Jermyn Street Theatre announced a 30-actor cast for its 12-hour staging of Derek Walcott's OMEROS, directed by Kwame Owusu and Emily Aboud, featuring Paterson Joseph, Fisayo Akinade, and Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́ among others.
Jermyn Street Theatre has revealed the cast for its staging of Omeros by Derek Walcott, presented as an epic 12-hour, one-day theatrical event. Walcott's iconic poem will be performed by a company of 30 actors appearing in relay throughout the day.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 6, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.
Eccentric artist Fenella Harford (Sylvestra Le Touzel) inherits her family’s stately home and uncovers a cache of hidden diaries that may rewrite its history. She recruits ambitious academic Marva (Rakie Ayola) to authenticate them, who in turn brings in her overlooked mentor Abi (Cherrelle Skeete), a meticulous expert with sharper instincts than she lets on. As the three women probe deeper into the documents, the house begins to yield uncomfortable truths about its colonial past. Personal histories begin to intertwine with national ones, tensions rise between the trio, and what starts as scholarly inquiry spirals into a confrontation with buried trauma, ownership, and the ghosts of Britain’s slave-trading legacy.
You can now get a first look at production photos of Winsome Pinnock’s new play The Authenticator, marking the first time one of her plays has premiered at the National Theatre.
Rehearsal photos have been released for THE AUTHENTICATOR, a new play by award-winning playwright Winsome Pinnock (Leave Taking), marking the first time one of her plays has premiered at the National Theatre.
Rehearsals have begun for award-winning playwright Winsome Pinnock's (Leave Taking) new play The Authenticator, marking the first time one of her plays has premiered at the National Theatre.
The National Theatre has revealed further information about productions in 2026. The season will feature the New York transfer of Hamlet, and more! See the full season here.
The Hermitage Artist Retreat will present a London workshop of Orlando (FL), a new play by Olivier Award winner Chris Bush, directed by Andy Sandberg, in collaboration with the National Theatre.
Michael Abbensetts was the first Black writer to have a series commissioned by the BBC: the groundbreaking Empire Road, which had an almost entirely Black cast and crew. The Guyanese writer's work has been largely forgotten, so it seems appropriate that the National Theatre, with its important Black Plays Archive, has chosen to stage his play Alterations, not seen since 1978.
The National Theatre has released first look rehearsal photos for Bush Theatre Artistic Director Lynette Linton’s (Blues for an Alabama Sky, Shifters) revival of award-winning Guyana-born British writer Michael Abbensetts’ (Sweet Talk, Empire Road) era-defining comedy Alterations.
The National Theatre has announced full casting for Bush Theatre Artistic Director Lynette Linton's revival of award-winning Guyana-born British writer Michael Abbensetts' Alterations.
Last night, (Thursday 30 November), Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) celebrated the official opening night of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro, which returned to the Barbican centre early this month for a strictly limited run.
Written a decade ago, the piece is perhaps more significant now than it was in 2013. Beneatha’s Place is unquestionably and ideologically hefty, academically relevant, and socio-politically topical. It very much rides on the coattails of Raisin, covering the same points with an added first-hand representation of the political climate of pre-independent Nigeria and an academic look at the current societal dynamics. It’s an explicit lecture on privilege and prejudice.
Recently, BroadwayWorld spoke with Cherrelle Skeete, who is playing the role of Beneatha in Beneatha’s Place at the Young Vic. Inspired by the groundbreaking civil rights drama, A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha's Place challenges today's culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past.
Rehearsal photos have been released for the UK premiere of Beneatha’s Place, a razor-sharp satire written and directed by Young Vic Theatre Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah.
The Young Vic Theatre has announced full casting for Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah's (The Collaboration) razor-sharp satire and UK premiere, Beneatha's Place, about the power of knowing your history and the cost of letting it go. The production runs in the Main House from 27 June to 5 August with opening night for press on 5 July.
The Olivier Award-nominated production of My Son's a Queer, (But what can you do?) has announced RuPaul's Drag Race UK superstar Victoria Scone and award-winning writer Jamie Windust as their two guests for the grand finale of their Queer Hero Thursdays on 30 March. This series of events sees star of the show Rob Madge welcome icons from the LGBTQ+ community for an audience Q&A about their experiences growing up and finding positivity in the world around them.
Following last week's Olivier Award nomination for Best Entertainment or Comedy, the critically acclaimed production of My Son's a Queer, (But what can you do?) announces their upcoming series of events, Queer Hero Thursdays.
The incredible audio-theatre initiative Hear Myself Think has announced a second series, which will be released on all major podcast platforms on Saturday 5th November. Inviting listeners to plug in their headphones and undertake a short, simple everyday activity in the company of one of five different characters, Hear Myself Think launched during the pandemic to offer bitesize opportunities for active engagement with your own wellbeing.
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