Griselda Yorke News

The multi-award winning stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro will extend in the West End for the final time. Learn more about the show here!

A CHRISTMAS CAROL opened on Thursday night at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan. See photos from the red carpet here!

After a successful run at the Criterion Theatre earlier this year, The Merchant of Venice 1936, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s work by Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman, with Oberman starring as a female version of the Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Larmour and Oberman have moved the setting to London in the 1930s, when fascism was on the rise with Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts, culminating in the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 1936.

The multi-award-winning stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro which recently wrapped up a successful return engagement the at Barbican Theatre, will transfer to London's West End in early 2025.

Matilda The Musical will begin an international tour in August at the Israeli Opera House, Tel Aviv. The tour will then transfer to Dubai before continuing with further dates in Asia. 

Last night (Wednesday 12 April), the Royal Shakespeare Company and Neal Street Productions, in association with Hera Pictures, welcomed special guests to the world stage premiere of Hamnet, which opened its sold-out run in the newly restored Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. See photos from inside opening night!

The winners have been unveiled for this year’s Olivier Awards with Mastercard, British theatre’s biggest night, which took place on Sunday 2 April at the Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Hannah Waddingham. Check out the photos of the winners here.

The record-breaking production of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro will return to the Barbican Theatre for a strictly limited run in Autumn 2023.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has released the new concept trailer for the upcoming global premiere of the stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro.

The world premiere of the stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro has broken the Barbican's box office record for ticket sales in one day. The record had previously been held by Sonia Friedman Production's 2015 production of Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.

A new behind-the-scenes video from the 10th birthday press day was released, featuring interviews with Tim Minchin (music and lyrics), Dennis Kelly (writer), Catherine Mallyon (Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company), Elliot Harper (Miss Trunchbull) and Landi Oshinowo (Mrs Phelps).

To celebrate the reopening of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda The Musical last night at the Cambridge Theatre, the show has released a photograph from the curtain call as well as a new video which gives audiences an exclusive look behind-the-scenes at the preparations in the lead up to reopening the multi-award winning musical in the West End.

The cast of Matilda is celebrating their upcoming opening night with a new video from the rehearsal room.

Matilda The Musical is now booking through to 13 February 2022. Learn more about the cast, the production, and how to book tickets here!

The Royal Shakespeare Company's West End production of Matilda The Musical has announced that it will return to the Cambridge Theatre from 16 September 2021. Seen by more than 10 million people across more than 90 cities worldwide, this autumn marks 10 years since the multi-award-winning show opened in the West End.

It's only a week to go until hundreds of top theatre organisations and industry experts descend on the Waldorf Hilton Hotel and surrounding venues for TheatreCraft 2018, the UK's biggest free off-stage careers event.

TheatreCraft, the UK's largest free careers event for young people interested in off-stage theatre jobs, has announced four inspirational, industry-leading 2018 Ambassadors as part of an ambitious line-up of talks and workshops led by theatre professionals from across the UK - with extra places added today due to huge demand.

The Theatrical Management Association (TMA) is reporting unprecedented demand for its fifth annual Touring Symposium, sponsored by W&P Longreach and Chubb Insurance. This event, which will take place at the Congress Centre in central London on March 1st, will focus on touring collaborations and international touring as well as funding within the industry.

The Theatrical Management Association (TMA) is reporting unprecedented demand for its fifth annual Touring Symposium, sponsored by W&P Longreach and Chubb Insurance. This event, which will take place at the Congress Centre in central London on March 1st, will focus on touring collaborations and international touring as well as funding within the industry.