Amazon has added THE HALF HOUR series Fleabag, to its lineup of Amazon Original Series, which is scheduled premiere on Prime Video in the US this fall. Written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Crashing, Broadchurch), Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman (Waller-Bridge), as she hurls herself at modern living in London. The show is based on Waller-Bridge's play Fleabag, which won an Edinburgh FRINGE First Award, the Critics' Circle and Off-West End Awards for Most Promising Playwright and a Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Below, check out the new trailer for DAD'S ARMY MOVIE, starring Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Toby Jones, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Blake Harrison, Daniel Mays, and Bill Paterson.
The Donmar Warehouse has confirmed the full cast for The Vote. Joining the previously announced cast, Eddie Arnold, MyAnna Buring, Stavros Demetraki, Tommy French, Joanna Griffin, Gerard Horan, Chukwudi Iwuji, Stephen Kennedy, Beverley Longhurst, Andrew McDonald, Bhasker Patel, Penny Ryder and Michael Shaeffer complete an ensemble of actors who will represent the team of polling station volunteers, polling officers, and the diverse array of characters that are the voting public.
The Donmar Warehouse in partnership with Channel 4 presents THE VOTE, a play for theatre and television by James Graham. Live broadcast from the Donmar on May 7. Broadcast on More4 8.30pm - 10pm. Limited Donmar run in the build-up to live broadcast, 24 April - 6 May.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Dundee Rep Ensemble present Woman In Mind by Alan Ayckbourn, and directed by Marilyn Imrie. The production runs through Saturday 28 June, and officially opens tonight, Tuesday 17 June, 7pm. Check out a first look below!
Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Dundee Rep Ensemble present Woman In Mind by Alan Ayckbourn, and directed by Marilyn Imrie. The production opens tomorrow June 13 and runs through Saturday 28 June. Press Night: Tuesday 17 June, 7pm.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Dundee Rep Ensemble present Woman In Mind by Alan Ayckbourn, and directed by Marilyn Imrie. Performances run Friday 13 to Saturday 28 June. Press Night: Tuesday 17 June, 7pm.
The Daily Mail reports that Downton Abbey's Jim Carter and West End and screen star Imelda Staunton, who also happen to be husband and wife, will be curating a series of British film classics at the Tricycle Theatre in London, beginning January 19 with A PRIVATE FUNCTION.
Dr Who star Colin Baker, comedienne Shappi Korshandi and Star Wars' Anthony Daniels (C3PO) have been confirmed as just three of the plethora of special VIP guests who will join the 2013 UK tour of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY RADIO SHOW - LIVE!, as THE VOICE OF THE BOOK. They will join Simon Jones ('Arthur Dent'), other members of the original cast and comedian Mitch Benn ('Zaphod Beeblebrox') at various venues around the UK. Other Voices of the Book include Bill Paterson, Lord of the Rings' star Billy Boyd, Phill Jupitus, Clive Anderson, John Challis, Hugh Dennis, and John Lloyd, with others to be announced later in the summer (current schedule below). Best-selling author Neil Gaiman will open the tour as the Voice of the Book at the Hackney Empire.
Dr Who star Colin Baker, comedienne Shappi Korshandi and Star Wars' Anthony Daniels (C3PO) have been confirmed as just three of the plethora of special VIP guests who will join the 2013 UK tour of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY RADIO SHOW - LIVE!, as THE VOICE OF THE BOOK. They will join Simon Jones ('Arthur Dent'), other members of the original cast and comedian Mitch Benn ('Zaphod Beeblebrox') at various venues around the UK. Other Voices of the Book include Bill Paterson, Lord of the Rings' star Billy Boyd, Phill Jupitus, Clive Anderson, John Challis, Hugh Dennis, and John Lloyd, with others to be announced later in the summer.
Scissor Sisters, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Alan Ayckbourn, Daniel Barenboim, Rokia Traoré, Toni Morrison, Peter Sellars, Paco Peña, Simon Russell Beale, Hugh Masekela, Angelique Kidjo, Gong Linna, Sung Hwan Kim, Tom Hiddleston, Julie Walters, John Hurt, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tracey Emin, and Bridget Riley are among the stars of London 2012 Festival's fifth week.
The Traverse has announced its 2012 Festival programme. Over four weeks, the Traverse will host nineteen shows and events, with eight world premieres and two Scottish premieres, including a double bill of David Greig's THE LETTER OF LAST RESORT and David Harrower's GOOD WITH PEOPLE.
Emmy Award winner Sharon Gless ('Queer as Folk,' 'Burn Notice,' 'Nip/Tuck,' 'Cagney and Lacey') would continue to star in the production, which is based on the best-selling book and 'follows the real-life adventures of Jane Juska when she courageously decides, at 66 years old, to place a personal ad in The New York Review of Books, that reads, 'Before I turn 67, next March, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me...'
Patrick Barlow has written and will direct Star Child in aid of The Art Room Charity for one night only at the Almeida Theatre on Sunday 5 December 2010 at 7pm.
Patrick Barlow has written and will direct Star Child in aid of The Art Room Charity for one night only at the Almeida Theatre on Sunday 5 December 2010 at 7pm.
The cast includes Stephen Fry, Henry Goodman, Stephen Mangan, the Marquez Brothers, Natascha McElhone, Bill Paterson, Maggie Steed, Juliet Stevenson, Catherine Tate and Olivia Williams who are accompanied by musicians and children's choir.
The National Theatre has announced casting for its upcoming productions, starting with Moira Buffini's WELCOME TO THEBES which will run starting June 15. Nikki Amuka-Bird and David Harewood will star in the World Premiere of the play, which tells the Greek myth of the first democratically elected president of Thebes in a modernized way. The show will be directed by Richard Eyre and the cast will also feature Madeline Appiah, Rakie Ayola, Omar Brown, Jessie Burton, Jacqueline Defferary, Daniel Fine, Karlina Grace, Rene Gray, Tracy Ifeachor, Irma Inniss, Chuk Iwuji, Alexia Khadime, Ferdinand Kingsley, Aicha Kossoko, Simon Manyonda, Bruce Myers, Pamela Nomvete, Calre Perkins, Victor Power, Daniel Poyser, Joy Richardson, Vinette Robinson, Zara Tempest-Walters, and Michael Wildman.
