Emma Frankland

Emma Frankland Returns To Edinburgh Fringe With NO APOLOGIES World Premiere
by Stephi Wild - Jun 13, 2025

Two-time Fringe First Award-winning and Total Theatre Award nominated writer and performer Emma Frankland will bring her raucous and powerful new show No Apologies to Summerhall for its Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut.

TESTO From West Mess Announced At Battersea Arts Centre
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 17, 2025

TESTO, from Wet Mess will be presented at Battersea Arts Centre from February 12-20. In TESTO, multifaceted artist Wet Mess ‘messifies' the messiness of life, immersing audiences in an hour-long performative extravaganza.

Cast Revealed For Emma Frankland's GALATEA At Brighton Festival
by Stephi Wild - Apr 14, 2023

A vibrant and diverse cast of 14 LGBTQIA+ and Deaf performers will come together to perform Emma Frankland and Subira Joy's adaptation of John Lyly's early modern play Galatea at Brighton Festival, which was written in the 1580s and performed in front of Elizabeth I.

World Premiere Of Emma Frankland's GALATEA Comes To Brighton Festival in May
by Stephi Wild - Feb 23, 2023

The work of Shakespeare's best-selling but now long forgotten contemporary John Lyly, will be brought vividly to life in a field on the South Coast this Spring in a radical revival of his early modern play Galatea, adapted by Emma Frankland and Subira Joy and edited by theatre historian Andy Kesson, in a production that fuses together groundbreaking research and experimental theatre.

Stars Of Stage And Study Come Together To Launch Online Learning Platform A BIT LIT
by Stephi Wild - Oct 21, 2021

A brand-new digital learning platform is set to launch with the aim of making the latest academic research available to anyone, anywhere, in a fun and interactive format.

The Roundhouse Announces Spring 2020 Season
by Stephi Wild - Nov 14, 2019

The Roundhouse today announces a Spring 2020 Season of stereotype-smashing performing arts. Featuring Emma Frankland's Hearty, Miguel Hernando Torres Umba's Stardust, Rachael Young's Nightclubbing and Out, and Emma Dennis-Edwards' Funeral Flowers, the season runs from 27 February to 9 May.

Guest Blog: Owen Calvert-Lyons On Ovalhouse's Demolition Party Season
by Marianka Swain - Sep 28, 2019

It's 10am and the walls of Ovalhouse are reverberating to the sound of a kango hammer. A team of builders have been on-site for the past two days performing what might appear to be the ultimate sacrilege for a theatre: they are smashing a 2m-deep hole through the middle of our stage. We are preparing for the Demolition Party. 

Ovalhouse Announces its Demolition Season 2019
by Stephi Wild - Sep 16, 2019

For the final season in their Kennington home, Ovalhouse's Demolition Party Season will see collaboration between engineers and companies to allow artists dismantle parts of the building as part of their creative process. After 80 years as a community venue and 55 years as a professional theatre, Ovalhouse will relocate to Brixton, opening a brand new, purpose-built theatre in spring 2021.

Summerhall Announces 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Programme
by Stephi Wild - May 16, 2019

The 8th Summerhall Festival Programme is announced today by the year round Edinburgh arts venue. The programme is full of exciting, invigorating and fresh theatre, music and visual arts. Whilst the venue grows into its reputation for hosting new, avant-garde and personal work, it also begins to create partnerships with artists. The Eclipse Award, Fringe of Colour, Autopsy Award and a series of annual artist in residence positions see Summerhall actively supporting artists making new work and responding to our world.

Artists Still Hard At Work In Laboratory After Stratford Festival Closest Longest Season On Record
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 6, 2018

The 2018 season ended on Sunday but work continues at the Stratford Festival with a number of exciting projects in the Laboratory, the Festival's research and development arm.

Programme Announced For ALMEIDA FOR FREE - SUMMER AND SMOKE
by Stephi Wild - Feb 19, 2018

The programme is today announced for Almeida For Free - Summer & Smoke, the Almeida Theatre's free festival for anyone aged 25 and under taking place from Tuesday 3 - Thursday 5 April.

NOW 18, Festival Of Radical New Theatre Comes To The Yard
by Stephi Wild - Dec 14, 2017

The Yard Theatre will be kicking off the new year with NOW 18, their annual festival of radical performance. Over five weeks, double-bills of shows that are powerful, political, loud, hilarious and messy will play on The Yard stage for five nights.

Photo Flash: First Look at SUMMER IN LONDON at Theatre Royal Stratford East
by BWW News Desk - Jul 14, 2017

Theatre Royal Stratford East presents the world premiere of Summer in London, a new romcom about four young homeless men living in Stratford during a summer heatwave, with an all-transgender cast. The production runs at Theatre Royal Stratford East until 29 July. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Theatre Royal Stratford East Presents the Premiere of SUMMER IN LONDON
by BWW News Desk - Jul 13, 2017

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces casting for the world premiere of Summer in London, a new romcom about four young homeless men living in Stratford during a summer heatwave, with an all-transgender cast.

Casting Announced for the World Premiere of Rikki Beadle-Blair's SUMMER IN LONDON
by BWW News Desk - Jun 5, 2017

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces casting for the world premiere of Summer in London, a new romcom about four young homeless men living in Stratford during a summer heatwave, with an all-transgender cast.

Spanish & Latin American Festival ¡VIVA! to Return to HOME This April
by BWW News Desk - Apr 7, 2016

HOME is delighted to announce the return of ¡VIVA! Spanish & Latin American Festival for its 22nd edition across 18 days of films and events this April.

Spanish & Latin American Festival ¡VIVA! to Return to HOME This April
by BWW News Desk - Mar 7, 2016

HOME is delighted to announce the return of ¡VIVA! Spanish & Latin American Festival for its 22nd edition across 18 days of films and events this April.

RE:HOME and More Set for The Yard Theatre's 2016 Season
by BWW News Desk - Feb 9, 2016

Following another critically successful year, The Yard's Artistic Director Jay Miller is delighted to announce plans for Spring through to Summer 2016.

RE:HOME and More Set for The Yard Theatre's 2016 Season
by BWW News Desk - Dec 1, 2015

Following another critically successful year, The Yard's Artistic Director Jay Miller is delighted to announce plans for Spring through to Summer 2016.

Camden People's Theatre's Autumn Season to Feature CALM DOWN DEAR & More
by Tyler Peterson - Jul 8, 2015

Video-gaming/theatre mash-ups, foul-mouthed puppets, theatrical self-help and special mentions for Robert Downey Jr, JFK & the Beastie Boys: this Autumn at Camden People's Theatre is bursting at the seams with the most innovative, bold and thrilling new theatre from the UK's best emerging theatre-makers.