Dick Straker News

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has released production photos ahead of the UK premiere of the Tony Award-winning play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. Check out the photos here!

stillpoint will present Baby Mash-up: What on Earth are You Doing?, written by Sally Hobson, directed by Nicholas Bone, with video projection by Dick Straker (Mesmer).

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre have released rehearsal images ahead of the UK premiere of the Tony Award-winning play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding which runs at the venue from Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April 2026. Check out the photos here!

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre had announced casting for the UK premiere of the Tony Award-winning play Jaja's African Hair Braiding which runs at the venue from Wednesday 18 March – Saturday 25 April 2026.

The Original 2023 UK Cast Recording is available now for the musical stage adaptation of THE BOOK THIEF, based on of best-selling novel by Markus Zusak. Listen to the album here!

La forza del destino is making its comeback to the Greek National Opera after 27 years of absence. Giuseppe Verdi’s iconic opera will debut in the Stavros Niarchos Hall.

Cheese and pineapple on a stick, anyone? The latest musical from Birmingham Rep takes us back to 1970s Britain, where trousers were flared, birthday parties required Iced Gems, and boys definitely didn't play girls in school musicals without everyone having something to say about it. BWW's critic weighs in.

An all new trailer has been released for Becoming Nancy at Birmingham Rep, directed and choroegraphed by Jerry Mitchell. Check out the video here and get a look at the production on stage!

Birmingham Rep has released all new photos from Becoming Nancy, directed and choroegraphed by Jerry Mitchell. The musical will host its official press night in Birmingham on Tuesday 15 October 2024. 

Watch Jerry Mitchell discuss Becoming Nancy ahead of its UK Premiere at Birmingham Rep in October 2024. Check out the video here!

All new rehearsal footage has been released of the cast of Becoming Nancy, ahead of its UK Premiere in October 2024. Check out the video here!

Birmingham Rep has released selected tracks from the exclusive cast recording of Becoming Nancy ahead of its UK Premiere in October 2024.  

With a charming libretto by Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald, and folk-style music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson, The Book Thief is filled with the warmth of a young girl's friendships and discoveries. But the dangers of war and Nazi rhetoric are a constant threat beneath the surface.

The full cast for the musical stage adaptation of best-selling novel The Book Thief has been announced, which includes Coventry local Daniel Krikler as 'Max Vandenburg'.

It has been 20 years since Martin McDonagh’s play The Pillowman was first staged at the National Theatre and following a delay caused by the pandemic, it’s now returned to London for the first time since 2003.

New production photos have been released from Martin McDonagh’s electrifying and savagely funny Olivier Award-winning The Pillowman. Check out all new photos from The Pillowman here!

The full cast has been announced for the stage adaptation of best-selling novel The Book Thief, with a book by Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald and music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson.

New rehearsals photos of Martin McDonagh’s electrifying and savagely funny Olivier Award-winning The Pillowman by Helen Murray have been released! Check out the photos ehre!

The stage adaptation of best-selling novel The Book Thief, with libretto by Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald and music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson, will be presented at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre and Leicester's Curve Theatre in autumn 2023.

Award-winning, international touring company Complicité (The Encounter, Can I Live?) has announced the full casting for the world premiere of a new work for the theatre Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, conceived and directed by their Artistic Director and Co-Founder Simon McBurney.