Re-opening its doors this September with an exceptional new programme, Watford Palace Theatre will present its autumn 2025 season. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Watford Palace Theatre has unveiled the opening of five newly developed creative spaces. Learn more about the changes to the theatre and see how to attend upcoming performances.
Thunder Road Theatre, in association with Watford Palace Theatre, have announced the cast and creative team for its new production The Void - a sci-fi horror story created for the stage.
Following their production of Shock Horror: A Ghost Story, Thunder Road are back - this time in association with Watford Palace Theatre - for a UK Tour of The Void.
The annual Christmas pantomime is returning to Watford Palace Theatre, a tradition that’s been lighting up the festive season since 1908. Learn more about the cast of Cinderella here!
Adapted from Mark Stanfield’s highly praised screenplay of the same name, and the centrepiece of Steve Marmion’s first season at Watford Palace Theatre, Two Of Us is an intimate exploration of what might have happened during the final meeting of two musical icons. Check out all new photos here!
Adapted from Mark Stanfield's highly praised screenplay of the same name, and the centrepiece of Steve Marmion's first season at Watford Palace Theatre, Two Of Us is an intimate exploration of what might have happened during the final meeting of two musical icons.
Watford Palace Theatre has announced its new vision, ambition, and season of work for Watford's 115-year-old venue. Learn more about the season lineup here!
Presenting a noughties twist on a Christmas classic, this winter Watford Palace Theatre has announced their cast for Cinderella. Find out who is starring here!
PantoCo is a new production company, led by Soho Theatre's former Artistic Director Steve Marmion, uniquely offering year-round education activities attached to their spectacular, entertaining and morally-sound Christmas and Easter shows.
The Lyric Hammersmith today announces the full cast for Dick Whittington, its 10th anniversary pantomime, which will be getting the full Lyric treatment. You can expect the usual mix of live music, crazy characters, awesome adventure, singing, dancing, villainous baddies and heroic goodies with a little bit of feline flavour chucked in for good measure.
How far would you go to get your man? And then when you have him, what lengths do you go to ensure no one steals him away. How do you preserve a dying relationship? Is it sometimes better to just walk away? Can it ever be that easy? These are some of the questions (amongst many others) that are asked in Vicky Jones' Verity Bargate Award-winning play The One, currently being revived at the Soho Theatre. Directed by Steve Marmion, it's a gripping 75 minutes that has you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
Following on from last summer's smash-hit Touch, Vicky Jones returns with her award-winning debut play. Harry and Jo are up all night drawing the battle lines of their relationship with sex, violence and Wotsits. A viciously funny and daring play, The One invites you into the world of a couple trapped in a destructive and violent cycle of love and lust. Vicky Jones' debut won the Verity Bargate Award in 2013. Back at Soho Theatre this summer for a limited run, we spoke to Julia Sandiford who plays Kerry in the piece.
Everything seems perfect in this cute little suburban town. The sun is shining, the birds sing and a couple arise from their peaceful slumber, greeting each other with love and affection. Nothing seems out of place; the ordinary morning routine is carried out as usual, as papers are read and breakfast is made.
Award-winning US playwright, Mary Laws, exposes the darker side of happily ever after in the UK premiere of this cutting, absurdly funny, twisted tragedy, directed by Soho Theatre's artistic director, Steve Marmion. Two of the cast members, Gareth David-Lloyd and Gala Gordon stopped to chat with BroadwayWorldUK about the play.
With song and satire, a waitress delves beneath the stereotypes of her flat-white drinking customers to serve up a straight-talking look at expectations of millennial women. Through character comedy, satirical songs and off-the-cuff stand-up covering the contradictions of slut-shaming to Instagram-envy, Isobel Rogers explores cultural stereotypes and what lies underneath. Isobel Rogers' debut show is directed by Sara Joyce, who directed Milly Thomas' The Stage Award-winning Dust at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 and was recently announced as one of the Old Vic 12 directors for 2017/18.
Led by the National Theatre, a group of the UK's top stages have joined together to release the following statement in relation to the recent allegations against former Royal Court artistic director and UK theatre director Max Stafford-Clark, and the ever-burgeoning controversy surrounding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
Written by 2015 Verity Bargate Winner Stephen Jackson and directed by Soho Theatre Artistic Director Steve Marmion, Roller Diner is a tragic-comic new musical starring Olivier Award winner David Thaxton, Lucy McCormick, Joe Dixon, Rina Fatania, Lucie Shorthouse and Ricky Oakley. Set in a post-industrial everyman English setting and in development for the past two years, it presciently imagines the current state of the nation and the Brexit debate about immigration and identity. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!
The Trustees of the JMK Trust are delighted to announce today that the winner of the 20th anniversary James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award is Josh Roche. Chosen after the now-legendary JMK selection process from another record-breaking number of applicants, Josh will be directing My Name is Rachel Corrie, the celebrated piece of verbatim theatre created from the writings of Corrie herself and co-edited by the late Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner. His production will be staged in the autumn at the Young Vic, with performance dates announced soon. The runner up this year was Nathan Crossan-Smith with a proposal for a production of Debbie Tucker-Green's random and will receive a £2,000 award.
In a new production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre to mark the 150th anniversary of T. W. Robertson's 1867 comedy - and the first UK production in over 20 years - Caste plays at the Finborough Theatre for nine Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from Sunday, 2 April 2017.