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Pan Productions will welcome in the new year with Wilde’s quintessentially English masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest at the Tower Theatre. Their first play in English, it is created with a team of immigrant actors and creatives, who, like the characters in the play, are constantly asked where they are from, when all they... Continue Reading →
Netflix has today released teasers for season 2 of Sex Education, its hit show about Otis Milburn, a socially awkward high school student who lives with his sex therapist mother, Jean. In season 1 Otis and his friend Maeve Wiley set-up a sex clinic at school to capitalise on his intuitive talent for sex advice.... Continue Reading →
With her two self-penned plays, Rosalind Blessed returns to the stage with a family affair as she performs alongside her mother, Hildegard Neil, with her father, Brian Blessed, as executive producer. Shedding light on what we often keep hidden from the world, The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People and Lullabies for the... Continue Reading →
While their production of RAGS The Musical (book by Joseph Stein, revised book by David Thompson, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and music by Charles Strouse, directed by Bronagh Lagan) performs at Park Theatre, London from 9 January to 8 February 2020, Hope Aria Productions will present, for one night only, The Spark of Creation, a... Continue Reading →
The world renowned murder mystery The Mousetrap from Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie has announced further extensive dates for the hit UK tour which will return in 2020, opening at Poole Lighthouse from 21-25 January and then continuing to travel the length and breadth of the country until November 2020. Television star Susan Penhaligon... Continue Reading →
Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group are delighted to announce that Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow will be back at the London Palladium in 2020, as the new, smash hit production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns following its triumphant season this year. Jason Donovan will return in the role of Pharaoh.... Continue Reading →
Frantic Assembly has announced the full casting for I Think We Are Alone, a major new play by Sally Abbott (The Coroner, Vera), co-directed by Kathy Burke (Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Retreat) and Scott Graham (Fatherland, Things I Know to be True). The work will premiere at Theatre Royal Plymouth on 3rd February and tour... Continue Reading →
Christmas has arrived early in Ipswich this week thanks to new musical The Season, a co-production between the New Wolsey Theatre and Northampton’s Royal & Derngate Theatre. Having opened in Northampton last week, it arrives at the New Wolsey for a limited run. Written by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, winners of the 2018 MTI... Continue Reading →
Next month the historic Middle Temple Hall once again plays host to Antic Disposition's musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas Carol. I caught up with actor David Burt, who reprises his role as the ill-tempered Scrooge, to find out more about this festive show. How did you get into acting? I happened... Continue Reading →
