Jude Christian News

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced principal casting for this year's highly anticipated pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Jude Christian and Sonia Jalaly with Emmanuel Akwafo playing Dame Trott, Maddison Bulleyment playing Jill, Jodie Jacobs playing Fleshcreep, Leah St Luce playing Jack and Finlay McGuigan playing Simon.

The Winter Season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will open on 10 November with Henry V directed by Headlong Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan and co-produced by the Globe and Headlong with Leeds Playhouse and Royal & Derngate, Northampton.

Worlds collide in a thrilling new opera from Tom Coult and Alice Birch.

The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre today announces the lead creative team of its hit panto Jack and the Beanstalk, the return of Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas and a new programme of Little Lyric shows for autumn.

With the return of Salisbury International Arts Festival imminent, Artistic Director of Wiltshire Creative Gareth Machin today announces the line up the company's Autumn/Winter season.

BWW's Gary Naylor discovers more about the National Theatre's work in the education sector and how its online resources are being used more and more post-pandemic

An energetic retelling of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedy, Hamlet, is performing in the Dorfman Theatre until 6th April 2022 and as part of a tour to state schools in Liverpool, Wolverhampton, South Essex and Sunderland.

Royal & Derngate will produce the World Premiere of The Wellspring as part of its Made in Northampton 2021/22 season. A deeply autobiographical work from award-winning playwright Barney Norris (The Remains of the Day) and his father, internationally acclaimed pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris, The Wellspring examines that age-old story of a boy and his dad, and how they can relate to one another, in every sense of the word.

Hamlet's dad is dead. His uncle has taken over the kingdom and married Hamlet's mum. The whole world feels like it's turned upside down. A ghostly encounter reveals a dreadful deed has been done. Should Hamlet take revenge?

Royal & Derngate today announced four further productions to complete its 2021/22 Made in Northampton season. A new production of Joe Penhall's biting contemporary satire Blue/Orange is brought to the stage this autumn by the producing team behind Ralph Fiennes' hugely successful Four Quartets which is soon to transfer to the West End.

Lessons for Diving by Silas Parry, directed by Matt Steinberg will be workshopped 19-24 July, with showcase on 24 July and performed by Sebastián Capitán Viveros, Patrick McNamee and Dan Wolff. This will be followed by Kristian Phillips' Drift, directed by Matt Steinberg and performed by Tom Rhys Harries, workshopped 26 – 28 July with the showcase on 28 July; and finally, Boomerang by Jack Stanley will be developed 29 – 31 July, with the showcase on 31 July, directed by Jude Christian. Showcases will be at the Jerwood Space.

Today The Royal Opera House  has announced the Engender Festival line-up for 2021. From Monday 12 -17 July 2021, join in at Covent Garden and online for a week of talks and debates, operas in progress, concerts and workshops with an unmissable line-up of artists, composers, change-makers and brilliant creatives.   

It's been tricky during lockdown for drama students who must figure out a way to create in isolation at that precise time when they would normally be working communally. Undaunted, London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama has responded to the challenge by encouraging a series of self-devised digital dramas to keep the artistic juices flowing, as final year acting student Hope Kenna explains of her self-penned Little Finger below. 

Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents an exciting line up of drama performances this  spring, broadcast online for free. 

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, December 26-27, 2020.

Today (December 25) in live streaming: Broadway unites to save the West Bank Cafe, and so much more!

Today (December 24) in live streaming: The Callaways on Stars in the House, and so much more!

Today (December 23) in live streaming: Kerry Butler visits Backstage Live, All the Girls on Stars in the House, and so much more!

For one year only, pantomime comes to the National Theatre, and the full company of Dick Whittington have begun rehearsals this week. This is further to confirmation from the government that rehearsals can continue in a socially distanced environment during this period of national Coronavirus measures.  

For one year only, pantomime comes to the National Theatre. Jude Christian and Cariad Lloyd's hilarious and heartfelt version of Dick Whittington, first staged at Lyric Hammersmith in 2018 and freshly updated for 2020, will open in the socially distanced Olivier theatre on the 11 December.