Simon Beaufoy News

Actors bare it all in Simon Beaufoy's award-winning adaptation of The Full Monty in Glasgow this week. A hilarious, delightful and phenomenally-acted story with an important social critique - what's not to love?

Chicago's Paramount Aurora Theatre will stage the metropolis' premiere of Disney's Frozen the Musical as the 2024 holiday season show. The city, which has previously the touring production, will be one of the first to see a production staged by a local theatre company. 

Of all the films on IMDB's list of the 1000 highest-grossing movies of all time, 31 have been adapted into Broadway musicals. Check out a guide to each those musicals below, along with musicals that are in development or ones that have not yet made their way to Broadway.

Full casting has been announced for the UK Tour of Simon Beaufoy's THE FULL MONTY, arriving at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow from 20-24 February 2024.  

Get a first look at the UK Tour of Simon Beaufoy’s THE FULL MONTY starring Danny Hatchard, Jake Quickenden and Bill Ward.

Full casting has been announcedfor the UK Tour of Simon Beaufoy's THE FULL MONTY, opening at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from 14 September 2023.

The UK Tour of Simon Beaufoy's THE FULL MONTY will star Danny Hatchard as Gaz, Jake Quickenden as Guy, Bill Ward as Gerald, Neil Hurst as Dave, Ben Onwukwe as Horse and Nicholas Prasad as Lomper.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film, the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham & Buxton Opera House in association with Mark Goucher and David Pugh have announced a major UK tour of Simon Beaufoy's award-winning smash hit play THE FULL MONTY opening at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham on 14 September 2023.

THE FULL MONTY, featuring book by Terrence McNally, and music and lyrics by David Yazbek will be presented at Cheney Hall August 5th - August 21st, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM Sundays at 2:00 PM.

The original cast of The Full Monty will reunite for a new limited series on Disney+. The series will star the original cast of the film, including Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy and Lesley Sharp. The new series will feature writing from the original film’s screenwriter Simon Beaufoy. Andrew Chaplin and Catherine Morshead will direct.

In Soft Wings has announced that the world premiere of Hugh Salmon's moving, effecting and humorous debut play Into Battle will open at Greenwich Theatre from 13–31 October with previews from 7 October.

THE FULL MONTY, il nuovo adattamento del celebre film degli anni '90 torna in grande stile al Teatro Sistina fino all'8 marzo dopo un lungo tour che lo ha visto in scena in ben 16 teatri di tutta Italia e che proseguirà con altre quattro tappe concludendo il 29 marzo a Catania.

Con un successo già consolidato, 70 mila spettatori in poco più di 3 mesi di repliche, arriva finalmente a Roma tutta l'energia di 'The Full Monty', la divertentissima commedia musicale firmata da Massimo Romeo Piparo, con un cast e un'edizione completamente rinnovati.

 See-Saw Films' “A Special Relationship,” the upcoming biopic on Elizabeth Taylor, has brought on Rachel Weisz to star.

Based on his 1997 smash hit film and adapted for the stage by Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy, The Full Monty is the bittersweet story of a group of unemployed Sheffield steelworkers who, inspired by a local Chippendale show, turn to stripping to raise some much-needed money.

Simon Beaufoy's THE FULL MONTY gets down to business at the King's Theatre in Glasgow later this month with an all-star cast and stellar moves as part of the production's final ever UK tour.

One of the most popular and critically acclaimed British dramas is heading to the Belgrade Theatre this February as The Full Monty rounds off its last ever UK tour in 2019.

The story of six out-of-work, impoverished steelworkers from Sheffield with nothing to lose, the original film took the world by storm and the stage version has become one of Britain's most successful shows. It was adapted for stage by original scriptwriter Simon Beaufoy, whose other film credits include The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and Slumdog Millionaire.

Hollyoaks and EastEnders actor Gary Lucy first took on the lead role of Gaz in the 2014 touring production of The Full Monty. He now returns to the part for the current touring production.

The BBC has entered a creative partnership with FX Networks, with the BBC securing the rights to all new scripted (comedy and drama) FX original series, it was announced today by Charlotte Moore, Director, BBC Content and Gina Brogi, President of Global Distribution, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. The deal was negotiated with the BBC by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution on behalf of FX Networks.