Lucy Hind News

A unique one-off outdoor performance of The Last Ship, that will include its creator Sting who will be performing live alongside the cast, is to be held in Newcastle later this month, alongside the very river that helped inspire and shape the show.

The new cast of CALENDAR GIRLS The Musical met for the first time with the original Calendar Girls themselves in the beautiful village of Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales and the original Calendar Girls couldn't be happier with this new cast. 

Sting attended the press night of his musical The Last Ship at the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham tonight - and posed with the cast for a photo on stage after the show.

The UK & Ireland tour of Sting's The Last Ship has launched in Liverpool this week - following a sell-out, critically-acclaimed 4-week run at Newcastle's Northern Stage.

First Look images from the rehearsal rooms of Sting's The Last Ship have been released. Rehearsals for the production, which has a TONY-nominated original score and lyrics composed by Sting, are underway. It will play a 4-week season in Newcastle before embarking on a major UK & Ireland Tour.

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, the producers of Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's musical comedy, CALENDAR GIRLS The Musical, based on the true story, the film and the award-winning play by Tim Firth, Calendar Girls, are delighted to announce that the production will return home to Yorkshire and open at the Leeds Grand Theatre on 16 August 2018 at the start of a new UK & Ireland Tour. The first 30 weeks are listed below, with further dates to be added.

Casting is today announced for Girl from the North Country which previews from Monday 10 July 2017 with a press night on Wednesday 26 July 2017.

National Theatre has just announced its newest season line-up. Check out what's coming below!

World premieres, new writers and ground-breaking adaptations have been announced for 2017 at the National Theatre.

London's critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe, under the artistic direction of Emma Rice, will light up US stages and screens this summer and fall, with a three-city limited engagement of The Merchant of Venice, which will play limited engagements in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago in July and August. Two-time Olivier- and Tony Award-winner Jonathan Pryce stars as Shylock. The production is directed by Jonathan Munby.

London's critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe, under the artistic direction of Emma Rice, will light up US stages and screens this summer and fall, with a three-city limited engagement of The Merchant of Venice, the return of the popular Globe on Screen cinema series and a special two-night concert collaboration with The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the historic Hollywood Bowl.

The critically acclaimed production of Benjamin Zephaniah's powerful novel, Refugee Boy, comes to Birmingham Repertory Theatre from today, 8 to 12 April.

The critically acclaimed production of Benjamin Zephaniah's powerful novel, Refugee Boy, comes to Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 8 to 12 April.

The world premiere of Love Your Soldiers - a moving and thought-provoking new drama by Robin Hooper - takes to the Studio Theatre stage from Thursday 31 October - Sat 23 November, directed by Sheffield Theatres' Associate Director Richard Wilson.

Hot on the heels of its critically-acclaimed world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sheffield Theatres and HighTide Festival Theatres' production of Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards comes to the Studio Theatre from Wednesday 11 - Saturday 28 September.

Sheffield Theatres today unveils its full autumn season of produced and touring work taking place from September 2013 - January 2014, alongside the news that Phil Davis (Whitechapel and Quadrophenia) will star as Fagin in the company's Christmas musical, Oliver! and Daniel Lapaine (Muriel's Wedding) will lead the cast of The Winter's Tale as Leontes.

With just eight days to go until the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, London 2012 Festival presents a ground-breaking series of commissions by disabled and deaf artists in the Unlimited programme. Originally initiated as part of the Cultural Olympiad, the programme represents the largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists and celebrates their work on an unprecedented scale across the UK.

With just eight days to go until the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, London 2012 Festival presents a ground-breaking series of commissions by disabled and deaf artists in the Unlimited programme. Originally initiated as part of the Cultural Olympiad, the programme represents the largest ever series of commissions to disabled and deaf artists and celebrates their work on an unprecedented scale across the UK.

Slung Low, the Yorkshire based company led by seven artists collected from diverse creative backgrounds including movement, video, sound and direction, will present Last Seen. Last Seen takes audiences on a multi-media journey from the stage of the Almeida onto the streets of Islington. Performances are 8, 9, 10 and 11 July at 7pm and 9pm and 12 July at 4pm and 6pm. Tickets are £15.

For the Almeida Theatre's 2009 Summer Festival (8 July - 1 August 2009), four cutting edge companies have been invited to collaborate with the Almeida at its home base in Islington and the surrounding area.