Sam Wanamaker

PIED PIPER, a Hip-Hop Family Musical, Will Embark on UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - Jan 6, 2026

ARCADE will present Pied Piper, a hip-hop family musical told with beatboxing, live-looping, grime, and contemporary theatre. The production is written, composed and musically directed by Conrad Murray.

Critics' Choice: Gary Naylor's Best Theatre of 2025
by Gary Naylor - Dec 24, 2025

Theatre is, of course, a window on another world, often glitzier and brighter than our own, sometimes a reflection that can comfort or discomfit us and sometimes a portal into what it is to be human at all. It is an escape - and who can deny that we need such refuges more than ever - but it can be so much more than mere escapism. The best theatre of 2025 made those lofty promises - and kept them.

Cast Set For DEEP AZURE at Shakespeare's Globe
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2025

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the full cast and creative team of Deep Azure in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Learn more about the production and the cast here!

Photos: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Shakespeare’s Globe
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 28, 2025

Headlong has released production images of their new production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which is now playing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Cast Set for THE TEMPEST at Shakespeare's Globe
by Stephi Wild - Nov 25, 2025

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the full cast and creative team of The Tempest in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The Tempest is directed by award-winning theatre maker Tim Crouch in his Globe directorial debut.

Kathryn Hunter, Malachi Kirby and Indra Ové Named Ambassadors of Drama Charity Intermission Youth 
by Stephi Wild - Nov 25, 2025

Intermission Youth has announced the appointment of three new ambassadors to its fold. Learn more about Kathryn Hunter, Malachi Kirby and Indra Ové here.

Full Cast Set For The World Premiere Of HIGH NOON
by Stephi Wild - Nov 7, 2025

Joining Emmy and Tony Award-winner Billy Crudup and Olivier Award-winner Denise Gough are Billy Howle, Rosa Salazar, Simon Chandler, James Doherty, Misha Handley, Joshua Hill, Jonah Russell, Rebecca Lee and Tim Steed.

Review: ROMEO A JULIET, Shakespeare's Globe
by Clementine Scott - Nov 7, 2025

Romeo a Juliet does not make any of its political points overtly, and this is an occasion where some things are better left unsaid, without cheap gimmicks. With nothing made explicit, the audience comes away reflecting on their own use of language and dialect in their daily life, as well as on how over 500 years later, new eyes on Shakespeare can still make desperately overdone texts feel brand new.

Shakespeare's Globe Reveals Lineup of Events and Collaborations for the Winter Season
by Stephi Wild - Oct 21, 2025

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced additional events running alongside the October – April Season, kicking off next month. Learn more about the upcoming events here!

THE FORSYTE SAGA PARTS I AND 2 Comes to Stratford-Upon-Avon
by Stephi Wild - Oct 20, 2025

The Park Theatre's two-part production of The Forsyte Saga - based on John Galsworthy's Nobel-winning epic novels of love, ownership and the end of Empire - plays the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Cast Set for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Shakespeare's Globe
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 9, 2025

Shakespeare’s Globe has revealed the cast and creative team of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed for the first time in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Learn more!

HIGH NOON Starring Billy Crudup and Denise Gough Will Premiere at The Harold Pinter Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 15, 2025

The World Premiere of the play HIGH NOON, starring Emmy and Tony Award-winner Billy Crudup as Will Kane and Olivier Award-winner Denise Gough as Amy Fowler, opens in December.

Cast Set For Eloise Pennycott's BARRIER(S) at Deafinitely Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 2, 2025

Artistic Director of Deafinitely Theatre Paula Garfield, MBE has announced the cast for the company's forthcoming touring production of Barrier(s) by Eloise Pennycott - Em Prendergast and Zoë McWhinney. 

Cast Set For West End Run of GHOST STORIES
by Stephi Wild - Aug 29, 2025

The cast has been set for the return of Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman's supernatural sensation Ghost Stories to the West End. Learn more about the upcoming show here!

EDINBURGH 2025: Simon Kane Guest Blog
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 28, 2025

Inspired by the Book of Jonah – and probably God – award-winning shunt veteran, Mitchell and Webb writer, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programmer (and Keith Darren Dean in Ghosts), Simon Kane, regurgitates his highly acclaimed, horrifyingly evergreen divine comedy about the extremist in us all.

Joe Layton and Hannah Sinclair Robinson Join Cast of LOST ATOMS
by Emmy Rice - Jun 21, 2025

Mercury Theatre in Colchester’s Associate Company Frantic Assembly are delighted to announce today that Joe Layton and Hannah Sinclair Robinson will star in the company’s 30th anniversary production Lost Atoms written by Anna Jordan.

Frantic Assembly Will Bring Back Talent Development Programme, Ignition
by Nicole Rosky - Jun 20, 2025

Frantic Assembly announced that following a major fundraising campaign to save Ignition, sufficient funds have been reached to bring the programme back in 2025. 

Deafinitely Theatre Reveals Programming For 2025 Season; THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and BARRIERS
by Stephi Wild - Apr 24, 2025

Artistic Director Paula Garfield has announced programming for Deafinitely Theatre’s 2025 season, with a continuing focus on championing deaf talent through bilingual productions in British Sign Language and spoken English.