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To celebrate their ONCOMM award, and with the country set to stay at home, King’s Head Theatre and Charles Court Opera are delighted that their smash hit online pantomime, ‘Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown,’ will now be available to watch on demand until midnight on Sunday 10th January. Originally due to close... Continue Reading →
Final casting has been announced for the world premiere of Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown, a new online panto featuring interactive viewers-choice-moments. Five much-loved stars of Charles Court Opera’s annual Boutique Pantos at King’s Head Theatre - Emily Cairns, Meriel Cunningham, Jennie Jacobs, Matthew Kellett and John Savournin - are joined by... Continue Reading →
This Christmas, Charles Court Opera are to deliver a boutique panto like no other by moving online and bringing their enduring annual mix of toe-tapping music, side-splitting gags and festive frivolity to the comfort of the nation’s living rooms for the very first time! So, sit back, relax and get your magic mirrors ready to... Continue Reading →
Production images have been released for King’s Head Theatre’s Puccini double-bill Opera Undone: Tosca & La bohème which runs at Trafalgar Studios 2 until 7 March. Opera Undone is a new strand of the King’s Head Theatre’s celebrated opera programming, whereby famous operas are radically reimagined in a new punchy 60-minute format, sung entirely in... Continue Reading →
Rehearsal images have been released for King's Head Theatre's Puccini double-bill Opera Undone: Tosca & La bohème which begins previews at Trafalgar Studios 2 on 5 February. Opera Undone is a new strand of the King's Head Theatre's celebrated opera programming, whereby famous operas are radically reimagined in a new punchy 60-minute format, sung entirely... Continue Reading →
The first photos have been released of Ramona Von Pusch as Marlene Dietrich and Ashton Spear as King Edward VIII in the world premiere of Falling In Love Again. Written by Ron Elisha and directed by Tama Matheson, the production plays until 8 February at London's King's Head Theatre. It’s 1936. News breaks that King... Continue Reading →
Production images have been released of the King's Head Theatre's revival of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean. The show looks at the breakdown of a gay couple’s relationship and examines complex questions of fidelity and love. Starring Lee Knight as Tony, Elliot Hadley as William/Jurgen, Stanton Plummer-Cambridge as Greg and Jonah Rzeskiewicz as Robert. Coming Clean... Continue Reading →
It’s 1936. News breaks that King Edward VIII is about to abdicate his throne in order to marry American divorcée, Wallis Simpson. Marlene Dietrich - the most famous female movie star in the world - is in London to make a movie and wants to stop him. On the night before the abdication, Marlene has... Continue Reading →
Production images have today been released for Charles Court Opera's The Nativity Panto, which opens at the King's Head Theatre this week and runs to 11 January 2020. A cast of well-known characters will take the audience through a respectful, yet irreverent adaptation of the Nativity story, with musical numbers, laugh-out-loud puns and the entirely... Continue Reading →
The King’s Head Theatre, Making Productions and RGM Productions are delighted to announce the full cast for the return of Kevin Elyot’s Coming Clean to Trafalgar Studios 2. Lee Knight will star as Tony. His theatre credits include A Very Very Very Dark Matter (The Bridge Theatre), Adam & Eve (Hope Theatre) and Much Ado... Continue Reading →
