Phoebe Waller-Bridge News

Amazon Prime Video will make a £500,000 donation to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman's Theatre Community Fund

This year's final shortlist of eight from 133 eligible plays that were due to premiere at Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance,  Summerhall, Traverse Theatre and Underbelly,  includes work from all over the UK and champions marginalised communities, shining a light on people who's stories are just not heard or seen.

Last week Underbelly launched a fundraiser to support artists who were due to appear at Underbelly Fringe 2020. 100% of all donations received go straight to artists from this year's planned programme.

Today Underbelly has launched a fundraiser to support artists who were due to appear at Underbelly Fringe 2020.

Many of the UK's most successful artists and entertainment professionals have joined together to create the Theatre Community Fund in support of theatrical artists and professionals whose livelihoods and creative futures are threatened in the wake of Covid-19.

National Theatre Live has revealed that it will bring 14 of its shows to cinemas in the UK this summer and we've got the full list.

Acting for Others today announces that Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been appointed Vice President of the theatrical charity.

After phenomenal public demand for 'The Show Must Go On!' t-shirts, Theatre Support Fund + has reached an incredible milestone by raising a huge quarter of a million pounds for Acting For Others, The Fleabag Support Fund and NHS COVID-19 Urgent Appeal.

HBO has canceled its new comedy series Run after only one season. 

Original Theatre Company's recent critically acclaimed, innovative online production of Rachel Wagstaff's adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's best-selling novel Birdsong has spurred the company on to produce another online production while theatres remain closed to live performances.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge swept this past awards season for her role in Fleabag - winning a 2019 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy and an Emmy for Outstanding Writing, 2020 SAG Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series and a 2020 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy.  Now see the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC's hit TV series Fleabag, captured live from London's West End, on Saturday, July 11 at 8pm. 

Theatrical charity, Acting For Others will distribute funds raised across its 14 member charities to support theatre workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Ridgefield Playhouse is back, bringing award-winning theater to the big screen. This summer we're giving you a front row seat to some of the biggest names in entertainment a?" including James Corden, Sally Field, Bill Pullman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.  London's National Theatre in HD will return with four encore screenings as part of the Northern Trust Broadway & Cabaret Series with support from Teed & Brown.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced the nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards.

AMC Studios announced today that it has entered into separate exclusive, multi-year overall deals with Rolin Jones (Friday Night Lights, Weeds), Gina Mingacci (Killing Eve, Orphan Black) and Ray McKinnon (Rectify, Deadwood) to develop and produce new series for AMC Networks' Entertainment Group as well as other content companies. The deals expand AMC Networks' ongoing or previous creative partnerships with Jones, Mingacci and McKinnon.

The Casting Directors' Guild has released a statement, calling on the UK's television and film industry to support the theatre industry.

Mario Cantone will host this year's Lucille Lortel Awards, which are being presented as a virtual broadcast and benefit for The Actors Fund on Sunday, May 3, at 7pm. The online event will bring together theatre performers, industry veterans, and fans worldwide in a celebration of Off-Broadway.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, DryWrite, Soho Theatre and Annapurna Theatre, in partnership with National Theatre Live in London and Amazon Prime Video, have announced that the critically acclaimed filmed theater production of FLEABAG will now be available to stream through Sunday, May 31st 

The Southbank Centre today launches a three-day celebration of literature, music, and art inspired by the natural world to mark the 50th anniversary of 'Earth Day'.

On Thursday, April 17's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert  At Home, Stephen Colbert talks to one of his most favorite actors, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, to whom Stephen presented an Emmy Award last year.