Michael Morpurgo News

After a five-year casting search and multiple auditions across the UK, three sets of talented identical twins are about to become Britain’s latest musical theatre stars. Learn all about the show here.

Beetlejuice returns from the dead to blow the roof off Broadway's Marquis Theatre on Friday, April 8, 2022. Check out all new rehearsal photos!

All new rehearsal photos have been released for The Mozart Question at The Barn Theatre. Vicki Berwick’s theatrical adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel The Mozart Question will debut at the Cirencester theatre from 21 March – 30 April.

Fans were dying for BEETLEJUICE to come back, and thanks to their support the Ghost-with-the-Most will return from the dead to blow the roof off Broadway’s Marquis Theatre beginning Friday, April 8, 2022. To celebrate, a wall outside the Marquis will be dedicated to BEETLEJUICE Fan Art for all the living to see.

He's back! Beetlejuice returns from the dead to blow the roof off Broadway's Marquis Theatre on Friday, April 8, 2022. Check out photos of the new marquee below!

The Barn Theatre, in association with Bob & Marianne Benton for Anthology Theatre and The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, have today announced the full cast and creative team of the world premiere production of The Mozart Question, which began rehearsals this week.

You were dying for them to come back, and the family has returned! Get the scoop on who is joining the cast for BEETLEJUICE's return to Broadway.

It’s the Day-O audiences have been waiting for....two-time Tony Award nominee Alex Brightman will re- incarnate as BEETLEJUICE when the smash-hit musical returns from the dead at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre on Friday, April 8, 2022. Full casting to be announced scarily soon!

The upcoming return engagement of Beetlejuice is just around the corner! The fan-favorite show is set to reopen on April 8 at the Marquis Theatre.

Carnegie Hall today announced new programming to be added this February to Carnegie Hall+, a new premium subscription video on-demand channel, curated by Carnegie Hall, that offers instant access to unforgettable performances by celebrated artists from renowned stages all around the world.

Trafalgar Entertainment – the international live entertainment business founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire – has announced the appointment of Ellen McPhillips as Regional Programming Director and the creation of a Central Programming Team in an exciting move for regional theatres, producers and theatregoers.

This season, the Belgrade Theatre hosts a fantastic range of shows for children of all ages. Little ones can take a stroll through the deep, dark wood with The Gruffalo, and enjoy magical puppetry with Oi Frog and Friends! Live on Stage. There's something for older ones too, with brand new stage adaptations of George Orwell's Animal Farm and Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful.

Pilot Theatre has today announced the casting for the world premiere of S. Shakthidharan's adaptation of The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon's award winning moving novel about a Rohingya refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre in Australia.

Today Nottingham Playhouse announces the full cast of Simon Reade's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's award winning First World War novel Private Peaceful.

Beetlejuice the Musical will haunt Broadway once more! On Friday, April 8, 2022, BEETLEJUICE will play its first performance at Broadway's Marriott Marquis Theatre!

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has today announced their 2022 Built by Barn Season, which comprises seven new productions.

Following the triumphant return of live work at Nottingham Playhouse this autumn, today the theatre confirms its Spring and Summer Season for 2022.  The season comprises a long-awaited programme of work that was postponed from 2020 due to the first COVID 19 lockdown.

Following the celebratory reopening of Birmingham Rep this autumn with critically acclaimed productions of East is East, the brand new musical What’s New Pussycat? and the presentation of Grenfell: Value Engineering, Artistic Director Sean Foley announces a new collection of work to follow his own production of the classic comedy The Play What I Wrote.

Pupils from schools in Plymouth have had a slice of the action in helping to devise and create a brand-new theatre production, The Pizza Inspector. And, to top it all off, they are now getting the chance to see the play performed live by professional actors.

A North Yorkshire rurally-based storytelling festival with a radical vision to make storytelling accessible for all, is gearing up for its second online event after unprecedented success last year.