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Spring/Summer 2023 with British Youth Music Theatre

13Mar

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Spring/Summer 2023 with British Youth Music Theatre

The UK’s leading new musical theatre company for young people 11-21 years old has announced their 2023 season of Easter & Summer performances led by new Chief Executive and Creative Director Emily Gray, who has ensured the voices and ideas of BYMT’s Young Company Panel are at the heart of the programme choices. This new season is filled with brand new musicals, returning BYMT favourites, and dance led work. Following prior popularity, Angry Salmon, a fin-tastic new show set in an underwater world of both farmed and wild fish returns for a second year, led by writers Jordan Clarke & Ali James (Showstoppers). Other season highlights include the first creation of a grime musical, written by the pioneering Thabo Stuck, with music producers including Dark Star; telling a historical s...

The Phantom of the Opera extends bookings until 2024

12Mar

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The Phantom of the Opera extends bookings until 2024

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Her Majesty’s Theatre announces today that booking is now extended until Saturday 2nd March 2024. With new production images also released. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA currently stars Earl Carpenter as The Phantom alongside Holly-Anne Hull as Christine Daaé, Matt Blaker as Raoul, Kelly Glyptis as Carlotta, Matt Harrop as Monsieur Firmin, Adam Linstead as Monsieur André, Greg Castiglioni as Ubaldo Piangi, Francesca Ellis as Madame Giry and Ellie Young as Meg Giry. At certain performances the role of Christine Daaé is played by Paige Blankson. From Monday 3rd April Jon Robyns joins the company as The Phantom. The cast is completed by Hollie Aires, Connor Carson, Corina Clark, Michelle Cornelius, Edward Court, Lily De-La-Haye, Hywel Dowsell, Serina Faul...

Blanket Ban comes to Southwark Playhouse

12Mar

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Blanket Ban comes to Southwark Playhouse

Following its hit run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, theatre makers and activists Davinia Hamilton and Marta Vella bring their rallying cry for Maltese reproductive rights to Southwark Playhouse. Blanket Ban was performed as part of New Diorama and Underbelly’s Untapped Award, and combines the artists’ lived experience with interviews, stories and video footage of Maltese women who have suffered the life-changing and life-threatening consequences of the country’s blanket ban on abortion. Malta: a country of Catholic kitsch, golden sun, deep blue sea and Eurovision fanatics. It leads internationally on progressive LGBTQIA+ rights, including trailblazing transgender laws — but also has some of the strictest abortion laws in the world. Taking a fondly critical look at their home country and...

Dare you spend Halloween in a haunted West End theatre?

12Mar

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Dare you spend Halloween in a haunted West End theatre?

Theatres are alive. They have a soul. And they all have supernatural stories to tell.... Every theatre has ghosts and sightings, spectral visions reported backstage by terrified actors, mysterious apparitions that walk the stage at night, corridors and stairwells that are avoided by staff who have experienced a sudden drop in temperature... Do YOU believe in ghosts? And are YOU feeling brave? The West End premiere of ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?’ at London’s Adelphi Theatre on Halloween, October 31st (with more West End dates to be announced), has enough chills and shocks to convince even the most die-hard sceptic! Packed with stories of things that go bump in the night - or the day - and things that just don’t add up, ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?’ is unlike any other ghost story y...

New Vic Theatre revives cult classic The Killing of Sister George

12Mar

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New Vic Theatre revives cult classic The Killing of Sister George

New Vic Theatre and physical theatre company Told By An Idiot have joined forces for a rare revival of sixties cult classic The Killing of Sister George. The Newcastle-Under-Lyme theatres in the round space is perfect for the acerbic comedy drama by Frank Marcus observing the life of June Buckeridge, who plays the role of kindly district nurse Sister George in fictitious radio soap opera 'Applehurst'. In reality June is a swaggering foul-mouthed loose cannon whose career and lifestyle is under threat. Set during the 1960s, the play explores the volatile relationship between June and her partner Alice, and the effect the demise of her fictional character has on her. Famously adapted into a dark cult film in 1968 starring Beryl Reid, the play incorporates wicked humour with m...

