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Hampstead Theatre is delighted to announce a new playwriting programme, for which participants will be paid, led by the multi-award-winning TV and theatre writer, Mike Bartlett (BBC Doctor Foster, BBC Life, King Charles III), and IGNITE a new, free youth project for 13-17year olds living in Camden. Both initiatives will launch online this spring alongside... Continue Reading →
Following news that London will enter Tier 3 restrictions, Hampstead Theatre’s 60th anniversary production of The Dumb Waiter will now run from Monday 4 January 2021 until Saturday 30 January 2021. Acclaimed stage and screen actors Alec Newman and Shane Zaza play the roles of Ben and Gus, respectively, in this 60th anniversary production directed by Alice Hamilton, originally programmed for spring.... Continue Reading →
Hampstead Theatre is delighted to announce the cast for Harold Pinter’s iconic play The Dumb Waiter. Due to popular demand the production has been extended and will now run from 18 November 2020 until 2 January 2021. Acclaimed stage and screen actors Alec Newman and Shane Zaza will play the roles of Ben and Gus,... Continue Reading →
Hampstead Theatre is delighted to announce that it will be reopening this November with Nobel Prize-winning writer Harold Pinter’s iconic early play The Dumb Waiter from 18 November to 19 December 2020. Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre said: “I am so delighted to be able to share this news today. As Hampstead Theatre,... Continue Reading →
Hampstead Theatre’s Associate Company, The Mono Box, is delighted to announce the launch of The Monologue Library, audio recordings of renowned artists performing their favourite theatrical speeches. Available on themonobox.co.uk the Library features over 100 speeches by artists such as Sir Derek Jacobi, Denise Gough, Sheila Atim, Gina McKee, Prasanna Puwanarajah and Sir Simon Russell... Continue Reading →
Hampstead Theatre is delighted to announce an extension of its free, digital streaming series in partnership with The Guardian. The live stream recordings of Nina Raine’s NHS inspired hit drama Tiger Country and Howard Brenton’s politically charged #AIWW: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei will be available to watch, on demand, on theguardian.com and hampsteadtheatre.com, as... Continue Reading →
Hampstead Theatre and The Guardian will re-release the live stream recordings of Mike Bartlett ’s Wild , Beth Steel ’s Wonderland and Howard Brenton ’s Drawing the Line for free. Available to watch on theguardian.com and hampsteadtheatre.com, the three productions will be made available, on demand, over three consecutive weeks as part of the theatre’s #HampsteadTheatreAtHome series. Week 1, from Monday 30 March 10am to Sunday 5 April 10pm (GMT), will feature Mike Bartlett’s Wild (2016). Directed by James... Continue Reading →
Hampstead Theatre and the entire company of I and You, announce the re-release of hit production I and You by Lauren Gunderson on Instagram for free. For a week, Monday 23 March 10am – Sunday 29 March 10pm GMT, anyone with an Instagram account will be able to watch the full production by following @hampstead_theatre... Continue Reading →
Ben and Gus have a job to do. But as they await instructions in a derelict building, they start to receive strange messages via a dumb waiter. Hampstead Theatre, has released rehearsal images for Nobel Prize-winning writer Harold Pinter’s timeless black comedy The Dumb Waiter which will run from 19 March until 18 April 2020.... Continue Reading →
Hampstead Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for Tennessee Williams’ innovative, and partly autobiographical work, The Two Character Play. Acclaimed stage and screen actors, David Dawson and Lyndsey Marshal, will perform in this unique two-hander which Williams called ‘My most beautiful play since Streetcar, the very heart of my life’. The production, directed... Continue Reading →
