Joanna Horton News

Talawa Theatre Company and Park Theatre’s Olivier Award-nominated A Place for We is being made available on Digital Theatre for five years in the UK.  This acclaimed production explores London’s communities over three very different generations.  Following its successful, limited-run premiere on Windrush Day, will be available for more audiences across the country than ever before. 

Talawa Theatre Company and Park Theatre’s Olivier Award-nominated A Place for We will have its digital premiere on Windrush Day, making this moving production available for audiences across the country and around the world.

Archie Maddocks' new play treads some familiar ground, but updates it for the 21st century, as identities are forged and fractured in the contested spaces of gentrifying London.

The cast of the world premiere co-production of A Place for We presented by Park Theatre and Talawa is currently in rehearsals. Go inside the process!

Conceived by multi award- winning writer Archie Maddocks and directed by Talawa's Artistic Director, Michael Buffong, this bittersweet comedy-drama rejoices in the familiar comforts of London's diverse communities, whilst confronting how the rapid pace of change can erode deeply held traditions.

Alice Birch's heartbreaking new play reaches across society to explore the impact of the criminal justice system on women and their families.

The Donmar Warehouse and Clean Break today announce full casting for the world premiere of [BLANK] a new play by Alice Birch. Directed by Maria Aberg, full casting includes Ayesha Antoine, Shona Babayemi, Sophia Brown, Jackie Clune, Grace Doherty, Lucy Edkins, Zaris-Angel Hator, Zainab Hasan, Joanna Horton, Thusitha Jayasundera, Petra Letang, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Kate O'Flynn, Ashna Rabheru, Jemima Rooper and Taya Tower.

The final Wonder Noir production to play in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is one of Shakespeare's tragedies: Othello. Running in tandem with Webster's The White Devil, it concludes the winter season in suitably dark fashion, as befits Emma Rice's vision. This tale on the consequences of letting rumour guide your actions is highly apt in our scaremongering world.

This summer the NYMT is presenting three major productions, including a new commission from the exciting young musical theatre writing partnership, Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary.

The world premiere of THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE, a new musical by Erica Glenn and Melissa Leilani Larson based on the classic novel Silas Marner by George Eliot, opens at the OBERON in Boston tonight, May 29, 2014.

The casting has been announced for the world premiere of THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE, a new musical by Erica Glenn and Melissa Leilani Larson based on the classic novel Silas Marner by George Eliot, which will be opening at the OBERON in Boston on May 29, 2014.

Actor Jeremy Irons will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this spring to lead the cast of a new play, THE GODS WEEP. The world premiere, by Dennis Kelly, plays at the Hampstead theatre from March 12 thru April 3.

Actor Jeremy Irons will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this spring to lead the cast of a new play, THE GODS WEEP. The world premiere, by Dennis Kelly, plays at the Hampstead theatre from March 12 thru April 3.

The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Poole this autumn with Roy Williams' acclaimed and blisteringly topical play, Days of Significance, which runs at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts from Tuesday November 10.

The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Poole this autumn with Roy Williams' acclaimed and blisteringly topical play, Days of Significance, which runs at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts from Tuesday November 10.

The Royal Shakespeare Company will tour Roy Williams' acclaimed and blisteringly topical play, Days of Significance, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oxford, Coventry, Poole, Cardiff and Salford in October and November 2009.