Simon Bent News

PRICK UP YOUR EARS will run at the Comedy Theatre from 17 September until 6 December (including Sunday performances at 4pm) with press night on 30 September

Gwen Taylor is to join Matt Lucas and Chris New in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by Simon Bent. Inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears examines the private lives of these two extraordinary men.

Sydney Theatre Company in association with the Ambassador Theatre Group presents ELLING, Based on a novel by Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Stage adaptation by Axel Hellstenius in collaboration with Petter Næss. Translated by Nicholas Norris. Adapted by Simon Bent

Based on a novel by Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Stage adaptation by Axel Hellstenius in collaboration with Petter Næss. Translated by Nicholas Norris. Adapted by Simon Bent

Angle Theatre and The Hackney Empire present TRIANGLE 2009: 3 new plays by 3 new East End playwrights at the Hackney Empire Studio

This spring, the Denver Center Theatre Company will complete an extraordinary journey through the decades of the Twentieth Century with director Israel Hicks and August Wilson's Radio Golf, remember the story of faith in a stage adaptation of John Irving's sweeping novel in A Prayer for Owen Meany, and laugh with the Serrano family in the world premiere of Sunsets and Margaritas.

Howard Panter, the dynamic UK co-founder of the Ambassador Theater Group, the producing company and owner of 23 London theatre venues, is setting his sights on Broadway in a VERY big way reports Variety. The trade paper reports that he has created an ambitious list of new projects targeting for Broadway -- including a handful of productions and in very exciting news, a possible new theater space.

Matt Wilde will direct Peter McDonald in the European premiere of Adam Rapp's one man play, Nocturne.

Matt Wilde will direct Peter McDonald in the European premiere of Adam Rapp's one man play, Nocturne.

Almedia Theater announces fall casting.

Almeida Theatre announces Fall/Winter Season.

For its annual summer festival of contemporary opera, music and theatre, the Almeida Theatre will present a programme which includes the London premiere of An Ocean of Rain, a specially commissioned opera by Yannis Kyriakides and Daniel Danis, the European premiere of Adam Rapp's Nocturne and British African Theatre Company Tiata Fahodzi's first week long residency at the Almeida.

Simon Bent's new adaptation of Elling, which transferred to Trafalgar Studios in the West End on July 6, following a critically acclaimed, sell-out run at The Bush Theatre, will finish on Saturday October 6. A national UK tour is planned for Spring 2008.

A miracle couldn't save this disjointed adaptation of John Irving's rambling novel