Hannah Peel News

North Star, created and directed by Kwame Daniels, is coming to the Irish Arts Center in June 2026.  Performances will run Wed, Jun 3 - Sun, Jun 21, 2026. Learn more here!

Barnsley-born Tala Lee-Turton has announced the formation of Red Robin Productions ahead of the world premiere of Katya Bourvis' dance and visual art work PIA.

Catch the captivating performance of SIROCCO by Manchester Collective and South African cellist Abel Selaocoe at the 92nd Street Y.

Broadway Records will release National Theatre's Dancing at Lughnasa, with original music by award-winning musician Hannah Peel.

The National Theatre has announced three new productions for 2023 and the revival of the critically acclaimed The Father and the Assassin. A new production devised by The PappyShow will tour directly to 55 schools across England, and National Theatre Live brings The Crucible, Othello and GOOD to cinema goers around the world.

World Music Institute will present Manchester Collective and Abel Selaocoe with Sirocco on October 7th. Sirocco is a joyful celebration of musical styles from around the globe.

Sadler's Wells New Wave Associate Alexander Whitley comes to the Lilian Baylis Studio on Thursday 6 & Friday 7 October with his experimental new work Anti-Body, which uses motion capture technology to explore the biological form of the human body.

Cy Dune (Seth Olinsky of Akron/Family) teams up with UK Producer Mike Lindsay (Tunng and Lump) on remix of Post Punk House Smash “Disorientation (Cut Up).” Cy Dune’s Against Face is out now via Lightning Studios. Listen to “Disorientation (Cut Up) - Mike Lindsay Remix.”

Mari Samuelsen's latest Deutsche Grammophon album explores the phenomenon on which so much of life on earth depends. Lys – Norwegian for “Light” – presents music by 13 female composers, from Hildegard of Bingen to Hildur Guðnadóttir, combining specially commissioned works with new arrangements of existing pieces.

Schoolkids Records (Chapel Hill, NC; Dublin, IR) will release a deluxe edition of Irish artist Declan O’Rourke’s Paul Weller-produced album, Arrivals, on March 4, 2022. Originally released on Warner Music UK in Ireland and the United Kingdom in April 2021, the album is currently only available on import in the US and Australia.

Following the return of live classical music performances in September, today the Southbank Centre unveils its Spring/Summer programme (February - June 2022), featuring stand out projects from great artists, thought-provoking world premieres and inventive ways of looking at modern masterpieces.

Listen to a new track from Jacob-Olovson, who has previously worked with industry mammoths such as Frank Ocean, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, Diplo, Silk City and Camila Cabello.

The album is produced by Allison alongside Fiona Cruickshank, with Hannah Peel adding string arrangements to four songs, courtesy of a quintet of Scottish folk musicians.  

The album comes in just under twelve months following June 2020’s magnificent, UK chart-topping On Sunset.

Innovation and imagination are always needed in a crisis. Irish National Opera is set to prove the rule with an ambitious run of new work, world premieres and new productions.

Paul Weller has changed the release of his forthcoming new album, On Sunset, to July 3rd. As well as digitally, the album is released on CD, Deluxe CD (includes extra tracks), double gatefold vinyl, coloured vinyl and cassette on July 31st.

For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series 'Game of Thrones,' chronicling the creation of the show's most ambitious and complicated season.

In October 2018, Paul Weller performed two extraordinary concerts at London's prestigious Royal Festival Hall with an orchestra. The second of these shows was recorded and filmed and will be released as a live album and DVD package on March 8th.

It's the morning of Cassie's twenty-sixth birthday and she wakes to find herself in someone's front garden with no recollection of getting there. Did she drink too much, or is there a more sinister reason? As Cassie struggles to retrace the night, she's forced to confront the sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrific mistakes she's made over the past year. The brand new solo show from writer and performer Kirsty Osmon (winner of the Manchester Evening News Award for Best Newcomer) takes inspiration from real-life stories of women on nights out to question attitudes towards consent and our relationship with alcohol.

Longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize, Carla Kingham directs the world premiere of Phil Ormrod's searing new play about searching for a future in the dying heart of England. A lack of opportunity in rural England impacts strongly on young men and breeds a culture of toxic masculinity, which the production is looking to tackle with a comprehensive engagement programme with a variety of youth groups in Wandsworth and Reading.