Ben Elton News

With the recent Oscar-winning film, "Bohemian Rhapsody," the music of Queen is more popular than ever. In 2002, many of those hits were compiled into a rock musical experience, WE WILL ROCK YOU, which will be hitting the road once again for a North American tour set to premiere September 3 - 8, 2019 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada at the Centennial Concert Hall, presented by Showtime Productions Inc.

With the recent Oscar-winning film, "Bohemian Rhapsody," the music of Queen is more popular than ever. In 2002, many of those hits were compiled into a rock musical experience, WE WILL ROCK YOU, which will be hitting the road once again for a North American tour starting September 3 in Winnipeg, Canada. Spectra Venue Management is pleased to announce the show will include a stop at the Casper Events Center on Tuesday, September 24th. Ticket prices and on sale date are to be announced. Tickets will be available for purchase at www.SinclairTix.com, the SinclairTix Box Office at the Casper Events Center, by phone at 800-442-2256 or at any statewide SinclairTix outlet.

Drama lovers are in for a particular treat with this season. Renowned and innovative company Out Of Joint will make their first visit to The Marlowe with their production of Andrea Dunbar's seminal 1980s play Rita, Sue And Bob Too (Wednesday 24 to Saturday 27 April).

Siobhan Redmond returns to the National to play Isabella Bird. Giving us an insight into her character and the real life person behind it, Siobhan also shares her excitement and joy for working in this all-female company.

Manilla Street Productions is thrilled to announce the Australian premiere of THE BEAUTIFUL GAME in Melbourne in September 2019.

Birmingham Hippodrome have announced that tickets will go on sale this March & April for two blockbuster mega-musicals that arrive at the theatre in 2020. We Will Rock You (20 Apr - 2 May 2020) and MAMMA MIA! (12 -31 May 2020) will go on sale to Hippodrome Friends and Patron members on 11 Mar, Groups on 26 Mar and general on sale from 2 Apr.

LHK Productions proved today that there is no place like LIVERPOOL as the cast of their wicked Easter panto The Wizard of Oz were in the city to launch the show, including X Factor stars Sean Smith and Lola Saunders.

Tim Minchin has started a countdown to his upcoming tour on Twitter! For each day of the countdown, Minchin has shared a video of a past performance of his.

Producers today announce the full cast that will take audiences over the rainbow in LHK Productions' wizardly wicked Easter panto The Wizard of Oz, coming to The Epstein Theatre this April.

Full casting has been announced for the first major revival of Nigel Williams' My Brother's Keeper?, which opens at London's Playground Theatre at the end of February. Joining actor and former stand-up comedian Andy de la Tour as ailing patriarch Mr Stone, will be Katherine Pogson (Vera ITV, Brazil Terry Gilliam, Aunt Dan & Lemon New York Theatre Drama Desk nomination) as Mrs Stone, David Partridge (The Secret Theatre - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, All My Sons - Rose Theatre, Kingston, Travels With My Aunt - Cc Theatre, UK tour) and Josh Taylor (Poldark - BBC, The Crown - Netflix, Each His Own Wilderness -Orange Tree Theatre) as their warring sons Sam and Tony.

TEC Entertainment maakt vandaag bekend dat de Amerikaanse superster Anastacia in december 2019 haar musicaldebuut zal maken als Killer Queen in de Queen rockmusical WE WILL ROCK YOU. De spectaculair nieuwe versie van de internationaal succesvolle musical van Queen en Ben Elton wordt geheel in het Engels opgevoerd en geproduceerd in samenwerking met Peeparrow Entertainment. WE WILL ROCK YOU zal voor een gelimiteerd aantal voorstellingen uitsluitend te zien in Amsterdam en Den Haag. De premiere van WE WILL ROCK YOU is op vrijdag 6 december 2019 in AFAS Live in Amsterdam en de kaartverkoop voor WE WILL ROCK YOU start zaterdag 26 januari 2019 om 10.00 uur.

When it premiered at Greenwich Theatre in 1985, My Brother's Keeper received rave reviews, prompting The Guardian to describe it as 'a very good new play - witty as well as touching, objective as well as subjective' and The Sunday Times to label it as 'impeccable'. Now some 34 years later, Nigel Williams' incisive, funny and affecting play about broken sibling relationships receives its first major revival in a production starring Andy de la Tour.

Acclaimed author Ben Elton is going back to his comedic roots on a new stand-up tour, with a stop in Warrington.

Dopo il grande successo della stagione 2009/2010, We Will Rock You ritorna sulle scene italiane. È la storia emozionante di Galileo e di Scaramouche che, insieme ai ribelli Bohemians, in una societa futuribile, declinazione possibile di quella attuale, riportano l'amore, la musica dal vivo e la bellezza al centro della loro vita, con l'innocenza, la determinazione e l'audacia che solo i ragazzi nel loro processo di crescita sanno tirar fuori.

Many people will be giving thanks this week with the arrival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's' Love Never Dies' to Little Rock's Robinson Performance Hall. The extravagant sequel to the Phantom Of The Opera is a musical and visual holiday treat. The book was written by Ben Elton with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Glenn Slater. Though it is a sequel, it's not a sequel because you can enjoy this musical without ever having seen the original. However, the majority of the crowd were obviously Phans, Phantom of the Opera fans.

Following the triumphant 2010 and 2011 UK theatre tours and 2013 10th anniversary world arena tour, the smash hit Queen and Ben Elton musical, 'We Will Rock You' announces the show has been reimagined for 2019 and will embark on a brand new UK & Ireland tour, kicking off in September next year. Tickets are on sale now.*

Multi-talented US singer/songwriter and performer Richard Marx kicks off his Australian headline tour this Thursday in Perth followed by Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Melbourne - limited tickets remain for an evening with one of America's greats!  Frontier Touring and Arena Touring are delighted to announce that Marx will be joined by special guests Chris Murphy (Perth), Abbey Stone (Adelaide & Melbourne), and Matt Cornell (Sydney, Brisbane & Gold Coast).

The worldwide rights to the Shakespeare drama 'All Is True' starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, and Ian McKellen. has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics according to Variety. 

We Will Rock You, originally produced by Robert De Niro and written by Ben Elton, who, building on Queen's repertoire, collaborated with the remaining members of the group roger Taylor and Brian May, was one of the first highly successful jukebox musicals.  Opening in 2002 at the huge Dominion Theatrein London, where it run for 12 years, the show traveled to the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas.  It was also a big hit in Australia, Japan and Russia.  And in 2006, it was produced in Portugal, Chilie, Argentina, Switzerland and Germany,  followed by long runs in Madrid, Vienna, Singapour and Hong-Kong.  The German language version also met with huge success in both Cologne and Stuttgart, but the Canadian production in Toronto, an obvious try-out, never made it to Broadway.  The reason clearly lies in the book, beyond silly compared to those of the now numerous other juke box musicals that hit the great white way towards the beginning of the millennium.