UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 375

New production photos have been released from the multi award-winning, critically acclaimed production of Cabaret at the KIT KAT CLUB in London’s West End, currently starring BAFTA Award winner Aimee Lou Wood as ‘Sally Bowles’, Olivier Award nominee John McCrea as ‘The Emcee’ and 

Following its triumphant return for the first time since the pandemic, VAULT Festival, the UK’s leading festival of live performance, has been advised by its venue-landlord, The Vaults, that it must find a new home for future festivals.

Award-winning Kerry will play Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in the town’s prestigious annual Shakespeare production.

In historian Orlando Figes’ debut play, Flaubert’s friends Ivan Turgenev, Émile Zola, and George Sand urge him to either strip down his writing to please the masses or get a temporary job to fend off his creditors.

In Sylvia, the subject of the show is potentially fascinating, with much comparison to draw to the current day; echoes of recent police brutality against women, the challenges against the right to protest and the fight for equal pay rumble on 100 years later.

The REcreate Agency and Triptych Theatre present Vermin, written by Benny Ainsworth at Arcola Theatre, running 14 March - 1 April.

Josh loves Eurovision.

Judith Amsenga, Audrey Anderson, Jack Bennett, Joanne Clifton, Wesley Griffith, Gabriel Paul star in  ‘Windfall’, which arrives at London’s Southwark Playhouse following a critically acclaimed run in New York in 2022.

Oldham Coliseum has proposed that it will permanently close on 31 March.

This March, Aurora Orchestra will illuminate one of classical music’s most recognisable works – Beethoven’s Symphony No.

An illustrious line-up of special guest artists including Grammy award-winning Clean Bandit, internationally recognised cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Chineke! Orchestra, Europe’s first ethnically diverse professional orchestra, award-winning jazz organisation Tomorrow’s Warriors, hitmaker Charlie

Tickets from just £24 for Shirley Valentine, starring Sheridan Smith

An autobiographical piece, it acquaints its audience with Brian, an eccentric American writer living with HIV.

The production makes a farce of geopolitical tensions and falls short in satire.

PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL will embark on a UK and Ireland Tour opening at the Birmingham Alexandra Theatre on 17 October 2023.

Damian Lewis will play his only current London gig at the truly beautiful and intimate Grade II* listed Hoxton Hall on Friday 3 March 2023 at 7.

The award-winning West End production of Disney’s THE LION KING will welcome Owen Chaponda (Back to the Future; The Colour Purple) and Merryl Ansah (Heathers; Crazy for You), who will step into the iconic roles of ‘Simba’ and ‘Nala’, this spring.

With Zadie Smith’s The Wife of Willesden about to transfer to the US, Kiln Theatre has announced the full cast for the world première of Ryan Calais Cameron’s new play based on a true event in the life of actor Sidney Poitier in 1950s Hollywood – Ian Bonar (Bobby), Ivanno Jeremiah (S

A heartfelt theatrical triptych that poses powerful questions about culture and community

Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) has the potential to be an unstructured mess, but has the joyous, slightly chaotic nature of an irreverent fringe production, with the wit and slick satire of a carefully crafted piece more than worthy of the West End.

The full company has been announced for the Tony Award-winning Titanic The Musical, which embarks on a tour of the UK from 16 March 2023.

From Breakthrough Memoir award winner Sophie Bentinck comes Pauline, a new comedy drama about finding your nan's suicide note.

Get a first look at photos of Sheridan Smith in rehearsals for SHIRLEY VALENTINE at The Duke of York’s Theatre!

Get a first look at photos of imitating the dog's premiere of their audacious and dazzling new retelling of William Shakespeare’s tale of ambition, deception, and downfall – Macbeth.

The magic of theatre was alive and well on Friday, February 10th, as 9 cast members from the original West End production of A Chorus Line made a surprise appearance at the evening performance.