UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 619

Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson implemented a new UK strategy for dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, advising people to stay away from pubs, clubs and theatres in order to avoid close contact.

Following government advice, and alongside other UK theatres, all RSC venues, and venues that the Company is performing at, will close from tonight.

The union Equity has today (16 March) released the following statement about theatre closures

Following official government advice issued today (Monday 16 March), which stipulates that people should avoid public buildings including theatres, we regret to announce that SOLT and UK Theatre member venues will be closed from tonight, to help slow the spread of coronavirus.

Park Theatre has cancelled all remaining performances of La Cage aux Folles, due to cast members self-isolating.

Finbar Lynch has enjoyed an extensive acting career, spanning stage, film and television.

What happens after the honeymoon? Do opposites really attract? Neil Simon's hit play, Barefoot in the Park, has been revived and is currently running at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, in collaboration with the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.

A seven-hour piece of marathon theatre may not be everyone's cup of tea.

William Shakespeare's swansong lands on Jermyn Street Theatre's tiny stage in fetching fashion.

On 15 November, 2016, Russian teenagers Katya Vlasova and Denis Muravyov ran away from home and barricaded themselves inside a cabin with whisky, guns and ammunition.

Shakespeare's Globe has announced full casting for Romeo & Juliet, directed by Ola Ince, designed by Jacob Hughes, which will open the 2020 Summer Season on Tuesday 14 April.

The Olivier Awards today celebrated Stephen Jameson and Sarah Preece's achievements in relocating the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts from Wood Green in north London to Peckham in south-east London and for promoting accessibility and diversity.

The Bristol Hippodrome has announced that the much-loved actor, singer, presenter, author, judge and all-round showman John Barrowman will headline this year's spectacular family pantomime as the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from Saturday 5 December for a strictly limited four-wee

The glorious new production of On Blueberry Hill from Olivier Award-winning and internationally-acclaimed Irish theatre company, Fishamble, has opened at Trafalgar Studios.

Innovative producing studio China Plate today announces its latest body of touring theatrical productions, in-development work and wider industry engagement for spring 2020 and beyond.

NO LIMITS, an exciting, brand-new song-cycle by Sam Thomas featuring a stellar cast will run in the Studio at The Other Palace from Monday 20th April - Sunday 26th April.

The Cavern at the Vaults could not be a more appropriate setting for a play about underground crime.

The Vault Festival provides a perfect platform for artists to tackle subjects that are seldom explored on stage.

As we previously reported, Christine Payne, general secretary of the actors' union Equity, said it was 'a mistake to criticise a member of the profession' following tweets sent out by its minority ethnic members committee calling on actors to denounce Laurence Fox.

The UK theatre industry weathers the Covid-19 outbreak.

Sweatpants and slippers aren't the costumes you'd expect to see in an opera.

As we've previously reported, actor Fra Fee has been cast in the role of a transgender woman in musical Breakfast on Pluto.

Working with Carers UK, Carers Trust and Carers Network, Ecoute Theatre bring their verbatim play Take Care to the Vault Festival.

Let us rejoicify! Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh has revealed she would love to play Glinda the Good Witch in musical Wicked.

Out Of The Forest Theatre return to VAULT Festival with glorious history lesson in their customary unconventional style.