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Eunice! A Musical will be bringing all the joy of the Christmas season into one family show – magical moments, Christmas spirit, a heart-warming story of finding your feet in the world… and now for a donation to Mermaids, Petite Pantos are making one of the songs from the show, Touch the Sky, available to... Continue Reading →
It's been a difficult year for the arts, but finally theatre has something to celebrate: the Olivier Awards 2020 are taking place this evening and will honour the best of theatre over the past year. I've put together a list of my predictions ahead of tonight's ceremony. Best New Play A Very Expensive Poison at The Old VicThe... Continue Reading →
The thrilling experience of seeing actors live on stage is under threat during the present Covid restrictions. This new book reminds us of what we are missing while theatres are closed. Through the eyes of this legendary photographer we observe how performers get ready to astonish their audiences. The virtual exhibition that was launched early... Continue Reading →
The New Wolsey Theatre are relaunching their Youth Theatre programme for the first time since all activity had to be shut down by the pandemic earlier this year. Jumping back to life in the week beginning Monday 9 November 2020 , the New Wolsey Youth Theatres, run by the New Wolsey Creative Communities team, are... Continue Reading →
For one year only, pantomime comes to the National Theatre. Jude Christian and Cariad Lloyd’s hilarious and heartfelt version of Dick Whittington, first staged at Lyric Hammersmith in 2018 and freshly updated for 2020, will open in the socially distanced Olivier theatre on the 11 December. Directed by Ned Bennett, this wild and inventive production... Continue Reading →
Original Theatre Company, the production company behind the critically acclaimed lockdown productions of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong Online, Louise Coulthard’s Watching Rosie and the new commission by Torben Betts, Apollo 13: The Dark Side of The Moon, is delighted to present its fourth original online production since theatres were closed by the Government in March this... Continue Reading →
Lambert Jackson Productions have been coming to the rescue of musical theatre fans since the UK went into lockdown earlier this year, streaming shows including Leave A Light On (72 concerts from musical performers), The Last Five Years and Songs From A New World live into people’s living rooms before bringing the latter to the... Continue Reading →
Award winning comedian Rob Brydon and his eight-piece band will take to the road next year with his new show, Rob Brydon – A Night Of Songs & Laughter. The new dates follow the huge success of his 2020 Tour, and together mark the first time Brydon has created a show that includes songs and... Continue Reading →
Forty-seven years after he created the sci-fi stage and film cult favourite ‘The Rocky Horror Show’, Richard O’Brien has taken a rare acting role to star in ‘The Barren Author’, a new six-part audio comedy-drama inspired by the stories of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe. O’Brien plays The Brigadier, who is telling the tale... Continue Reading →
HighRise Theatre will blend grime with theatre later this month for a one-night-only livestream of Dominic Garfield’s acclaimed production Lil.Miss.Lady. I caught up with Dominic, artistic director of HighRise Theatre to find out more about this production, which explores the history and music of Britain’s biggest sub-culture, grime. How did you get into theatre?School was... Continue Reading →
