The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced ten finalists for the prestigious playwriting award, now entering its fourth decade. The awards are given annually to recognize women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced ten finalists for the prestigious playwriting award, now entering its fourth decade. The awards are given annually to recognize women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.
Next summer, from 26 May to 30 August 2009, a new production of JM Barrie's Peter Pan will be performed in the specially commissioned Neverland Pavilion in London's historic Kensington Gardens.
Imelda Staunton and Mathew Horne are cast in a major revival of Joe Orton's comic masterpiece, Entertaining Mr Sloane. Directed by Nick Bagnall, this dark study of sexual manners will run at the Trafalgar Studios 1 from 22 January to 11 April 2009 with press night on Friday 30 January, in a co-production with Michael Edwards & Carole Winter and English Touring Theatre.
The 2009 season at the Almeida Theatre will include five premieres, two major revivals and a Shakespeare.
Harriet Thorpe is to star as 'Madame Morrible' in the smash hit musical Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre from Monday April 14, 2008.
Harley Granville Barker's The Voysey Inheritance runs at the Royal National Theatre through June 7th; it opens on April 25th
The Edinburgh Fringe gets underway with Sunny Jacobs playing herself in The Exonerated, plus the West End sees a surge of plays for the Autumn/Winter season.
David Lan, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, will direct Helen McCrory, Sienna Miller, Dominic West and Reece Shearsmith in a new production of Shakespeare's great romantic comedy, As You Like It.
The action is now set in London and the time is the Sixties with a pulsating medley of hits signalling the passing years...
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