Julian Bird News

Julian Bird and Nica Burns have announced the launch of their new production company, Green Room Ents Ltd, run by Chief Executive Julian Bird and chaired by Nica Burns. 

Today (Tuesday 5 April), this year's five Special Recognition Olivier Award recipients were presented with their awards by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, during an afternoon event at Clarence House celebrating their outstanding contributions to the theatre industry.

Five individuals have been honoured with Special Recognition Awards ahead of the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard, recognising their outstanding contributions to the theatre industry.

Nominations have been announced for the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard, British theatre’s most prestigious honours, which take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall. View the full list.

For the first time ever, London's world-famous West End is offering £10, £20, £30, £40 and £50 tickets (with no booking fees) to over 40 top shows from now until 31 March, as Official London Theatre extend their New Year promotion and relaunch it as Show Time - adding a wide array of offers from restaurants, shops and hotels.

Public tickets for the Olivier Awards 2022, which will take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall, go on sale exclusively to Mastercard cardholders on Thursday 3 February.

Great minds meet at symposiums, state dinners, in literary circles, in the theatre. They get together and discuss their theories, arguing and tearing each other apart in dramatic fashion. What happens when two of the most famous men of their time clash in a small Hampstead office at the doors of the Second World War?

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement today (Wednesday 19 January) that England is returning to Plan A Covid measures, SOLT and UK Theatre Chief Executive Julian Bird released a statement.

London’s world-famous West End has come together to make it easier than ever to see a show at the start of 2022. Official London Theatre’s biggest ever New Year Sale offers tickets to nearly 60 shows at £10, £20, £30, £40 and £50 (no booking fees) for performances throughout January and February.

Julian Bird has announced that he is to leave his role as Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) and UK Theatre. During his tenure he has driven positive change across the sector and throughout the pandemic has been a tireless advocate for the theatre industry. Julian Bird will leave in May 2022.

WhatsOnStage has just reported that the West End will dim its lights in honor of late theatre legend Stephen Sondheim. Sadly, the composer and lyricist passed away at 91 on November 26th. The tradition to dim the lights of theaters to pay respect to the greatest contributors of theatre continues with Sondheim's passing. The lights of London's West End theaters will be dimmed on November 29th at 7pm for two minutes.

Through an imagined conversation between a psychiatrist on the brink and the academic who would go on to write books steeped in theology, the play gives a heightened tension to the age old questions of faith, love, sex and existence itself.

Julian Bird, Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre, has released a statement following today’s Budget 2021 announcement.

TKTS, London's leading theatre ticket booth, is now officially open for in-person sales from a new building in the heart of Leicester Square Gardens.

Thousands of theatre fans flocked to Trafalgar Square in central London today, which has been transformed into an open air theatre like no other for West End LIVE 2021 – Europe’s biggest free theatre festival – marking the emotional return of London’s world-leading theatreland after 18 months of shutdown.

West End LIVE is finally back on stage, heralding the triumphant return of London’s world-leading theatre industry. West End LIVE will see Trafalgar Square transformed into an open-air theatre like no other, treating thousands of theatre fans to free performances from the West End’s top shows over the weekend of 18 and 19 September. 

Following the announcement that theatres in Northern Ireland can now open to audiences for indoor performances, UK Theatre and SOLT Chief Executive Julian Bird issued a statement.

Following today’s official Government confirmation that remaining Covid restrictions will be lifted from 19 July in England, UK theatres are looking forward to welcoming back audiences. President of UK Theatre, said: ‘This will hopefully be a turning point on the road to recovery and longer-term financial viability for our world-leading sector,'

The Government has announced that it is extending restrictions around COVID-19 contacts in England until 16 August.

Earlier today, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that it will be a bit longer than expected before West End theatres are able to fully re-open. While lockdown rules were previously set to lift on June 21, the next phase will now be delayed by four weeks to July 19, due to the surge of Delta variant cases in the UK.