Daniel York News

A new play on the disintegration of civil society is well-timed, but too bitty in its structure to engage fully with its material or its audience

Daniel York Loh, Pandora Colin, Jules Chan and Pía Laborde-Noguez are announced today as the stellar multi-rolling ensemble cast in the premiere of acclaimed playwright Joel Tan’s No Particular Order.

Bristol Old Vic today announces a week-long extension of the world première of Dr Semmelweis, based on an original idea by Mark Rylance, and written by Stephen Brown with Rylance. The production opened on 26 January, and now runs until 19 February 2022. 

Tom Morris directs the previously announced Rylance (Ignaz Semmelweis), who is joined by Jackie Clune (Anna Müller), Sandy Grierson (Jakob Kolletschka), Felix Hayes (Ferdinand von Hebra), Enyi Okoronkwo (Franz Arneth), Clemmie Sveaas (Lisa Elstein), Thalissa Teixeira (Maria Semmelweis), Alan Williams (Johann Klein) and Daniel York Loh (Karl von Rokitanksy) with dancers Roseanna Anderson, Joshua Ben-Tovim, Megan May Cameron, Megumi Eda, Suzy Halstead and Millie Thomas.

Chinese Arts Now (CAN) is a UK platform for artists who tell British Chinese stories in contemporary and innovative ways. It commissions, produces and presents work across the artforms with the intention of increasing understanding and appreciation of British Chinese arts and culture.

From tutu making with Wimbledon College of Arts to carpentry, metalwork and props-buying with the National Theatre, hair and makeup with Disney’s The Lion King and fitting radio mics with the Association of Sound Designers - nearly 60 top theatre organisations from around the country are lifting the curtain for this year’s TheatreCraft.

Nine new, tour-ready, performance works are to be presented in a range of digital settings, alongside seven new projects, supported as part of a 'residency' programme, which enables artists to play with new performance ideas across a range of formats and genres.

Set in a digital recreation of the gallery spaces of Two Temple Place, an extraordinary neo-Gothic mansion built by William Waldorf Astor in the 1890s, Every dollar is a soldier/With money you’re a dragon is an immersive new production directed by An-Ting Chang and designed by Christine Urquhart.

At the heart of the CAN Festival 2021, CAN x TWO TEMPLE PLACE is an ambitious new Chinese Arts Now production, co-produced with Two Temple Place and conceived and led by CAN’s artistic director An-Ting Chang. 

Less than three months into her role as Artistic Director, Natalie Ibu announces her inaugural season at Northern Stage. THIS IS US promises to bring audiences stories, no matter what, through a bold programme of collaborations, commissions and curated work that celebrates the collective, connection and community.

From December over 60 writers will be involved in the creation of the Royal Court Theatre's upcoming project Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative, a weekly live newspaper running over six weeks which will see the theatre reopen since its closure in March. 

Paul Roseby OBE today announces National Youth Theatre's developments for the remainder of 2020 and initial plans for 2021.

Augmented Chinatown 2.0 is an app from the UK's leading platform for British Chinese artists, Chinese Arts Now, producers and creators of art telling Chinese stories in contemporary and innovative ways.

With everything that continues to go on around us, it is incredible that we are still managing to be creative and produce new work, such as The Rhythmics, which has just been released as a studio album.

The album for brand-new life affirming musical THE RHYTHMICS, is now available via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other digital platforms.

From Laurel & Hardy, Shakespeare and Roald Dahl to live cabaret, photography and a showcase of East Asian talent from across the UK, the full line-up for next month's Reading Fringe Digital Festival has been announced.

An Open Letter has been written to Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Culture, from black, Asian, and ethnically diverse theatre artistic directors and cultural leaders. The letter was written to emphasize the importance  of protecting representation in the sector.

A collective of leading actors, writers, directors and creatives of East and South East Asian heritage from the UK's performing arts industry will be joining forces online next month to present a new digital arts event titled WeRNotVirus.

Hampstead Theatre's Associate Company, The Mono Box, has announced the launch of The Monologue Library, audio recordings of renowned artists performing their favourite theatrical speeches.

As we previously reported, Christine Payne, general secretary of the actors' union Equity, said it was 'a mistake to criticise a member of the profession' following tweets sent out by its minority ethnic members committee calling on actors to denounce Laurence Fox. Today, the union issued a full apology to Fox - and in response, the committee has resigned in protest.