UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 575

Baz Bamigboye has shared on Twitter that Private Peaceful, which just closed at The Barn Theatre, will transfer to the Garrick Theatre on November 7th for a two-week run, making it the first 'new' West End play since Lockdown.

The Performing Arts sector has united in a social media protest to highlight the urgent need for government help.

The Shows Must Go On! is celebrating the birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece The Phantom of The Opera.

The international smash hit musical SIX by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, today announces Carly Mercedes Dyer will be crowned the new Jane Seymour in the touring cast of SIX, joining the production at The Lowry on 27 November  2020.

Strictly Come Dancing fans are in for a FAB-U-LOUS treat once live entertainment venues re-open, as over the next 18 months there will be not one, not two, but THREE incredible live Strictly shows touring the UK to keep the country dancing.

Following a sold-out UK national tour, 'Here Come The Boys', featuring four superstar Kings of Dance, a brand new supporting cast and a dazzling new production, is to transfer to the West End for a 16-week season at the Garrick Theatre from 27 January, 2021.

It's been ten months in the making and now it's time for one act to triumph as the Britain's Got Talent 2020 Champion and win a life-changing £250,000 prize plus that coveted spot on the bill of the Royal Variety Performance.

We spend 12 hours at an island's pagan festival where all is not as it seems.

After nine months in lockdown, The Mill at Sonning, the UK's only dinner theatre, is to re-open its theatre on 30 October with a winter season of comedy, magic, cabarets and plays.

The Barn Theatre have released the official trailer for their upcoming revival production of the 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).

Taking place between April-July 2021, The Walk will be a global public art event that will see a 3.

Uncle Vanya is coming soon to select cinemas in the UK.

Dance is one of the most powerful tools in the process of surrendering.

Hampstead Theatre will be reopening this November with Nobel Prize-winning writer Harold Pinter's iconic early play The Dumb Waiter from 18 November to 19 December 2020.

The Performing Arts sector has united in a social media protest to highlight the urgency for government help.

Concord Theatricals partnered with animator Miranda Pla to launch another incredible animatic! a?oeTimes Are Hard for Dreamers,a?? from the musical AMÉLIE, launched today.

West End vets team up with Broadway and Hollywood stalwarts in the second episode of the all-free radio play production of Shakespeare's The Tempest which airs Thursday, October 8th at 7PM EST.

Lucie Jones (Waitress; Rent) will headline the season finale on the 31st October with a Halloween special.

Filmed in the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 'Shakespeare and Fear' is the second digital festival streaming online from 31 October to 9 November.

Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years has a brilliantly problematic narrative - two souls taking us on a journey of their relationship, but one in chronological order (Jamie), and one in reverse (Cathy).

Double Olivier nominees (and former CBBC TV presenters) Dan and Jeff return for a 10th anniversary festive season of 'Potted Panto', hot on the heels of their world tour and Las Vegas residency of Harry Potter parody 'Potted Potter'.

Theatrical charity, Acting for Others, today announce that together with their network of charities they have so far raised £3.

Hope Mill Theatre has announced that after selling-out the live run of their revival of the classic rock musical RENT in only 48 hours, the production will be filmed and broadcast online to a  strictly limited number of viewers.

Every drama teacher, youth theatre director or community arts worker knows the value of a good drama game.

Before Covid-19 hit, Nicholas Pitt was directing a new stage production, Seeds.