UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 635

Casting is announced for Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk Award winning musical, The Last Five Years, at Southwark Playhouse, in a new production directed by Jonathan O'Boyle.

The critically acclaimed West End production of Mischief Theatre's The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is set to play its final performance on Sunday 3 May 2020 completing a successful four year run at the Criterion Theatre, and playing for over 2000 performances in London and on tour.

The ultimate musical duo, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, are 'Back Together' and will bring their show to cinemas up and down the country with the final performance of their UK tour from London's O2 Arena.

This is an Vanya for 2020 that loses nothing in Conor McPherson's sublime update.

The hit musical Hairspray is returning to the West End! Tonight the production announced that actor Paul Merton will be joining the cast in the role of Wilbur Turnblad.

Annawon's Song tells the story of a Native American military veteran, wounded in both body and mind.

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the summer season 2020 will include Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Antony & Cleopatra, a two-day event 'Globe 4 Globe: Shakespeare and Climate Emergency', a symposium 'Shakespeare and Race', a Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche B

A and B meet to recreate the feats of a famously homosexual serial killer who's haunting the streets of London.

After its smash-hit sold-out Edinburgh run, critically acclaimed chaotic cabaret cult AN EVENING WITHOUT KATE BUSH is to transfer to Soho Theatre, London from 18 May - 6 June.

Tickets are on public sale from Monday 10 February 2020 for new shows announced at Sadler's Wells across 2020, featuring five world premieres, 10 UK premieres, and six Sadler's Wells Productions and co-productions, as well as a host of new creative partnerships involving artists from all over the wo

Rose Theatre has announced casting for The Creature: [Frankenstein Retold] based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and adapted for the stage by Ciaran McConville.

This exciting, challenging, controversial play written by and starring Alexis Gregory, co-starring with Johnny Woo, explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.

Papatango and James Quaife Productions today announce the West End transfer of Papatango's original production of Samuel Bailey's critically acclaimed Shook a?' 2019's winner of the annual Papatango New Writing Prize.

How can we know more about a comet in outer space than we do a woman's body? So queries Lucy Kirkwood's superb new history play a?' a feminist courtroom drama that's equal parts Twelve Angry Men, The Crucible and The Vagina Monologues, plus a dash of searing, up-to-the-minute political and social co

When award-winning comedian Richard Gadd offers a stranger a free cup of tea, he has no sense of the nightmare to come.

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A nameless woman starts writing a novel in Mexico City.

Love Story: 10th Anniversary Concert will feature original cast members Michael D.

Everybody's Talking About Jamie tells the heartwarming story of an outgoing young man with a dream to be a drag queen which cannot fail to move and delight in equal measure.

I'm an immigrant.

The iconic Riverside Studios return to a brand new building after a five year redevelopment project.

The Welkin opened at the National Theatre on 15th January and will run until 28 March, with further performances to be announced.

Daniel Ward's autobiographical tale, told as gig theatre, has plenty to say and says it well - we would be wise to listen.

The Stage has reported today that Equity has admitted to deleting tweets sent out by its minority ethnic members committee calling on actors to denounce Laurence Fox.

A new comedy by John Godber OBE is to open at Theatre Royal Wakefield and East Riding Theatre Beverley, before transferring to Trafalgar Studios in the West End in May.