Gerry Raffles

The Squint Playwriting Award Showcase will present the work of nine emerging playwrights from low-income backgrounds. The showcase features ten minutes of each writer's work from a full-length play they are developing, performed by a professional cast. Get all the details here!

When I began re-reading the original material I instantly felt drawn to a circus backdrop in terms of design and aesthetic. A troop of entertainers, from the Ringmaster to the clowns, coming together to put on a show in a worn-out tent filled with the ammunition needed to put on a touring show, travelling away from home.

The highly anticipated studio cast recording for the empowering pop musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World has been released on streaming platforms. 

The exciting new cast has been announced for the 2022 UK tour of inspiring girl power musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World.  This empowering stage adaptation is brought to life by an incredible all-female led cast and creative team, based on the book of the same name by Suffragette descendant Kate Pankhurst.

Dennis Kelly’s After The End is set to open at Theatre Royal Stratford East on March 2nd.

After a hugely successful autumn premiere, the inspiring girl power musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World will return in 2022 for an extensive UK tour.  This empowering stage adaptation of suffragette descendent Kate Pankhurst’s award-winning book is brought to life by an incredible all-female creative team. 

Niagara-on-the-Lake's World War I connections - from residents who enlisted to the garrisoned troops being entertained in the Royal George Theatre - are highlighted in director Peter Hinton's re-improvised Oh What a Lovely War. With music direction by Paul Sportelli and movement direction by Alexis Milligan, this provocative production about the theatre of war begins previews at the Royal George Theatre on July 14.

Miss Littlewood pays tribute to a pioneer of British theatre whose work either side of the Second World War did more for what is called outreach these days, than any other figure before or since.

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces that local schools and colleges will take over the building in Donate our Stage, beginning today and runs until the 2 February. This initiative will see over 130 students and teachers take over the stage for a week. Participants will work with professional theatre staff to get their hands on the lighting board, sound equipment and work with directors in the rehearsal rooms. This opportunity extends Newham's Every Child's a Theatre Goer free ticket offer for schools; giving students even more insight into the process of making theatre.

After a successful run of first dates, ZU-UK have extended Binaural Dinner Date to run until 9th December with six performances in new location, the Stratford Centre. Tickets will be priced at 15 with 5 from every ticket going to local foodbanks. In addition, audiences will be invited to try a prototype of their virtual reality experience, Goodnight, Sleep Tight, which tucks audiences into bed for a performance that merges reality with digital.

Artistic Director Tim Carroll announces the Shaw Festival's 2018 ensemble. This season's 56 actors will take to the stage in 14 productions, plus numerous Secret Theatre experiences.

Following the sellout success last year at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 201 Dance Company and Patrick Collier Production Company are embarking on the premiere UK tour of SMOTHER from April - June 2017. Challenging the the taboo that persists in urban dance around presenting stories of homosexuality, choreographer Andrea Walker directs a cast of seven in a fast-paced, intimate performance about relationships.

After playing the Narrator in the original West End production in 1979, Peter Straker returns to the iconic rock opera THE WHO'S TOMMY as the Acid Queen.

An intimate and confessional portrait of Nigerian singer Le Gateau Chocolat's life: his hopes, his fears and his battle with depression, performed with the 13-piece Psappha ensemble.

Theatre Royal Stratford East and Belgrade Coventry Theatre today announces the cast for Kirsten Childs' award-winning off-Broadway musical The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin.

With Sinbad the Sailor opening on Monday and Rani Moorthy's Whose Sari Now? currently playing in Gerry's studio space, Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kerry Michael today announces the theatre's forthcoming Spring/Summer 2017 season.

Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kerry Michael today announces a specially adapted production of Rani Moorthy's one woman show Whose Sari Now? to open at the theatre this November direct from a UK tour.

Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kerry Michael today announces a specially adapted production of Rani Moorthy's one woman show Whose Sari Now? to open at the theatre this November direct from a UK tour.

As the leader of the free world ends his eight years in office, a black middle class family risk losing their beloved hotel and cherry orchard, where Martin Luther King once rested and Miles Davis played.