Rikki Beadle-Blair News

Former EastEnders and Coronation Street star Michelle Collins will join the cast of Tom Wright's knockabout comedy My Dad's Gap Year, alongside Adam Lannon, Alex Britt, Max Percy and previously announced Victoria Gigante. Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair, My Dad's Gap Year opens at Park Theatre on Wednesday 30 January 2019 for a strictly limited season.

Excitement is building as one of the most exciting events in Liverpool's events calendar arrives next week - The Vogue Ball.

Applications are now open for the fourth year of The Old Vic 12, The Old Vic's flagship emerging talent programme working to support the next generation of creative talent.

After his sold-out Sex/Crime (The Glory), Alexis Gregory presents the verbatim Riot Act, directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair. Written especially for King's Head Theatre's Queer Season, the piece explores the role of Stonewall, queer history, activism, drag queens, and loss in three gut-wrenching monologues born out of interviews with Michael-Anthony Nozzi, Lavinia Co-op, and Paul Burston.

Riot Act, a powerful, brand new verbatim theatre piece, created especially for the King's Head Theatre's Queer Season, wil premiere Tuesday 31 July - Sunday 5 August.

It's one of the most hotly anticipated announcements of the year - and now organisers of the hugely popular Vogue Ball can reveal the theme of the 2018 extravaganza.

House of Suarez, the creative minds behind Liverpool's multi-award winning and highly distinguished Vogue Ball, today announce the next step in their Vogue evolution with House of Suarez: Three-Day Bender coming to the city this October.

The King's Head Theatre today announces the full line-up for its 2018 Queer Season. Established in 2015, the Queer Season is a celebration of the most interesting and innovative LGBTQI+ theatre being created in modern Britain, with transfers to and from some of the UK's largest arts festivals alongside world premieres.

Riot Act, a powerful, brand new verbatim theatre piece, created especially for the King's Head Theatre's Queer Season, wil premiere Tuesday 31 July - Sunday 5 August.

In a fractured and divided city, two men meet to recreate the killings of a famous gay serial killer - for their own pleasure...and the right price.

Sex/Crime, written for The Glory, a Queer and alternative East End nightlife spot and performance mecca, and funded by Arts Council England, is a challenging new play that explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.

Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), the WORLD Channel and KQED today announced the launch of Storybored USA, a new web series designed to empower diverse youth and millennials to tell their stories through creative arts and media. The ten-part series launches today at www.youtube.com/worldchannel with the first two episodes; two additional episodes will launch every Thursday from February 1-22. Storybored USA is a co-production of William D. Caballero and Latino Public Broadcasting, and is a presentation of WORLD Channel, in association with KQED. Major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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The Vogue Ball is now just 10 days away and the final preparations are being made to ensure this year's evening is the most daring and fabulous to date.

The Vogue Ball is now just 10 days away and the final preparations are being made to ensure this year's evening is the most daring and fabulous to date.

Liverpool's Vogue Ball is now just three months away. And this year's event is set to welcome a special new commission which puts deaf and disability arts and artists at the heart of the action.

The Old Vic presents Queers: The Next 50 Years as part of Voices Off, a series of talks, conversations, debates and workshops which explore the themes raised by the productions on the main stage. The discussion will take place in The Old Vic's Rehearsal Room tonight 27 July at 5.30pm.

The Arcola Theatre recently announced its new Summer/Autumn Season.

Theatre Royal Stratford East today invites anyone who shares the name of the production's title role, Summer to attend the world premiere of Rikki Beadle-Blair's new rom-com Summer in London for free. Summer in London, opens at Theatre Royal Stratford East today and runs until 29 July.

The Old Vic will present Queers: The Next 50 Years as part of Voices Off, a series of talks, conversations, debates and workshops which explore the themes raised by the productions on the main stage. The discussion will take place in The Old Vic's Rehearsal Room on Thursday 27 July at 5.30pm.