beauty and the Beast production. We intend to screen this filmed version to audiences … Continue reading Beauty and The Beast to suspend all performances until Saturday 18 December at The Belgrade Theatre

John Dagleish to star in SPIKE at the Watermill Theatre

Full casting has been announced for SPIKE, a new comedy by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. The show will premiere at The Watermill from Thursday 27 January – Saturday 5 March. About the show, Ian Hislop and Nick Newman said,  “Writing Spike gave us the opportunity to celebrate the genius of the founding father of modern comedy, explore what inspired him and steal all his jokes”. John Dagleish will lead the cast as Spike Milligan with Stephen Fry voicing the BBC Announcer at The Watermill from Thursday 27 January – Saturday 5 March. Also joining the cast are Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Janet, George Kemp as Peter … Continue reading John Dagleish to star in SPIKE at the Watermill Theatre

Full cast announced for “The Da Vinci Code”

Full touring casting has been announced for “The Da Vinci Code”. Joining Nigel Harman, who will play Robert Langdon, Danny John-Jules as Sir Leight Teabing and Hannah Rose Caton as Sophie Neveu are Basienka Blake as Vernet, Alasdair Buchan as Remy, Alpha Kargbo as Fache, Joshua Lacy as Silas, Leigh Lothian as Colette/Sophie understudy, Andrew Lewis as Sauniere and  Debra Michaels as Sandrine/Grandmother. The play, based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novel will be touring across the UK. It will begins The tour begins at the Churchill Theatre,  Bromley on 10 January and goes on to Nottingham, Sheffield, Bath, Plymouth, Clywd, Coventry, Hull, Wolverhampton, Brighton, Cheltenham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Newcastle. It will then travels to Southampton, Richmond, Woking, Leicester, Norwich, York, Shrewsbury, Dartford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Milton Keynes, Aberdeen, Salford, Leeds, … Continue reading Full cast announced for “The Da Vinci Code”

Giles Terera to host an exclusive Q&A At Victoria Palace Theatre

Join Giles Terera in the room where it happens for an exclusive Q&A on Tuesday December 7th 2021 at noon. The event will take place at the Victoria Palace Theatre, home to the multi award-winning Hamilton in which Giles played Aaron Burr in the original West End production. The Q&A will be hosted by actor and musician Jon Robyns. Giles Terera will also be joined by fellow original cast members of Hamilton. A unique opportunity to meet the cast and discover what it was really like to slip into such characters. A hardback copy of Giles Terera’s book, Hamilton and Me: … Continue reading Giles Terera to host an exclusive Q&A At Victoria Palace Theatre

New photographs released for The Book Of Dust – La Belle Sauvage at the Bridge Theatre

New photographs has been released for “The Book Of Dust – La Belle Sauvage” at The Bridge Theatre. The production of Philip Pullman’s The Book Of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, producedby Nicholas Hytner continues at The Bridge Theatre to 26 February 2022. The play takes place twelve years before the event of Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise … Continue reading New photographs released for The Book Of Dust – La Belle Sauvage at the Bridge Theatre

BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER: THE MUSICAL to run at the Turbine Theatre in 2022

After being discovered at MTFestUK 2019, But I’m A Cheerleader: The Musical will become the first fully commissioned musical to be presented on stage! Paul Taylor-Mills & Bill Kenwright, in association with Adam Bialow, are presenting their new musical, based on the LIONSGATE® motion picture of the same name, directed by  Jamie Babbit and with a screenplay by Brian Wayne Peterson. But I’m A Cheerleader: The Musical features book and lyrics by Bill Augustin, music by Andrew Abrams, direction by Tania Azevedo, choreography by Alexzandra Sarmiento, and lighting by Martha Godfrey. It is set to run at The Turbine Theatre from 18 February – 16 April, with a press night on 23 February 2022. … Continue reading BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER: THE MUSICAL to run at the Turbine Theatre in 2022

INSIDE ’21 ROUND FOR CHRISTMAS’ rehearsals starring CLARE BLOOMER

“Christmas time, mistletoe & wine, children singing Christian rhymes… out of tune and far too loudly for six in the f**ing morning! Join Tracy Sullivan, a day-dreaming, outspoken, list-making, extroverted-introvert in the midst of cooking Christmas Dinner for her family – her extremely large family. A raucous festive romp with… a little bit of spice!” Directed by Toby Hampton, 21 Round for Christmas will star Clare Bloomer, who reprises the role of Tracy from the successful OnComm nominated Hope At Home digital series, produced by the theatre during lockdown. Clare Bloomer’s recent credits include Margaret Thatcher in Maggie and Ted by Michael McManus (Yvonne … Continue reading INSIDE ’21 ROUND FOR CHRISTMAS’ rehearsals starring CLARE BLOOMER

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Celebrates Hogwarts House Pride

The critically acclamed London production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will celebrate each Hogwarts houses next year. The show will dedicate four special performances to Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. The first 50 audience members who will arrive early to each Wednesday’s performances will receive early access to the theatre, theatre bars and gift shop. They will also get the opportunity to participate in Harry Potter trivia featuring the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. All audience members will receive a house-themed souvenir pin and have the opportunity to enter the house pride costume contest. The performances … Continue reading Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Celebrates Hogwarts House Pride