Dafydd Rogers News

One of the most popular and critically acclaimed British dramas is heading to the Belgrade Theatre this February as The Full Monty rounds off its last ever UK tour in 2019.

On the first day of rehearsals for Emma Rice's inaugural production from her Bristol-based company Wise Children, the company announced tour dates to Bristol Old Vic, running from 23 Jan - 9 Feb 2019, with tickets going on sale today. Tickets will go on sale to priority bookers at noon today, with general on sale from 10am, Today 29 Aug.

After breaking box office records in 2018, David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers will produce the 2019 UK tour of the Old Vic production of Yasmina Reza's Olivier, Tony and Moliere award-winning comedy ART, translated by Christopher Hampton. The production will star Nigel Havers, Denis Lawson and Stephen Tompkinson as Serge, Marc and Ivan respectively. The tour will open at Chichester Festival Theatre on 24 January 2019.

BroadwayWorld UK spoke to some of the cast members of The Band, while the hit musical was at the New Wimbledon Theatre. The show has been on the road for over a year and will be taking up a limited run in the West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 1st December until 12th January.

A special Gala Charity event for Tim Firth's award-winning new musical THE BAND, with the music of Take That, is being hosted by the musical's co-producers, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams, with David Furnish, Chairman of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The Gala will take place at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on Tuesday 4 December 2018.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, the producers of Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's musical comedy, CALENDAR GIRLS The Musical, will bring the award-winning production to Glasgow for a two-week run next year.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers's presentation of the Sheffield Theatres production of Simon Beaufoy's THE FULL MONTY, which won the UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production, is currently touring the UK & Ireland for the final ever time and will be on the Wyvern Theatre stage from Mon 29 October - Sat 3 November.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers's presentation of the Sheffield Theatres production of Simon Beaufoy's The Full Monty is currently touring the UK & Ireland for the final time and comes to Darlington Hippodrome for a week-long run from Monday 12 November.

The award-winning stage production of the smash hit film THE FULL MONTY is on its way to Storyhouse in Chester in less than two weeks boasting an all-star cast.

On the first day of rehearsals for Emma Rice's inaugural production from her Bristol-based company Wise Children, the company announced tour dates to Bristol Old Vic, running from 23 Jan - 9 Feb 2019, with tickets going on sale today. Tickets will go on sale to priority bookers at noon today, with general on sale from 10am, Wednesday 29 Aug.

In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance - twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river - are celebrating their 70th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he's still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all...

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams are delighted to announce that Tim Firth's new musical, THE BAND, with the music of Take That, will play Edinburgh Playhouse next week from Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 July.

The Old Vic is presenting two world premieres, a UK premiere and the return of a much loved, joyful Christmas hit production for Part 1 of Matthew Warchus' fourth season.

Kneehigh's production of Noel Coward's BRIEF ENCOUNTER, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, has been extended due to overwhelming public demand and will now run at the Empire Cinema Haymarket in London's West End until 9 September 2018, ahead of a World tour in 2019. Tickets are on sale today, Thursday 10 May.

Birmingham Hippodrome welcomes Tim Firth's new musical, THE BAND, which will visit the theatre from 1 - 12 May 2018 a part of a major new UK Tour.

Take That, co-producers of the new musical THE BAND, joined the show's cast to perform on the roof of the Theatre Royal Haymarket at 1pm today, Monday 19 March, to launch the six-week West End run of the musical at the theatre this Christmas, from 1 December 2018 to 12 January 2019.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams are delighted to announce that, due to overwhelming public demand,  Tim Firth's new musical, THE BAND, with the music of Take That, will now play extra dates on the UK & Ireland Tour. Following it's opening at Manchester Opera House on 8 September 2017 to critical and public acclaim, it arrives at The Bristol Hippodrome this April.

David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers's presentation of the Sheffield Theatres production of Simon Beaufoy's THE FULL MONTY - which won the UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production - will tour the UK and Ireland for the final ever time in 2018/19.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers's presentation of the Sheffield Theatres production of Simon Beaufoy's THE FULL MONTY, which won the UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production, will tour the UK & Ireland for the final ever time in 2018/19, opening at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham on 3 September 2018. Further tour dates include Chester, Dublin, Killarney, York, Bromley, Swindon, Birmingham, Darlington, Stoke, Norwich and Sheffield with more dates to be added.

Kneehigh's production of Noel Coward's BRIEF ENCOUNTER, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, will be produced live on stage at the Empire Cinema Haymarket in London's West End by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Jenny & Steve Wiener and The Old Vic. Following previews from 2 March 2018, the production will open on 11 March and play a limited season until 2 September 2018. Tickets are on sale from today.