Monday, July 4, 2016
The shortlists have been announced for The Imagination Awards, a new competition launched by the award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to encou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMLast night Sunday 3 July 2016 in Hyde Park at the Barclaycard British Summer Time Festival, the cast of the West End hitBEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICALjoinedCarole Kingon stage for the f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMFriday, July 1, 2016
Fisayo Akinade, Sharon D Clarke and Alex Hassell have been cast in Caryl Churchill's new 10-minute play PIGS AND DOGS. Rehearsals start on Monday 11 July 2016. Pigs and Dogs runs from Wednes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMPhoebe Eclair-Powell began training as an actress at the Drama Centre London, but soon switched over to playwriting. She's worked with the National Youth Theatre on their Epic Stages program…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04AMThe first images of Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith in a new production of Ronald Harwood's THE DRESSER were released today, along with two new cast members Selina Cadell and Harriet Thorpe.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57AMThursday, June 30, 2016
The National Theatre has today announced full casting for David Hare's STUFF HAPPENS, which returns to the National Theatre on 6 July, the day the Chilcot Inquiry report is published.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMBUGSY MALONE returns to the Lyric Hammersmith for a limited 12-week run following the critically acclaimed, Olivier-nominated 2015 production, which marked the reopening of the revamped buil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45AMToday, Curve Artistic Director,Nikolai Foster,announces the cast for his production ofTHE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated actressCathy Tysonwill star as the ico…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMBig Dance Week 2016, running from 2 to 10 July 2016, will be launched with a mass dance performance by hundreds of dancers in Trafalgar Square choreographed by Akram Khan onSaturday 2 July. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31AMPark Theatre has announced ababy-friendly performance of The Quiet House, and there's now a myriad of family-friendly options, from musicals to adaptations of beloved literary classics. But …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31AMWednesday, June 29, 2016
For those in sore need of a theatrical pick-me-up, jazz square your way over to Bugsy Malone. Last year’s smash-hit opener of the redeveloped Lyric has been given a well-deserved encore, w…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:02PMArtistic Director of The Old Vic Matthew Warchus, composer and lyricist Tim Minchin, choreographer Peter Darling, and designer Rob Howell, four of the creators of the international musical s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:57AMWhy are animals the way they areA long time ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote the Just So Stories for his own children - stories about where he imagined animals' trunks and humps and throats and ot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58AMJude Akuwudike, Franc Ashman and Martins Imhangbe will join the cast ofTHE ROYALE, alongside Nicholas Pinnock, who plays Jay 'The Sport' Jackson - the first black heavyweight boxing champion…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46AMMenier Chocolate Factory has announced further casting for its major revival of Tom Stoppard's TRAVESTIES. Joining Tom Hollander are Clare Foster Cecily, Freddie Fox Tristan Tzara, Forbes Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46AMEnter for the chance to win a pair of free tickets to rock n roll stand-up and Glastonbury regulars MIK ARTISTIK'S EGO TRIP at Warrington's Pyramid arts centre on Saturday 9 July.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33AMLondon is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a magical mega-hit and musical revivals to plays with strong politica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33AMTuesday, June 28, 2016
This autumn Nottingham Playhouse and New Perspectives join forces with acclaimed novelist John Harvey to bring his most famous creation, jazz-loving detective Charlie Resnick, to the stage f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMCelebrating 100 years of Roald Dahl, Les Enfants Terribles The Trench, ebp Alice's Adventures Underground, gastronomic wunderkinds Bompas amp Parr and creative wranglers Creature of London p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMMonday, June 27, 2016
Hot on the heels of a record-breaking, critically acclaimed West End run, this new production ofFUNNY GIRL embarks on a major national tour in 2017. The five-star production opens at Manches…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30AMSunday, June 26, 2016
In seeking to understand the historic, divisive and to some bewildering Brexit vote, I will turn to theatre. Through my regular exposure to it, I can number among my ever-widening acquaintan…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:43AMFriday, June 24, 2016
It begins promisingly, a dark Gothic fairy tale – both Grimm and grim. The writhing witches (four, oddly) are summoned from a pile of dead bodies, Stefan Fichert’s eerie puppetry all cho…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:04PMThe RSC's hugely acclaimed 2014 pairing ofLove's Labour's LostandMuch Ado About NothingorLove's Labour's Won arrives in London this Christmas, following runs at Chichester Festival Theatre a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:38AMRehearsal images have been released for EXPOSURE THE MUSICAL - LIFE THROUGH A LENS, which features David AlburyJimmy,Natalie AndersonTara,Andy BarkeEnsemble,Rhiannon DuncanLustEnsemble,Zeph …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:38AMPROMISES, PROMISES, the hit Broadway musical based on the multi Oscar-winning 1960 film The Apartment, with music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David and book by Neil Simon, is to get its…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:19AMFollowing the narrowReferendum decision to leave the EU, the Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts NCA, actor and director Samuel West, has warned of dangers for the arts and audiences…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20AMThursday, June 23, 2016
In a new production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, the European premiere of controversial Canadian play PROUD by Michael Healey runs at the Finborough Theatre, playing Sunday and Mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46AMArtistic Director of the Gate Theatre Christopher Haydon today announces the full cast for the world premiere DIARY OF A MADMAN. Haydon directs Deborah Arnott Mavra Sheeran, Liam Brennan Pop…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46AMMichael Head's new play THE GREATER GAME tells the fascinating true story of the 41 men who swapped the football fields of London for the battlefields of the Somme in 1916. East London footb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46AMFull casting and creative team are announced today for the eagerly awaited professional European premiere of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's ALLEGRO, which opened on Broadway in 1947, and was thei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46AMAs we finally go to the polls, casting votes based on our view of national identity and Britain’s place in the world, here comes Shakespeare’s ever-topical play. Robert Hastie’s though…
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