The National Theatre News

The Coronet Theatre will again collaborating with The Norwegian Ibsen Company on a new production of Ibsen's last play When We Dead Awaken.

The National Theatre is to tour Evan Placey's Jekyll & Hyde, a radical reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, to state secondary schools nationwide from 31st January 2022.  

Film, Theater and TV talks at 92Y in January will feature Kelli O'Hara, Brian Cox, Jon Stewart, the cast of Belfast and more! 

Jonny Donahoe - writer, performer and frontman of musical-comedy-satirists, Jonny and The Baptists - will premiere his new one man show FORGIVENESS.

Trouble in Mind had its stage premiere more than sixty years ago. The biting satire written by Alice Childress centres on racism in theatre. As representation within the industry continues to be addressed, it feels a pertinent time for the National Theatre’s revival. Performers Emma Canning and Daniel Adeosun spoke with BroadwayWorld about the production, the industry and graduating drama school during the pandemic.

OVO is fast gaining a reputation for producing bold, imaginative and surprising new versions of classic plays and stories for indoor audiences at The Maltings Theatre in St Albans and other venues in Hertfordshire, outdoor audiences at The Roman Theatre in St Albans and the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, and for global audiences online.

Composer-lyricist, songwriter and performer Shaina Taub has been signed to Atlantic Records.

Pippa Frith and Nottingham Playhouse present The Glad Game at Hampstead Theatre next month. Diagnosed with an incurable cancer at the age of 26, Phoebe Frances Brown tells her story of finding gladness in the saddest of times.

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch will open its Spring 2022 season with a stunning revival from Director Douglas Rintoul of Arthur Miller's moving and powerful landmark drama All My Sons 10 February – 5 March, before playing at the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich 8 – 12 March.

he Green Room 42 has announced their January line-up for in-person performances in addition to launching reWINEd, a new streaming series where you can rewatch some favorite recent shows paired with at-home drink recommendations from each artist. 

Final casting is today announced for 'The Regulars', the headline event of Turn On Fest, Hope Mill Theatre's  3rd annual LGBTQIA+ festiva.

The National Theatre's Hex faced cancelations due to Covid-19, and is scheduled to run until January 22, 2022. To give the show the chance to have a full run, the National Theatre will be remounting Hex in November 2022. 

The Beauty and the Beast begins performances at the National Theatre in Prague tomorrow, January 7. Performances run through June 18, 2022.

Leading touring company Stockroom today announces that it has appointed former Traverse Theatre Incoming Artistic Director, Debbie Hannan, as its temporary Artistic Director, whilst Kate Wasserberg recovers from the ongoing symptoms of COVID 19, known as Long Covid.

Award-winning director and the National Theatre’s former artistic director, Sir Nicholas Hytner, will join award-winning West End theatre producer and founder of Aria Entertainment, Katy Lipson in an upcoming virtual event.

This production takes the audience deep into John Wyndham's classic cold war novel: The Day of the Triffids with a live soundtrack with instruments including Moog, Double Bass, Theremin, Hammered Dulcimer and... a Cactus!

The First National Tour of Mean Girls—the record-breaking new musical comedy produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, and Paramount Pictures based on the hit film— is coming to St. Louis February 15-27. 

Today's top stories include an announcement of a hiatus for Mrs. Doubtfire on Broadway. Performances will be suspended from January 10 to March 14, 2022 due to COVID-19. Plus, learn about the shows that ruled 2021 and what's coming in 2022.

The National Theatre has just announced that Lisa Burger, Executive Director and Joint Chief Executive, has been awarded a CBE for services to the arts as part of the 2022 New Year's Honours.  

Turning round of the seeming stereotypes results in a surprising effect, by means of which the author not only mocks homophobia, but ridicules the contemporary vague sexual identity and the perverse pleasure found (by some women) in “creating from anything”, a permanent home recycling.