Underbelly News

Co-Artistic Directors of Morphic Graffiti, Luke Fredericks and Stewart Charlesworth, today announce casting of the 'Bright Young Things' for their new adaptation of William Wycherley's restoration comedy The Country Wife. Luke Fredericks directs EastEnders' Eddie Eyre as Harry Horner, Call the Midwife's Leo Staar (Harcourt), West End stars Siubhan Harrison (Alithea) and Nancy Sullivan (Margery Pinchwife) with Daniel Cane (Sparkish), Mabel Clements (Lucy/ Dainty Fidget) and Joshua Hill (Dorilant) completing the company. Thrust into the excesses and seductions of late 1920s London: a city exploding with a heavy mix of jazz, gin and scandalous affairs the production, opens at Southwark Playhouse on 4 April, with previews from 28 March, and runs until 21 April. Full casting still to be announced.

The 2018 Auckland Fringe is the first annual iteration of the festival - an organic result of the momentum created from the success of the 2017 Fringe. The Auckland Fringe has existed in various guises since 2009, but it wasn't until the current Festival Director Lydia Zanetti took over during make-or-break times, and carried off an explosive Auckland Fringe in 2017 that we've seen it start to show its teeth.

Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution announced today the all-new period drama “The Alienist” has been licensed to STUDIOCANAL in France. The show will premiere on POLAR+ (CANAL+ Group's leading crime channel) in April.

Underbelly Festival is back for its tenth year on the Southbank with an incredible line-up, including headline shows from four countries across four different continents by some of the finest purveyors of circus in the world.

The South Side of Chicago is noted for its gritty streets, drug dealers, drive by shootings and pressure for Black men and boys to not only protect their turf, but be 'prideful' and not allow themselves to be slave to the ways of the 'massa' (the white bosses).

From the pen of legendary composer Marvin Hamlisch, the Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize-winning singular sensation, A CHORUS LINE, is dancing into the Civic Arts Plaza on March 22-25, 2018.

WP Theater and The Bushwick Starr, in association with New Georges, are pleased to announce that due to popular demand, [PORTO], the upside-down romantic comedy written by Obie Award Winner Kate Benson (Super Magic Wild Forest, Desert) and directed by Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (Bull in a China Shop, Caught), will extend. Previously scheduled through February 25,[PORTO] will now play its final performance on Sunday, March 4, 2018 at WP Theater (2162 Broadway).

Just when the grimness is becoming tiresome, Philip Goodhew's script is transformed by an injection of darkest comedy without ever losing its focus as a searing indictment of modern life.

Tuesday night marked the opening night of the Off-Broadway premiere of [PORTO], a new play by Obie Award Winner Kate Benson presented byWP Theater and The Bushwick Starr, in association with New Georges.

In a production that relies more on extras' physicality and odd choreography than it does on singing and musicianship - opera's intrinsic components - Barrie Kosky experiments with too many genres and fails to grasp one.

Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel will extend its run in London's West End with three performances announced at the Savoy Theatre following this month's date at Piccadilly Theatre.

Sentinel Pictures and XYZ Films announced today that Amber Heard has been cast as the lead in the romantic thriller RUN AWAY WITH ME, directed by Fred Grivois. Based on an original screenplay by Matthew Ian Cirulnick and produced by Adam Brawer and David Beitchman of Sentinel Pictures, the film will be executive produced by Nate Bolotin and Aram Tertzakian of XYZ with Raphaël Rocher of Empreinte Cinema also serving as an executive producer. RUN AWAY WITH ME is scheduled for production later this year with XYZ handling worldwide sales at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. Sentinel Pictures acquired this as an original pitch by Cirulnick and they developed it together.

Mayo Performing Arts Center presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey.

Poetry pioneers Bang Said The Gun continue their rise as the Best Poetry Night in the UK (voted by the Times) performing a further three shows at Soho Theatre in 2018, having taken their trademark raucous stand-up poetry to the venue last year. The spoken word impresarios will showcase their latest verse on 26th January featuring special guests 4 Talent, The Stage, and Fringe First Award winner Luke Wright and Ferrago Slam winner Sophie Cameron, with more poetry spectaculars on the 26th of February and March.

From the pen of legendary composer Marvin Hamlisch, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning singular sensation, A CHORUS LINE, is dancing into Easton at the State Theatre on Friday, March 2nd.

This February, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Miss Nightingale, will make its West End debut at the prestigious Theatre at the Hippodrome Casino in London's Leicester Square, for a strictly limited seven-week run in their 180-seat theatre, from 21 March - 6 May.

Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger's powerful documentary INTENT TO DESTROY: Death, Denial & Depiction, which was produced by Survival Pictures, RadicalMedia, and Third Eye Motion Picture Company in association with Bloom Project will premiere on iTunes on February 1st.  The highly engrossing film-within-a film centers on the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and emerged as one of the most critically acclaimed films at this year's Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Festivals. 

The Emerging Filmmakers Project (EFP) is a monthly event held at The Bug Theatre the third Thursday of every month at 8:00 PM. Thursday, February 15, 2018 will be a special EFP to honor local actress, Stacy Farrar, who passed away in May of 2017. Tickets are $5 at the door. 3654 Navajo Street in Denver. Doors open at 7:30 PM and the screening begins at 8:00 PM.