Underbelly News

Final casting is announced today for the return of SIX, the hit musical by recent Cambridge grads Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. SIX returns to the Arts Theatre in the West End, where it ran for a short, sold out season in 2018.

Whilst the final decorations are being hung and the last-minute presents are being bought, Thursford are already gearing up preparations for Christmas 2019. Tickets have today been released for the 43rd annual Thursford Christmas Spectacular. One of the nation's most anticipated Christmas events will return to the tiny North Norfolk village from 6th November 2019. This festive stalwart has 12 performances left this year and has entertained over 112,000 visitors from across the country and the globe. Thursford are also pleased to confirm that audiences will see ticket prices frozen across the 2019 run.

Peter Mulvey has been a singer, songwriter, road-dog, raconteur, and an almost-poet since before he can remember. With a career spanning nearly three decades, eighteen albums, and countless live performances worldwide, Mulvey has built his life's work on collaboration and on an instinct for the eclectic and the vital. On February 15th, he'll release his most vivid album yet titled There Is Another World via Righteous Babe Records. Today he unveiled the first look at the new record with the lead song 'The Fox,' a hypnotic pulse of altered guitar within a swirl of sounds: wineglass rims, the long breaths and clatter of a bass clarinet, and icy accordion tones underneath Mulvey's gravel baritone vocals.

On September 23, 2009, the world was captivated as four men in a helicopter broke through the roof of a highly secure cash depot in Sweden and flew off with millions in stolen cash. Based on his extensive interviews with the robbers – who up until now have refused to speak publicly – Jonas Bonnier's THE HELICOPTER HEIST (May 28, 2019; Other Press Paperback Original; ISBN: 978-159051-950-9; translated by Alice Menzies) is a delightful, ripped-from-reality novelization of one of the biggest heists in Swedish history.

Jeanine Tesori (music) and David Lindsay-Abaire (books and lyrics) developed the creative musical 'Shrek' from DreamWorks Animation's film and William Steig's book of the same name.

Lucy Jackson in association with Dutch Kills Theater Company will present the World Premiere of INTELLIGENCE by John Golden Playwriting Award winner Helen Banner. Directed by 2017 Lucille Lortel Award winner Jess Chayes (Home/Sick, Half Moon Bay), previews begin January 12 at Next Door at NYTW. Opening is slated for Thursday, January 17.

Sundance Institute spotlights work at the dynamic crossroads of film, art and technology with the New Frontier selections for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, announced today. This curated collection of cutting-edge independent and experimental media works are by creators who are pushing artistic innovation across new mediums that include VR, AR, mixed reality (MR) and AI. Programmers assembled a global slate of work from a mix of invitations and submissions to an open call for VR work earlier this year.

This year, New Diorama Theatre and VAULT Festival, two of the most exciting supporters of new theatre in the UK, are joining forces to showcase some of the country's most thrilling theatre companies.

Writer and Director Che Walker returns to the Finborough Theatre to direct the European premiere of his own play Time Is Love/Tiempo es Amor, opening at the Finborough Theatre for a four-week limited season on Tuesday, 1 January 2019 (Press Nights: Thursday, 3 January and Friday, 4 January 2019 at 7.30pm).

By the time December hits (and oftentimes well before), it's impossible to browse theatre listings without running across half a dozen productions of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. But what makes it so long lasting? We reached out to companies across the US and more to find out just what makes A Christmas Carol the anthem for the holiday season.

The festive season is so close we can practically taste the advent calendar chocolate, smell the mulled wine, and hear the jingling of sleigh bells over the sound of Mariah blaring out the radio.

The globally acclaimed, award-winning Dummies will return to Perth FRINGE WORLD and Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2019 Multi-award winning circus company Dummies Corp. will return to Perth FRINGE WORLD and Adelaide Fringe Festival this summer with their international hit shows: Trash Test Dummies and Splash Test Dummies.

The team behind one of the surprise hits from this year's Edinburgh Festival, Violet, a one-woman show by Bebe Sanders, is today announcing that they will be bringing the show to London for a total of 18 nights across three different venues.

Today Courtenay Collins speaks to BroadwayWorld and explains why making her Broadway debut as THE PROM's Mrs. Greene has truly been a blessing.

CBS All Access announced today that season two of its first original comedy series, NO ACTIVITY, will launch on its service in Canada on Thursday, Nov. 22. All episodes of the series' second season will be available to stream on this date, mirroring the roll-out in the U.S.

Hailing from Calgary and now based in Montreal, HERO is an indie-electronic tour de force who just announced his debut Dirty Work EP out January 10, 2019 on Fool's Gold Records. His previous single 'The Juice' was featured in an episode of HBO's Insecure, where they wrote him into the script -- calling him 'the black Daft Punk.' The new collection features six self-produced tracks exploring the underbelly of romance over a darkly catchy, electronic pulse. Title track 'Dirty Work' is released today alongside the brooding, Lynch-ian cinematic companion official video.

Underbelly are pleased to announce their third season of festive events in the very heart of London: Christmas in Leicester Square 2018-19.

The Monongalia Arts Center (MAC) has announced production of the critically acclaimed 2010 Pulitzer Prize and 2009 Tony-winning musical Next to Normal. Described as 'an unflinching look at a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness,' this will be the very first production anywhere in the area. Performances are scheduled for November 1-3 and 8-10 at 8:00 pm and November 4 at 2 pm.