Alistair McGowan News

'Howerd's End' directed by Joe Harmston explores the clandestine relationship between comedy legend Frankie Howerd and Dennis Heymer from the 1950s until Frankie's death in 1992.

The Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced a spring/summer season of in-house and visiting productions for 2020, alongside its annual Christmas show.

The inaugural London Climate Change Festival will take place at Charing Cross Theatre, London from 23 March until 16 May 2020, in conjunction with the London transfer of Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike starring two time Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee, Rebecca Lacey and Michelle Asante, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie.

With a mix of new writing and all-time classics, Darlington Hippodrome will be the place to visit for passionate, powerful and thought provoking drama, laugh-out-loud comedy, spectacular dance and amazing music in the new Spring 2020 season.

Comedy great Jasper Carrott and genius impressionist Alistair McGowan have announced an additional 16 dates to their current tour due to popular demand.

Some of radio's most popular personalities are swapping the airwaves to go on tour in a brand new stage show during Autumn 2019.

Tim Brooke-Taylor, Angus Deayton, Andy Hamilton, Charlie Higson, Alistair McGowan, Rory McGrath and Caroline Quentin were joined by Wimbledon Champion Pat Cash at the world premiere of  'Midlife Cowboy', a new British musical by comedian and best-selling author Tony Hawks at the Pleasance Theatre, London.

SoHo Playhouse presents the American Premiere of Henry Naylor's Games, directed by Darren Lee Cole. It will begin performances on October 10 and open on October 20  running through November 24, 2019, at the Historic SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street). 

Wireless Wise a?" A Celebration Of Radio 4 brings together a group of well-known names from the airwaves for an unforgettable evening of comedy and nostalgia.

A star-studded programme of headline shows is heading to Storyhouse this autumn, completing a fantastic year of live entertainment at the Chester venue.

At the completion of a multi-million-pound development this autumn, funded by Croydon Council as part of its £5.2bn regeneration project, Fairfield Halls will be one of the biggest arts centres in the UK, the largest in South London, and the largest multi-disciplinary arts and entertainment space in South London and the South East.

Between 1-25 August at Laughing Horse venue Espionage in Edinburgh, award-winning comedian Joe Bor tells the story of the friendship between his grandad - world-renowned town planner Walter Bor - and his grandad's best friend - world-renowned comedy actor Herbert Lom - and their journey from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to the UK.

This Autumn, paranormal sensation, Clinton Baptiste will embark on a national tour to take audiences on a hilarious yet touching journey through his life, out the other side and beyond the Celestial Curtains.

Following his Classical Chart-topping album ('Alistair McGowan: The Piano Album') and his very popular tour, the multi-award-winning impressionist will be returning to the stage to mix classical piano music, historical anecdotes and celebrity voices in Introductions to Classical Piano from 3rd April to 14th July 2019.

I'll drink to that! Marianne Elliott's highly anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company opened in the West End tonight. It was a celeb-packed evening as stars lined the red carpet ahead of the show - check out the pictures below by Jamie Body for BroadwayWorld!

Hot on the heels of both his Classical Chart-topping debut album, Alistair McGowan: The Piano Album and the critically-acclaimed new Sky One impressions show, The Week That Wasn't (“Very, very, very funny” Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2), the multi-award-winning impressionist will be mixing (surely for the first-time) classical piano music and celebrity voices in his nationwide tour Introductions to Classical Piano. The tour will run initially from 19th July to 24th August 2018.

The Week That Wasn't is a brand-new Sky One comedy show where famous faces are thrown into an alternate week of events that may not have happened (but probably should have). Join the UK's leading impressionists as they literally put words into the mouths of celebrities, seriously dubbing them up the wrong way. Master mimic Alistair McGowan is reunited with Ronni Ancona for the first time since their The Big Impression show, together with a host of brilliant new impressionists Matt Forde (Unspun With Matt Forde), Luke Kempner (The Tracey Ullman Show) and Jess Robinson (Dead Ringers) mischievously re-voicing existing footage. From celeb gossip to sporting moments and political scandals, nothing and no-one is off limits in this Sky Original production, produced by Avalon.

Award-winning comedian Joe Bor who is bringing his touring show, 'A Room with a Jew', to Outside The Box Comedy Club in West Molesey on April 17th.

Michael Park announces that, following a hugely successful three-week run at West Yorkshire Playhouse earlier this year, Christine Mary Dunford's newly adapted version of Lisa Genova's best-selling novel, STILL ALICE, will tour the UK from September 2018, directed by David Grindley and starring Sharon Small as Alice. The tour will open at the Sheffield Lyceum from 12 to 15 September and will play Richmond Theatre from 18 to 22 September, King's Theatre Edinburgh from 25 to 29 September, Norwich Theatre Royal from 2 to 6 October the Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford from 9 to 13 October and Festival Theatre, Malvern from 20 to 24 November. Further venues and casting are to be announced.