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Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, the acclaimed Theatre Témoin will be bringing Feed to the VAULT Festival - a show that brings their vibrant visual style to the world of click-bait culture, fake news and cyber gluttony. Welcome to the stimulating world of Feed where emotions are the currency and your passions and fantasies will be indulged… for a... Continue Reading →
The Pleasance Theatre Trust has today announced a new partnership with VAULT Festival that will strengthen links between both organisations; working together, both Pleasance and VAULT are dedicated to developing and supporting the careers of new and emerging theatre makers, playwrights and comedians. Pleasance's annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme is one of the largest and... Continue Reading →
Earlier this week Mimbre – the East-London based all-women acrobatic theatre company – was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Creative Director of the Dior women's collections, to participate in the spring-summer 2019 haute couture show at Paris Fashion Week. 18 remarkable female acrobats take to the runway for the specially commissioned and choreographed performance for... Continue Reading →
A new production inspired by George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 is set to open at Manchester Central Library next month. 2084 takes the audience inside a totalitarian state that monitors every act, word and thought of its citizens. In the era of Facebook, Google and Amazon, when everyone is tracked, analysed and influenced, George Orwell’s... Continue Reading →
To say there’s been a lot of hype surrounding When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other would be an understatement. The announcement of Cate Blanchett’s National Theatre debut gathered so much interest that a ticket ballot system was introduced given the huge demand and limited space of the Dorfman Theatre. During previews eager theatregoers began... Continue Reading →
Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today announced a live cinema broadcast for All About Eve. The world premiere of Ivo van Hove’s highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film and the play “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr will be broadcast on 11th April 2019 by NT Live.... Continue Reading →
Today it has been announced that Waitress will partner with The Theatre Café, London’s first ever theatre-themed coffee shop, which will be making and selling delicious fresh pies each night at the show. Audience members will be able to buy the famous Waitress pie jars in apple crumble, chocolate salted caramel or banoffee at the Adelphi Theatre when the show begins preview performances... Continue Reading →
The End of Magic offers its readers an intriguing premise. While many of us are no doubt familiar with books where seemingly normal people discover they possess magical powers (unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past twenty years and missed the Harry Potter phenomenon), this new fantasy novel, written by Mark Stay,... Continue Reading →
Mark Goucher and first-time producer Jason Donovan have today announced that actor and Strictly Come Dancing winner Joe McFadden will star in their brand-new production of the much-loved glittering hit musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The producers have also announced today that the tour will continue through 2020. The show, which was announced last year, will tour the UK and... Continue Reading →
The cast and full creative team, along with details of the Spring 2019 tour, has been announced today for The Remains of the Day, a co-production between Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Out of Joint, in association with Oxford Playhouse. The cast will be led by Stephen Boxer and Niamh Cusack. 2017 Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s masterpiece has entranced generations as a novel... Continue Reading →
