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Guildhall School of Music & Drama Announces Spring 2023 Events by Aliya Al-Hassan
- November 25, 2022 This spring, Guildhall School of Music & Drama presents a varied programme of events for the public to enjoy, including concerts, drama productions, opera and jazz.
Review: BAGHDADDY, Royal Court by Alexander Cohen
- November 25, 2022 There is an interesting theme emerging in the Royal Court's new season. Each play so far has been part of a paradigm shift towards exploring intensely personal stories and questions. It doesn't feel like a knee jerk reaction to a post Covid world. It feels like there is something more fundamental going on.
Review: ELF THE MUSICAL, Dominion Theatre by Franco Milazzo
- November 25, 2022 When Elf The Musical last set foot in London, the critics noted its family appeal, the syrupy content and the extortionate ticket prices. Has much changed this time around?
Black Friday: Save up to 38% on THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN by Aliya Al-Hassan
- November 25, 2022 Save up to 38% on The Wife Of Willesden. After a sold-out, critically acclaimed run in 2021, Alvita, The Wife of Willesden returns for one more round at the bar.
UK Tour Dates Announced For Curve and Sadler's Wells Production of 42ND STREET by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 The Curve and Sadler's Wells production of the musical 42nd STREET will open at Curve, Leicester on Wednesday 17th May 2023, followed by a season at Sadler's Wells, London from Wednesday 7th June 2023 before embarking on a UK tour visiting Canterbury, Leeds, Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Liverpool, Manchester, Southampton, Newcastle, Woking and Belfast.
THE ELEPHANT SONG Makes its UK Premiere at the Park Theatre in 2023 by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 Fraught with mind-games and verbal tugs-of-war, the UK premiere of this Canadian play sets a hospital director against a patient to find a missing psychiatrist. Against the advice of his colleagues, Dr Greenberg is determined to question Michael and ends up in a turbulent power struggle, trying to find the truth in Michael's stories of elephants and opera, his distant mother, his forced stay, and his sexuality.
Full Casting Announced For ONCE - IN CONCERT Starring Carrie Hope Fletcher and Jamie Muscato by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 The full cast has been announced for ONCE – IN CONCERT at the London Palladium on Sunday 12 March (at 3pm and 7pm). ONCE - IN CONCERT, which went on sale on 23 September before adding a second performance due to public demand, has only a limited number of tickets still available.
Southbank Centre Announces 2023 Classical Music Programme by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 The Southbank Centre's classical season delivers an expansive and diverse programme in 2023 that features over hundred events from a breadth of highly acclaimed international musicians and forward- thinking creatives.
Royal Court Theatre Announces Partnership With SISTER by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 The Royal Court Theatre has announced a three-year partnership with SISTER, the independent studio and entertainment providers behind content such as the multi-award winning Chernobyl, Landscapers and This is Going to Hurt.
Theatre Royal Stratford East Will Capture CINDERELLA Live For Streaming by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 Following the success of previous live streams of Red Riding Hood, Dick Whittington and Rapunzel to East London charities, Theatre Royal Stratford East will once again make their annual panto, this year Cinderella, available online to local hospitals, hospices and care homes.
Review: HENRY V, Shakespeare's Globe by Cindy Marcolina
- November 25, 2022 Winter has come to the Globe and it brought Henry V to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse for the first time in its history. Holly Race Roughan directs William Shakespeare’s patriotic tale of pride, King, and country in a seductively lit evening that desperately wants to be a fresh anti-imperialist take but stumbles lightly on its own steps. The production - created in collaboration with Headlong Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, and Royal & Derngate - suggests a number of progressive, contemporary ideas that don’t quite take root fully.
Finborough Theatre Presents HE WHO OPENS THE DOOR by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 The Finborough Theatre's digital initiative #FinboroughFrontier continues with a play from Ukrainian playwright Neda Nezhdana whose Pussycat in Memory of Darkness recently received press acclaim for its live production at the Finborough Theatre including an OffWestEnd nomination for Best New Play.
FOIL ARMS AND HOG Announces Extra Dates For 2023 Tour by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 Foil Arms and Hog have added two extra dates to their Autumn 2023. Hogwash will now open at Theatre Royal Brighton on 28th September and the dynamic trio have also added an extra date at London's iconic Palladium on 5th October.
Helen George Will Lead UK Tour of THE KING AND I by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 Helen George, known to millions for the past decade as Trixie in the hit BBC One series Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens in a major new UK tour of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, beginning at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre on 4 February.
BRILLIANT JERKS Comes to Southwark Playhouse This Spring by BWW News Desk
- November 25, 2022 Following a sell-out run at VAULT Festival in 2018, Brilliant Jerks returns as a full-length production this spring at Southwark Playhouse. From innovative award-winning writer Joseph Charlton (Industry, HBO/BBC; ANNA X, Harold Pinter Theatre), the show is a fast, touching and scandal-driven show based on the creation of a multi-billion-dollar app.
GREY MAN, Streaming Online by Louise Penn
- November 25, 2022 Grey Man is a fascinating piece of digital theatre, a drama in storytelling, which by the end feels like an elaborate deception to scare the soul. Writer Lulu Raczka has created a play which is strange, familial, and downright weird.
Review: A SHERLOCK CAROL, Marylebone Theatre by Gary Naylor
- November 24, 2022 Super fun for Christmas with two of the world's most loved Victorian characters together at last
Photos: First Look at MOTHER GOOSE at Hackney Empire by Aliya Al-Hassan
- November 24, 2022 Hackney Empire has released production images for its 23rd Christmas pantomime Mother Goose which began previews on 19 November. The production runs until 31 December with press night on 1 December.
Christmas Concerts Announced at Marylebone Theatre by Aliya Al-Hassan
- November 24, 2022 Curated by Robin Tyson (King’s Singers), five outstanding concerts by some of the most celebrated performers in the UK will open Marylebone Theatre’s music programming this December.