Matt Lucas is to play Kenneth Halliwell alongside Chris New as playwright Joe Orton 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.
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.
Executive Producer Louis G. Spisto today announced the appointment of Adrian Noble as Artistic Director of The Old Globe's 2010 Shakespeare Festival celebrating the theater's 75th anniversary season. One of the theater's most respected and sought-after directors, Noble will oversee the Festival and direct two of the three productions presented in repertory. Noble succeeds Resident Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak who will leave his post in September to pursue independent directing opportunities. The annual festival will run from June 12 through September 26, 2010.
Lindsay Posner's outstanding revival of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE starring Ken Stott, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Hayley Atwell will tour the UK in May, following a successful West End run.
Hayley Atwell joins Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in a new production of A View from the Bridge which opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from January 22, 2009 with the press night on February 5th. Acknowledged as one of the great classics of the twentieth century, this electrifying and deeply moving play proved to be a milestone in American theatrical history. Lindsay Posner directs.
Hayley Atwell joins Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in a new production of A View from the Bridge which opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from January 22, 2009 with the press night on February 5th. Acknowledged as one of the great classics of the twentieth century, this electrifying and deeply moving play proved to be a milestone in American theatrical history. Lindsay Posner directs.
Acknowledged as one of the great classics of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge, opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from 22 January 2009 with the press night on 5 February.
Considered one of the great modern classics of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE will open at the Duke of York's Theatre on 24 January 2009, with a press night on Thursday 5 February 2009.
The upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Lesley Garrett, will transfer to the West End at the conclusion of its fall tour. It will play the Savoy Theatre and open on 2 December 2008 (previews from 22 November).
Trevor Nunn's West End revival of Porgy and Bess will close in order to make room for a new production of Fiddler on the Roof starring Olivier Award-winner Henry Goodman as Tevye.
A new production of the Tennessee Williams classic Summer and Smoke, starring stage and screen star Rosamund Pike, will drift to the West End in October after playing at the Nottingham Playhouse