Friday, July 6, 2018
Best-selling recording artist, X Factor winner and West End performer Matt Cardle is to join the cast of Strictly Ballroom The Musical, playing the role of bandleader Wally Strand from 31 Ju…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:48AMThe Bush Theatre’s artistic director Madani Younis has announced additions to the venue’s autumn/winter 2018 season. Highlights include six plays to end the theatre’s season – inclu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMThursday, July 5, 2018
Olivier Award-winner Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones’ Ramsay Bolton, Misfits) will star in Dawn King’s comic drama Foxfinder which has its West End premiere at the Ambassadors Theatre from 6…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:16AMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child will celebrate its German premiere at the Mehr! Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg in the spring of 2020.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
The full line-up for the 2018 HighTide Festivals in Aldeburgh and Walthamstow has been announced, alongside the news that artistic director Steven Atkinson will stand down in 2019 after 12 y…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39AMMonday, July 2, 2018
Wilton’s Music Hall today has announced its autumn season which will feature: ENO presenting Paul Bunyan as part of ENO Studio Live; the world premiere of Sketching by James Graham; and th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Director and choreographer Gillian Lynne, who will always be remembered for her groundbreaking work for musicals Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, has died at the age of 92. On 22 June 2018…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:35PMThe Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson has won the South Bank Sky Arts Awards in the 2018 Theatre category, while at the same ceremony Benedict Cumberbatch received the coveted Outstandi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:02PMFriday, June 29, 2018
Further casting has been announced for Marianne Elliott’s highly-anticipated new production of George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s Company which previews from 26 September 2018 at the Gi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39AMThursday, June 28, 2018
The Tony Award-winning new musical Come From Away will land in London for its long-awaited UK premiere at the Phoenix Theatre in 2019 with performances from 30 January and opening night on 1…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:45AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Mazz Murray will join the West End cast of Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre, playing the title role of Mama Morton from Monday 2 July 2018. Also joining the cast on 2 July will be the previous…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:32AMMonday, June 25, 2018
Following its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Hamilton (Lewis) – a musical story about the most successful British F1 driver in the history of the sport Lewis Hamilton –…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:40PMFriday, June 22, 2018
West Yorkshire Playhouse today announced it will change its name to Leeds Playhouse. The name change marks a new chapter in the theatre’s 50-year history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:49AMFollowing award-winning, sell-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and Soho Theatre, Dust by Milly Thomas, directed by Sara Joyce, will transfer to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios (4 Septemb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05AMNew musical Prom Queen will receive a workshop presentation at The Other Palace on 2 July, ahead of a planned Broadway run.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:50AMJohnetta Eula’Mae Ackles, Elizabeth Berrington and Phil Daniels will join the previously announced Jim Broadbent in the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s A Very Very Very Dark Matter.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:58AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Keith Allen, Phil Davis, Paapa Essiedu, Rupert Graves, Gary Kemp, John Simm and Maggie Steed have joined the extraordinary company of Pinter at the Pinter, the unprecedented season featuring…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:57AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
Paul Higgins and James Laurenson will join the previously announced Elaine Cassidy, David Dawson, David Ganly, Emmet Kirwan, Aisling Loftus, Ciaran McIntyre and Eileen Walsh in the cast for …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:32AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Details have been announced for the National Theatre’s season running from July 2018 to January 2019. Highlights include Peter Brook returning to direct at the NT for the first time in 50 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:51AMRuth Jones, well known as the co-writer of the award-winning BBC comedy Gavin & Stacey in which she also appeared, will star in the new comedy The Nightingales, presented by Jenny Toppe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMFriday, June 15, 2018
UK and US touring dates have been announced for Stephen Daldry’s seminal production of JB Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls, opening at York Theatre Royal (14 to 22 Septemb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:20AMMark Benton and Nigel Harman will star in Sam Yates’ hit West End production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross which will embark on a nationwide tour from 14 February 2019, opening at…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:22AMFinal casting has been announced for the West End return of new British musical SIX at the Arts Theatre from 30 August to 23 September 2018.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:13AMKit Harington and Johnny Flynn are to star in the West End premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard’s modern classic True West.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:34AMThursday, June 14, 2018
On 21 May 2018, just days before The Lord Chamberlain’s Men production of The Tempest was due to premiere at the Brighton Festival, the van containing the company’s bespoke set and entir…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:04AMDavid Threlfall and Rufus Hound will reprise their lead roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Don Quixote when the production transfers to London’s Garrick Theatre from 27 October 201…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40AMThe 13th Camden Fringe Festival has announced its 2018 line-up, which sees themes of #MeToo, LGBTQ and mental health taking the forefront, reflecting what has been a groundbreaking year of s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMFollowing their West End debut earlier this year with the UK premiere of American Joel Drake Johnson's Rasheeda Speaking, Troupe returns to London's Southwark Playhouse this autumn with the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and UK Theatre have launched Theatre Helpline, a free 24-hour phone and email service supporting theatre professionals with any issue affecting their health …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:01PMThe Old Vic has announced casting for The Greatest Wealth, curated by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Adrian Lester to celebrate 70 years of the National Health Service.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:20PMAmanda Drew, Lucy Cohu and Patrick Melrose star Anna Madeley will join star of screen and stage Jonathan Pryce and three-time Olivier Award-winning Eileen Atkins in the UK premiere of new fa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:53AM 
