UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 245

All new rehearsal photos have been released from the first ever UK and Ireland tour of the multi award-winning HAMILTON, which begins performances at the Manchester Palace Theatre from Saturday 11 November 2023.

Helen Wallace has been appointed the new Head of Music at the Barbican.

Written by Paul Unwin, and directed by Angus Jackson, The Enfield Haunting will play at Brighton Theatre Royal and Richmond Theatre, before moving to The Ambassadors Theatre in London for a limited West End season from 30 November 2023 until 2 March 2024.

Riddled with cliched dialogue and unfunny gags, much of the play is spent watching a dysfunctional family bicker through meandering conversations with little structure or purpose.

Photos have been released of Matthew Dunster's new version of Harold Pinter’s powerful masterpiece, The Homecoming at the Young Vic.

Following sold-out shows at its premiere at the Beck Theatre, Jamaica Love returns with its musical celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Windrush.

Adam Blanshay Productions and Park Theatre kick off the New Year with the UK Premiere of the award-winning original stage play Kim’s Convenience which spawned the beloved hit Netflix sitcom of the same name.

Grey Area’s Artistic Director, Georgie Rankcom, will direct Grace Mouat (Six) and Jacob Fowler (Heathers) in this musical love story about a couple given a second shot at happiness.

Up and down show about the annual cheese-chase in Gloucestershire as a metaphor for seizing control of one's destiny

All new rehearsal photos have been released from the new UK touring cast of WICKED.

A Spotlight On has announced its guests for the West End's first chat show coming to London this December.

Generational inheritance is the central question beating at the heart of Dan Sareen’s cosy domestic drama Passing.

New musical I Should Be So Lucky had to be halted for 14 minutes at Manchester's Opera House theatre - after a disturbance involving audience members.

Less a bust up of two of the 20th century’s great British artists, Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden is a celebration of the artists’ curious friendship, and shared artistic virtuosity.

Sam Wu is Now Afraid of Ghosts and How to Catch a Star are both coming to the Polka Theatre.

This December, The Yard Theatre is tossing out tired tunes and tropes in favour of full-throttle festive folly.

An alleged hit at the Fringe in 2022, it disappears on a bigger stage and sadly becomes a steady trudge.

Composer, Producer Jeff Wayne and Layered Reality, the UK’s leading immersive experience specialist, has announced an extension  of their  licensing agreement following the resounding success of their multi-award winning show Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience.

An all new video has been released of the studio recording of the song 'If I Believed', performed by Dujonna Gift and Sam Tutty, from the new British musical, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).

London’s West End is to get a new fringe theatre right in the heart of Covent Garden.

Liberation Squares, a brand-new co-production with the innovative new writing champions Fifth Word Theatre company, and in association with Brixton House, is announced as the lead Neville Studio production for spring 2024 at Nottingham Playhouse.

Tickets from £35 for Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends.

Every Christmas we are promised a 'new take' on either Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

27 years ago, in 1997, I co-founded a theatre company with five friends.

The introduction of Tom Brace: A Trick Down Memory Lane is a fascinating one in which a disembodied voice recounts the time when Derren Brown played Russian Roulette live on television, creating a controversy not only in the world of magic but in general.