Home of boundary-pushing performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, arts charity and year-round cultural hub Summerhall Arts has announced 36 more shows of the 2026 instalment of its renowned festival programme.
Darkie Armo Girl, written and performed by Karine Bedrossian, has extended its run for an additional three weeks beginning on Tuesday, 20 January 2026 at the Finborough Theatre.
OffWestEnd Award nominated Darkie Armo Girl, written and performed by Karine Bedrossian, will return to the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season.
OffWestEnd Award nominated Darkie Armo Girl, written and performed by Karine Bedrossian, will return to the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season next month.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced the recipients of the 2025 Keep it Fringe fund. This is the third year of the fund, an initiative created to support Fringe artists to realise their professional ambitions, and in 2025 funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
LIFELINE, the new musical which tells the story of Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming’s world-changing discovery of penicillin in 1928 opens today, Wednesday, September 4th, 2024. Check out photos here!
Discover the new musical LIFELINE, which tells the story of Alexander Fleming's groundbreaking discovery of penicillin, now playing at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre in NYC. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Written and directed by Alex Howarth based on real conversations with kids in care, it’s a shot to the heart. Profoundly moving in its bittersweet playfulness and candid approach to the matter, the production is scrupulously crafted to come off as child’s play. It exquisitely translates the world as if it was seen through the eyes of children, engaging into a blunt direct address that gives an atypical accessibility to the show.
Casting has been announced for Cassie and the Lights, coming to Southwark Playhouse Borough this spring. Learn more about who is starring in the show here!
Cassie and the Lights comes to Southwark Playhouse Borough this spring. Following critically acclaimed runs in New York and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this enchanting play created and directed by Alex Howarth features live music and is based on real-life events and interviews with children in care.
59E59 Theaters continue their Brits off Broadway festival of shows with 'Cassie and the Lights.' It is a unique, entertaining, and poignant play by Patch of Blue in association with New Diorama Theatre.
59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) have announced a Relaxed Performance of Cassie and the Lights, presented by Patch of Blue in association with New Diorama Theatre and Xinyi Shen for Verse Unbound and Amelia Campbell, which will be held on Saturday June 24 at 2:15 PM. Written and directed by Alex Howarth (he/him; Let the Right One In), Cassie and the Lights will begin previews on June 13 in Theater B with an opening night set for June 17 and running through July 2 as part of 59E59's Brits Off Broadway 2023 Season.
Popcorn Group have announced this year’s incredible judging committee along with their longlist of brave and imaginative new plays for the Popcorn Writing Award. Partnering for the first time with BBC Writersroom, Popcorn offers a prize fund of £6,000.
The Finborough Theatre presents the world premiere rehearsed reading of Jacob Marx Rice's A Brief List of Everyone Who Died, available on the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel from Monday, 24 May at 6.00pm to Sunday, 20 June 2021 at midnight as part of #FinboroughForFree, and showing concurrently with subtitles on Scenesaver.
Following two sold out shows, Full Disclosure Theatre are back and proud to present XPOSED, with a brand new line-up of short plays revealing the naked and entertaining truths about queer life. The third XPOSED will be staged on Sunday 4th November at Southwark Playhouse.
The New York City premiere of 'We Live By The Sea' is now on stage at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday, May 6. It is an insightful portrayal of a teenager on the autism spectrum that shouldn't be missed. This is a show that both entertains and informs.
The 2018 Brits Off Broadway season launches at 59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) with WE LIVE BY THE SEA, devised by Patch of Blue and directed by Alex Howarth. Produced by Patch of Blue and The Hartshorn-Hook Foundation, WE LIVE BY THE SEA begins performances on Wednesday, April 11 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 6. Press Opening is Tuesday, April 17 at 7:15 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Friday at 7:15 PM; Saturday at 2:15 PM & 7:15 PM; Sunday at 2:15 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). The single ticket prices range from $25 - $35 ($24.50 for 59E59 Members). Tickets are available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.59e59.org.