The West - 2022 - West End Articles Page 8

FIRE FIRE, a two-hander by John Webber exploring class tensions in climate activism, will open at Arcola Theatre before embarking on a 16-venue East of England tour, presented by Webber & Co. and Metal Rabbit.

Emmy Award Winner Derek Hough will be delivering Chicago’s opening monologue on Broadway. A post-performance talk back with Mark Ballas will follow the performance. 

Sasha Latoya and Jaimie Pruden are set to return to Mercury Theatre Colchester for JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, joining previously announced panto veterans Antony Stuart-Hicks and Dale Superville in the 2026 Christmas pantomime.

National Theatre of Scotland's THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN will tour Glasgow Cathedral, Stirling Castle, and Urquhart Castle following an Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, with Gaelic singers joining writer-performer Martin O'Connor.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's MATILDA THE MUSICAL UK and Ireland tour announced new young performers joining the company at Birmingham Hippodrome, with three new actresses set to share the title role.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson will make his Menier Chocolate Factory debut playing Truman Capote in Jay Presson Allen's TRU, directed by Rob Ashford, following the production's critically acclaimed New York run.

Tom Gold Dance announced summer engagements including a Fairfield County Dance Festival debut in Connecticut and a return to the Berkshires at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, with performances of B-SHERT and MAD ABOUT THE BOY.

Sarah Uriarte Berry will touch hearts and recall treasured memories during For The Love Of Judy. This will be a lovefest. Uriarte-Berry has starred in five Broadway shows and three Broadway National tours, in the opera house, and concert halls. She received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for her performances in the Lincoln Center production of The Light In The Piazza. Music Director and accompanist is the renowned Gerald Sternbach of both Broadway and Hollywood.

The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys will return to Midland Center for the Arts for five performances as part of a multi-city North American Tour marking its 20th Anniversary.

Stockard Channing makes her directorial debut with Samuel Beckett's KRAPP'S LAST TAPE at Latitude Festival's 20th edition, starring David Westhead, before the production heads to Edinburgh Fringe.

Drag comedian Crudi Dench, star of award-winning fringe hits Drag Queens vs Zombies and Drag Queens vs Vampires, will make her solo debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a celebrity-fuelled comedy show at Underbelly Cowgate.

Altadena Music Theatre announced its 2026 summer season with productions of GREASE and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, performed at a temporary outdoor venue at the Mountain View Mausoleum after the Eaton Fire displaced the company.

Abigail Thorn's queer Shakespearean play The Prince, which won three BroadwayWorld Awards including Best New Play, will have a staged reading at Dynasty Typewriter, with a late show added after the first sold out in under 48 hours.

Award-winning comedy icons, writers, actors, and drag queen powerhouses BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon are coming back to town for the ninth year of their internationally acclaimed, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show.

New York Festival of Song announced its upcoming season, featuring four mainstage concerts at Merkin Hall co-presented by Kaufman Music Center, plus standalone programs including A GOYISHE CHRISTMAS TO YOU! and a Juilliard collaboration.

Shakespeare's Globe announced the cast for AS YOU LIKE IT, co-directed by Sean Holmes and Charlie Josephine, who also stars as Orlando. Lola Shalam leads as Rosalind in the Globe Theatre production.

East Midlands theatre company New Perspectives announced Andrew Broadley, Executive Director of MGCfutures, as its new Chair of the Board of Trustees, as the company enters a new Arts Council England funding period.

Netflix's 'Owning Manhattan' star Chloe Tucker Caine will make her Broadway debut as Anne Boleyn, while Hamilton alum Stephanie Jae Park joins SIX as Catherine Parr at the Lena Horne Theatre.

BIFA-nominated actor Lauryn Ajufo will play Tracey Gordon in Theatre503 and tiata fahodzi's revival of Michaela Coel's debut play, stepping into the role Coel originally performed herself.

Theatre Rhinoceros and The Tank NYC are set to present THE BATTLE OF GUADACANAL, conceived and performed by John Fisher. John explains that the Battle of Guadalcanal serves as a metaphor for the battle he and his husband have faced during his husband's cancer journ

Kitchen Sink Theatre Company (Katie Royse Ginther, Artistic Director) is set to present a reading of the new play “NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: a Transsexual Rage(r)' which is written by Oscar K, directed by Fae Hartt (Whipoorwhill Calls).

Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums. 

Northern Ireland Opera announced the first cast and creative team for its inaugural staging of Bizet's Carmen at Belfast's Grand Opera House, directed by Artistic Director Cameron Menzies.

The RSC announced new productions for its 2026-27 season, including Sharon D Clarke in OTHELLO, a world premiere by Stewart Pringle, and a touring MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR visiting regional theatres across England.

East West Players will launch its 61st season by centering female, queer, and marginalized voices, both onstage and off. The mainstage season opens with the Southern California premiere of the comedy Wives by Jaclyn Backhaus.