Tonderai Munyevu News

Casting and creative team announced for Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas. Get all the details about the upcoming production at Lyric Hammersmith.

A nationally profiled theatre company and a national drama school are collaborating to open Collective Theatre, a new performing space for inner London. Learn more about the new space here!

The fairy godmother of panto returns! The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for its highly anticipated production of Cinderella, running 18 November 2023 to 06 January 2024.

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast of As You Like It, directed by Ellen McDougall. Learn more about the cast here!

tiata fahodzi, the UK’s leading British African heritage contemporary theatre company, today announces a new season of theatre including a major tour of a new production; welcomes a new wave of six artists and creative associates to the tiata fahodzi family; and commissions a new Triple Bill of explosive short plays showcasing theatre’s most exciting new voices, all slated for autumn 2023/Spring 2024.

The full cast and creative team have been announced for The Watermill Theatre and Two Gents’ co-production of MANSFIELD PARK – the world premiere stage adaptation of Tonderai Munyevu & Arne Pohlmeier’s rousing take on Jane Austen’s well-known romance.

ETT (English Touring Theatre) has announced their new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and further programming for 2023.

UK's writers' room for theatre, Stockroom confirms a slate of three new productions for 2023, which sees it team up with four leading venues across the UK.  These productions constitute part of the company's previously announced evolution to focus on writer and script development and follows its recent loss of Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation status. 

Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Stockroom in Association with Naked Productions present the Sound Stage audio premiere of Blaccine First Dose,  three new monologues which investigate the Black British community's relationship with the Covid-19 vaccine in January 2023.

Artistic Director Paul Hart, Executive Director Claire Murray and the team at Newbury’s The Watermill Theatre announced the programme of work from February to July 2023, a season with one major revival and four new adaptations that explores the deep joys and troubling complexities of life on our shores.

 Broadway Black presents The 2nd Annual Antonyo Awards, which honors Black theatre artists during the 2021-2022 season. The live, in-person ceremony will be held on Monday, October 10 at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem (253 West 125th Street). Awards in 29 competitive categories and five honorary categories will be presented along with performances and guest appearances. 

The 2nd Annual Antonyo Award nominations from the 2021-2022 Broadway and Off-Broadway season have been announced! See the full list here!

The Gate Theatre announced today the addition of four new Associate Artists to join the company from June 2022.

Today, Stockrooom announced the world premiere of Dead Air a dark comedy set in the confined world of local commercial radio.

Brixton House will open its doors to the public on the 24th February 2022 with two international shows and a taster programme of activities until 5th March when the venue will open all areas including its café, bar and hire studios.

Brixton House will open its doors to the public on the 24th February 2022 with two international shows and a taster programme of activities until 5th March when the venue will open all areas including its café, bar and hire studios.

The autobiographical play about growing up in 1980’s Zimbabwe following independence opens at Brixton House on 17 February, with previews from 15 February, and runs until 6 March. It then tours to Scarborough, Oundle and Oxford before concluding in Edinburgh, 23 - 26 March 2022.

Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre has announced more new shows for the spring of 2022, including a stage version of the classic Gothic tale Frankenstein; a one-woman comedy full of Yorkshire grit; a personal take on the rise and fall of Robert Mugabe; a show based on the story of jazz singer and activist Nina Simone, and a new play exploring taboos around sex, romance and disability,

The autobiographical play about growing up in 1980's Zimbabwe following independence opens at York Theatre Royal on 14 September, with previews from 9 September, until 18 September, with tour dates for 2022 to be announced.

Over the past six months leading UK touring theatre company Stockroom has been working with theatre freelancers across the country to produce six extraordinary films that chart the common experiences of non-salaried theatre workers during the pandemic.