BroadwayWorld caught up with writer, composer and comedian Vikki Stone to chat about adapting the Olivier Award-winning show Hey Duggee Live for the stage.
Fans of the smash hit CBeebies series HEY DUGGEE are delighting in the Olivier Award-winning 'joyous' all-new interactive stage show now touring Ireland and the UK.
From my experience, I think there’s a snobbery within the theatre community that these shows are not as important, or worthy as their adult aimed counterparts. But in my opinion, these shows are really important, because very often they are someone first theatre experience, and with that comes the opportunity to make new people fall in love with theatre.
Tron Theatre will welcome Family Tree by Mojisola Adebayo on its the world premiere tour. Directed by Matthew Xia, Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company, the play tells the extraordinary legacy of Henrietta Lacks, whose influence on modern-day medicine still reverberates today, yet her story has remained hidden until now.
Nottingham Playhouse has announced its autumn 2023 season, which includes the European premiere of an acclaimed new play, the return of a popular seasonal classic, more summer Shakespeare outdoors and, of course, the legendary Nottingham Playhouse pantomime.
A defiant and exuberant coming-of-age story follows a young girl from the playgrounds of Zimbabwe to an America that is not the utopia she imagined, in an adaptation of the novel by NoViolet Bulawayo.
Aminita Francis (Red Riding Hood, Liverpool EVERYMAN), Keziah Joseph (Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, NATIONAL THEATRE), Mofetoluwa Akande (A Christmas Carol, BRISTOL OLD VIC), Aimée Powell (Nothello, BELGRADE THEATRE) and Alistair Hall (Safe, NORWICH THEATRE ROYAL) are cast in the World Premiere and National Tour of Mojisola Adebayo’s award-winning play Family Tree
Casting has been announced for the World Premiere and National Tour of Mojisola Adebayo’s award-winning play Family Tree, presented by Actors Touring Company (ATC) and Belgrade Theatre Coventry in association with Brixton House Theatre.
See rehearsal photos of the all-new Hey Duggee The Live Theatre Show! Hey Duggee The Live Theatre Show will preview at MAST Mayflower Studios in Southampton from December 3, before a four-week run at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall (London) from December 14.
Stiles + Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments have announced the winner of the Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2022. Twelve finalist songs from new British musicals were presented last night at The Other Palace, in a concert hosted by Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee.
Stiles + Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments announced a selection of starry performers to join the line-up for this year's Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize, which will be celebrated in concert at The Other Palace on Monday 21st November at 7.30pm.
The full cast and the creative team for the all-new Hey Duggee The Live Theatre Show has been revealed as the show prepares for its world premiere next month.
Actors Touring Company (ATC), the UK's leading theatre producer of international plays, has announced a major Co-Production and National Tour with Belgrade Theatre Coventry, in association with Brixton House of a new stage production of Mojisola's Adebayo's play Family Tree.
The winner of the 2022 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award is Stephen Bailey, with Beth Shouler as the runner-up.
Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme (RTYDS) has announced the Annie Castledine Award in memory of the inspirational director.
When theatre director, DJ and composer Matthew Xia was approached to be on the UK’s jury for the Eurovision Song Contest this year, nobody was more surprised than him. We caught up with him to chat about his experience of judging the Eurovision Class of 2022, as well as his future projects.
Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces its 2022/23 season. The season includes Anthony Neilson's poignant and comical delve into the nature of mental illness, The Wonderful World of Dissocia, directed by Emma Baggott, which opens in September 2022.
A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up finally meets Mr Right and then does everything wrong. But is Mr Right quite what he seems? And how far will the comedian go to get a laugh? Feeling Afraid… is a bitingly honest comedy drama from the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer and Fringe First winning producers of Baby Reindeer, Square Go and Angry Alan.
The Royal Theatrical Support Trust (RTST) and Nottingham Playhouse have announced that the 2022 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Scheme is now open for entries.
ACTORS TOURING COMPANY, the UK’s leading producer of international plays strengthens its board and announces the appointment of four new trustees – Steven Kavuma, Margherita Laera, Allegra Nespoli and Nick Tyler.
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