Southbank Centre News

Cheek by Jowl today announces that Eleanor Lang has been appointed the Company's new Executive Director - she takes up the role in January 2016.   Lang, now the Executive Director of Free Word, has spent ten years working for a number of arts organisations including the Donmar Warehouse, Y Touring Theatre Company, BAC and the Bush Theatre, as well as working as a freelance producer. Most recently, she has worked with Rose Fenton, running Free Word, the UK's only centre for literature, literacy and freedom of expression. She is on the board of Rose Bruford College and Tonic Theatre.

Young Jean Lee's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN will have its West Coast premiere November 20 - December 20, 2015, at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre, directed by Lee and presented in collaboration with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The first U.S. performances of the play since The Public Theater presented its New York premiere last fall will feature a cast of Frank Boyd, Richard Riehle, Brian Slaten and Gary Wilmes.

After an acclaimed run in London, the Edinburgh Fringe and two triumphant UK tours, OUR FRIENDS THE ENEMY, written by and starring Alex Gwyther with direction by Tom O'Brien, arrives in New York City to celebrate the holiday's for a strictly limited two week engagement at Theater Row's Lion Theatre (410 West 42nd Street). Performances run December 8th through December 20th, 2015. 

The cast for the UK premiere production of FORGET ME NOT by Tom Holloway is announced today! The complete cast is Eleanor Bron, Russell Floyd, Sarah Ridgeway and Sargon Yelda. The production, directed by HighTide Festival Theatre's Artistic Director Steven Atkinson, previews from 08 December (press night 11 December) and runs through 16 January 2016 in a co-production between the Bush Theatre and HighTide Festival Theatre.

Entering its seventh season in 2015-16, CONTACT!, the Philharmonic's new-music series, will extend its reach across New York City through a new partnership with National Sawdust (formerly Original Music Workshop), a new, non-profit, state-of-the-art music venue opening in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in October 2015.

The crowned winner of this year's prestigious Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and fresh from a magnificent world tour, the awe-inspiring cabaret sensation is thrilled to return home to London for a sixth season in the capital. From 27 October 2015 until 17 January 2016 the little show with a big heart will make its triumphant return to the Southbank Centre, taking up residency in the deliciously decadent La Soiree Spiegeltent. 

Young Jean Lee's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN will have its West Coast premiere November 20 - December 20, 2015, at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre, directed by Lee and presented in collaboration with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The first U.S. performances of the play since The Public Theater presented its New York premiere last fall will feature a cast of Frank Boyd, Richard Riehle, Brian Slaten and Gary Wilmes.

After an acclaimed run in London, the Edinburgh Fringe and two triumphant UK tours, Our Friends The Enemy, written by and starring Alex Gwyther with direction by Tom O'Brien, arrives in New York City to celebrate the holiday's for a strictly limited two week engagement at Theater Row's Lion Theatre (410 West 42nd Street). Performances run December 8th through December 20th, 2015. Tickets are $36.25 and can be purchased by visiting www.Telecharge.com.

The wait is finally over and the stage is now set for La Soiree to make its triumphant return to London this evening. Featuring world class performers from across the globe, leave all troubles at the door and get ready to be transported once again to the seductive world of La Soiree…

The King of Tiny Things brings to Carriageworks Theatre today 27 October a beautiful, emotionally rich story to engage children and adults alike, starring four of the world's most exciting circus artists. With storytelling, circus skills, puppetry and music, there's genuinely something for all ages.

Abrons Arts Center is pleased to announce the extension of 2015 MacArthur Fellow Basil Twist's Sisters' Follies: Between Two Worlds.

The Tiger Lillies' genre-defying brand of other-worldly vocals and unnerving performance style has carved them a unique niche in the cabaret and music theatre scene and earned them a Grammy nomination. After a sell-out run of THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER at the Southbank Centre, the cult creators of the Olivier Award-winning SHOCKHEADED PETER now stage LULU - A MURDER BALLAD, adapted from the German macabre classics by Frank Wedekind, Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora's Box (1904).

The Old Vic has today announced casting for David Greig's adaptation of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, directed by Max Webster. Simon Lipkin will play the role of the Lorax, alongside puppeteers Laura Cubitt and Ben Thompson, whilst Simon Paisley Day takes the role of the Once-ler.

After a sold-out presentation by The New Victory and a Drama Desk nomination in 2011, Cotton and Wrinkle are bringing the magic of White back to New York's little theatergoers. A work of modern theater for ages two to five, White is the story of a monochromatic world turned upside down when pops of color suddenly appear. The New Victory presentation of White will run at the New 42nd Street Studios from November 4-22.

Artistic Director Christopher Haydon today announces the Gate Theatre's new season Nuclear: A Season about the Family. The season opens with the world premiere of Nina Segal's In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), followed by the world premiere of The Iphigenia Quartet which includes Agamemnon by Caroline Bird, Iphigenia by Suhayla El-Bushra, Clytemnestra by Lulu Raczka and Chorus by Chris Thorpe.

CANTON, OHIO (Sept. 17, 2015) - October 3, 2015 is opening night for the Canton Symphony Orchestra's (CSO) 2015-2016 MasterWorks Series.  The concert, titled “Heroes Among Us”, features percussionist Colin Currie who will be guest soloist on a piece by Christopher Rouse.  The concert will be performed at 8:00pm at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall adjacent to the Zimmermann Symphony Center at 2323 17th Street NW.  The pre-concert lecture, free to all ticket concert ticket holders, begins at 7:00pm.

Commissioned for the 100th Anniversary of the Abrons' Playhouse, SISTERS' FOLLIES: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is a spooktacular musical extravaganza direct from the unlimited imagination of Basil Twist and stars the legendary Downtown icons Joey Arias (Arias With A Twist, Lincoln Center's AmericanSongbook) and Julie Atlas Muz (Beauty and the Beast).

Sarai has been promised that she and her husband Abram will become the founders of a new nation - whose sovereignty will be established upon an old land. This new historical narrative pays homage to the courage and wisdom of this most extraordinary woman as she contends with the formidable forces of famine, disease, persecution and civil war in order to realise her dream.

Metta Theatre today announces additional venues added to the tour for The King of Tiny Things, as part of the company's 10th anniversary year - Metta10, adapted for the stage by Poppy Burton Morgan from the book by Jeanne Willis and Gwen Millward. Burton Morgan's production opened at the Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre on 13 July and now continues on tour to Malvern; Stockton-on-Tees; Greenwich; Leeds; Doncaster; Bristol and Northampton. The press performance will take place at 3:00pm at the Greenwich Theatre. Additional venues added for 2016 include Salisbury Playhouse, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Dundee Repertory Theatre and Stratford Circus Arts Centre.

Commissioned for the 100th Anniversary of the Abrons' Playhouse, SISTERS' FOLLIES: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS is a spooktacular musical extravaganza direct from the unlimited imagination of Basil Twist and stars the legendary Downtown icons Joey Arias (Arias With A Twist, Lincoln Center's AmericanSongbook) and Julie Atlas Muz (Beauty and the Beast).