Bryony Shanahan News

The Finborough Theatre - under multi-award-winning Artistic Director Neil McPherson - celebrates its 35th year with a Winter Season of even more vibrant new plays and unique rediscoveries.

The Skriker is commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Maxine Peake will play the eponymous role and Juma Sharkah and Laura Elsworthy will play Lily and Josie respectively in The Skriker at Manchester International Festival. The production began performances 4 July at Royal Exchange Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Sheffield Blitz, and the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Operation Crucible, the debut play by Kieran Knowles, opens for a four week limited season at the Finborough Theatre from Tuesday 28 July - Saturday 22 August.

The Finborough Theatre - under multi-award-winning Artistic Director Neil McPherson - celebrates its 35th year with a Summer Season of even more vibrant new plays and unique rediscoveries.

Holly Augustine gets right inside the character of Chloe and gives a performance that could be used as a master class for aspiring actors.

Bitch Boxer (UK) is Holden Street Theatre's Edinburgh Award winner for 2014 and a front runner for the Adelaide Fringe, playing in The Studio, 34 Holden Street Hindmarsh from today 11 February to 16 March 6.00 pm - with some performances at other times.

Bitch Boxer (UK) is Holden Street Theatre's Edinburgh Award winner for 2014 and a front runner for the Adelaide Fringe, playing in The Studio, 34 Holden Street Hindmarsh from 11 February to 16 March 6.00 pm - with some performances at other times.

Our Winter Season includes all the strands of our multi-award-winning artistic policy with a rediscovery (R. C. Sherriff's The White Carnation, unseen in over 60 years); musical theatre (with the world premiere of a new British musical, Lost Boy, and the professional world premiere of Ivor Novello's very last musical, Valley of Song); and new writing with the debut of three new playwrights (Operation Crucible, Carthage, The Domino Heart). We also introduce a new series - TheGreatWar100 - which will present works commemorating the centenary of the First World War over the next five years.

Folie a deux Productions and From Ground Up Theatre Company in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre present the world premiere of OPERATION CRUCIBLE by Kieran Knowles. Directed by Bryony Shanahan, the cast includes Salvatore D'Aquilla, Kieran Knowles, Joshua Mayes-Cooper, and Paul Tinto. The show runs Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 December 2013

Our Winter Season includes all the strands of our multi-award-winning artistic policy with a rediscovery (R. C. Sherriff's The White Carnation, unseen in over 60 years); musical theatre (with the world premiere of a new British musical, Lost Boy, and the professional world premiere of Ivor Novello's very last musical, Valley of Song); and new writing with the debut of three new playwrights (Operation Crucible, Carthage, The Domino Heart). We also introduce a new series - TheGreatWar100 - which will present works commemorating the centenary of the First World War over the next five years.