UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 627

Lucie Jones has certainly earned her musical theatre stripes in the past few years.

The Sheffield Theatres production of Life of Pi is transfering to London's Wyndham's Theatre, with performances beginning on Monday 22 June 2020.

Founded in 2009, OperaUpClose's mission is to create 'innovatively staged, unintimidating, and crucially high quality English Chamber re-imaginings of well known work and premieres of new operas'.

Full casting has been announced for the 10th anniversary revival of Bruce Norris' seminal play Clybourne Park.

COLAB Theatre have woven another thrilling adventure: the company strikes gold with the Peaky Blinder infused Crooks 1926.

Produced by The Old Vic, in association with Bristol Old Vic, Oliver award-winning A Monster Calls is making its way around the UK on tour, and has just closed its appearance at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Mixing theatre and food has become a bit of a craze in the past couple of years, so it was only a matter of time before shows involving food were introduced in festivals.

Katie Arnstein returns to VAULT Festival after Bicycles and Fish and Sexy Lamp to complete her It's a Girl! trilogy presenting Sticky Door directed by Ellen Howard.

A world premiere of a play is always an exciting thing; a potential opportunity to witness one of the very first performances of a future classic.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that actress and television personality Caroline Flack has passed away at age 40.

Given the turbulent times that we live in, a new stage adaptation of Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin would seem like a smart choice for an ambitious theatre (or theatres, as this is a co-production with York Theatre Royal, in association with Oxford Playhouse).

In 1969, a serial killer brutally murdered three women in Scotland.

The Paper Birds tackle all the important stuff and then some in their groundbreaking and format defying Ask Me Anything.

Love was in the air at the Bush Theatre this Valentine's Day with the opening of Temi Wilkey's new play The High Table.

Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) is currently on a UK-wide tour a?" but it wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for Glasgow.

Flights looks into the hearts of three men whose lives in rural Ireland are not working out as they once hoped.

Ahead of the Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard, five individuals have been announced as this year's winners of Special Recognition Awards, honouring their outstanding contributions to the theatre industry.

After the press murders their Richard III and everything seems lost, Stu McLoughlin notices that Howard Coggins looks like Henry VIII.

Grammy-nominated stage, television and film actor, singer, and songwriter, Cheyenne Jackson, will perform his first ever UK concert at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 28 June at 2.

Everybody's Talking About Jamie, the award-winning fabulous and feel good musical sensation, is delighted to announce that actor, comedian and presenter Rufus Hound and actor, writer and comedian Katy Brand will be joining the cast this March to play Hugo/Loco Chanelle and Miss Hedge at the Apollo T

Jay McGuiness, Kimberley Walsh and Daniel Casey will star as Sam, Annie and Walter respectively in SLEEPLESS, A Musical Romance, based on the original screenplay Sleepless in Seattle.

Three years after the National's enthralling revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the playwright returns with his new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragicomic 1956 parable a?' which has also been turned into an Ingrid Bergman-starring film and a Kander and Ebb musical.

Tom Stoppard's latest - and possibly final - play has few of the dramatic hallmarks you might expect from him: the dazzling linguistic flourishes, the formal trickery, the knotty metaphors and giddy metatheatricality.

There must have been a two-for-one offer on the day director Barbora Horakova visited the Regietheater prop-store to kit out her Luisa Miller for English National Opera.

The West End production of Dear Evan Hansen will hold a special performance in aid of The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Tuesday 25 February 2020.