Jaz Woodcock-Stewart News

Featuring two of the most awkward sex scenes you'll ever see, this acerbic comedy is a merciless meditation on teenage fumblings.

Soho Theatre has announced the cast for THE VIRGINS by Miriam Battye (Strategic Love Play, Succession), and directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart (Paradise Now!, Grud), a new play following a group of teenage friends as they prepare for a big night out.

Die Glasmenagerie is coming to Theater Basel this month. Tennessee Williams' classic about the disillusionment of a family was first performed in German in Basel in 1946.

Sarah Power’s Grud is a show about space – in more ways than one. When Bo joins an after school club mission to send a model robot into the stars, it causes the space between her home life and the rest of the world to narrow until it disappears completely. Grud follows sixth form student Bo (Catherine Ashdown), who’s whip-smart but something of a loner.

Multiple Casualty Incident by Sami Ibrahim, a play about a group of individuals in a London training centre, preparing to help people in crisis on another side of the world opens at The Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick on 27 April.

The Yard Theatre will present Multiple Casualty Incident, written by Sami Ibrahim, and directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart.

The Yard Theatre follows its run of James Fritz's The Flea, which saw a record-breaking number of people attend a new production at the venue, by announcing two world premieres for 2024. Learn more about the upcoming shows here!

Spring 2024 will see four world premieres, one UK premiere, and one English language premiere by acclaimed writers including April De Angelis, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson alongside rising playwrights Sarah Power and Richard Molloy.

The Octagon Theatre have announced a stellar and varied new programme set to entertain audiences this autumn and in to 2024.

Rose Theatre has announced its Autumn 2023 season. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Chichester Festival Theatre’s Festival 2023 – the final season programmed by outgoing Artistic Director Daniel Evans – has been announced by Daniel and Executive Director Kathy Bourne.

The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich has announced the full cast and creative team for their upcoming new production of Dennis Kelly’s acclaimed play DNA, which will run at the venue from 2-9 February 2023.

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Paradise Now! a funny and raging new play about ambition, exploitation, and kinship in a world that wants to keep us strangers, opens at the Bush Theatre on 2 December (press night 8 December).  This new Bush Theatre commission by Margaret Perry (Collapsible) is an exciting collaboration with director Jaz Woodcock-Stewart (Civilisation) and features an all-female ensemble cast.

Shoreditch Town Hall announces premieres, partnerships, and hit shows this autumn in the first season curated by Head of Cultural Programme Ellie Browning and CEO Beth Byrne since their appointments in 2021.

The Shepherd's Bush venue continues its history of shining a light on unheard voices and reflecting issues in the community and today releases tickets for the second part of its 50th birthday season.

Tim Foley’s new play ELECTRIC ROSARY is now playing at the Royal Exchange. Bringing nuns and robots together on the Royal Exchange stage for the first time -  this brand-new piece of comedy writing was inspired by Foley’s youthful trip to a monastery with his dad, where the monks rode quad-bikes. 

Jaz Woodcock-Stewart directs Leah Brotherhead (Netflix’s Bridgerton/ITV’s Zomboat), Mae Munuo (the Unicorn’s The Bolds/ Complicite’s I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole), Sam Swann (Skellig/ITV’s Mr Selfridge) and Jacoba Williams (Globe’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ VAULT Festival When The Sea Swallows Us Whole) in Lulu Raczka’s radical re-imagining of Jonathan Swift’s surreal masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels for all the family this Easter.

The Associate Artists scheme will encourage these artists to take an active role in the growth and development of Brixton House, as well as furthering their own creative skills and thinking alongside this.