Josie Lawrence to star in Mother Courage and her Children
Multi award-winning Josie Lawrence, one of the UK’s best-loved actress and comedians is to star in a new production of Mother Courage and her Children. Josie said: “I first read Mother Courage when I was an 18-year-old drama student and immediately fell in love with the play. Now I feel ready to play her. It’s […]
GUEST BLOG: Theatre Producer Katy Lipson on what it takes to produce a show
Young producer ARIA ENTERTAINMENT’s KATY LIPSON is currently producing the musical theatre festival FROM PAGE TO STAGE (FPTS), Yank! (Charing Cross Theatre), The Addams Family (UK National Tour), Hair (The Vaults) and The Toxic Avenger (Edinburgh Festival and Arts Theatre) as well as PIPPIN and LITTLE WOMEN (Hope Mill Theatre). Being a theatre producer is […]
Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville to star in Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Following its sold out run as part of Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Anniversary season, Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville will reprise their roles in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Considered one of the most powerful American plays of the 20th century, the production will play a strictly limited […]
GUEST BLOG: Broken Chair Theatre Company on what it means to be ‘Masculine’
My name is Jak Gray and I work for Broken Chair, a physically-expressive theatre company. We create poor decisions and beautiful moments with people, movement and chairs, take pride in our lack of hierarchy (we have no director) and we want our mistakes to be unforgettable. We have been creating new work since late 2015, […]
REVIEW: BRIEFS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (London Underbelly) ★★★★★
It was almost three years ago since I first saw the Australian burlesque act Briefs on London’s Southbank. Since then they have been a regular feature at London’s Underbelly and a firm favourite at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This summer, the boys are back in town for their longest run ever and this drag extravaganza […]
REVIEW: Candide in Concert (Cadogan Hall) ★★★★★
In another spectacular concert evening, London Musical Theatre Orchestra (LMTO) presents Candide in concert at Cadogan Hall – an extraordinary one-night-only performance starring James Dreyfuss, Rob Houchen and Anna O’Byrne. The talent on the wonderfully intimate stage of Cadogan Hall was breathtaking. The LMTO were allowed to shine magnificently throughout the evening, led by the brilliantly […]
The Hunting Of The Snark visit London’s Cutty Sark!
Based on a poem by Lewis Carroll, one of Britain’s most enduring and beloved children’s writers, The Hunting of the Snark opens at Vaudeville Theatre on 28 July. The story follows a gang of bold adventurers as they set of on one of the greatest boat journeys in children’s literature. Yesterday the cast visited the […]
REVIEW: HOLY CRAP (King’s Head Theatre) ★★★★
From the writers of A Slice of Saturday Night, Holy Crap is the Heather Brothers new musical comedy. The show follows the first pay-to-view religious channel gone raunchy, as Reverend Bobby De La Ray tries to escape his debts to the Mafia who are holding his mother hostage, by turning it into a porn channel […]
Motown the Musical extends booking to 2019!
Motown the Musical has just released 500,000 new tickets for sale, taking bookings for the hit West End production into 2019 when the show will celebrate its third year in London and Motown will celebrate sixty years since the record company was founded. Tickets are available to purchase for the production which is now running […]
Derren Brown brings ‘Best of’ show UNDERGROUND into the West End
From 11 Oct 2017, the nation’s favourite dark manipulator of magic and mind control will perform his latest stage show, DERREN BROWN: UNDERGROUND at the Playhouse Theatre, London, for a limited season until the 14th October. Direct from a sell-out national tour, it features a collection of some of the very best of his previous […]