UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 348

After the first UK tour dates sold out within hours of going on general sale, Mick Perrin Worldwide is delighted to announce new dates for Australia's favourite absurdist sketch group, Aunty Donna.

through the noise, the organisation working to further the reach of live classical music, has announced that its acclaimed crowdfunded concert series in clubs, noisenights, will launch its first outdoor season with a festival-style summer residency at The Speakeasy in Dalston from July.

All new photos have been released for the ninth cast of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution which has recently extended its run at London County Hall until 28 April 2024, making it London’s longest running site specific theatre production.

All new cast production photos have been released for The Play That Goes Wrong - currently booking at The Duchess Theatre until April 2024.

Following the success of last year's festival, Greenwich Dance and Arts Trust Productions have announced the return of Summer in the Park, a series of free performances and dance experiences presented in parks and outdoor spaces across Greenwich and Bexley throughout the summer.

Following a limited run in 2019, where it received critical and audience acclaim, F.

Gladys Knight will open this year’s esteemed Hampton Court Palace Festival on 6 June, the only London date of her 2023 Farewell Tour.

Strap yourselves in for an all-singing, all-glamour LAUGHFEST, that skewers the tabloid-shifting celebs and pop-singers, right through their shallow hearts to the tune of their own songs, delivered by an adorably insane character who secretly just wants to be one of them!

Tangerines is a punchy new play exploring the monarchy & their relationship to queerness.

This is the royal event of the year.

Leading specialist theatre publishers Nick Hern Books will publish the stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara's bestselling novel A Little Life alongside its sold-out run in London's West End.

The producers of the Olivier Award nominated SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL have announced that the production will return to the West End at the Dominion Theatre from Friday 15 March to Saturday 31 August 2024.

The critically acclaimed Sheffield Theatres’ production of Standing at the Sky’s Edge will transfer to the Gillian Lynne Theatre, in London’s West End, from February 2024.

Show Of The Month: Tickets From £30 for We Will Rock You 21 years since it all began… the world’s favourite rock theatrical returns home!

Award-winning saxophonist YolanDa Brown OBE DL has been announced as the host of the Love In Mind concert taking place on 30th April at the Southbank Centre to launch the Harvey Parker Trust, a new charity supporting the mental health and well-being of young creatives.

In this special and one-off event led by the BBC Proms, author of Atonement and one of the finest writers of his generation, Ian McEwan collaborates with the BBC symphony Orchestra and reads extracts from his own works with music curated around his readings and a special guest appearance from jazz

The Roundhouse in association with leading live comedy production company Berk's Nest have announced the initial slate of 2023 programming for the first ever Roundhouse Comedy Festival.

John Haidar’s production of Hamlet .

After having her run at VAULT Festival rudely interrupted by the pandemic three years ago, Alexandra Donnachie is currently touring her self-penned one-woman-show When We Died.

A necessary play that is as entertaining as it is moving

Sugar Coat is a piece of gig theatre, telling a story of growing up, trauma, and sex through pop punk music.

According to The Guardian, the West End production of Bat Out of Hell was halted during the Thursday, March 30th evening performance by a disruptive audience member.

A jagged knife of a play that could cut deeper.

April has some truly exciting theatre in store.

Leicester's Curve theatre will stage a brand-new production of Evita, running 27 November 2023 to 13 January 2024.