Andrew Keates News

The first London production since the 1987 UK premiere of William M. Hoffman's As Is opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 6 August 2013 directed by Andrew Keates. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek below!

The first London production since the 1987 UK premiere of William M. Hoffman's As Is opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 6 August 2013 directed by Andrew Keates.

A Finborough Theatre commission, Colleen Murphy's Armstrong's War opens at the Finborough Theatre as a fully staged workshop production (prior to its official World Premiere in October 2013 at the renowned Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada) for a limited run of nine Sunday and Monday evening and Tuesday matinee performances from Sunday, 11 August 2013 (Press Night: Monday, 12 August at 7.30pm).

Colleen Murphy's Armstrong's War opens at the Finborough Theatre as a fully staged workshop production (prior to its official World Premiere in October 2013 at the renowned Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada) for a limited run of nine Sunday and Monday evening and Tuesday matinee performances from Sunday, 11 August 2013.

Arion Productions, in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre, presents the first London production in more than 25 years of AS IS by William M. Hoffman. Directed by Andrew Keates, the cast features: Jordon Bernarde, Tom Colley, John Hastings, Tom Kay, Clare Kissane, David Poynor, Paul Standell and Anna Tierney.

Our Summer Season features both our unique rediscoveries - three classic plays from the 1980s including a devastating report from the frontline of Thatcher's Britain, and an 80th birthday celebration of playwright David Storey; and a feminist classic of the 1970s, commemorating the centenary year of suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davison - and vibrant new writing -with work from award-winning writers Chris Dunkley and Colleen Murphy.

The first London production since the 1987 UK premiere of William M. Hoffman's As Is opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 6 August 2013 (Press Night: Thursday, 8 August at 7.30pm), directed by multi-award-winning director Andrew Keates.

Our Summer Season features both our unique rediscoveries - three classic plays from the 1980s including a devastating report from the frontline of Thatcher's Britain, and an 80th birthday celebration of playwright David Storey; and a feminist classic of the 1970s, commemorating the centenary year of suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davison - and vibrant new writing -with work from award-winning writers Chris Dunkley and Colleen Murphy.

The star of the Mercury Theatre/Curve co-production talks to us about the show, its future - and backstage shenanigans

Ranging from Glasgow to Algiers, from Belfast to New York City, Finborough Theatre's Spring Season 2013 is an eclectic mix of the three strands of our artistic policy with new writing including premieres from both established writers (Caryl Churchill and Stewart Conn) and new playwrights (Bekah Brunstetter and David Hutchison); a rediscovery (the groundbreaking Ulster classic Over The Bridge, unseen in Great Britain for over fifty years); and musical theatre with the European premiere of a new musical, the Off-Broadway hit, ROOMS - A Rock Romance.

A Finborough Theatre commission, the European premiere of the hit Off-Broadway musical ROOMS - A Rock Romance, plays at the Finborough Theatre for a limited four-week season from Tuesday 23 April 2013, directed by multi-award-winning director Andrew Keates.

Ranging from Glasgow to Algiers, from Belfast to New York City, Finborough Theatre's Spring Season 2013 is an eclectic mix of the three strands of our artistic policy with new writing including premieres from both established writers (Caryl Churchill and Stewart Conn) and new playwrights (Bekah Brunstetter and David Hutchison); a rediscovery (the groundbreaking Ulster classic Over The Bridge, unseen in Great Britain for over fifty years); and musical theatre with the European premiere of a new musical, the Off-Broadway hit, ROOMS - A Rock Romance.

Howard Goodall and Nick Stimson's take on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is, in many ways, radically different from the original. The question is, have the right aspects been changed?

Arion Productions Ltd have announced the full cast for the professional world premiere of A Winter's Tale, a brand new British musical at the Landor Theatre, this November, including Helena Blackman, Alastair Brookshaw, Fra Fee, Pete Gallagher and a host of recognisable West End alumni.

Arion Productions Ltd have announced the full cast for the professional world premiere of A Winter's Tale, a brand new British musical at the Landor Theatre, this November, including Helena Blackman, Alastair Brookshaw, Fra Fee, Pete Gallagher and a host of recognisable West End alumni.

Arion Productions Ltd have announced that this November they will produce the professional world premiere of A Winter's Tale, a brand new British musical at the Landor Theatre, Clapham North.

Award winning director, Andrew Keates will be departing Clapham's Landor Theatre, leaving the post of their theatre manager and artistic consultant. He will be developing newly formed and innovative theatre production company Arion Productions Ltd as its artistic director and founder as well as directing upcoming productions of Martin Sherman's ground-breaking play Passing By at the Finborough Theatre this September and returning to the Landor as a director for the world premiere of A Winter's Tale by Howard Goodall and Nick Stimson and developed by Keates in November 2012.