UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 566

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm penned the now three-time Olivier Award-winning play, Emilia, which tells her story.

The Barn Theatre's recent revival production of Stephen Sondheim musical Marry Me A Little starring Rob Houchen (Les Misérables, The Light in the Piazza) and Celinde Schoenmaker (Rocketman, The Phantom of the Opera) will be streamed digitally from 19-22 November.

Dreamgirls has announced the postponement of its previously announced 2020-21 UK tour.

Earlier this year Jamie Morton, co-creator of popular podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno, was touring North America when the live shows were shut down due to COVID-19.

Make Your Own Musicals, a company started in lockdown, has been making musical activity packs for children to write their own original mini-musicals at home.

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Gary Barlow's Night At The Museum will see the award-winning singer songwriter performing both new music, from his new album ‘Music Played By Humans’, and some of his greatest hits accompanied by an orchestra in the splendid setting of London's iconic Natural History Museum.

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's groundbreaking piece Emilia gets another outing in online form after empowering audiences on the Southbank and in the West End last year.

On this day ten years ago, Matilda the Musical had its first performance in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The release of Dom O’Hanlon’s Theatre in Times of Crisis: 20 Scenes for the Stage in Troubled Times is certainly timely, even without COVID.

15 Heroines is a major new digital project by Jermyn Street Theatre in collaboration with Digital Theatre Plus.

The Stage UK has reported that UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden shared his commitment to ensuring that lockdown restrictions in do not last longer than necessary.

A star cast will join Brian Conley in the new, musical staged concert of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent's A Christmas Carol, which is set to play a strictly limited season at the Dominion Theatre in London.

Jason Robert Brown's Songs For a New World will transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre for a strictly limited run from 9 February, with previews from 5 February, running until 7 March.

Wise Children, Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic, announce dates for the digital tour of Daniel Jamieson's The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk directed by Emma Rice.

A glittering new 'Covid-Secure' production of SHOUT! the Mod Musical is being produced at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate Village, from 10 March until 18 April 2021, with Press Night on 12 March 2021 at 7.

If you're looking for something a bit different for the theatre fan in your life this year - we've got you covered!

I've learned that theatre can absolutely work online, especially with new pieces that have been imagined specifically for that format.

Cameron Mackintosh with First Night Records and Warner Music have officially released the new live cast recording of the Olivier Award winning hit West End production of Mary Poppins today, Friday, November 6.

The release of the brand new 2020 Mary Poppins cast recording could not have come along at a better time.

In the next episode of the podcast series What I Love, acclaimed director Ian Rickson meets international theatre producer Sonia Friedman, who chooses a favourite song, film and piece of writing to highlight what we are all in danger of losing.

American actor David Bedella's incredible work includes playing Kevin Rosario in In the Heights and the Warm Up Man/Satan in Jerry Springer: The Opera - both of which netted him Olivier Awards.

The UK Touring cast of the global smash-hit musical SIX, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, will be performing live as part of BBC Children In Need's 40th anniversary broadcast.

After selling out their West End show in less than a day, Roles We'll Never Play have added an extra date at the Apollo Theatre, London.

The Yard Theatre's brand new programme, Live Lab, is a four month paid opportunity for six artists to take part in workshops, masterclasses and to create new work with a funded week-long research and development stage.