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Spotlight on Antony Eden, ‘The Actor’ The Woman In Black UK Tour

1Jul

By Caroline WorswickNo Comments

Interviews

Spotlight on Antony Eden, ‘The Actor’ The Woman In Black UK Tour

As ‘The Woman In Black’ heads out on tour, we caught up with Antony Eden who plays ‘The Actor’ for the UK Tour. We find out from Antony Eden, what the show’s enduring qualities are that have drawn audiences back to see the play for more than 30 years. The Woman In Black’s success, means that the play continues in the West End, but it is also coming to a theatre near you. Find the dates and booking details for the UK Tour by following this link - https://www.thewomaninblack.com/ticket-info/uk-tour Without giving away any spoilers, can you give a summary of the ghostly tale which is ‘The Woman In Black’? ‘The Woman In Black’ is the story of Arthur Kipps who, as a young ambitious solicitor is sent to the remote, isolated home of Alice Drablow, recently ...

West End transfer for Ralph Fiennes’s FOUR QUARTETS by T.S. Eliot

1Jul

By Paul DownhamNo Comments

NEWS

West End transfer for Ralph Fiennes’s FOUR QUARTETS by T.S. Eliot

Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Royal & Derngate, Northampton are delighted to announce that Ralph Fiennes’s world premiere stage adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets will transfer to London’s Harold Pinter Theatre for 36 performances only from 18th November to 18th December 2021. This critically acclaimed production re-opened Theatre Royal Bath in May 2021, and launched Royal & Derngate’s Made in Northampton season as well as helping reopen theatres across the country by touring to Oxford Playhouse from 14th – 26th June Cambridge Arts Theatre 28th June – 10th July, Southampton MAST 12th – 17th July, Malvern Theatre 19th – 24th July and York Theatre Royal 26th – 31st July 2021 Nobel Prize winner T.S. Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature. Compelling, moving a...

Starting Here, Starting Now – Waterloo East

1Jul

By Carole GordonNo Comments

London

Starting Here, Starting Now – Waterloo East

Maltby and Shire's revue, Starting Here, Starting Now, was first produced at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1976, with songs accumulated from the many shows they had written, some of which were never produced. As a revue, their songs have seen much more success. There have been frequent revivals and even a Grammy nomination for the original cast recording. Each song is a cleverly crafted mini-drama on the timeless themes of love and relationships, good, bad, broken, angry, joyful, new, old, hopeful and hopeless. It's an eclectic mix of songs and styles - sometimes thrilling, sometimes funny, and occasionally baffling. "Thrilling" are the performers, Nikki Bentley, Gina Murray and Noel Sullivan, all seasoned West End stars, whose voices individually and together are the ene...

1Jul

By Paul DownhamNo Comments

NEWS

Ellen & Rigby Starts Tomorrow!

Liverpool’s Royal Court is back with a bang with a brand new show from Gerry Linford (Yellow Breck Road, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery). Ellen & Rigby is a great new comedy about two lonely people brought together in an unlikely way. Starring Royal Court favourites Lindzi Germain and Andrew Schofield and directed by Stephen Fletcher, the show begins when the odd couple meet at a vaccination centre. Lucky in life, unlucky in love, Ellen has been looking for a man. Now, thanks to the organisational power of the NHS, Joe Rigby has been dropped in her lap! A rock star who nearly made it in 1985, Joe has been living alone for so long that he didn’t realise that he was unhappy so it’s a good job Ellen arrived to let him know. He needs taking in hand (not like that, you dirty tic...

Full Casting Announced for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

1Jul

By Paul DownhamNo Comments

NEWS

Full Casting Announced for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

The hit production of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL will re-open at the Aldwych Theatre on 28th July 2021 following over a year of shutdown across the West End. Joining Aisha Jawando and Jammy Kasongo as Tina and Ike are Chanel Haynes who plays the role of Tina at some performances each week, Joe Evans as Record Producer Phil Spector and Lyricist Terry Britten, Irene Myrtle Forrester as Tina’s Grandmother GG, Francesca Jackson and Alice Bailey Johnson as Ike and Tina’s manager Rhonda Graam, Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky as Tina’s sister Alline Bullock, Matt Mills as Tina’s father Richard Bullock, Posi Morakinyo as Tina’s first love Raymond Hill, Garmon Rhys as Tina’s Manager Roger Davies, Joseph Richardson as record company Marketing Manager Erwin Bach and Madeline Appiah as Tina’s mother Z...

