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The Feathers of Daedalus Circus have teamed up with renowned poet Roger McGough to present Sky in the Pie, a circus and puppetry spectacular running at OSO Arts Centre in February and the VAULT Festival in March. I caught up with the show's director, Joanna Vymeris, to find out more about this new production. How... Continue Reading →
Rehearsal images have today been released for Time and Tide, which runs at Park Theatre from 5-29 February. Relish Theatre are proud to present the world premiere of award-winning writer James McDermott’s new play. Time and Tide was longlisted for The Verity Bargate Award, the Bruntwood and Papatango Playwriting Prizes, and developed as part of... Continue Reading →
Katie Arnstein is an award-winning writer and performer. Her latest play, Stick Door, the final part of Katie's It's a Girl! trilogy, will be performed at the VAULT Festival next month. I caught up with Katie to find out more. How did you first get involved in theatre? I was very lucky when I was... Continue Reading →
Showcasing the latest immersive technologies, Mitcham VR Festival will be the culmination of FilmMerton, the year-long project aiming to encourage participation with film throughout the London Borough of Merton. Curated by VR industry expert Mária Rakušanová (Curator and Executive Producer, Raindance Film Festival; member of BAFTA’s Immersive Entertainment Advisory Group), this special one-off community event... Continue Reading →
With season three of The Crown premiering on Netflix at the end of last year, the show’s historian, biographer Robert Lacey, has released The Official Companion: Volume 2, which takes readers behind the scenes of the award-winning series and aims to separate fact from fiction. The latest volume: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years... Continue Reading →
ts announced today that Lucie Jones Live at the Adelphi on Sunday 16th February 2020 will be recorded and released as a live album, available in Spring 2020, with specific release details to follow. It is also announced that joining Lucie on stage will be guest artists, fellow Welsh musical star John Owen Jones (Les... Continue Reading →
The music that filled the dance halls during the Big Band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra this Spring as The Glenn Miller & Big Band Spectacular heads out on a major 2020 national tour. Kicking off at the Harlow Playhouse on 20 March, the hardest swinging band in the... Continue Reading →
From today the National Theatre Collection will be available free of charge to state schools and state-funded further education colleges across the UK in partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing. The collection provides high-quality recordings of 24 world-class productions, drawing from 10 years of NT Live broadcasts and never before released productions from the National Theatre’s Archive.... Continue Reading →
Sonia Friedman Productions have released production images for Conor McPherson’s (The Weir, Girl from the North Country) new adaptation of Uncle Vanya directed by Ian Rickson (Rosmersholm, Jerusalem, The Seagull) which is now in previews at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Toby Jones (The Birthday Party, Don’t Forget the Driver, Detectorists) stars in the title role... Continue Reading →
