Shaheen Khan

Jermyn Street Theatre has today announced casting for its marathon performance of Homer’s The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson. James Purefoy (Rome, Fisherman’s Friends, Churchill) stars as Odysseus, the Greek hero whose ten-year journey home from Troy is the heart of Homer’s epic poem.

Middle aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha Bhuchar lives a “squeezed middle” life in leafy Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a Non-Resident Indian, the acclaimed playwright and actor is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and her place in the world.

Miranda Foster returns to Jermyn Street Theatre after her memorable roles in All's Well That Ends Well and Tonight at 8.30. Her previous work includes Hamlet (Globe to Globe World Tour), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe),The Merry Wives of Windsor (BBC) and Festen (Bill Kenwright). 

After opening the Footprints Festival with Biyi Bandele's Two Horsemen Street Theatre headlines June with Lucy Betts' acclaimed production of Ade Morris's Lone Flyer.  First staged at The Watermill Theatre last October, the production will run from 8 June to 3 July, playing to socially distanced live audiences as well as being streamed online.    

Founder of Tara Arts, Jatinder Verma MBE, is to step down as Artistic Director, forty years after founding the ground-breaking company.

Macbeth is the first production from Black Theatre Live, a pioneering consortium of 8 regional theatres committed to increasing the amount of Black and Ethnic Minority theatre on the touring circuit.

A Tamasha and Oldham Coliseum Theatre Production in association with the Lyric Hammersmith presents Wuthering Heights Created by Tamasha, based on the novel by Emily Bront? and original concept and book by Deepak Verma Touring nationally from 13 March - 20 June Lyric dates: 29 April - 23 May

A Tamasha and Oldham Coliseum Theatre Production in association with the Lyric Hammersmith presents Wuthering Heights Created by Tamasha, based on the novel by Emily Bront? and original concept and book by Deepak Verma Touring nationally from 13 March - 20 June Lyric dates: 29 April - 23 May