Memoria – Tmesis Theatre at Albert Walker Hall at the Linacre Methodist Mission

30Jun

By Mark DavorenNo Comments

North West

Memoria – Tmesis Theatre at Albert Walker Hall at the Linacre Methodist Mission

Memoria, created by Tmesis Theatre and directed by Elinor Randle, takes us on a journey of memory and nostalgia in this immersive, physical piece set in the Albert Walker Hall at the Linacre Methodist Mission, much influenced by the many real stories of people whose lives were spent in this very building and whose accompanying voices and imagery are further represented through the physical medium of cast and ensemble, and the addition of text from David Whyte’s Consolations. These experiences are further explored by the notion that perhaps all epochs live and breath in parallel, that spaces and minds can hold imprints of all that has gone before, influencing the future. Equally, where we don’t remember, we always have our imagination, and this is where the piece spectacularly unfolds as...

Casting & Extra Tour Dates Announced for Charlie & Stan

30Jun

By Paul DownhamNo Comments

NEWS

Casting & Extra Tour Dates Announced for Charlie & Stan

Olivier and Tony Award-winning producer David Pugh, the renowned theatre company Told by an Idiot and Theatre Royal Bath Productions present the Silent Comedy CHARLIE & STAN, created by Told by an Idiot, written and directed by Paul Hunter, with an original piano score played live. It will open in Bath on 17th July, followed by a national tour. Due to the actor playing Charlie Chaplin in the original production becoming pregnant, Charlie Chaplin will now be played by Danielle Bird, joining Jerone Marsh-Reid as Stan Laurel, Nick Haverson as Fred Karno and Sara Alexander playing all the other parts, including Chaplin’s mother, and the piano! They will be joined by Reggie, making his stage debut as Scraps the Dog. Reggie will not play Sundays – somet...

Sonia Friedman Productions announce new dates for The Shark is Broken

30Jun

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Sonia Friedman Productions announce new dates for The Shark is Broken

Sonia Friedman Productions is delighted to announce new dates for The Shark is Broken at the Ambassadors Theatre after the production was postponed last year due to the pandemic. Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon’s brilliantly funny play will now run in the West End from 9th October – 15th January. Tickets will go on general sale on Thursday 1st July at 10am. Current ticketholders will be notified of their new performance date by their point of purchase. Cape Cod, 1974: shooting on ‘Jaws’ has stalled. The film’s lead actors – Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss – are stuck on a boat, at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Awash with alcohol and ambition, three hammered sharks start to bare their teeth… A sell-out, critically acclaimed hit of the Edinbu...

String Infusion: Euphony Live – Altrincham Garrick Playhouse

30Jun

By Alison BainesNo Comments

North West

String Infusion: Euphony Live – Altrincham Garrick Playhouse

If you love music, then String Infusion’s Euphony Live is the show for you! The vibrant, all-female electric string group String Infusion present ‘Euphony’ – a brand new theatre experience, and what an experience it is. Filled to the brim with band classics and pop hits, this show is really one to shock you from start to finish. String Infusion, managed by founder Emma Rushworth, are an international all-female, electric-acoustic ensemble who have performed at the likes of the O2 arena, in the X-Factor studio and with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Not only did the group perform some absolute ‘bangers’, as you might say, from The Beatles and Queen medleys to club anthems, there was a tune for any music taste. Euphony Live brings together the world class musicians of String Infusi...

The Old Rep and Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA) announce ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as their new 2021 Christmas production

29Jun

By Paul DownhamNo Comments

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The Old Rep and Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA) announce ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as their new 2021 Christmas production

This year has been particularly difficult for everyone with all the things we take for granted suddenly disappearing. As theatres slowly emerge from the shadow of this epidemic The Old Rep Theatre are looking forward to once again opening their doors and welcoming back audiences old and new to experience the joy and magic that only live theatre can bring. The Old Rep had hoped to bring audiences their production of Beauty and the Beast this Christmas, postponed from Christmas 2020, but due to multiple lockdowns and the time lost in the venue for them to create this particular set and costumes they are having to revise their Christmas production. This Christmas the theatre will be replacing Beauty and the Beast with the favourite children’s story Alice in Wonderland. The production wi...