Talawa Theatre Company and Park Theatre’s Olivier Award-nominated A Place for We is being made available on Digital Theatre for five years in the UK. This acclaimed production explores London’s communities over three very different generations. Following its successful, limited-run premiere on Windrush Day, will be available for more audiences across the country than ever before.
Talawa, the UK’s outstanding Black theatre company, is holding an evening of celebration in honour of its late co-founder Mona Hammond OBE (1931–2022). As one of the founders of Talawa Theatre Company in 1986, Hammond was instrumental in championing Black British theatre and her passion and vision was fundamental to the company’s work.
Talawa Firsts is 10 years old; providing a stage for some of the freshest new voices in Black British theatre, the festival includes exciting double bill stage readings, online Q+As with writers and theatres and in-person workshops for writers and theatre makers.
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Running With Lions. The production will star Ruby Barker, Wil Johnson, Nickcolia KingN’da, Suzette Llewellyn, and Velile Tshabalala.
First recorded in March 2021 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, (still available on BBC Sounds) Sian Carter’s new play Running With Lions is a raw and honest look at attitudes towards grief, faith and the stigma of mental health problems in a multi-generational British-Caribbean family.
Running With Lions is an intergenerational family drama about love, loss and hope: following three generations of women, it explores what it means to allow those we love to be themselves. The production stars Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker, alongside stars of stage and screen Wil Johnson, Nickcolia King-N’da, Suzette Llewellyn and Velile Tshabalala.
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. From Florian Zeller’s latest to a starry Shakespeare and thrilling art duel, here are some of this month’s most eye-catching openings. Don’t forget to check back for BroadwayWorld’s reviews, interviews and features!
Lyric Hammersmith Theatre will welcome and introduce the first ever 10 trainees of SPRINGBOARD, a free, ground-breaking training programme and major alternative performance pathway into employment for future theatre makers.
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company today announce full casting for the world premiere of Running with Lions starring Ruby Barker (Bridgerton).
The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre is proud to announce SPRINGBOARD, a ground-breaking, free two-year training programme that aims to find, shape, inspire, champion and sustain the next generation of performers from underrepresented backgrounds.
Archie Maddocks' new play treads some familiar ground, but updates it for the 21st century, as identities are forged and fractured in the contested spaces of gentrifying London.
The cast of the world premiere co-production of A Place for We presented by Park Theatre and Talawa is currently in rehearsals. Go inside the process!
Combining re-lensed classics and cutting-edge contemporary work, the Lyric 2022 season presents exceptional plays examining power, love and loyalty, looking deeper into the themes that permeate today's society.
Conceived by multi award- winning writer Archie Maddocks and directed by Talawa's Artistic Director, Michael Buffong, this bittersweet comedy-drama rejoices in the familiar comforts of London's diverse communities, whilst confronting how the rapid pace of change can erode deeply held traditions.
Talawa brings rave to theatre. Originally conceived and directed by Coral Messam, created with Gail Babb and co-devised by TYPT:18, the revival of Run It Back will run from 2nd - 18th September at Fairfield Halls.
Park Theatre has announced its reopening, starting today with a two-act drama commissioned by the venue that starts online & ends live in Park200, reopening the building on 4th August. The season will include a Bruntwood Prize- and Alfred Fagon Award-shortlisted co-production with Talawa, the premiere of a ghost story based on true events & more.
Radio 4, Talawa Theatre Company - the UK's leading Black British theatre company, and producers feral inc, will come together to showcase original audio dramas by three promising young writers.
Talawa Theatre Company, the UK's leading Black theatre company, and Birmingham Repertory Theatre have announced a major new collaboration which will see the two partners developing an artistically ambitious body of work which will play in Birmingham, London, and nationwide. Black Joy, a season of new work by Black creatives and artists, will take to The REP's three stages in 2021.
Black key workers, from NHS staff to teachers, have their voices heard in Talawa Theatre Company’s new online series. Exposing the hypocrisy, furious exhaustion, and glimmering hope for a better future, Tales from the Front Line uses verbatim interviews to explore the historic Covid-19 crisis and its seismic impact on those on the Front Line of the pandemic.
Talawa Theatre Company announces an enhanced senior leadership team as the company gears up plans for its 2021 season, and 35th anniversary year.
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