THE WIPERS TIMES set to transfer to the ARTS Theatre
Following a sold-out UK tour, The Wipers Times transfers to the West End for a season at the Arts Theatre, with performances from Tuesday 21 March – Saturday 13 May 2017 (Press Night: Monday 27 March at 7:00pm). Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times – a stage adaptation of their award-winning BBC film […]
A CHRISTMAS CAROL plays at the Arts Theatre this Christmas
Hartshorn – Hook Productions and The Flanagan Collective team up for the sixth year running to present a rousing rendition of this timeless classic, served over a two-course Christmas feast. A heart-warming, foot-stomping immersive production, created by writer Alexander Wright and director Tom Bellerby. This seasonal show is presented in partnership with The Big Issue […]
DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY comes to the ARTS Theatre
Following a highly acclaimed UK tour and New York run, Fringe First Award winning Dirty Great Love Story makes its anticipated West End debut, in a new production, at the Arts Theatre in 2017. Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, […]
REVIEW: TOLKIEN MUSICAL (Arts Theatre) ★★★★
The journey to become a celebrated literary figure was a long and trying one for John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. In his youth, he loses his mother and is henceforth brought up by stern Father Francis. When the romance between Tolkien and Edith Bratt starts to blossom, Francis forbids him to see her again. John prioritises […]
Kerry Ellis has Tea With Wilma chatting about MURDER BALLAD
You are currently starring in the musical Murder Ballad at the Arts Theatre. For anyone who may not be familiar with the show, what it is about and what character do you play? The show is a four-hander rock musical, there is a murder of course but it’s mainly about the relationships between the four […]
Simon Callow brings his one man show A CHRISTMAS CAROL to the Arts Theatre this Christmas
The hugely popular re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ festive staple A Christmas Carol, starring Simon Callow and directed by Tom Cairns, will return to the Arts Theatre in London for a strictly limited season from 8 December to 7 January, with press night on Thursday 15 December. Based on Dickens’ own performance of the novel, Simon […]
REVIEW: MURDER BALLAD (Arts Theatre) ★★★
The UK Premiere of MURDER BALLAD burst into London’s West End this week at the Arts Theatre with an impressive cast of West End performers on its billing. Sarah (Kerry Ellis) ends an unhappy but sexually charged relationship with Tom (Ramin Karimloo) in favour of a more normal life of marriage and kids, with Michael […]
REVIEW: SID (Arts Theatre) ★★★★★
Before the play begins, we are serenaded by a backing audio of Jeremy Kyle’s YouTube channel excerpts that are confrontational, amusing, but also rather tragic too – it later becomes clear that this audio is purposefully setting the tone for the play. ‘Sid’, written by acclaimed playwright Leon Fleming, is based on the infamous punk […]
APOCALYPSE CRUISE SHIP LOVE AFFAIR to open at Arts Theatre
Hot on the heels of a critically acclaimed sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run and smash-hit Vampire Hospital Waiting Room, which garnered rave reviews and an off-West End transfer, Beach Comet return to London with their new comedy B-musical Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair, complete with original songs, a live band and the end of the world. […]
Last chance to see Green Day’s AMERICAN IDIOT at Arts Theatre
The critically acclaimed production of Green Day’s hit musical, AMERICAN IDIOT, which stars X Factor finalist Amelia Lily and double platinum selling artist Newton Faulkner, closes at the Arts Theatre on 25 September 2016 so this is your last chance to catch it. The show will also be performing a special ‘Rock-A-Long’ performance for one […]