Paul Farnsworth News

The West End premiere of FLASHDANCE: THE MUSICAL will be postponed until tomorrow evening, September 25. Due to technical difficulties, tonight's opening has been cancelled. The official premiere of the new musical will be October 14.

Ian Talbot will direct Peter Sham and Brad Carroll's new musical comedy, Lend Me A Tenor The Musical, based on the award-winning West End and Broadway hit comedy by Ken Ludwig. A riotous, unpredictable explosion of mistaken identities and unexpected romance, Lend Me A Tenor The Musical will run at the Theatre Royal Plymouth from 24 September - 6 October 2010, prior to an anticipated West End run in the Autumn which will be produced by Martin Platt and David Elliott in association with Eileen and Allen Anes.

Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10am on Friday 24 September for Ken Hill's The Invisible Man which previews at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 12 November with press night on 24 November and is booking until 13 February 2011. The Invisible Man will be directed by Ian Talbot, with illusions by Paul Kieve, set designs by Paul Farnsworth, costume designs by Matthew Wright, lighting by Jason Taylor, music by Steve Edis, sound by Gareth Owen and choreography by Sam Spencer-Lane. Casting details will be announced shortly.

The Menier Chocolate Factory announces its Autumn/Winter 2010 season beginning with the European premiere of Accomplice - part game, part theatre, part tour around the streets of SE1. Accomplice is followed by Jonathan Munby's production of Caryl Churchill's A Number starring Timothy and Samuel West, and Ken Hill's The Invisible Man directed by Ian Talbot.

Ian Talbot will direct Peter Sham and Brad Carroll's new musical comedy, Lend Me A Tenor The Musical, based on the award-winning West End and Broadway hit comedy by Ken Ludwig. A riotous, unpredictable explosion of mistaken identities and unexpected romance, Lend Me A Tenor The Musical will run at the Theatre Royal Plymouth from 24 September - 6 October 2010, prior to an anticipated West End run in the Autumn which will be produced by Martin Platt and David Elliott in association with Eileen and Allen Anes.

Sparks will fly this year as the West End Premiere of FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL explodes onto the stage at the Shaftesbury Theatre starting September 27, 2010. Tickets are currently being sold through February 26, 2011.

Sparks will fly this year as the West End Premiere of FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL explodes onto the stage at the Shaftesbury Theatre starting September 27, 2010. Tickets are currently being sold through February 26, 2011.

'Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical,' which premiered at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in 2007, is ready to take London by storm. The musical will have a private industry presentation and workshop in March of 2010. A full-scale production is slated for a West End run in fall of 2010.

Hampstead Theatre's third new writing festival, Daring Pairings 3, will be the climax of its 50th Anniversary celebrations, announced on Tuesday 30 June. The first major revival of Philip Ridley's malevolent comedy, The Fastest Clock in the Universe opens the season which also includes a debut play from 20 year old Atiha Sen Gupta and a spooky seasonal offering from Michael Punter.

The US National tour of Whistle Down The Wind will close February 17, following its final engagement in Norfolk. All previously announced city-engagements, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, are canceled.

SHN announces today that Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's musical, Whistle Down The Wind will play San Francisco's Curran Theatre April 1-20, 2008.

Legendary theatrical impresario Bill Kenwright takes time out of his busy schedule to discuss his new US production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down The Wind which he has masterfully directed as well as serving as the producer.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind will launch its first-ever U.S. National tour September 9 through 22 at Houston's Hobby Center for the Performing Arts as part of the 2007-08 Theatre Under the Stars season and then continue on to major cities across America including Seattle, Hartford and Sacramento

Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, Evita and Spamalot join a long list of musical productions opening in 2006..

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Whistle Down the Wind will be seen at the West End's Palace Theatre from March 15th through August 12th, after the closing of The Woman in White and before the opening of Spamalot

Jerry Hall will step out of the current London production of High Society due to glandular fever

Jerry Hall joins the cast of Ian Talbot's production of Cole Porter's musical comedy High Society for West End transfer