UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 384

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Newcomer Nominee Emily Wilson has announced new dates at the Soho Theatre, after her first run earlier in January this year was a total sell-out.

Following the announcement that Jake Wood will reprise his role as Ben in the fifth cast for 2:22 A Ghost Story, Producer Runaway Entertainment has released production photos ahead of press night on 1 February.

From one of the UK’s fastest rising and most innovative new talents comes a horrifying, hilarious, hot ticket Valentine’s date.

A mime show about the tragedy and the beauty of being human, all too human.

A disorientating and disruptive piece that challenges the nature of theatre itself.

What’s that famous quote, never work with children or animals? After a peek behind the curtain at Noises Off, there should be no doubt that drunks, adulterers, or actors prone to nosebleeds should be added to that list.

I have a confession to make - I have never been to a drag show.

You enter the Cavern's space underneath an inflatable rainbow, with the performers greeting you with smiles and asking how you are.

Jordan has continually made history this year.

After the huge success of its first musicals extravaganza last year, on Monday 27th February The National Lottery is once again bringing together the biggest shows from the world of theatre for a spectacular celebration of musicals.

Get a first look inside rehearsal for The Walworth Farce, opening at the new Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

Dystopian play, set 54 years in the future, raises questions about the direction of consumerism today

Slashed, smashed, squished, shot, stabbed and splatted: these are only some of the ways that Canadian company The Old Trout Puppet Workshop kill off their creations in the pitch-black Famous Puppet Death Scenes, making its London premiere at The Barbican as part of this year's London International M

Maureen Lipman is to return to the West End in Martin Sherman's Rose.

The boards of opera bodies across the UK have issued a plea to Arts Council England to develop a strategy for opera provision.

Since its premiere in 1982, Jim Henson's boundary-breaking film The Dark Crystal has achieved cult status.

Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel is a daringly unaccommodated piece of theatre that switches between scathingly funny stand-up and an audacious act of collective imagining.

Paines Plough, The Women's Prize for Playwriting, 45North, The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and the Orange Tree Theatre, in association with Bristol Old Vic have announced casting for Ahlam's play YOU BURY ME which will play in Bristol, Edinburgh and London from the 24th February until 22nd April

Campfire Theatre will present a queer retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic, The Little Mermaid, as Merboy.

The Royal Opera House has announced Insurrection: A work in progress – a series of semi-staged sharings in the Linbury Theatre, based on a new work currently in development that explores how we come together to understand the legacy of enslavement.

WOW Festival London will present an exclusive one-off screening of Prima Facie, starring Jodie Comer, on International Womens Day (8 March) at the BFI Southbank.

Twelve voice-over artists, a mix of actors, impressionists and comedians have just started work on recording voices for over one hundred Spitting Image characters for the World Premiere of the stage show,  Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World which previews at Birmingham Rep from 1

This first iteration of the piece is the perfect chance for the material to grow alongside its creatives: the elements of a great production are all there, they just need further polishing.

Trouble In Butetown is a world premiere by the award-winning playwright Diana Nneka Atuona, directed by Tinuke Craig.

Bloody Mary: Live! is a joy to watch.