UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 74

Irish playwright and performer Conor O’Dwyer is set to make his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut this summer with the bold and brilliant new solo play Homo(sapien), playing July 30–August 24 at Assembly Roxy (Snug Bar).

The UK premiere of the new musical Saving Mozart by Charli Eglington will play at London's The Other Palace beginning next month.

The full cast has been announced for a new production of The Weir written, and directed for the first time, by Conor McPherson, starring Brendan Gleeson making his West End debut.

Time to turn that frown upside down: London Clown Festival returns in its typically rambunctious style.

Recently, we had the opportunity to chat with James Cooper, who wrote the book and lyrics for Lovestuck.

Nick Cope’s vibrant live show, I’VE LOST MY BOBBLE HAT!, is a polished, thoughtful, and musically rich experience that confirms his standing as one of the UK’s most respected musical family entertainers.

This play will have you laughing away at Hamlet-based in-jokes, questioning what you think you know, and having a grand old time interacting with the actor and your fellow audience members in a one-hour riot of a play, perfect for any evening of theatre that you need.

The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, has announced Writers' Room Festival – a 6-day festival of new writing celebrating talent from Kent and beyond with a programme of plays, rehearsed readings, writing workshops, talks and panel discussions.

Berlin's most dysfunctional sibling rock duo, Otto & Astrid, return to London for one night only with their hit show The Stages Tour - a lipstick-smeared, tantrum-loving glam-rock gig that blends anarchic comedy with pitch-perfect pop parody.

New York's Dirty Laundry Theatre is partnering with Israeli playwright and director Tomer Aldubi to bring its work to London for the first time with the European premiere reading of SHARIF شريف.

The RALPH FIENNES / THEATRE ROYAL BATH SEASON will open with the world premiere of a new play by David Hare, GRACE PERVADES which sees Ralph Fiennes play opposite Miranda Raison.

Official London Theatre will raise the curtain on their newly refurbished Ticket Booth in Leicester Square at a launch event.

Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976.

Somewhere in a massive warehouse in Deptford, a collection is being made of every digital artifact since the birth of the internet in 1983.

“We’ll do the raffle in about half an hour, but first we’ll play a few songs if that’s alright?” One foot on stage and the mood is set.

Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland returns for a second block of shows at the Royal Ballet and Opera until June 28.

Even ardent opera fans may struggle to recall the story or the score for Mazeppa.

The West End transfer of Stereophonic is a full fat slice of Americana: anyone who dreamt of being in a band might just find those dreams resuscitated.

The White Lotus and Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs is lending his voice to a haunted sculpture of Beat Generation icon William Burroughs in Lost Watches.

Natalie Dormer stars in Tolstoy’s romantic masterpiece Anna Karenina, in a new adaptation written and directed by Phillip Breen, running at Chichester Festival Theatre.

La Dormer beams with five star wattage as the doomed Anna

Rufus Norris, the former Director of the National Theatre, has been knighted by HM The King in the King’s 2025 Birthday Honours for his services to Theatre.

Performances are now underway for The Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s EVITA, starring Rachel Zegler.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Boublil and Schönberg's musical sensation LES MISÉRABLES, a special company of artists will join the cast, who have been part of Les Mis history.

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the National Theatre’s Till the Stars Come Down.