UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 59

Anyone who thinks Lily Allen's simply an upstart pop star plonked onstage to pull in the punters and rake in the cash, well, you can think again.

Ever since I was first introduced to Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in a course I took in university on Western Theatrical Dance, I have been in love with the piece.

This September, Sadler’s Wells will present a month of international dance, featuring UK premieres from Associate Artists Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Michael Keegan-Dolan, International Associate Company Acosta Danza, and a return from London City Ballet, alongside acclaimed productions at the Peacoc

Milton Jones will resume his HA!MILTON UK tour in September 2025 following a successful recovery from prostate cancer.

RuPaul's Drag Race star Jan Sport will make her U.

Watford Palace Theatre has unveiled the opening of five newly developed creative spaces.

The Chichester Festival Theatre production of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will transfer to the West End.

You can now get a first look at Ncuti Gatwa as Kit Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare in Born With Teeth, which marks its West End premiere presented by Playful Productions, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Elizabeth Williams.

We are delighted to report that real fringe theatre is back.

 

Insert Laughter Here will return to London for Camden Fringe 2025 with Spin-a-Play, a fully improvised comedy show where the audience chooses the genre, story, and ending.

SPID Theatre (Social Progressive Interconnected Diverse) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and marks the refurbishment of its base at North Kensington’s Kensal House.

Additional cast members have been revealed for the UK & Ireland Tour of DEATH ON THE NILE.

Olivier-nominated West End and Broadway star Marisha Wallace will release her new album Live in London on August 15, 2025.

The Old Vic has announced the full cast and further creative team for the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Tracy Letts’ play Mary Page Marlowe.

When Our 1972 premiered last year, I thought I’d written the next big queer protest drama.

Joanna Bowman brings Shakespearean Italy to The Other Place at the RSC with her new production of his first play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Natalie Grove’s acclaimed solo show Jello Brain—about caring for her mother with early-onset Alzheimer’s—now plays daily at 4:00 p.

All new production photos have been released for The Weir, written, and directed for the first time, by Conor McPherson.

New musical theatre EP Golden Days will be released on Friday 19th September, created by Ben Ward, co-composer of TURING.

Ahead of opening night at Manchester Opera House, all new production images have been released of the 2025 cast for the UK tour of 2:22 - A Ghost Story.

Youthful dialogue, reflecting the modern times we are in, while perfectly encapsulating what it means to be a person in your mid-twenties in London: the constant battle of trying to have a life rather than just an existence, while working 6-day weeks.

Last seen in London over 35 years ago, Drew McOnie's inaugural season as Artistic Director of Regent's Park Open Air Theatre ends with him directing and choreographing a new production of Lerner & Loewe’s Scottish fantasy musical Brigadoon.

A Big Big Room Full of Everybody's Hope will run October 2 and October 3 at Lilian Baylis Studio.

Recently, we had the chance to speak with Leonard about taking on the role of Pierre Peters.