UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 703

Set in 1997, Education, Education, Education celebrates the popular culture, music, fads, school rooms and teaching profession on the day everyone woke up to a Labour Government election victory.

Hot on the heels of her UK industry excursion Sarah Morrison has returned and immediately been cast in the new musical COME FROM AWAY.

Truth to Power Cafe is a new international performance event combining memoir, poetry, music, image, and live and spontaneous testimony from local participants (or heroes, as I prefer to call them), in response to the question: 'Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?'.

Frantic Assembly has announced a year of projects to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

Alexander Feklistov talks about working with Cheek by Jowl, the differences between different audiences and how a 400 year old play resonates today.

Full casting has been announced for The Barn Theatre's (Best Fringe Theatre  - The Stage Awards 2019) upcoming production of The 39 Steps, directed by Joseph O'Malley, and running from 10 July - 10 August 2019.

Inspired by interviews with female scientists and the real-life story of Lise Meitner (a physicist who discovered nuclear fission in the late 1930s but whose colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery), Flux charts the story of Kate, a young physicist burning with potential.

Get a peek inside rehearsal for the West End transfer of THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13¾ - THE MUSICAL, which opens at The Ambassadors Theatre on 15 June running until 12 October.

The Donmar Warehouse today releases the rehearsal images for Michael Longhurst's inaugural Donmar production Europe, by David Greig, which opens on Thursday 27 June.

When Sam Hodges first approached me about designing The Audience, he did so with a bartering tool.

16 year old student Isabel Hague from CAPA College in Wakefield is the winner of the National Theatre's annual playwriting competition for 14-19-year olds.

The European stage premiere of Khaled Hosseini's spiritual sequel to The Kite Runner.

Footage has been released of Louise Jameson and Thomas Mahy - Best Actress and Best Actor nominees for these roles in the Off West End Awards - in action in VINCENT RIVER by Philip Ridley, now running to 22 June at Trafalgar Studios 2 in the West End.

The audience couldn't get enough at Main Men of Musicals, a concert at Cadogan Hall last night featuring West End stars Luke Bayer, Ben Forster, Trevor Dion Nicholas, Liam Tamne, and some very talented young choral performers.

Rutherford and Son sees director Polly Findlay reunite with actors Justine Mitchell and Sam Troughton, the three having previously worked on Beginning.

Country Music starts in 1983.

Actors Louise Jameson and Thomas Mahy are currently starring in Philip Ridley's play Vincent River at Trafalgar Studios.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced that Heathers the Musical: Original West End Cast Recording has been released on CD online and in stores today, Friday, May 31.

Regent's Park Theatre have today confirmed full casting for their production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar.

Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of The Worst Witch, adapted for the stage by Emma Reeves from Jill Murphy's original books.

These days, it seems that it's not enough to simply go for dinner or a night at the theatre.

The National Theatre and Fane Productions announce a series of events across August and September as the Lyttelton stage becomes the arena for a diverse range of contemporary voices in conversation.

The producers of Sean Foley's hotly anticipated stage adaptation of classic Ealing Studios comedy The Man in the White Suit are delighted to announce that Sue Johnston (The Royle Family, Brookside, Coronation Street) will join the cast for a strictly limited engagement.

After nine spectacular sold out shows raising over £300,000 for the Make A Difference Trust, WEST END BARES, theatre's hottest annual fundraiser, returns for its 10th birthday with a one-off celebratory performance on Sunday 13 October at Troxy at 8.

The Stephen Sondheim Society and Mercury Musical Developments today announce West End Musical Director Gareth Valentine as the final judge for the 2019 Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY), alongside the previously announced Julia McKenzie, Peter Polycarpou, and Edward S