Friday, February 5, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Due to unprecedented demand, the critically acclaimed production of Funny Girl, which is fast selling out its run, has extended booking at the Savoy Theatre for a further four…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Fresh from recent regional success, raucous comedy The Ale House is back in the city where it was first brewed from 25 February until 19 March 2016. Actors, Philip Olivier (Br…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:53AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
The London premiere of award-winning playwright Alexandra Wood's new play Merit kicks off the Finborough Theatre's spring season with a four week run from 1 March. Set in Spai…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:20AM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Helen Edmundson has translated a thousand pages, with nearly that many characters, into an intimate chamber drama to appear at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre in March. Anna …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:55AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Rewritten in the light of current events, Whistleblower the story of Edward Snowden returns for a four-week run at Waterloo East Theatre. The play tells the story of Snowden's…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Following a UK tour, Round The Horne has just commenced an eight-week run at the Museum of Comedy. Celebrating the ground-breaking radio comedy series of the 1960s, Apollo The…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Following last year's success, Hampstead Theatre has confirmed that its second annual festival will take place on 18 – 20 March 2016. The Festival boasts over 30 unique …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:39AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Michael Attenborough directs the UK premiere of Neil LaBute's romantic comedy, Reasons to be Happy, at Hampstead Theatre in March. Reasons to be Happy – a companion piec…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Chris Goode and Company and Battersea Arts Centre present Every One by Jo Clifford – a take on the medieval morality play Everyman. Clifford's exploration of grief and a…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
By Emily Hardy
They took firm hold of Larson's lyrics and crescendoing rock melodies - every word, every beat, brimming with anger and exigency; his lyrics carry imperative messages that cou…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:36AM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Broken Cabaret presents Something Something Lazarus – a dark comedy about resurrections, second chances and the healing power of performance. It's being described as a "…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:05AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Buckland Theatre Co. have revealed plans for a powerful new version of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. Translated by Michael Meyer, Miss Julie will open at Camden's intimate E…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Actress and comedian Mel Giedroyc, co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off, will star in the UK première of JC Lee's play Luce at the Southwark Playhouse. Luce will be dir…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:11AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Award-winning Unexpected Opera have announced plans for an entertaining take on Wagner's famous Ring Cycle. The Rinse Cycle is a comic play with highlights sung in English by …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:56AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Eastenders actor Jamie Foreman will play Arthur in the West End transfer of Mrs Henderson Presents opening at the Noel Coward Theatre on 9 February for a strictly limited seas…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:32AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
NotMoses, written and directed by Gary Sinyor, premieres at the Arts Theatre on 10 March 2016, with Antonia Davies as Aviva, Dana Haqjoo as Pharaoh and Greg Barnett as NotMose…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
By Emily Hardy
A production that charts the rise of Janis Joplin, one of rock's greatest female icons, opens Theatre Royal Stratford East's 2016 season on 10 February 2016. The show picked u…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:03AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Sacha Wares will be returning to Almeida Theatre to direct the world premiere of Boy by Leo Butler, after her directorial success in 2015 with the critically acclaimed product…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Jessica Swale's new play Nell Gwynn, directed by Christopher Luscombe. The full cast includes Paige Carter, Michel…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Maureen Beattie, Sean Biggerstaff, Lindsey Campbell, Dyfan Dwyfor and Guy Williams, make up the cast of Right Now, a co-production between the Bush Theatre, Traverse theatre C…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 17, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Andy Capp The Musical, by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock, runs at the Finborough Theatre from 7 February. The Finborough commissioned production is the first professional UK pr…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:04AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Bananaman is soon to be live on stage in a part parody, part slapstick comedy musical for the whole family. Bananaman, written by Leon Parris (award-winning writer and compose…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Bend It Like Beckham will play its final performance in London's West End in six weeks. Meanwhile, producers of the critically acclaimed musical are finalising plans for tours…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Anton Stephans and Noel Sullivan are to join the previously announced Debbie Kurup, Krysten Cummings and Damien Flood - all previous cast members of Larson's hit rock musical …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:14AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
With the UK premier of 4000 days fast approaching, BritishTheatre.com catches up with West End and Broadway playwright Peter Quilter to get the low down on his play's month-lo…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 9, 2016
By Emily Hardy
An eclectic and jam-packed programme of over 150 events, to be held in one venue across 11 days, has been revealed. VAULT – an arts and comedy festival set in the myriad…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Martin Ball (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Wicked, Mamma Mia and Top Hat) and Louise Bangay (Folk with Tom Morris, Cyrano de Bergerac at Chichester and Rock 'n' Ro…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2016
By Emily Hardy
Following the success of their 5* 2015 Edinburgh hit Spillikin, (nominated for the Carol Tambor "Best of the Fringe" award), Cornwall's Pipeline Theatre revives its debut play…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:25AM[SHARE]By Emily Hardy
Sandra Dickinson (A Streetcar Named Desire, Not about Nightingales, Orpheus Descending) is to take on the title role of Lucille Ball in the UK premier of Lee Tannen's bitter-s…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 30, 2015
By Emily Hardy
My pick of 2015 is neither a stroke of theatrical genius like the Almeida’s Oresteia nor a brilliant and original work of art like 1927’s Golum. It is in fact a po…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:15AM[SHARE] 
