Dylan Thomas News

Ivo van Hove will stage the English language première of Hanya Yanagihara's critically acclaimed prize-winning novel, A Little Life in the West End. Van Hove directs James Norton (Jude), Luke Thompson (Willem), Omari Douglas (JB), Zach Wyatt (Malcolm), Elliot Cowan (Brother Luke/Doctor Traylor/Caleb), Zubin Varla (Harold), Nathalie Armin (Ana), and Emilio Doorgasingh (Andy).

Irish Repertory Theatre has announced casting for the return of A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (Under Milk Wood) and adapted & directed by Charlotte Moore (The Streets of New York). The cast of A Child’s Christmas in Wales will include Kerry Conte (The Butcher Boy), Ali Ewoldt (The Phantom of the Opera), and more.

The hit public radio and podcast series Selected Shorts returns to Kean Stage on Saturday, December 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Native Earth Performing Arts has announced its 40th anniversary season, featuring a remarkable lineup of Indigenous dancers, playwrights, and emerging artists from across Turtle Island.

Irish Repertory Theatre has announced two productions for the remainder of their 2022 season, including the return of Irish Rep favorite A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas, and the World Stage Premiere of Jack Was Kind, written and performed by Tracy Thorne and directed by Nicholas A. Cotz.

The six-panel, two-disc digipak will be released November 18, 2022 on her own label, Road. The album features 15 seasonal songs performed by McKennitt, interspersed with seasonal readings by Canadian Indigenous actor and Companion of the Order of Canada recipient, Tom Jackson, Cedric Smith, and Ojibway artist and flautist Jeffrey Red George.

​​​​​​​Young People's Theatre has announced the opening of its 2022.23 season with the world premiere of Bentboy – a heroic First Nations tale about an unlikely warrior told through movement, dance and myth.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) continues its 60th anniversary season with one of Harold Pinter’s greatest works, The Caretaker, starting on September 21st. The Caretaker will be on the Main Stage September 21 – October 9. 

In the first event of its kind, award-winning author Max Porter is joined by guests Fatima Bhutto, Nina Conti and Roger Robinson with music from rushes/esp, in an ensemble piece fused with image, text, improvised sound and storytelling in response to the country's social, political, environmental, cultural, and emotional state.

Mike Payette, Artistic Director of Tarragon Theatre and Managing Director Andrea Vagianos have announced the Toronto premiere of The Herd. The play, written by Kenneth T. Williams, runs in the Mainspace from May 10 - June 12, 2022 (opening May 11, 2022). 

The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) continues its 60th anniversary season on Sunday, June 5 with American Masters, a free symphonic concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring the world premiere of Roberto Sierra’s newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin performed by acclaimed electric violinist Tracy Silverman. The program will also offer works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Melinda Wagner, Richard Wernick, and Shulamit Ran.

Writing from his own first-hand experiences in service and delivery jobs, Max Wilkinson wrote RAINER during lockdown in 2020 when the streets were apocalyptically quiet. The production opens the new summer season for the Arcola's acclaimed Arcola Outside space, after being developed through their Today I'm Wiser Festival in 2021.

Science, ethics, and spirituality take centre stage in this memorable contemporary drama.

Pulitzer Prize winning Clybourne Park was fully rehearsed and ready to run at Park Theatre for its 10th Anniversary back in 2020. Covid prevented the revival from materialising but now, two years later, it is finally set to return to the London stage. Actor Imogen Stubbs took time out of rehearsals to speak with BroadwayWorld about the production.

In the first event of its kind, award-winning author Max Porter is joined by guests Anthony Anaxagorou, Nina Conti and Inua Ellams with music from rushes/esp, in an ensemble piece fused with image, text, improvised sound and storytelling in response to the country's social, political, environmental, cultural, and emotional state.

You’re invited to a delightful Christmas celebration that will lift your spirits and warm your heart. A Child’s Christmas in Wales is now being performed at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) through January 2.

Whether your December is never complete without hearing this story, or whether this will be your first experience of Thomas's lyrical classic, this is for you. Come share a warm hug of a show. And build your Christmas memories all over again.

The American Symphony Orchestra celebrates its return to the stage and its 60th anniversary season in 2021-22 with four full-orchestra programs at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, and a free opening concert titled Mahler in New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on December 16. The opening program focuses on composers whom Mahler had championed during his years in New York.

After almost two years of darkness, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) will light up its Main Stage again for the holidays. The company’s long-awaited return to indoor, in-person performances will kick off with an all-new production of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, based on the classic story by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and adapted for the stage by Jeremy Brooks and Adrian Mitchell.

The 2022 Adelaide Writers' Week, the third and final from Director Jo Dyer, features some of Australia's most interesting and erudite minds – including a few Zooming in from afar – who all come ready to contribute their most insightful and provocative ideas to think not just of the bigger picture, but of A Better Picture.