Mikron Theatre are back for their 51st season with a new Poppy Hollman play

7Mar

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Mikron Theatre are back for their 51st season with a new Poppy Hollman play

Mikron Theatre are getting back on their touring barge for a 51st season with the premiere of Poppy Hollman's new play Twitchers, and there's original live music thrown in. Springwatch is coming to RSPB Shrikewing nature reserve, but as we meet raucous rooks, booming bitterns and plenty of tits we realise the birds of Shrikewing are its real stars. Can Jess take inspiration from the RSPB's tenacious female founders, and draw on its history of campaigning to save them, or can she find her own voice to raise a rallying cry for nature? The production's cast of actor-musicians will set sail on the company's unique vintage narrowboat taking the show to all sorts of non-traditional venues. This year's company who all act, sing and even set the stage up are Eddie Ahrens, Hannah Baker, Harve...

27Feb

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Brand New Musical Comedy Twice Nightly Performs Again This Spring Featuring Joe Pasquale

A sparkling new stage musical about the golden age of variety theatre, set in the 1930's is hitting the road again this spring with a tour visiting venues across the UK. After premiering and captivating audiences at Liverpool Theatre Festival, winning best new production, Twice Nightly will open for three nights at Liverpool's Royal Court from 27th-29th April before heading to the new Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, the historic Victoria Hall in Settle, Theatre On The Steps in Bridgnorth, Gladstone Theatre in Wirral, Middlesborough Theatre and finishing at Blackpool Grand. Twice Nightly is a brand-new musical comedy brought to you by Bill Elms Productions (Something About George/Judy & Liza) and the newly formed Frame This Presents, written by, choreographed, and starring...

The Chicago Blues Brothers return to Manchester for one night only

23Feb

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The Chicago Blues Brothers return to Manchester for one night only

Following their last Hollywood themed sell-out show at the Opera House back in 2021, the Chicago Blues Brothers return with their new tour Cruisin’ For A Bluesin’. The boys have put the band back together and are ready to take you cruising to the music capitals of the USA for one night of spectacular live music. Performed in the hard-hitting style that has made the Chicago Blues Brothers the biggest and most loved Blues Brothers productions in the world. From the Savoy theatre in London’s West End to the Madinat Theatre, Dubai this show has rocked some of the most iconic venues around the globe. Join Jake and Elwood, The Sweet Soul Sisters and the amazing CBB Band for a hand clapping, foot-stomping, hit parade corker of an evening. Overflowing with heart and brimming with soul, in...

Will You Be In The Room Where It Happens?

21Feb

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Will You Be In The Room Where It Happens?

Producers Jeffrey Seller and Cameron Mackintosh are delighted to announce that the multi award-winning HAMILTON will tour the UK for the very first time opening at the Manchester Palace Theatre on Saturday 11th November 2023 for a 15 week season until Saturday 24th February 2024 followed by a run at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Wednesday 28th February – Saturday 27th April 2024. FURTHER VENUES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON. Casting for the UK tour is currently underway. ATG Theatrecard tickets will go on sale for Manchester on Friday 10th March at 10am. General tickets will then go on sale for the seasons in Manchester and Edinburgh on 13th March at 10am 2023. Sign-up at www.hamiltonmusical.com for access to priority tickets. The Olivier, Tony and Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winn...

20Feb

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Follow the yellow brick road on tour!

Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group are thrilled to announce that The Wizard of Oz, the musical based on the iconic story by L. Frank Baum, will embark on a UK Tour, following this summer’s forthcoming season at the world-famous London Palladium. The Wizard of Oz will open its tour with a Christmas season at the Liverpool Empire, beginning performances on Wednesday 13th December, with subsequent tour dates announced today through to Spring 2024. Michael Harrison, the producer of the smash-hit Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which thrilled audiences on its UK Tour in 2022, now presents Curve’s brand-new production of one of the world’s most beloved musicals. For more information and to book tickets, go to www.wizardofozmusical.com Join Dorothy, Toto and friend...