OFFROADING Comes to the Old Red Lion Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Aug 2, 2024
Threadbare Theatre Company will bring Offroading to the Old Red Lion Theatre next month. Performances run September 3rd- 14th at Old Red Lion Theatre as well as September 22-October 3rd at The Crown Inn and Pub.
BWW Review: SAVING BRITNEY, Old Red Lion
by Jonathan Marshall - May 29, 2021
She's one of the biggest pop stars of all time but many of us are aware of the conservatorship battle Britney Spears has been locked in for over half of her career, essentially depriving her of her freedom. Inspired by the #FreeBritney movement and the recent documentary, Saving Britney is a hilarious and heart-breaking look at celebrity obsession. She was on national TV by the age of seven and an international superstar by sixteen. But now she is in trouble and the only person who might be able to save her could be millennial Britney Spears superfan, Jean from Gloucestershire.
BWW Review: CRYSTAL CLEAR, Old Red Lion Theatre
by Jonathan Marshall - Jul 28, 2019
Art dealer Richard has a long-term partner named Jane. He has also entered into an affair with Thomasina, a blind woman. When he suddenly loses his sight, Richard's relationships with both women are tested as he struggles to make sense of his new reality. Returning to the home of its original run in 1982, this revival has been made accessible for visually impaired audience members.
Guest Blog: Rachel Harper On RATTLED at Old Red Lion Theatre
by Guest Blog: Rachel Harper - Jan 25, 2019
The initial inspiration for the play was a confession made to me by a stranger. After watching a previous production of mine based on postnatal mental health, she opened up to me about her bleakest day and I knew that story needed to go further. I wanted to use her tale to inspire further conversations such as this.
Guest Blog: Playwright Liv Warden On ANOMALY at Old Red Lion
by Guest Blog: Liv Warden - Nov 15, 2018
How do the lies and abuses of a powerful man end up woven in with those around them, stamped across their faces? Does their poison somehow seep out and ensnare them too? Does the very nature of a relationship with these men result in some kind of assumed complicity?
Guest Blog: Seamus Finnegan On I AM OF IRELAND
by Guest Blog: Seamus Finnegan - May 14, 2018
I was born in Belfast into a Roman Catholic family. As a child, we lived in a 'mixed area'. I played football with 'Derek', except around the 12th of July, when his mother forbade him to play with the 'wee Fenian'. I knew it had something to do with the Union Jack that flew from their front bedroom window.
BWW Review: TINY DYNAMITE, Old Red Lion Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Jan 13, 2018
On their annual holiday together at the seaside, Luce (Eva-Jane Willis) and Anthony (Niall Bishop) meet Madeleine (Tanya Fear). As their friendship develops and the two already best friends form a strong bond with the stranger, they'll have to come to terms with past trauma, mental illness, and acceptance.
Guest Blog: Actor Matthew Jure On Reviving TALK RADIO
by Guest Blog: Matthew Jure - Aug 2, 2017
In Eric Bogosian's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated and Drama Desk-winning play Talk Radio, troubled Cleveland shock jock Barry Champlain finally snaps and asks his callers why they seem fascinated by 'how deep into the muck we can immerse ourselves', despite all the possibilities afforded by 'marvelous technology'.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal for MRS ORWELL at the Old Red Lion Theatre
by BWW
News Desk - Aug 1, 2017
This summer, the world premiere of Mrs Orwell starring Cressida Bonas (Doctor Thorne (ITV), Gatsby (Leicester Square Theatre), An Evening with Lucien Freud (Leicester Square Theatre)) and Peter Hamilton Dyer (Twelfth Night and Richard III (Broadway for Shakespeare's Globe), A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play for the Nation (RSC), Genius: Einstein (Fox 21 Television)) will be brought to life at the Old Red Lion. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal for MRS ORWELL at the Old Red Lion Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Jul 11, 2017
This summer, the world premiere of Mrs Orwell starring Cressida Bonas (Doctor Thorne (ITV), Gatsby (Leicester Square Theatre), An Evening with Lucien Freud (Leicester Square Theatre)) and Peter Hamilton Dyer (Twelfth Night and Richard III (Broadway for Shakespeare's Globe), A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play for the Nation (RSC), Genius: Einstein (Fox 21 Television)) will be brought to life at the Old Red Lion. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal for Loose Tongue's SEAT FRET, Featuring Lucy Carless
by BWW News Desk - Mar 17, 2017
Lucy Carless of Channel 4's critically acclaimed drama series Humans makes her theatre debut as Ruby in Sea Fret opening at the Old Red Lion on the 28th March. Best known for her portrayal of teenaged Mattie in both series of the hit television programme, Lucy trained at the Nottingham Television Workshop. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!
THE PAST IS A TATTOOED SAILOR to Premiere at the Old Red Lion This August
by BWW
News Desk - Aug 2, 2016
In the world premiere of Simon Blow's fiercely witty and bittersweet debut drama The Past Is a Tattooed Sailor, class struggles, thwarted love, and family destruction collide. Simon is the grandson of aristocratic architect Detmar Blow and scion of a family never far from the newspaper columns, and The Past Is a Tattooed Sailor is unique excursion into a lost world of sparkling aphorism and gloriously eccentric characters.
THE PAST IS A TATTOOED SAILOR to Premiere at the Old Red Lion This August
by BWW News Desk - Jul 11, 2016
In the world premiere of Simon Blow's fiercely witty and bittersweet debut drama The Past Is a Tattooed Sailor, class struggles, thwarted love, and family destruction collide. Simon is the grandson of aristocratic architect Detmar Blow and scion of a family never far from the newspaper columns, and The Past Is a Tattooed Sailor is unique excursion into a lost world of sparkling aphorism and gloriously eccentric characters.