Original Theatre News

All new photos have been released from the 2024/25 UK tour of Birdsong. The epic First World War story of love and loss returns to the stage this Autumn in a brand-new production marking the 30th anniversary of Sebastian Faulks’s international best-selling novel. 

People's Theatre Project announced the 2024 Playwrights Unit cohort featuring Max Garcia, Montserrat Mendez, and Christin Eve Cato. The program will conclude with a Reading Festival in December.

Circuit Playhouse, Inc. revealed the winners of the 2024 NewWorks@TheWorks playwriting competition, highlighting emerging playwrights and their innovative works. Learn more about the winners!

The friendship at the heart of Knives and Forks is almost as vivid and messy as the show's backdrop. As the story of Iris and Thalia unfolds, their body doubles decorate the back wall with paint, ink, spray cans, chalk, paper, and more. Written by Danielle James, this abstract, expressive piece explores female friendship with a bold new approach.

Award-winning comedian Seann Walsh, Chris Harper (Call the Midwife, Coronation Street) and Aden Gillett (The Crown, The House of Elliot) will star in a brand-new production of Yasmina Reza's fiendishly clever and hilariously funny play ART.

Theatre Collingwood will launch the ELEVATE Theatre Collingwood Support Drive in celebration of their 40th Anniversary.

A round-up of BroadwayWorld's Edfringe reviews from 2024.

The full cast has been announced for the 2024/25 tour of Birdsong. The epic First World War story of love and loss returns to the stage this Autumn in a brand-new production marking the 30th anniversary of Sebastian Faulks’s international best-selling novel. 

Marcus Brigstocke's critically acclaimed play The Red will return to Original Theatre's digital streaming platform Original Online from Friday 2 August at 5pm for members, both new and existing, and then on general release (including rentals) from Friday 9 August at 5pm.

PW Productions has announced the full cast for the 2024-25 UK Tour of Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley's AN INSPECTOR CALLS, opening at Alexandra Palace on Friday 30 August, where it will play for 3 weeks.

Actor Max Bowden, who will star as Jack Firebrace in the forthcoming tour of Sebastian Faulks’s epic First World War story of love and loss Birdsong, and folk musician James Findlay, have recorded their version of the traditional folk song I Would That All The Wars They Were Over with the release out now, commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme which began on 1 July 1916. Listen to it now!

An exclusive filmed version of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING OSCAR is now available on Original Online, offering a unique look at the life and works of Oscar Wilde.

Eleanor Lang has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of The Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End. 

The Brookside Project is producing Am I Blue by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Beth Henley as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, directed by Brookside founder Noah Todd.

Micheál Mac Liammóir’s critically acclaimed one-man show delves into the Wild(e) world of the renowned literary genius. Published in 1961, Liammóir’s play has gained international success on both stage and screen, and the production has now arrived at Reading Rep, upon the doorstep of the infamous Reading Gaol.

Following the celebrated residency of her alternative cabaret show Fool's Moon at Soho Theatre, theatre-maker, designer and clown, Paulina Lenoir will make her solo comedy debut in a dreamlike and absurdist tale of birth, life and death told through the eyes of a poetic idiot.

Reading Rep Theatre and Original Theatre have released photos from their upcoming new production of Micheál Mac Liammóir’s renowned play, The Importance of Being Oscar, which will run at Reading Rep Theatre from 24 May - 8 June and star Original Theatre’s Artistic Director Alastair Whatley.

Cypherbird Projects will present a genre-bending journey through a Cabaret Of The Unexpected at the Mercury Cafe on June 6 and 8, starting at 6:30.

Experience the unexpected with Cypherbird Projects' CABARET OF THE UNEXPECTED at the Denver Fringe Festival. Learn how to purchase tickets!

A filmed version of the recent stage show David Suchet - Poirot and More: A Retrospective, featuring the Emmy Award winning and multi Olivier Award nominated actor in conversation with journalist Geoffrey Wansell, will be available exclusively from Original Theatre’s digital streaming platform Original Online.