Ben Harrison News

September brings us the start of a new school year, the start of fall, and the start of the local theatre season. Little Theatre of Virginia Beach welcomes audiences to their 74th season with 'Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.'

Adapted and directed by Ben Harrison from the translation by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, with dramaturgy by Eszter Marsalko, Doppler is produced by Judith Doherty with a cast that includes Keith Fleming, known for his role of Lesley in Outlander, in the eponymous role with Grid Iron-regular Sean Hay and Chloe-Ann Tylor known to wider audiences from Citizen Theatre's Trainspotting portraying all the remaining characters.

Kevin Clifton thrilled audiences as Stacee Jaxx on the 2018/2019 'Rock of Ages' UK tour and he is reprising the role in 2021. Kevin is best known known for being a professional dancer on BBC1's 'Strictly Come Dancing'. In seven years on the show Kevin reached the final, a record five times, winning four glitter balls including the main show Glitterball trophy in 2018 with Stacey Dooley before leaving in 2019. Since then, Kevin has gone on to appear in many other theatre productions including, 'The Wedding Singer' and 'Singin' in the Rain'.

Edinburgh-based theatre company Grid Iron is pleased to confirm that its site-responsive outdoor adaptation of Erlend Loe's best-selling book Doppler will take place as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021. The play was originally scheduled to be presented at last year's Fringe with the plans then pivoted to a digital sharing in light of the Covid-19 related restrictions.

Following a highly successful sell-out tour in 2017, producer Joshua Andrews is delighted to announce that Kay Mellor's smash hit FAT FRIENDS THE MUSICAL will return to tour the UK and Ireland opening at Dartford Orchard Theatre on 14 January 2022.

ROCK OF AGES will return to tour the UK opening at The Alexandra, Birmingham on 19 August 2021.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Musical will officially re-open at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on 23 June 2021 before touring to Leeds Grand Theatre, Hull New Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Glasgow King's Theatre, and more!

Musical theatre star and television presenter Brenda Edwards (Chicago, We Will Rock You, The X Factor, Loose Women and Songs of Praise) will star as Motormouth Maybelle in the UK and Ireland tour of Hairspray. 

Edinburgh-based, award-winning Grid Iron Theatre Company has announced the release of its long-awaited film, Doppler: The Story So Far.

The cast for Storyhouse’s A Christmas Carol has been unveiled. The cast have commenced online rehearsals using Zoom, and will then move on to socially-distanced rehearsals on the Storyhouse thrust stage. A Christmas Carol opens on Saturday 7 November.

Selladoor helps kick start the next phase of The Shows Must Go On, a series of weekly shows streamed on You Tube, with their smash hit 30th anniversary production of Fame the Musical.

The award-winning smash-hit musical a?oeROCK OF AGESa?? will return to tour the UK opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre on 2 May 2021.

Experts in site specific and promenade theatre, Edinburgh-based Grid Iron Theatre Company hopes to bring a world premiere of Doppler to audiences next month. With very limited audience numbers of up to 20 people, this outdoor, socially distant show would have a limited run starting on or after 24 August with venue and exact dates still to be confirmed.

Scenes for Survival, the ongoing digital project created by the National Theatre of Scotland, continues to entertain audiences with new weekly releases across BBC and National Theatre of Scotland online platforms.

The National Theatre of Scotland has today revealed the details of the Scenes for Survival launch night and the first a?oescenesa?? to be released as part of its crisis responsive artistic project:

With over 275 performances and seen by over 40,000 people in 12 countries since opening at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Tailor of Inverness has taken its place as one of the great Scottish theatre productions. 

Be prepared for a Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' Ona?? full casting has been announced for the Tony Award winning, Broadway and West End hit musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET arriving at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from 30 June a?" 4 July 2020.

Full casting has been announced for the UK and Ireland tour of the worldwide smash-hit musical, Million Dollar Quartet, opening March 2020.

DLAP Entertainment has announced the full cast for 'THE WEDDING SINGER' starring Kevin Clifton which will play a strictly limited season at the newly opened Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre from Thursday 30 January until Sunday 1 March 2020.

Darren Day will star as Beauregard, alongside Tracie Bennett in the title role and Harriet Thorpe as Vera, in the critically acclaimed first professional UK revival of Jerry Herman's much loved musical MAME. The production opened at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester earlier this year to rave reviews, and will play Royal & Derngate, Northampton from 7 to 11 January 2020 and Salisbury Playhouse from 21 to 25 January 2020.