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Take a look at the poster for the new film adaptation of David Haig's Pressure, featuring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser surrounded by airplanes and smoke as the war rages around them.

Focus Features has dropped the trailer and first-look photos for Pressure, the upcoming film adaptation of David Haig's play starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser. Check it out now.

TheaterWorks Hartford has revealed a new venue for the upcoming world premiere of Circus Fire. The performances will now be held at The First Company Governor's Foot Guard.

Greater Boston Stage Company announces its production of WAIT UNTIL DARK, featuring a unique dual casting for the lead role. The show will run with an intermission, promising a thrilling theatrical experience.

Convention Play LLC will present workshop production of an immersive theatrical event, Convention, produced by Justin Brock Schantz and written and directed by Danny Rocco.

Parade viewers will see fewer Broadway performances on television this year. According to the official CBS schedule, CBS will not air the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade live in 2024.

Actors Chris Messina and Damian Lewis have joined the cast of Pressure, the upcoming screen adaptation of David Haig's play. In the film, they will play Colonel Irving P. Krick and British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, respectively.

Kerry Condon has joined the cast of Pressure, the upcoming screen adaptation of David Haig's play. In the film, she will portray Captain Kay Summersby, the chauffeur and personal secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower. The real-life figure was played by Laura Rogers in previous stage productions. 

In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, the first London production since 1927 of Sidney Howard’s The Silver Cord will open at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 3 September 2024.

Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott are set to star in Pressure, an upcoming screen adaptation of David Haig's play Pressure. Fraser and Scott will play Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg in the D-Day drama, respectively, as they navigate the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944. The movie is directed by Anthony Maras, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Haig. 

Ruth Reinhardt has been appointed as the new Music Director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, bringing her expertise and vision to the orchestra. Learn more about her background and upcoming plans.

In this video, watch as the cast of Prayer for the French Republic on Broadway unpacks their roles!

Opera Atelier opens its 2023-2024 season on October 26th at the Elgin Theatre with Gluck's ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. BroadwayWorld spoke to Opera Atelier's founding co-artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski C.M. and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg C.M. about what makes this take on the famous myth so unique.

The first London productions in more than 100 years of MAKESHIFTS AND REALITIES has revealed its cast at the Finborough Theatre. A triple bill of Makeshifts and Realities by Gertrude Robins, and Honour Thy Father by H. M. Harwood.

EDDIE, the play, ends with the recognition of Israel by the United States.  A short, two- paragraph statement immediately conveyed the backing of the world’s wealthiest nation with the world’s most powerful military.  But that was not the end of the story either for Israel or for Eddie Jacobson.

Programming has been confirmed for the 2023 Williamstown Theatre Festival summer season.

From classics to reimagined favorites, Atlanta theatre is blooming this spring with more than 10 productions across the city.

Get a first look at photos and video of The North American premiere of Pressure at the Royal Alexandra Theatre!

It’s already the third week of January and the Mirvish theatres are getting ready for what is set to be be the first full year of theatre since 2019.

David Mirvish will present the North American premiere of Pressure, written by British stage and screen star and playwright David Haig and directed by John Dove (Farinelli and the King on Broadway starring Mark Rylance) .

Screenings will kick off with the Opening Night presentation of Mark Fletcher’s Patrick and the Whale, followed by the Centerpiece Selections of Ben Klein and Violet Columbus’ The Exiles and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, with Kathlyn Horan’s The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile screening on Closing Night.

The 2022/23 Mirvish Theatre Season features 14 shows – 6 Main Season shows; 3 Off-Mirvish Season shows, and 5 Bonus shows. See the complete schedule and find out how to get tickets.

One of a new set of stamps paying tribute to women's contributions during World War Two will feature a rare photograph of female codebreakers at Bletchley Park where they operated complex  cryptographic machinery. Available from 5 May, the set celebrates the huge range of work women  undertook during the conflict. In advance of VE Day, Bletchley Park is at the forefront of peoples'  minds in a variety of ways! 

The Guthrie Theater today announced 10 ambitious, full-scale productions to commemorate the theater’s 60-year legacy: Qui Nguyen’s love-and-war comedy Vietgone; the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’ Sally & Tom, produced in collaboration with The Public Theater and more. See the full schedule and find out how to get tickets.

What a time to be opening a play about war, nationalism, and power. Max Webster’s new production of Henry V is now running at the Donmar Warehouse, and offers us a ringside seat to the harsh realities of warfare, both medieval and modern.