UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 754

The final crowd of theatregoers will enter Andrew Lloyd Webber's Theatre Royal Drury Lane tonight before the longest continually running theatre in the world goes dark for 20 months for a landmark £45 million renovation project.

The Purple Room, Palm Springs, 1971.

A lost world of seaside entertainment, piers and promenades are brought to life when seasoned Pantomime Dame Ronald Roy Humphrey returns to his Northern roots for the Christmas season.

Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today announced the full casting for the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage production of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film All About Eve as rehearsals commence.

New play Open by upcoming playwright Christopher Adams and his husband, actor Tim Allsop is set to run at VAULT Festival, London's coolest theatre event, in January.

After a rather pedestrian version of Tchiakovsky's iconic Swan Lake by the St Petersburg Ballet at London's Coliseum in the summer, ballet fans are eager for a more immersive and emotionally charged version from the English National Ballet to kick-start 2019.

Hollyoaks and EastEnders actor Gary Lucy first took on the lead role of Gaz in the 2014 touring production of The Full Monty.

Alun Armstrong, Maggie Steed and Nicola Walker star in the world premiere of The Cane, written by Mark Ravenhill and directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.

London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings.

Luke Bayer recently won the award for Best Performance By An Understudy/Alternate in Any Play or Musical  at the 2018 BroadwayWorld UK Awards.

Tara Arts and Polka Theatre have today announced that their co-production of Three Sat Under The Banyan Tree is set to head on a UK tour from 20th January - 2nd March 2019.

Sonia Friedman Productions confirms the previously announced end-date of 19 January 2019 for the West End production of Summer and Smoke.

Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski comes to the Finborough Theatre Tuesday, 29 January-Saturday, 23 February 2019.

Steve Tompkins, director of Haworth Tompkins, the architecture studio responsible for projects including many of UK theatre's most high-profile building projects, including the National Theatre, Bridge Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Liverpool Everyman and Bristol Old Vic, has been named number one

Multi-award-winning composer and lyricist Alexander S.

Lee Mead, currently starring in BBC One's Holby City, will embark on a theatre tour in 2019 with Lee Mead - My Story.

The Wardrobe Ensemble have come full circle after a critically acclaimed run of their ground-breaking show Education, Education, Education, which played to packed houses in November 2017 and again in April this year.

Marking the 10th anniversary of the revered playwright's death, Pinter at the Pinter features all Pinter's short plays, alongside a selection of his poems and sketches.

Dangerous Lenses, by Brooke Robinson, directed by Melissa Dunne, and presented by Papercut Theatre, comes to VAULT Festival 2019, starring Grace Chilton.

Lola by H.

The Royal Opera House has announced its cinema screenings for January 2019, including The Queen of Spades and La traviata.

After the phenomenal success of the Marie's Crisis London pop-up, during Halloween 2018, and under a new permanent name; OVERTURES PIANO BAR, London, will open its doors; as as answer to the famed New York Bar, and featuring regular guest appearances from Marie's Crisis Cafe.

Writer and Director Che Walker returns to the Finborough Theatre to direct the European premiere of his own play Time Is Love/Tiempo es Amor, opening at the Finborough Theatre for a four-week limited season today, 1 January 2019 (Press Nights: Thursday, 3 January and Friday, 4 January 2019 at 7.

Theatre producer Katy Lipson - who is producing artistic director of the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, as well as being an independent producer and who has recently taken on the road shows such as The Addams Family - is bringing Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1989 musical Aspects of Love to Southwark Play