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.
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.
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.
Manchester arts venue HOME are spearheading a plan to take brand-new live experiences from the homes of artists into the homes of their audiences, defying the coronavirus outbreak.
The festive season is a fantastic time for a London theatre trip to get together with friends and family and celebrate with a show full of seasonal goodwill, or just great drama, music, laughs and spectacle. Looking for theatre inspiration? Here are some of the best seasonal shows!
The previously announced Open Court: Climate Emergency scheduled for March 2020 will be a catalyst for complete organisational transition towards net zero.
After making its debut Manchester appearance at HOME in 2018, the annual Incoming Festival - a partnership between A Younger Theatre, New Diorama Theatre, and HOME - returns to HOME between 24 - 30 June 2019.
HOME, Manchester has today announced its theatre programme for Autumn 2019 into Spring 2020 featuring brand-new HOME commissions, returning favourites, UK premieres and brand-new work.