Punchdrunk News

Phantom Peak, a Wild West-themed town with robots and no shortage of mysteries, may sound a tad like Westworld – but that’s where the comparison ends.

The Martha Graham Dance Company has announced that it has commissioned choreographers Baye & Asa and Annie Rigney to create new works for the Company. Both works will premiere as part of the Company's Joyce Theater season in spring 2023.

Theatres are making adjustments to cope with the current heatwave. The UK could have its hottest day on record this week, with temperatures forecast to hit up to 41C (106F).

Get your flat-cap ready and brush up your Brummie accent: the immersive Peaky Blinders: The Rise has arrived in London.

The Hamlet Voyage: A new play by Rex Obano, long-listed for the Alfred Fagon Award, has its world premiere on board the Matthew ship at the 50th Anniversary Bristol Harbour Festival 16-17 July, followed by its London premiere at the Bridewell Theatre 20-23 July with Press Night on Friday 22 July, 7.30pm. 

A gut-punching slab of immersive theatre that takes no prisoners may be just what the doctor ordered in these interesting times. The Big House’s Redemption doesn’t have the most enticing of titles but this layered drama takes place in a unique environment and punches well above its weight.

Celebrating unity and tolerance in the face of global refugee crises, Amici Dance Theatre Company have brought together 80 disabled and non-disabled artists from around the world for their 40th anniversary production One World: Wealth of the Common People.

Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland's newest work, Embarqued: Stories of Soil, a dance-theatre work that interrogates existing relationships to memorials, will be presented at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME, July 23–24, and will have its New York premiere at BAM, November 1–5, as part of the 2022 Next Wave Festival.

Running July 1 through 16 at The Colonial Theatre, the audience will be transported to a bustling Irish pub with a stage full of incredibly talented actors singing and playing their own instruments. 

The fourth week of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2022 will welcome A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, performing An Untitled Love in the Ted Shawn Theatre, from July 13-17.

​​​​​​Berkshire Theatre Group has announced casting for shows in BTG’s Late Summer 2022 Season. The full season will feature B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching, a world premiere play and an award recipient of the GRANTS FOR ARTS PROJECTS from the National Endowment for the Arts; Once, a Tony Award-winning musical; Songs For a New World, the first musical by a Tony Award winner; Dracula, a classic gothic tale of horrors; and Edward Albee's Seascape, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. 

Berkshire Theatre Group and Kate Maguire have announced casting for shows in BTG’s Early Summer 2022 Season. The full season will feature B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching, a world premiere play and recipient of an NEA Grants for Arts Projects Award and more.

Revenge is a dish best served old seems to be the message in Age Of Rage, the latest of Ivo van Hove’s latest extreme theatre productions as he serves up seven Greek stories, all in gloriously guttural Dutch. Read our critic's review.

CHELSEA TABLE + STAGE – New York’s newest hotspot for intimate dining and extraordinary music – will present Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Ted Nash in “Coltrane Meets Hartman” on Wednesday, June 15 at 7:00 PM.

The Trojan War is the stuff of countless myths and later retellings. But probably none of them could make you get physically lost in the labyrinthine worlds of Hecuba's Troy and Agamemnon's Mycenae. For that, you would need to head to One Cartridge Place, where the renowned immersive theatre company Punchdrunk has opened the gates to The Burnt City, marking their long-awaited return to London after an eight-year hiatus.

Immersive theater company Punchdrunk has been signed by 42 for global representation. Punchdrunk is currently hosting the new show Burnt City, which is now in previews and opens on 21 April in London.

Renowned circus company Ockham's Razor will take their new outdoor performance Public on tour this summer.  Known for their aerial theatre performances, blending contemporary circus and visual theatre, Ockham's Razor's new production explores the use and ownership of public space.

Ahead of their official opening night next Thursday 21 April, Punchdrunk has announced that an extended booking period is now on sale for The Burnt City until 4 December 2022.

FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres present Double Beat, choreographed by the Helpmann Award winning Sara Black.

Reading Rep Theatre today announces full cast for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in a new adaptation written and directed by Reading Rep Theatre's Founding Artistic Director Paul Stacey. Stacey directs Amy Ambrose, Beth Eyre, Mark Desebrock, Dave Fishley, Jonty Peach, and Charlotte Warner.