Cal McCrystal News

Ambassador Theatre Group Productions has announced a UK and Ireland Tour of the pantomime MOTHER GOOSE, starring Ian McKellen as Mother Goose, John Bishop as Vic Goose and Mel Giedroyc as the Goose.

A UK and Ireland Tour has been announced for the pantomime MOTHER GOOSE. The first of its kind to tour the country and play all the way to Easter!

The late Nell Gifford, co-founder of Gifford’s Circus, wrote that 'a good circus is a sublimely existential thing, living acutely and only for the present moment.' And so it is with ¡Carpa! (Spanish for tent), the company’s joyful and life-affirming show currently sited in Chiswick House’s gardens. From magnificent clowning to acrobatics aloft a horse, knife-throwing to hair-hanging, this show has something for everyone.

Graeae, the UK's leading disabled led theatre company today announces the cast for its first ever chamber opera - the world premiere of composer Errollyn Wallen's The Paradis Files. 

Acclaimed writer and director Cal McCrystal, returns to the helm for the eleventh year following the success of last year's The Hooley, along with veteran Giffords  musical director James Keay and award winning set and costume designer takis, to faithfully continue circus co-founder and producer Nell Gifford's extraordinary vision. 

Not for the purists but beautiful to behold, this Pinafore updates the humour while respecting the music.

Giffords Circus returns to London this summer with its long-awaited production The Hooley, playing at Chiswick House and Gardens from Thursday 24th June – Sunday 11th July.

Wow! When two brothers from East Africa dream their childhood dreams they imagine an Abyssinian circus. The Tesfamarian brothers, Bichu and Bibi, magical, marvelous circus arrives at the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company (CTC) by way of Ethiopian culture, a country previously titled Abyssinia. In a traveling production performed worldwide, CTC Artistic Director Peter C. Ambrosius arranged for Circus Abyssinia: Ethopian Dreams to dazzle the Twin Cities. Created and produced by the two Tesamarian brothers, the circus also collaborates with Writer Cal MC Crystal and Choreographer Kate Smith to transfix the audience on the amazing 19 member cast.

Directors of the Abbey Theatre, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray, today announced two productions set to delight audiences this winter. The first, a major new Abbey Theatre production, from the Irish canon, of Drama at Inish; followed by Collapsing Horse's A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, a magical show for all the family.

My husband loathes plays and yet I still dragged him out to Jaeb Theatre Sunday night to experience Spymonkey's Hysteria. After interviewing Toby last week, I knew it was our warped sense of humor and we'd love it. Not five minutes into the play at Klaus's unexpected greeting to Laura, he is tapping my knee mouthing, 'you were right.'

If you mix Monty Python and the Marx Brothers with a dose of Hitchcock, you will not come close to the surreal madcap comedy that is about to take center stage in their Straz Center American debut. Spymonkey's Hysteria from September 19 - November 3 in Jaeb Theater showcases the talents of the internationally-renowned comedy and physical theatre company, Spymonkey.

The cast of Las Vegas' most-anticipated new production, ATOMIC SALOON SHOW by Spiegelworld, arrived by gondola this afternoon to reclaim the long-forgotten Atomic Saloon, now located inside the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Resort. Decades after her saloon was taken over by the government for atomic testing and later built around by one of The Strip's landmark resorts, Boozy has returned with her bawdy band of saloon staff to put on a show like the world's never seen. ATOMIC SALOON SHOW is currently in preview performances and will celebrate its official opening night on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Tickets for ATOMIC SALOON SHOW are on sale now at Spielgelworld.com.

The first-ever Las Vegas production to premiere in Scotland, ATOMIC SALOON SHOW by Spiegelworld is a sure-fire hit among Edinburgh Fringe festivalgoers and critics alike.

Atomic Saloon Show has just completed its first weekend of preview performances in Edinburgh to standing ovations from audiences and critics who cheered the show's drop-dead sexy acrobats and ridiculous comedy mayhem.

Madam Boozy Skunkton has finally completed casting for ATOMIC SALOON SHOW,which opens at The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Resort in September. The only problem now is the shocking discovery that her bar shelves are as dry as a dead donkey.

Who really holds the power in a world where the witches are now the hunters ... and the predators are now the prey?

Knee-high in Atomic Saloon renovations, Madam Boozy Skunkton is learning the hard way that if you open a saloon in the desert, you've got to expect all sorts of lowlife cactus-kickers wandering in looking for free booze, loose change, or even a free slice of pie. In putting together the cast for ATOMIC SALOON SHOW, which opens at The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Resort in September, Skunkton has just engaged one such blow-in, an Italian acrobat who would definitely be on the hard side of al dente in any spaghetti western.

Preparing to take over the Atomic Saloon inside the Grand Canal Shoppes in September for Spiegelworld's upcoming ATOMIC SALOON SHOW, Madam Boozy Skunkton realized she was going to need some "darn dazzlin' dancers" to entertain her patrons. Recently, her prayers were answered when a couple of lost Irish folk dancers staggered out of the desert and into her under-renovation saloon at The Venetian Resort. Today, Mr. and Mrs. O'Calamity accepted Skunkton's offer to choreograph and perform in her new Las Vegas production.

Spymonkey are a quartet of performers from Spain, Germany and England formed in 1997. They are celebrating 20 years of performing together by bringing their horror spoof, Cooped, to Worthing's Pavilion Theatre as part of the Brighton Festival.

To mark their 20th Anniversary year, Spymonkey are remounting their seminal production Cooped which made them an international comedy sensation from Just For Laughs Montreal to Sydney Opera House.