UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 192

Final casting has been announced and additional tickets have been released for the 15th Anniversary reunion concert of the original West End production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s Tony, Olivier and Grammy award-winning musical SPRING AWAKENING, based on the play by Frank Wedekind.

Charlie Brooks will play the role of The Childcatcher in the new production of CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.

Life With Oscar is an autobiographical monologue written, and performed by Nicholas Cohen that takes the audience on a trip to the darker side of La La Land.

Alistair McDowall’s critically acclaimed Captain Amazing opens this May at Southwark Playhouse.

Holly Spillar: HOLE is, as described by Spillar herself, “a one-woman vagina show” in which she uses only her voice and a loop pedal to tell the story of her journey with vaginismus, an involuntary tensing of the vagina that prevents penetrative sex.

The full cast has been announced for the UK premiere of Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis directed by Michael Longhurst at Hampstead Theatre from 3 May to 15 June.

Recently, I was invited to attend a special curator event at Direct from Graceland: Elvis at the Arches London Bridge.

The Emmy, Golden Globe and Olivier award-winning actor Brian Cox, has made his return to the London stage in Jeremy Herrin’s new production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

Eugene O'Neill's classic play of family strife has had regular revivals in London (most recently in 2018 and 2012).

A major revival of Jerry Herman's Jerry's Girls will open at The Menier Chocolate Factory next month.

Lovingly snug, like you’ve been invited to into the warm for a cup of tea and a biscuit on a rainy day.

The full cast and creative team have been announced for Withnail and I at Birmingham Rep, working alongside the previously announced Robert Sheehan as Withnail, Adonis Siddique as Marwood and Malcolm Sinclair as Uncle Monty.

Alfie Boe is joining the starry cast of With All Our Hearts, an exciting West End Gala at the Adelphi Theatre that will celebrate over 75 years of the NHS.

A special one-off performance of Dudes Sing the Divas! is coming to The Other Palace.

Early in Power of Sail, we learn it’s firmly set in 2019.

Pansexual Pirate Pregnancy, a musical created by Eleanor Colville, Ro Suppa, Robbie Taylor Hunt and directed by Taylor Hunt, tells the story of Anne Bonny (Ro Suppa), an 18th-century woman who left her life on land behind to become a pirate.

Mary O’Connell: Money Princess starts with a bang, as O’Connell emerges from behind the curtains, money guns in hand, spraying money over the audience as “Big Spender” plays.

The Divine Mrs S is a load of… silliness.

A tale for our time - a thought that brings both a disillusioned sense that little has changed in 150 years but also a sense that things can

Player Kings, led by Ian McKellen, has released all new artwork ahead of its first preview in the West End this Monday 1 April.

Bare, a “coming-of-age rock musical,” is coming to the London Palladium for one night only on Sunday 7 April as a concert.

This weekend, Netflix star Mason Alexander Park brings The Pansy Craze to Underbelly Soho, a theatrical concert series chronicling multiple periods in history where queerness was celebrated, commodified, consumed, and then criminalised.

Tickets are available from £65 for An Enemy Of The People at the Duke Of York's Theatre! Find out how to get discount tickets here!

A pitch-black comedy thriller which gives Franz Kafka a run for his money, Don’t.

A cringy boss, a pricky employee and an annual review that goes rather wrong.