Giles Havergal News

Tickets will be on sale from 9am on Wednesday 20th March for the Menier Chocolate Factory's forthcoming production of Travels with My Aunt from 2nd May to 29th June, for a strictly limited 8 week season. Adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal and directed by Christopher Luscombe the cast features Jonathan Hyde and David Bamber.

The Almeida Theatre Board today (14 March 2013) announces Axel Burrough, John Cassy, Marc Mathieu and Lucy Perman as new Trustees of the theatre. Christopher Rodrigues CBE, Chair, Almeida Theatre Board, said: "I am delighted to welcome our new trustees to the Almeida. All four will bring a wealth of experience in their individual fields and we are thrilled that they have generously volunteered their time to give the Almeida their support and guidance going forward."

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced Travels with My Aunt from 2nd May to 29th June, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal and directed by Christopher Luscombe.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Conservatory Director Melissa Smith announced today that the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program will present two classic works this February: Henrik Ibsen's classic drama A Dolls' House and Molière's hilarious farce Tartuffe. All performances take place at A.C.T.'s Hastings Studio Theater (77 Geary Street, San Francisco).Tickets for each performance are $20 and are available by calling the A.C.T. Box Office at 415.749.2228 or online at www.act-sf.org. Two-show packages are available for $20 (a savings of 50%) and are available at https://tickets.act-sf.org/online/doubleup.

Totem Pole playhouse is set to present its first production of Travels With My Aunt, which will run from tonight, June 19 to July 1st, 2012. Totem Pole will stage the theatrical, globe-spanning adventure and has already moved to put the pieces into place for a memorable evening of theater.

Totem Pole playhouse is set to present its first production of Travels With My Aunt, which will run from June 19 to July 1st, 2012. Totem Pole will stage the theatrical, globe-spanning adventure and has already moved to put the pieces into place for a memorable evening of theater.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2011-12 season with ENDGAME and PLAY-two landmark one-act plays by modernist master Samuel Beckett, directed by A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced two special events associated with their upcoming production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Play, opening May 9 at the American Conservatory Theater.

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival will roll into its repertory season when William Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor opens on April 13 followed by Henry VIII on April 19. In addition to the openings of these two Shakespearean works, two comedies The Thirty Nine Steps and Travels My Aunt will reopen for the second half of their runs on April 22. ASF's Extreme Weekends, in which theatre lovers can see all four repertory shows Friday through Sunday are available April 20-22 and 27-29 as well as May 4-6, 11-13 and 18-20.

Two "winter-blues" busting comedies, the Broadway smash The 39 Steps and Travels With My Aunt will be running in tandem at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival beginning on January 27. The 39 Steps will be performed at ASF's Festival stage from January 27 through February 7 and Travels With My Aunt will run on ASF's Octagon stage from February 3-7. Both shows will return later in the repertory season.

For those who like their theatre, like their literature, deliciously different, look no further than Travels with My Aunt, adapted by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel, now onstage at the Colony Theatre. Packed with internationally political intrigue and perilous crime-laden adventures, ...Aunt follows Aunt Augusta (Mark Capri) as she seizes an opportunity to rescue her former bank teller, now bored florist nephew Henry (Thomas James O'Leary) from his humdrum life after the death of his mother. If it sounds akin to Auntie Mame, you're not far off track. Mame marches to the tune of her own drummer, and so does Augusta. It takes Henry longer to loosen up than Patrick in Mame, but eventually he does lose his tourist status through the journeys to Paris, Rome, Istanbul as well as to Paraguay and other places in South America. All the characters are played by four actors: the aforementioned Capri and O'Leary, as well as Larry Cedar and Sybyl Walker. A major treat in the proceedings is playfulness through transgender and also across racial lines. Meaning in simple terms that the men play women as well as men, the female actress essays male characters as well as female; a white man plays a black man and a black woman a mesh of white people. Sound interesting? It is. Yet somehow, in spite of all this fun, I found myself enjoying the play less than I thought I should. Why?

The Colony Theatre is thrilled to present the fourth production of its 37th season of shows - the Los Angeles Premiere of TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT, written by Graham Greene, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal, and directed by David Dean Bottrell.

The Colony Theatre is thrilled to present the fourth production of its 37th season of shows - the Los Angeles Premiere of TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT, written by Graham Greene, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal, and directed by David Dean Bottrell.

The Colony Theatre is thrilled to present the fourth production of its 37th season of shows - the Los Angeles Premiere of TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT, written by Graham Greene, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal, and directed by David Dean Bottrell.

Anglophiles and Broadway babies alike rejoice at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's 2011-12 Season.

Anglophiles and Broadway babies alike rejoice at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's 2011-12 Season.