Nigel Havers News

Starring NIGEL HAVERS, CHRISTINE KAVANAGH and SIÂN PHILLIPS who reprise their West End performances. Further star casting is to be announced.

Her mother, Linda Lusardi, has performed on the Wyvern Theatre stage; Her father, Sam Kane, has performed on the Wyvern Theatre stage; and now it is the turn of Lucy Kane to step on to the stage of Swindon's number one entertainment venue in this year's magical pantomime adventure, Dick Whittington.

U.K. actor Warren Clarke, perhaps best known for his role in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, has passed away at the age of 67.

The UK's most successful family run pantomime production company, Evolution Productions has announced its line up of bespoke high quality Christmas shows for 2014. The company, which is run by husband and wife team, former TV presenter Paul Hendy and Oxford graduate and former cinema commercial production manager Emily Wood, will be presenting a lucky seven of the best pantomimes across the country from then end of November 2014 to mid-January 2015.

The Bunbury Company of Players comprising Rosalind Ayres (Outnumbered, New Tricks, God and Monsters), Niall Buggy (Translations, Dead Funny, Uncle Vanya), Nigel Havers (Downton Abbey, The Life Of Rock with Brian Pern, Coronation Street), Martin Jarvis (Endeavour, Law & Order: UK, Titanic), Christine Kavanagh (Basket Case, Vera, Manchild), Cherie Lunghi (Passion Play, Secret Diary of a Call girl, The Manageress) and Sia?n Phillips (Marlene, The Age of Innocence, Cabaret) star in Oscar Wilde's much loved and brilliantly witty masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.

ON TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2014 the winner of the BP Portrait Award 2014 was announced at the National Portrait Gallery. The prestigious first prize - in the 25th anniversary year of the competition - was won by 40-year-old German artist Thomas Ganter, for Man with a Plaid Blanket, a striking portrait of a homeless car-windscreen cleaner.

In preparation for his performance in a new production of The Importance of Being Earnest, Nigel Havers gave a complete rendition of the script reading from a specially printed first edition. An audience assembled in room 118 of The Cadogan Hotel, where Oscar Wilde was infamously arrested on the grounds of gross indecency in 1895, to hear Havers' touching and emotional performance. Mary McCartney was present to photograph the event and following the reading the audience retired to the dining room at The Cadogan Hotel for cucumber sandwiches.

June is the time when the theatre fan's eyes typically turn to Broadway, what with the glamour and excitement of the Tony Awards. So whatever's going on in the UK tends to fly under the radar a little.

Her mother, Linda Lusardi, has performed on the Wyvern Theatre stage; Her father, Sam Kane, has performed on the Wyvern Theatre stage; and now it is the turn of Lucy Kane to step on to the stage of Swindon's number one entertainment venue in this year's magical pantomime adventure, Dick Whittington.

The Bunbury Company of Players comprising Rosalind Ayres (Outnumbered, New Tricks, God and Monsters), Niall Buggy (Translations, Dead Funny, Uncle Vanya), Nigel Havers (Downton Abbey, The Life Of Rock with Brian Pern, Coronation Street), Martin Jarvis (Endeavour, Law & Order: UK, Titanic), Christine Kavanagh (Basket Case, Vera, Manchild), Cherie Lunghi (Passion Play, Secret Diary of a Call girl, The Manageress) and Sia?n Phillips (Marlene, The Age of Innocence, Cabaret) star in Oscar Wilde's much loved and brilliantly witty masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Daily Mail writes that Nigel Havers and Martin Jarvis will co-star in a revamped production of Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, beginning June 27, 2014 at the Harold Pinter Theatre, with plans for a UK tour.

As of today, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, the world's longest running stage production, has become the most successful ever week-long play to have been performed at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre.

Ben Cross, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell and Alice Krige, stars of the original 1981 film Chariots of Fire, made a surprise visit to the Gielgud Theatre last night, July 10, to meet with the actors currently performing in Edward Hall's five star stage production of the same name. The stage cast, led by James McArdle, Jack Lowden, Tam Williams, Mark Edel-Hunt and Savannah Stevenson were introduced to their film character counterparts and to an excited audience at the Gielgud Theatre. Hugh Hudson, Director of the original film and co-producer of the new stage adaptation joined actors from both film and stage at this unique curtain call.

Joan Collins will make her pantomime debut in the role of Queen Rat and lead a celebrated cast including Julian Clary, Nigel Havers and Keith Harris and Orville in the Christmas pantomime spectacular Dick Whittington at the Birmingham Hippodrome from Dec. 18, 2010-Jan. 30, 2011.

"CALENDAR GIRLS" now becomes the most successful play ever to tour the United Kingdom, a record previously held by Nigel Havers in the acclaimed production of Daphne du Mauriers's "Rebecca".

Joan Collins will make her pantomime debut in the role of Queen Rat and lead a celebrated cast including Julian Clary, Nigel Havers and Keith Harris and Orville in the Christmas pantomime spectacular Dick Whittington at the Birmingham Hippodrome from Dec. 18, 2010-Jan. 30, 2011.

Following his record-breaking tour of 'Rebecca', Nigel Havers is to star in a brand new production of Alan Bennett's award-winning comedy Single Spies. Starring alongside Nigel are Diana Quick, Jack Ryder, John Arthur, Thomas Eyre and Clive Flint. Single Spies opens at The Lowry in Salford on Tuesday March 11, prior to a major national tour.

I Am My Own Wife comes to London as part of worldwide tour, Jeremy Irons and Woody Harrelson return to the West End and the Royal Court unveils its 50th Anniversary plans.