Friday, January 10

Author: Paul Downham

AJ & Curtis Pritchard to star in Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Pantomime Cinderella!
6May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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AJ & Curtis Pritchard to star in Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Pantomime Cinderella!

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre have announced today that brothers AJ and Curtis Pritchard will star in the spectacular family pantomime CINDERELLA from Saturday 4th December 2021 – Sunday 9th January 2022. This huge casting news is a real treat for audiences who are desperate for pantomime to return to the city and ensures that the Wolverhampton pantomime is the one to see this year. The duo have recently joined the cast of Hollyoaks and are highly regarded for their professional dancer positions on Strictly Come Dancing and Ireland’s Dancing With The Stars. AJ and Curtis will bring with them a wealth of dancing styles to sweep Cinderella off her feet in what promises to be a most exciting re-opening pantomime for the Grand Theatre. Fresh from the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! cas...
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Additional headlining shows announced at Birmingham Hippodrome
5May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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Additional headlining shows announced at Birmingham Hippodrome

Birmingham Hippodrome have announced three new productions for this autumn with the ever-popular drag superstar Ceri Dupree’s A Star Is Torn!!! (11th Sep), family favourite What the Ladybird Heard (16th – 18th Sep) and the smash-hit West End comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong (26th – 30th Oct). Tickets are on sale now to Birmingham Hippodrome Friends and Patron scheme members and go on general sale from 11am, Wednesday 5th May at www.birminghamhippodrome.com   Seating for these productions will be based on a socially-distanced model at this moment in time, subject to change depending on Government guidance closer to the performance date. Ceri Dupree has performed almost everywhere! Throughout the UK, Europe and overseas and has impersonated almost every female star in the world at...
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Tamara Harvey and Liam Evans-Ford announce the reopening of Theatr Clwyd
4May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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Tamara Harvey and Liam Evans-Ford announce the reopening of Theatr Clwyd

Artistic Director Tamara Harvey and Executive Director Liam Evans-Ford announce the reopening of Theatr Clwyd, and the programming of four world première productions as part of Theatr Clwyd’s 2021 season. The season opens with Alan Harris’ For The Grace of You Go I with James Grieve directing Remy Beasley, Darren Jeffries, Rhodri Meilir; then continues with Curtain Up, a three-week season of fifteen new plays from Welsh playwrights - Meredydd Barker, Matthew Bulgo, Katherine Chandler, Amy Bethan Evans, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Rebecca Jade Hammond, Tracy Harris, Ming Ho, Mari Izzard, Jennifer Lunn, Samantha O’Rourke, Lisa Parry, Kristian Phillips, Mali Ann Rees and Alun Saunders; Tamara Harvey then directs Isla by Tim Price - in a co-production with the Royal Court Theatre; and completing th...
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Bowdonbury Brings Music Festival Magic To Cheshire This May Bank Holiday
4May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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Bowdonbury Brings Music Festival Magic To Cheshire This May Bank Holiday

Forget Glastonbury – it’s all about Bowdonbury this Bank Holiday, with the Bowdonbury Festival bringing a brilliant weekend of music to the heart of Cheshire next month. Festivalgoers at the event on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th May can enjoy two fantastic days of family-friendly entertainment packed with live performances from award-winning tribute artists, along with amazing food and drink and awesome attractions - all presented in a Covid-safe environment at the Bowdon Cricket, Hockey & Squash Club at Altrincham. The festival kicks off on 29th May with Disco Legends, featuring acclaimed tributes to George Michael, Diana Ross and The Bee Gees. Andrew Browning, previous Stars in their Eyes finalist and sought-after star of the international touring theatre show Fast Love, ap...
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Andrew Lancel In One Man Show By Jonathan Harvey To On Northern Tour In July
4May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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Andrew Lancel In One Man Show By Jonathan Harvey To On Northern Tour In July

Following its critically acclaimed sell-out premiere at Liverpool Theatre Festival in September 2020, Swan Song, a revised comedy by acclaimed playwright Jonathan Harvey, is heading out on a northern tour in July following its rescheduled February dates due to lockdown. Swan Song, a one-man play starring Andrew Lancel, is directed by BAFTA award-winning director Noreen Kershaw and produced by Bill Elms. The play will open at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre for six performances over three nights, this will be the first live performances at the theatre since closing in March 2020. The show then moves on to reopen the Little Theatre in Southport, Dukes Theatre in Lancaster, and City Varieties in Leeds. All venues will adhere to the current restrictions set out by the Government and will have ...
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Freedom Studios offer free playwriting course with award winning writer Lisa Holdsworth
2May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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Freedom Studios offer free playwriting course with award winning writer Lisa Holdsworth

