(02/23/2022) - Hampstead Theatre has released production images for the world premiere of The Animal Kingdom, by Ruby Thomas with direction by Lucy Morrison. This new play is an observation of family dynamics told with wit and compassion featuring Paul Keating, Martina Laird, Jonathan McGuinness, Ashna Rabheru and Ragevan Vasan.
(02/21/2022) - Award-winning playwright and actor Asif Khan is taking his show Jabala and the Jinn on a UK tour this spring. This poignant family production was developed with young British Muslim actors and explores grief and friendship through the eyes of young Jabala.
(02/18/2022) - Today Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth have released a first look at new play SORRY, YOU’RE NOT A WINNER written by Samuel Bailey and directed by Jesse Jones.
(02/17/2022) - Franz Xaver Kroetz’s Tom Fool opens at the Orange Tree Theatre on 16 March, with previews from 12 March, and runs until 16 April, with direction from Diyan Zora.
(02/17/2022) - Rehearsal images have been released for the brand-new show Tempest from the multi-award-winning company behind the Edinburgh Fringe hit Electrolyte.
(02/17/2022) - Staffordshire’s New Vic Theatre have today released rehearsals images for the much-anticipated world stage premiere of Marvellous - the remarkable story of Stoke City FC kit man, clown and all-round hero, Neil ‘Nello’ Baldwin.
(02/16/2022) - Box of Tricks announced today that the postponed 2020 tour of the critically-acclaimed immersive play The Last Quiz Night on Earth by Alison Carr will visit venues this Spring from 23 February - opening at The Derby Brewery Arms, Manchester - and offer audiences a very different experience of live performance.
(02/16/2022) - Following the success of its run at King’s Head Theatre as part of their Queer Season in 2021, the full cast is announced for the return of Paul Bradshaw’s Offie nominated play tell me straight in a new run at Chiswick Playhouse, reuniting original cast members Paul Bradshaw, George Greenland and Stephanie Levi-John.
(02/16/2022) - PROUD centres around three complex characters. After his Pentecostal mother dies, Roland is liberated to live openly as a gay man. He relocates from Brixton to Walthamstow, where he unexpectedly falls for Amir, a much younger refugee with a war-torn past.
(02/15/2022) - All new production photos have been released for the musical adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s Broken Wings by Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan.
(02/14/2022) - Hampstead Theatre has released production images for the world premiere of Florian Zeller’s new play, The Forest. Running until 12 March 2022, The Forest is translated by Zeller’s long-time collaborator Christopher Hampton, and directed by Jonathan Kent, who re-unites with Zeller after his critically acclaimed production of The Height of the Storm.
(02/11/2022) - Mark Ravenhill’s Blackmail, a new version of the classic thriller originally written by Charles Bennett, opens at Mercury Theatre on 9 March, with previews from 4 March, and runs until 19 March.
(02/11/2022) - Developed with the help of over 200 deaf and hearing primary school children from Greater Manchester and written and performed in English and British Sign Language, the production positively demonstrates how we can overcome language barriers, and challenges preconceptions of deafness.
(02/11/2022) - New photos have been released for Icon Theatre’s large-scale dance, movement and light production of If Not Now, which features breath-taking visuals projected onto Rochester Castle with 175 members of the local community performing part of Medway Light Nights.
(02/10/2022) - Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon is a rollercoaster ride through youth. Whether you are a young person, know a young person, or simply were a young person once – it’s time to rip up the rule book and reconnect with your younger self.
(02/09/2022) - All new rehearsal photos have been released for The Merchant of Venice, performed in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, directed by Abigail Graham and designed by Sarah Beaton.
(02/09/2022) - All new rehearsal images have been released for James Yeatman’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, opening at Rose Theatre on 3 March 2022, with previews from 26 February and running until 19 March 2022. This production will then run at Alexandra Palace from 7 to 30 April 2022, followed by Oxford Playhouse from 4 to 14 May 2022.
(02/08/2022) - All new production photos have been released for Two Billion Beats at the Orange Tree Theatre. The production opens on 9 February, with previews from 5 February, and runs until 5 March, with a livestreamed performance via OT on Screen on 24 February, also available on demand 8-11 March.
(02/08/2022) - The cast includes Isis Davis playing Dolly, Nick Fletcher playing Karenin, Solomon Israel playing Stiva, Chris Jenks playing Count Vronsky, Adelle Leonce playing Anna, Douggie McMeekin playing Levin, Sarah Seggari playing Princess Betsy and Tara Tijani playing Kitty. All cast members make their Crucible debut.
