Michelle Collins News

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, will present John Hill, Co-host of 'Andy Cohen: Live' and host of The Feels on SiriusXM, with special guests Andy Cohen and Michelle Collins as they bring Hill's weekly radio show to the stage for an East Coast debut.

Alex Britt, most recently seen alongside Eastenders' Michelle Collins in award-winning play My Dad's Gap Year, joins the cast of Robert Holtom's new, queer dramedy, Dumbledore Is So Gay. He will be joined by 'beguiling' - The Stage Max Percy and up-and-coming queer actress Charlotte Dowding. Directed by Tom Wright (My Dad's Gap Year, Undetectable), Dumbledore Is So Gay opens at the Network Theatre as part of VAULT Festival on 25th February.

Michelle Collins will play Meg Boles, Tristan Gemmill will play Goldberg and Paul Hickey will play McCann in a national UK tour of Harold Pinter's comedy of menace which will receive a dramatic new re-imagining from the team behind Waiting for Godot. Following a two-year celebration of the works of Harold Pinter in the West End, this is Pinter's most popular and widely performed play. Further casting will be announced in due course.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, presents its talented line-up for the month of January, highlighted by headliners Sinbad, from his stand-up special 'Make Me Wanna Holla,' January 2 - 4; Tony Woods, from Comedy Central's This Week at the Comedy Cellar, with his special guest James Altucher, January 10 and 11; Donnell Rawlings, 'Ashy Larry' from Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show, Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, January 16 - 19; Hari Kondabolu, from his Netflix special, 'Warn Your Relatives,' January 23 - 25; and Amanda Seales, author and host and author of 'Small Doses,' January 30 - February 5.

Your Kids, Our Kids (Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, Founding Directors) presents the 6th Annual VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS: Stars For Foster Kids, an event that brings together the very best performers from the American stage and screen to raise awareness about the plight of kids in foster care, particularly those aged 13 and older who are in danger of aging out of the foster care system alone.

SiriusXM announced today year-end and decade specialty programming across its music, talk and entertainment programming platforms as well as exclusive content only available on the SiriusXM app.

Park Theatre were delighted to welcome 200 guests for a Gala Fundraising Evening at Stoke Newington Town Hall on Thu 14 Nov. £150,000 was raised to support this exceptional theatre in Finsbury Park, helping deliver a range of projects including those engaging young people, those living with dementia and audiences with disabilities.

HOW LOVE IS SPELT is directed by Charlotte Peters (Associate Director War Horse UK Tour and An Inspector Calls West End) and designed by Georgia de Grey, who was a finalist for the Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 2013 and nominated for an Off-West End award for her set design for Alkaline at the Park Theatre.

So many of us flock to London in search of life, love and adventure and these are the motivations of Peta (Larner Wallace-Taylor), who is new in town and ready for whatever the big smoke has to throw at her, or is she? Set in 2004, How Love Is Spelt also premiered in the same year at the Bush Theatre with this marking its first major revival.

Get a peek inside the rehearsal room for How Love Is Spelt which plays at Southwark Playhouse from 4th – 28th September.

Michelle Collins will star as Marion in the first major revival of Chloë Moss's play HOW LOVE IS SPELT, which opens at Southwark Playhouse on Wednesday 4th September and runs until Saturday 28th September, with a national press night on Friday 6th September.

Jim Hirsch, one of Chicago's best known and most beloved advocates for the Chicago music scene, recognized for growing the careers of artists young and old, expanding audiences and creating diverse programming, will step down from the Chicago Sinfonietta after 15 years of service as Executive Director and CEO effective July 1, 2020. Hirsch's career, spanning four decades, also includes serving as Executive Director at the Old Town School of Folk Music for 18 years, and General Manager of the iconic Chicago Theatre for four years.

Production photos have been released for acclaimed theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble's production of Education, Education, Education, in co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall. The Scotsman Fringe First Award and The Stage Edinburgh Award winning, smash-hit production will play a strictly limited four week run in London's West End this summer.

h Club London (formerly The Hospital Club) have announced their celebratory event for this year's World Book Night taking place on Tuesday 23rd April at 7pm. The event will celebrate all that is wonderful and inspiring about reading, with the club hosting a range of authors and celebrities who will read passages from much-loved and upcoming books to attendees.

Following the Wyvern Theatre's previous announcement that Cbeebies' Chris Jarvis will play the lovable Muddles in their Pantomime this Christmas, it has now been confirmed that actress Michelle Collins will star alongside him as the evil Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty from Saturday 7 December. The first time the title has been performed at the Wyvern Theatre in ten years.

Former EastEnders and Coronation Street star Michelle Collins will join the cast of Tom Wright's knockabout comedy My Dad's Gap Year, alongside Adam Lannon, Alex Britt, Max Percy and previously announced Victoria Gigante. Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair, My Dad's Gap Year opens at Park Theatre on Wednesday 30 January 2019 for a strictly limited season.