Bradford theatre company Freedom Studios is offering an eight week Introduction to Playwriting course this summer aimed at people with little or no experience of writing for the screen or theatre. The course will focus on the basics of theatre writing including character, story, structure, plot development, writing realistic dialogue and theatricality. The course will be run by writer Lisa Holdsworth, a BAFTA-nominated television writer who has also written several acclaimed theatre productions including the critically acclaimed Freedom Studios production of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile. On television Lisa has written for Emmerdale, All Creatures Great and Small, A Discovery of Witches, New Tricks and Waterloo Road. She is also the chair of the Writers Guild of Great Britain....
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Casting announced for UK tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
1May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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Casting announced for UK tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Disney’s Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast today announces the cast to star in the re-imagined and re-designed new production. Staged by members of the original award-winning creative team, Beauty and the Beast will open a UK & Ireland Tour at The Bristol Hippodrome on Wednesday 25th August 2021. Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo will play the iconic lead roles, Belle and her Beast, as spectacular new designs and state-of-the-art technology fuse with the classic story, bringing the beloved tale to new life. Courtney’s credits include Dear Evan Hansen, Six, Les Misérables and Bat Out of Hell, and Emmanuel is best known for performing in Oklahoma!, Girl from the North Country, Show Boat and The Scottsboro Boys. Also announced today are Gavin Lee (Mary P...
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18 West End shows and an all-star musical theatre cast come together for a unique one-off concert
1May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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18 West End shows and an all-star musical theatre cast come together for a unique one-off concert

After a record breaking on-sale in November, the producers of THE SHOW MUST GO ON LIVE! are delighted to announce 18 West End shows and an all-star musical theatre cast coming together for a unique one-off concert in the biggest West End celebration this summer. The show will run for seven performances only from 2nd – 6th June 2021 at The Palace Theatre, full details and tickets can be purchased from www.theshowmustgoonlive.com The concert will be hosted by musical theatre legends, Bonnie Langford (“9 to 5 the Musical”, “42nd Street”) and Trevor Dion Nicholas (“Hamilton”, “Aladdin”).   Bonnie said today, “I am delighted to be hosting this special night where all of these West End musicals will be per...
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New Perspectives and The Brighton Festival presents: House Mother Normal
1May By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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New Perspectives and The Brighton Festival presents: House Mother Normal

New Perspectives and The Brighton Festival presents: House Mother Normal Directed by Tim Crouch, a digital installation on the fiftieth anniversary year of B.S. Johnson’s nursing home novel, part of Brighton Festival. Adapted from the novel by B.S. Johnson in its fiftieth anniversary year, New Perspectives present a digital installation telling of the lives of eight characters in a nursing home under the watchful eye of House Mother. Directed by Tim Crouch, the production, which can be viewed online or at 6 Dukes Lane, Brighton, merges the individual chapters of B.S. Johnson’s novel to give a moment in time from nine different angles, each giving a powerful perspective on what it is to live life and grow old.  Ron, Rosetta, Ivy, Charlie, Gloria, Sarah, Sioned and George. Un...
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imitating the dog take on the Prince of Darkness
30Apr By Paul DownhamNo Comments
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imitating the dog take on the Prince of Darkness

imitating the dog are back with a radical new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula telling this gothic classic from the perspective of the novel’s heroine Mina Harker. Written and directed by imitating the dog’s co-artistic directors Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks, Dracula: The Untold Story will open at Leeds Playhouse from 25th Sept – 9th Oct ahead of a UK tour. New Year’s Eve 1965, London, England. Just before midnight, as revellers celebrate the beginning of another year, a young woman enters Marylebone Police Station and confesses to a brutal murder. She claims to be Mina Harker, the last living survivor of the intrepid group that brought about Count Dracula’s destruction some 70 years before. But Mina Harker has not been seen since 1901, and if she were alive she would be ninety...
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