UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 176

Two terrific leads will delight audiences, but the source material's misogyny proves too much to simply sweep aside

Watch Alexandra Burke sing the title song from Sister Act in the video here!

Starlight Express has revealed new production details, including a first look at the Starlight Auditorium at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.

Watch the West End cast of Frozen perform a punk rock cover of 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?' in the video here!

She was exceptional, but the musical written about her is anything but.

Zheng Xi Yong and Mia Kobayashi star in the new West End musical Your Lie in April by Frank Wildhorn, set in the highly competitive world of classical music competitions.

The critically acclaimed European première of Sanaz Toosi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, English has extended its run at Kiln Theatre due to public demand, now completing performances on 6 July.

'Boy Band takes audiences into a meeting of the titular group, defined in the show’s description as “a top secret club where boys of any age, gender, and orientation meet in top secret to work on choreo and sing songs of unrequited longing, a celebration of all things squishy.

The Ashton Worldwide (2024-2028) international festival continues at the Royal Opera House with the Royal Ballet on the mainstage in Ashton Celebrated.

World renowned author Kate Mosse and Agatha Christie's great grandson James Prichard have announced the winner of the Witness for the Prosecution story writing competition for secondary school students.

Interracial marriage has been legal in the United States for less than six decades.

World renowned author Kate Mosse and Agatha Christie’s great grandson James Prichard have announced the winner of the Witness for the Prosecution story writing competition for secondary school students.

The Duke of Edinburgh, National Youth Theatre’s Royal Patron, visited the charity’s Creative Production House in north London this week to meet young people and creative professionals in the early stages of their careers to hear how they have benefited from NYT support.

The Royal Court Theatre has announced the cancellation of all performances scheduled for Thursday, July 4th, to enable and encourage their cast, companies, staff, and audiences to participate in the upcoming General Election.

Yes Anderson: Tales From the Tent, performed by the improv group Tiny Dynamite, is a show in which audiencces are invited into the world of the films of Wes Anderson, with the performers creating “an anthology of linked character portraits and story fragments” based on audience suggestions.

'A Circus Sized Game Show is exactly what it says it is - a giant game show.

Rehearsal photos have been released for A CHORUS LINE opening at Curve from 28 June – 13 July, followed by a summer run at Sadler’s Wells and a UK Tour.

Dave Bibby: Baby Dinosaur starts with a simple concept - Dave Bibby is going to do a one-man show of the film Jurassic Park, putting on a mini movie for audience members.

Cameron Mackintosh and Music Theatre International have announced LET THE PEOPLE SING, a UK-wide amateur theatre project celebrating the 40th anniversary of Boublil and Schönberg's worldwide phenomenon, Les Misérables, throughout 2025.

Olivier Award winner John Dagleish will star as Benjamin Button in THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON at the Ambassadors Theatre from Thursday 10th October 2024.

Celebrating 25 years in 2024 since The Gruffalo was first published, Tall Stories will bring their magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book, The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, back to the West End this summer!

Judging from the content warnings alone, you can tell that you are in for a show with GODZ - audience interaction, strong language, nudity, haze/smoke effects, depictions and references to violence .

John Hinton: Well Well Well .

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Scary Times begins with Macarthur-Boyd telling us about a terrible gig he had recently, a charity gig in Glasgow for Freedom from Torture.

According to reports Demi Moore's chihuahua Pilaf loves attending plays as much as the rest of us.