Cameron Mackintosh has announced the debut of the hugely successful Les Misérables -The Staged Concert on digital download in the UK and Australia, which will also raise much-needed funds f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:07PMThe lockdown streaming schedule for Andrew Lloyd Webber's free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On, continues this Friday with a broadcast of Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:51AMActor Nigel Havers is launching his own touring company with a new production of Noel Coward's classic comedy Private Lives, in which he'll star with Patricia Hodge.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:06PMOld Vic Theatre has postponed its London premiere of screen-to-stage musical Local Hero and announced that its next production will now be the return of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:59AMThe Open Air Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet – which was to have started rehearsals in May – has been postponed to the corresponding dates in 2021.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMWhile its buildings all remain closed, the Royal Shakespeare Company will hand over its social media channels to the global community in what it's calling the "largest-ever celebration of Sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:59PMThe lockdown streaming schedule for Andrew Lloyd Webber's free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On, continues this Friday with a broadcast of his blockbuster hit The Phantom of the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:13AMSamantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon will play Elsa and Anna in Frozen when it reopens the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane later this year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:49AMKander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning musical CURTAINS, starring Jason Manford, will be streamed live on Tuesday 14 April 2020 at 7.15pm, with all profits going to Funds For Freelancers.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMJust after reaching its initial £10,000 target in a public fundraising campaign set up in response to the financial threat posed by the coronavirus crisis, Jermyn Street Theatre has been se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:17PMAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced that all performances, events and activities will be cancelled up to and including Tuesday 30 June 2020.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:05PMFollowing Thriller and Waitress, 9 to 5 The Musical is the latest West End show to announce that it will not return once theatres do eventually reopen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:12AMTheatrical charity Acting for Others has announced the formation of a separate Covid-19 Fund which will be available to its 14 member charities.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39AMFollowing the closure of all UK theatres during the coronavirus crisis, the 2020 UK tour of Queen & Ben Elton’s We Will Rock You has been rescheduled for early 2021.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:57AMFor the first time, Chichester Festival Theatre will stream a selection of its archive productions online, beginning with its award-winning 2018 musical Flowers for Mrs Harris from this Thur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:40AMA brand-new radio play of David Nicholls' hit 2005 comic novel The Understudy will be performed by a stellar cast including Stephen Fry and released next month to raise funds for the theatre…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWith drama school final year showcases cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Actors Centre has announced a week-long Graduate Festival, which will take place in its flagship venue, the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMProducers have announced new dates for the return of Hairspray the Musical which, prior to the coronavirus crisis, had been due to run from 23 April to 30 August 2020 at the London Coliseum.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:34AMAndrew Lloyd Webber has announced a new YouTube Channel, The Shows Must Go On, providing musical theatre lovers with a West End and Broadway experience in their own homes, online for free.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:45AMWhile The Beast of Blue Yonder, Philip Ridley's new play which was due to premiere this week at Southwark Playhouse, will not be going ahead during the coronavirus crisis, audiences will hav…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:50AMAs the theatre lockdown continues during the coronavirus crisis, the Barbican Centre has announced that its closure will continue until further notice, with all event taking place until 30 J…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:14AMFor the first time in over 70 years, the five festivals that transform Edinburgh into the world’s leading cultural destination every August are not going ahead this year due to concerns ar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:33AMShakespeare’s Globe has been preparing a raft of new digital content to continue to engage its audiences with Shakespeare’s works. Shakespeare & Love in Isolation will see artists,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:59AMHampstead Theatre, in partnership with The Guardian, is going to stream a series of hit productions from its digital archive for free.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:33AMThe producers of Waitress have announced that the West End production at the Adelphi Theatre has closed. The multi-award-winning Broadway transfer had been originally booking until 4 July 20…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMA week after the UK Government announced its package for workers on the payroll, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has announced an economic relief package for self-employed workers an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:05PMTo mark World Theatre Day (Friday 27 March 2020), the Royal Shakespeare Company is inviting people to join a live ‘watch along’ from their living rooms on 11 April of a recording of thei…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMA selection of much-loved National Theatre Live productions will be made available to watch on YouTube for free over the next two months.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:43AMITV will broadcast a special Olivier Awards with Mastercard programme on 5 April 2020 at 10:15pm, in place of the 2020 Royal Albert Hall awards show which was cancelled due to coronavirus.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:39PMIn light of the closure of theatres across the UK due to COVID-19, the Original Theatre Company’s productions of Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art and Ali Milles’ The Croft, both of whic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMAward-winning theatre company Headlong, in association with the BAFTA-winning Century Films, have announced Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre From a State of Isolation, a major new digital pr…
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