Back in 2009, Alexi Kaye Campbell followed up his bold first play The Pride with Apologia, which follows the well-trodden path of a fraught family reunion where past grievances stalk the pre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMLondon is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a starry drama to musical revivals and family-friendly fun, here are …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThirty years on from its birth at the Royal Court, Jim Cartwright's northern, working-class battle cry returns in a revival from John Tiffany which, though initially stodgy, has an accumulat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMBritain's most beloved diarist give or take a Bridget Jones comes to London in chamber musical form in a new adaptation created with the late Sue Townsend's blessing. Jake Brunger and Pippa …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMActress and singer Emma Hatton's previous work includes We Will Rock You and Wicked. She's now starring inAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's iconic musicalEvita, which returns to the West En…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55AMDefiantly rejecting the standard jukebox model, Conor McPherson's much-anticipated new work mining the back catalogue of Bob Dylan is labelled 'a play with songs' - or perhaps that should be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMOlivia Williams and Olivia Colman are shattering as two warring sisters in Lucy Kirkwood's epic
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11AMMark Quartley's previous work includes Written on the HeartandMeasure for Measurefor the RSC,Ghostsat Rose Theatre Kingston,and TV seriesHoff the Record. His latest challenge is a motion-cap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50AMFreema Agyeman rose to fame with roles on TV shows like Doctor Who, Torchwood, Law and Order UK and Sense8. Now, she's making her West End debut in black comedy Apologia at Trafalgar Studios…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMActress and musician Bronagh Gallagher's work ranges fromThe Commitments, Pulp Fiction and Stars Wars on screen to War Horse on stage, as well as touring and recording albums with her band. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06AMChoreographer Anthony Van Laast has worked extensively on both stage and screen, from Mamma Mia and Bombay Dreams to Harry Potter. His latest project, the life action version of Disney's Bea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50AMNeat freaks beware Touch is your ultimate nightmare. This latest offering from DryWrite, the company that launched the now stratospheric Fleabag, centres on another woman with a chaotic pers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AMCharlotte Wakefield's past work includesThe Sound of Musicat Regent's Park Open Air,Mamma Miain the West End, and the UK tour ofOklahoma. She's back on tour next month, starring inCrazy for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMGame of Thrones returns this weekend, but those hungry for political machinations and manipulations can also find a feast of them in Helen Edmundson's 2015 stealth thriller about a little-kn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12AMPlaywright Jake Brunger and composer Pippa Cleary have been creating musicals together since they met at Bristol University in 2008. Their work includes Jet Set Go,The Great British Soap Ope…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMEnter Lucy Kerbel's eminently practical book All Change Please.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18AMIt's a brave new world for the RSC, collaborating with Intel and Andy Serkis's Imaginarium Studios on a notably high-tech Tempest. But, for all the computer-generated trickery, it's the huma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMBath's Ustinov Studio has become something of a European hub. Visionary director Laurence Boswell and ever-skilful translator Christopher Hampton, who first introduced us to Florian Zeller, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04AMInvestigation into the charity's downfall is slickly dramatised at Donmar WarehouseA memorable 2015 parliamentary select committee hearing asked Kids Company CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:24PMLondon is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a Tennessee Williams revival and Bob Dylan-scored drama to royal poli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMJames Graham's portrait of Seventies politics,This House, recently enjoyed a West End outing, and his latest epic venture into Britain's past may well follow suit. If slightly weighed down b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMOne American great inhabits another in this superior cabaret, as the Broadway legend Audra McDonald slips into the skin - and unforgettable voice - of jazz icon Billie Holiday. The emotional…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMAshley Gilmour's previous work includes Link Larkin inHairsprayand the ensemble of the original revival cast of Miss Saigon. Now, he's graduated to playing Chris in the UK and Ireland tour o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMAmerican playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins asserts that the nightmarish workplace depicted in Gloria bears no resemblance to his time at the New Yorker, but that tension between truth and im…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AMSisters Grimm, a company founded by composer Ella Spira and choreographer Pietra Mello-Pittman, is following up hit show INALA with new dance musical Voices of the Amazon. Fusing ballet, con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMSara Poyzer, whoseprevious work includesBilly Elliot, has been starring as Donna Sheridan on theMamma Miatour and now takes the role in the West End production at the Novello Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMFollowing a sold-out Almeida run, Robert Icke's thoughtfully contemporary take on Shakespeare hits the West End, with its original cast mainly intact Derbhle Crotty succeeds Juliet Stevenson…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42AMJon Brittain's Rotterdam, the 2017 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, has played at Theatre503, Trafalgar Studios and 59E59 Theaters in New York. The b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AMRelative newcomers Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington were thrilled to landthe lead rolesin Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman musicalBat Out of Hell. Several decades in the making, the show isno…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMKillian Donnelly's stellar musical career includesKinky Boots, Memphis, The Commitments, Billy Elliot and The Phantom of the Opera. From tonight, he becomes the new West End Jean Valjean in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AM'My mother says you're tragedy personified,' reports a precocious child to Carol, who recently attempted suicide. It's typical of Alice Birch's harrowing new play, which wrings blistering hu…
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