(02/03/2022) - With Tim Price’s new stage adaptation of Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure currently running, the Donmar Warehouse today announces full cast and CATALYST trainees for Donmar Associate Director Max Webster’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry V.
(02/02/2022) - Hampstead Theatre has released rehearsal images for the world premiere of The Animal Kingdom,by Ruby Thomas with direction by Lucy Morrison. The Animal Kingdom will run at Hampstead Downstairs from 18 February until 26 March.
(02/01/2022) - London Classic Theatre is presenting a tour of Bernard Slade’s Same Time, Next Year which opens at Theatre Royal Winchester 2 Feb, before touring to Mold, Bury St Edmunds, Ilfracombe, Bracknell, Derby, Poole and Eastbourne, concluding at New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 16 April 2022.
(02/01/2022) - Akram Khan Company will present the world premiere of Akram Khan’s new work, Jungle Book reimagined – a deeply personal interpretation based on the original story of Rudyard Kipling’s much-loved family classic – at Leicester’s Curve Theatre, 2 - 9 April 2022.
(02/01/2022) - Running With Lions is an intergenerational family drama about love, loss and hope: following three generations of women, it explores what it means to allow those we love to be themselves. The production stars Bridgerton’s Ruby Barker, alongside stars of stage and screen Wil Johnson, Nickcolia King-N’da, Suzette Llewellyn and Velile Tshabalala.
(01/31/2022) - The role of Hamlet will be played by George Fouracres, who delighted audiences with his performances in the 2021 Summer Season productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night, also directed by Sean.
(01/31/2022) - One of opera’s most popular and unforgettable stories, Puccini’s La bohème is an exceptional musical and theatrical treat. When Mimì knocks at the door of four impoverished friends, Rodolfo answers and it’s love at first sight.
(01/28/2022) - The brand-new production embarked on an extensive UK tour, running at Birmingham Rep from 22 January 2022 then touring to Cambridge, Newcastle, Bath, Norwich, Salford, Plymouth, Nottingham, Coventry, Blackpool, Liverpool, Canterbury, Richmond and Wolverhampton, completing its run on 28 May 2022 at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre.
(01/27/2022) - Surely one of the most haunting love stories ever told about the secret love affair between suburban housewife Laura Jesson and an idealistic doctor, Alex Harvey, who, after a brief encounter, meet at the station cafe over the course of several weeks.
(01/26/2022) - Nimmo Ismail’s production opens on 9 February, with previews from 5 February, and runs until 5 March, with a livestreamed performance via OT on Screen on 24 February, also available on demand 8-11 March.
(01/26/2022) - All new production photos have been released for The Glow by Alistair McDowall directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.
(01/25/2022) - Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has released rehearsal images from for Miller’s compelling masterpiece, All My Sons. The revival from Director Douglas Rintoul opens at 10 February – 5 March at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, before playing at the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich 8 – 12 March.
(01/25/2022) - Searing comedy Steve opens at Seven Dials Playhouse on 8th February 2022 for its European Premiere. Running until 19th March, Steve stars Tony Award nominee and Olivier Award-winner Jenna Russell opposite Holby City’s David Ames.
(01/24/2022) - Olivier Award winner Sara Crowe, Eastern Eye Award winner Rina Fatania, Judy Flynn, and Abigail Thaw will star in Yvonne Arnaud’s production of Sheila’s Island by Tim Firth.
(01/24/2022) - Rain and Zoe Save the World, written by Crystal Skillman with original music by Bobby Cronin and directed by Hersh Ellis, will open February 17th at Jermyn Street Theatre in London.
(01/24/2022) - Adam Woodyatt and Laurie Brett will reunite as husband and wife, but this time on stage in the acclaimed World Premiere touring stage production of the Peter James best-selling novel “LOOKING GOOD DEAD”, which opens at Glasgow Theatre Royal this week.
(01/24/2022) - All new rehearsal images have been released for Human Nurture, a new play by The Stage 25’s Ryan Calais Cameron (For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy, New Diorama Theatre).
(01/21/2022) - Smith and Brant Theatricals and Ambassador Theatre Group Productions are presenting a new production of Fatal Attraction. Kym Marsh (ITV’s Coronation Street) will perform the iconic role of Alex Forrest, Oliver Farnworth (ITV’s Coronation Street) her lover, Dan Gallagher and Susie Amy (ITV’s Footballers’ Wives) his wife, Beth.
