August in England - 2023 - West End Articles Page 16

Shakespeare North Playhouse has announced its lineup of performances, workshops and events for the upcoming 2023 Summer Season. 

British comedy sensation Myra DuBois will be making a spectacular return to London's West End with a four day residency at Sadler's Wells' Peacock Theatre.  Following what will undoubtedly be an epic return to this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Myra will bring her brand new show 'Be Well' to the West End from Wednesday 13th to Saturday 16th of September.

Matthew Bourne's New Adventures, in partnership with Farnham Maltings, is delighted to announce the return of Doorstep Duets, touring to communities across the South-East this summer from 11 July to 5 August 2023.

The creative team bringing Helen Forrester play By The Waters Of Liverpool to stages across the UK this Autumn have revealed its full cast – along with a change to the Liverpool venue opening the tour. 

With their production of Sasha Hails’ Possession about to open at the company’s home base, Arcola Theatre, led by Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen and Executive Director Leyla Nazli, has announced their new season.

Creative Cauldron's always popular Summer Cabaret and Concert series returns with a diverse line up of spectacular musical theater talent and professional bands. The series runs from July 7 through August 26, 2023 with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm.  A special fundraiser concert for the Pulmonary Heart Association will be held on Saturday, July 29 at 2 pm. General Admission Tickets are available and also Tables for 2 and Tables for 4 that include wine with the purchase. 

La Jolla Playhouse’s production of Is It Thursday Yet? will premiere July 11 – August 6 in the Playhouse’s Forum Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets!

The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF) has announced its 2023 summer concert series, running from July 25-August 18, 2023.

The Cape Playhouse, the longest-running professional summer theatre in the country, will continue its 2023 Summer season on June 21st with an exciting retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.

Pentabus has announced their 2023 Summer/Autumn Season which features one new commission, one new digital theatre online release, four new Associate Artists and the return of Pentabus Young Writers live production with seven new brilliant plays.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts have announced the return of Music Mondays; the hit summer concert series that invites artists to perform for audiences and share stories of their time on and off the stage.

Internationally acclaimed musician Yungblud has returned with a landmark new single ‘Lowlife,’ out now. He neglected the notion of being beholden to influences when writing the single and entered the studio with producer Paul Meany with no references or preconceived idea of the outcome. Check out upcoming tour dates!

The news comes alongside the first details of a unique summer tour that Tiersen is embarking on with QUINQUIS, aka Emilie Tiersen who recently released SEIM, an album that merges sparse electronics, immersive atmospherics with quietly soaring Breton language vocals.

The forthcoming album, I Inside the Old Year Dying - Harvey’s first since 2016’s Grammy-nominated The Hope Six Demolition Project. This highly anticipated release is produced by long-time collaborators Flood and John Parish. The animated music video was directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña.

Following packed performances in New York City (Asylum NYC), Jersey City (Jersey City Theater Center), and Boston (Rockwell & New Rep), NYC-based queer actor and comic Michael John Ciszewski is touring his third solo show LOVEFOOL from June to August 2023, with performances throughout NYC as well as in Providence, RI, Provincetown, MA, and Jersey City, NJ! The show is co-created with Brian Dudley and directed by Noah Simes.

Red Bull Theater has announced the eight world premieres selected for the company’s 13th annual Short New Play Festival.

What did our critic think of WALKING TO BUCHENWALD at Convergence-continuum? At the start of the opening night of BUCKENWALD, it appeared that no matter the quality of the script the audience was in for a rough night.  Lighting guffaws, a confusing scene with actors speaking directly to the audience, but talking to other actors seemingly miles apart, with no visual means of the messages being conveyed.  Not a healthy beginning.

Luke Combs has added second nights to his sold-out stadium shows in Tampa, Charlotte, Foxborough, and Philadelphia. Special guests for the new dates include Lainey Wilson, Turnpike Troubadours, The Avett Brothers, Gary Allan, Old Crow Medicine Show, David Lee Murphy and Brent Cobb.  

Come Together: A Multimedia Beatles Experience, which has become a monthly residency at City Winery Boston, is moving to a Weekend Brunch time beginning June 18th.

The Cleveland Orchestra announced updates to musician personnel with five new members and one member to a first assistant principal position. Earlier this year, Charles Paul, a bass section member since 2022, was appointed first assistant principal bass.

Broadway Dreams (Annette Tanner, Founder & President), a leading non-profit performing arts training program, is kicking off its 2023 Summer Intensive Tour “Immerse Yourself” this week in Nashville, TN.

The effort was produced by fellow Compton native and GRAMMY-Award winning producer Sounwave (Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Chloe x Halle). Jacob Lusk has served as a background singer for icons like Gladys Knight, Diana Ross, Beck, St. Vincent, and Nate Dogg.

London's Finborough Theatre has announced its new ReDiscovery Season, featuring one of the biggest West End hits of the 1930s; a forgotten female playwright; one of the most controversial dramas of its day, banned by the censor; a family tragedy in rural Ireland; and one of the biggest comic smash hits of the 1980s.

Summer kicks off in style on London's stage, with the return of Andy Karl in the Old Vic's Groundhog Day, to the West End transfers of Peter Morgan's latest play and the arrival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning big, Black, and queer American musical, A Strange Loop.

Theatre Aspen and the Aspen Music Festival and School announced the complete casting for the special presentation of Master Class. See who is starring, and learn how to purchase tickets!