While An American in Paris captures the dreamy glamour of old Hollywood, Simon McBurney rivetingly evokes its seedy, cynical underbelly, from backroom deals to drug busts and mobsters. Yet it is, in its own way, just as dazzling - a paean to Tinseltown myth-making as well as a blackly comic deconstruction.
Find out next week as The Underground Theatre presents Clown Bar, a 70-minute clown noir play written by Adam Szymkowicz.
Underbelly is thrilled to announce details of Underbelly Festival - a new multi-arts extravaganza on London's South Bank running from 28 April - 30 September.
The wife of a prison camp commandant is throwing a party. She asks her husband for champagne. Instead he brings home a ballet dancer from the camp.
Michael Blakemore's stellar directing career encompasses everything from landmark productions at the National, where he was associate director, to West End and Broadway hits. He was the first director to win a Tony Award for both Best Director of a Play and a Musical in the same year (for Michael Frayn's Copenhagen and Kiss, Me Kate). Now, he's helming the long-awaited UK premiere of Cy Coleman musical The Life - a gritty exploration of 1980s New York's underbelly - which he first directed on Broadway in 1997. The show begins previews at Southwark Playhouse on 25 March.
???????Following its sell-out tour in 2015, Deafinitely Theatre's Artistic Director Paula Garfield today announces a new tour of its adaptation of Kathryn Cave's much-loved children's book Something Else, illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Robert O'Hara's BOOTYCANDY has a merry old time lampooning trashy black mammas and a grandiloquent Sunday preacher, but the turbulence lurking within his gay anti-hero is indicative of the the playwright's ambivalence toward white people and his inner self-doubts.
The Harbor Stage Company, the artist-run ensemble that produces intrepid, live performance on the shores of Wellfleet Harbor, will celebrate their sixth season with another summer of ambitious, authentic theater.
Back by popular demand, Kevin Kling once again joins forces with local storytellers Heather Nicholson, Matthew Taylor and Betty Hart to share some amazing true tales!
Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.'s inaugural season concludes with David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for drama, the biting comedy follows a group of Chicago real estate agents who desperately attempt to sell plots of undesirable land to unwitting buyers. Their tactics toward their prospects, and each other, expose the ugly underbelly of a dog-eat-dog business.
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced today three of the seven productions that will comprise the lineup of the company's 2017-18 subscription season, which will include A.C.T.'s first staging of Harold Pinter's classic drama The Birthday Party, Qui Nguyen's irreverent new comedy Vietgone and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks Father Comes Home from the War (Parts 1, 2 & 3), an epic American take on The Odyssey set against the backdrop of the Civil War. The additional four productions-along with performances order and run dates-will be announced at a later date.
With English Touring Theatre's tour of Nell Gwynn having just opened, Sandi Toksvig's Silver Lining playing to sold-out houses nationwide, and its critically acclaimed co-production of Othello running in Bristol, the company today appoints three new trustees joining its Board - actor Paapa Essiedu, producer Tara Wilkinson and Greg Williams, editor of technology magazine Wired.
For over four decades, Blue Öyster Cult has been thrilling fans of intelligent hard rock worldwide with powerful albums loaded with classic songs such as 'Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll,' 'Then Came the Last Days of May,' 'I Love the Night,' 'Astronomy,' 'Black Blade,' 'Shooting Shark,' and many more! Come experience the dynamic musical tracks Blue Öyster Cult has to offer!
Ruby In The Dust announce their involvement in the Festival of Sex, Love and Death: a brand new multi-arts festival featuring an innovative and exciting programme of events: opera, cabaret, physical theatre, new writing and spoken word. The festival will form a melting pot of theatre-makers connected by the key forces that drive how we perceive and experience our lives: sex, love and death. The festival runs at the Pleasance Theatre from 22nd June to 1st July.
Hot on the heels of their smash hit 'Yellow Face,' San Francisco's Firescape Theatre presents a production of John Patrick Shanley's 'Four Dogs and a Bone' which will open today, February 24th at 8 pm. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Today the Tricycle Theatre announces initial programming for its fourth Takeover. Six venues across the borough will host more than 25 free events, screenings, performances and masterclasses across a 13 day period in April. During the Takeover, young people from across London will be invited to get involved as audiences, workshop participants and performers.
Hot on the heels of their smash hit 'Yellow Face,' San Francisco's Firescape Theatre presents a production of John Patrick Shanley's 'Four Dogs and a Bone' which will open on Friday, February 24th at 8 pm. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Back by popular demand, Kevin Kling once again joins forces with local storytellers Heather Nicholson, Matthew Taylor and Betty Hart to share some amazing true tales!
Super Channel is pleased to announce that it has acquired ICE, a high-impact, serialised crime drama set in the Los Angeles diamond trade, from Entertainment One (eOne).
Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.'s inaugural season concludes with David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for drama, the biting comedy follows a group of Chicago real estate agents who desperately attempt to sell plots of undesirable land to unwitting buyers. Their tactics toward their prospects, and each other, expose the ugly underbelly of a dog-eat-dog business.
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