Sony Music Masterworks and independent touring entrepreneurs Stephen Lindsay and Brett Sirota, leaders in booking Broadway productions, family attractions, one-person shows, symphonies and more, today announced the formation of RoadCo Entertainment, LLC, an all new booking agency specializing in live family entertainment experiences.
As part of Raymond Gubbay's Christmas Festivals 2019, the Philharmonia Orchestra will be joined by special guest, the much loved actor Bernard Cribbins, for seasonal classics, carols and festive readings at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 15 December at 7.30pm. Pieces performed include Franck's Panis Angelicus, Handel's Zadok the Priest, Goodall's The Lord is my Shepherd, Rutter's Candlelight Carol, Willc*cks's Ding, dong merrily on high! plus all carols for all God rest ye merry gentlemen, Hark! The herald angels sing, Once in Royal David's City and O come, all ye faithful.
Raymond Gubbay Limited is celebrating over 25 years of presenting brilliant season entertainment in 2019, with an incredible line up of Christmas Festivals in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Birmingham including some iconic favourites a?" which have become UK festive institutions a?" and some exciting new concerts for 2019.
Highlights of the new concerts for 2019 are:
Comedy great Jasper Carrott and genius impressionist Alistair McGowan have announced an additional 16 dates to their current tour due to popular demand.
Raymond Gubbay Limited is celebrating over 25 years of presenting brilliant season entertainment in 2019, with an incredible line up of Christmas Festivals in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Birmingham including some iconic favourites a?" which have become UK festive institutions a?" and some exciting new concerts for 2019.
Casting has been announced for the 2019 York company of SHAKESPEARE'S ROSE THEATRE, the award-winning pop-up Shakespearean Theatre, which makes a triumphant return to the foot of Clifford's Tower in York this summer with new productions of Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. The plays have been selected from across the genres, offering something for everyone, and will be performed in repertory by two companies of actors.
SHAKESPEARE'S ROSE THEATRE - the pop-up Elizabethan playhouse which made its national debut in York last summer, staging four Shakespeare plays within an Elizabethan village - has been nominated in three categories at the 2019 Visit York Tourism Awards: for NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, INNOVATION IN TOURISM and VISITOR EXPERIENCE OF THE YEAR.
The creative teams have been announced for SHAKESPEARE'S ROSE THEATRE Europe's first ever pop-up Shakespearean Theatre, both for the return to its original site in York and at the new site at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
World-renowned dance music innovator Judge Jules has been announced as a special guest DJ for the world premiere of Ministry of Sound's The Annual Classical at the Royal Festival Hall, London on January 26th.
Europe's first ever pop-up Shakespearean Theatre - SHAKESPEARE'S ROSE THEATRE - today announced its expansion for 2019 with a summer residency of 9 weeks at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. This follows last week's announcement of a return to York, following its inaugural and highly successful season in 2018. Both theatres will run simultaneously over summer next year, performing a total of eight Shakespeare plays.
The world's most iconic dance brand Ministry of Sound have announced The Annual Classical, an orchestral tour which celebrates and reimagines their legendary dance music compilation The Annual.
Audiences have just five weeks left to see David Hare's critically acclaimed new play The Moderate Soprano, about the love story at the heart of the foundation of Glyndebourne, directed by Jeremy Herrin and starring Olivier Award winners Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll. The production enters its final weeks at the Duke of York's Theatre where it must end a strictly limited season on Saturday 30 June.
Production images have today been released for David Hare's The Moderate Soprano, directed by Jeremy Herrin, which is currently previewing at the Duke of York's Theatre, with opening night for press this evening.
Final cast is today announced for Charles Court Opera's smart, stylish, sparkling fresh version of the most loved of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic masterpieces, The Mikado.
David Hare's critically acclaimed play The Moderate Soprano will make its West End premiere next spring at the Duke of York's Theatre, with performances from 5 April to 30 June 2018 and opening night for press on 12 April 2018.
The Prologue and role of Peter Quint will be shared by Elgan Ll?r Thomas and William Morgan. Elgan Ll?r Thomas makes his English National Opera debut as a new ENO Harewood Artist having also covered the role of Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. A 2016/17 Scottish Opera Emerging Artist, credits include The Elixir of Love, and The Trial with other credits including Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Mananan International Festival), Paul Bunyan (Welsh National Youth Opera) and Eugene Onegin (Garsington Opera). He is currently singing in The Barber of Seville with the Theatre des Champs-Elysees.
The world's favourite fairy-tale is brought to life by The Australian Ballet in acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky's energetic production, bubbling with humour and set to Prokofiev's divinely romantic score.