‘It was the most touching play of deep interactions and conversations about painful but loving memories.’ Those words come from one of several impressed reviewers that have caught up with the world premiere of multi-award-winning writer Lita Doolan’s play The Wyre Lady Of Fleetwood – about the gentrification of Fleetwood fishing lofts – which continues online at this year’s Brighton Fringe until 11 July 2021.
Madrid is a Female Name: Cervantes Theatre’s monologue cycle concludes with Virginia Woolf
Throughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London’s home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season of monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The programme continues this Saturday 9 March 2019 with Descarriadas.
PHOTOS: Take a look at the Bride Of Wankenstein cast having their costumes fitted PLUS win film tickets!
What fiendish fashion will the cast of Bride of Wankenstein be wearing when they take to the Hen & Chickens Theatre stage from 9 to 13 October 2018? We can only guess from these behind-the-scenes images of their costume fitting. To see the costumes these evil geniuses have created, you’ll have to book tickets.
What does punk mean to you? ‘Self-expression over convention’: Introducing Hear Me Howl’s all-female team
What does punk mean to you? What’s your favourite song ever and why? What makes you howl with rage? It’s time for the all-female team behind one-woman punk play HEAR ME HOWL, starting performances one week from today at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre, to answer these three vital questions. See what they said below – and then get booking (and howling)!
WATCH: The punk producers of Hear Me Howl wanna hear YOU howl! Trailer + competition
What makes you howl with rage? And how loudly can you do it? We’re counting down to the premiere of Lydia Rynne’s one-woman play HEAR ME HOWL, in which 30-year-old Jess joins a punk band. Check out the trailer and vox pops, plus a fabulous social media competition that could get you FREE tickets. Time to get booking – or howling and winning!
‘If you’re a fan of the movie franchise, you’re bound to enjoy this’: BRING IT ON – Southwark Playhouse ★★★
‘She’s a little bit Hairspray, he’s a little bit Glee …’ is not actually a lyric from Bring It On, a high school musical being given a sparky showcase by the British Theatre Academy at Southwark Playhouse, but it might as well be.
PHOTOS: Significant Other Inc is open for business this week only at The Vaults
As the great and good of the West End and Broadway were focused on the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall this weekend, pioneering Fringe innovators The Pensive Federation gathered more than sixty actors, writers and directors in south London for their launch “inspiration session” as preparations got fully underway for their annual new writing event, The Significant Other Festival, launching next week. Check out our bumper gallery of rehearsal photos below – and then get booking.
WATCH: David Bedella sings ‘I Won’t Send You Roses’ ahead of LMTO concert, Full cast
Full casting has been announced for next weekend’s London Musical Theatre Orchestra much-anticipated concert presentation of Jerry Herman’s Mack and Mabel, which runs for one night only at Hackney Empire on Saturday 23 September 2017. Have you got your tickets yet? Have you entered the competition on our sister site StageFaves.com?
INTERVIEW: In Conversation With… Actor-turned-novelist Alexandra Silber
Portraying both Hodel and then Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof for such lengths of time, and with such incomparable creative teams and casts, informed, inspired and shaped the writing of After Anatevka: it truly was a journey from stage to page.
Anna Ledwich: Being seduced by Richard Bean’s Kiss Me
Richard Bean is perhaps best known for making people laugh. He’s a dab hand at the escalating frenzy of farce, as well as a pleasurable punchline. Whilst One Man, Two Guvnors was a global juggernaut, his latest play, Kiss Me, is an intimate duet.
Culturally significant: How Edinburgh walk-outs led to a London transfer
At the Edinburgh Fringe, I was on at 3:30pm at a family-friendly venue. For those of you who have seen the show, you will understand how utterly inappropriate this was. Walk-outs became more regular than walk-ins and I developed a drinking problem.
NEWS: Full cast announced for Honeymoon in Vegas concert, Win tickets
Maxwell Caulfield, Simon Lipkin, Nicolas Colicos and Rosemary Ashe will join Samantha Barks and Arthur Darvill in the full cast of London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert presentation of HONEYMOON IN VEGAS.
Once more unto the breach: What’s new about Henry V?
After an acclaimed tour in 2016, Antic Disposition’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry V returns in February to embark on a tour of eight of the UK’s most historic and beautiful cathedrals, including Southwark Cathedral on Bankside in the heart of Shakespeare’s London. Antic Disposition’s Ben Horslen and John Riseboro explain their approach to the classic – and why they’ve cast French actors in it…
The Doppel Gang: What can The Marx Brothers tell us about identity today?
Dominic Hedges’ comedy The Doppel Gang, which transfers to London’s Tristan Bates Theatre this month, centres on four hopeless entertainers devise a plan to save their theatre from closure, by masquerading as The Marx Brothers. It’s director Terence Mann’s third production for Just Some Theatre Company…
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus: Tony Harrison’s writing is not vanilla
Director Jimmy Walters returns to the Finborough Theatre to helm The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, the first London staging of Tony Harrison’s play for nearly 30 years. Jimmy gives us an insight into the production’s creative process…
NEWS: EdFringe expands annual poster competition
Schools winners will inspire programme cover: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has expanded its annual schools poster competition so that three winning designs will be used to inspire three covers of next August’s fringe programme.
The Acedian Pirates: A year’s fundraising for the pirate crew
Bobby Brook is the director of Jay Taylor’s new play The Acedian Pirates, which premieres at London’s Theatre503 next week. My journey with this play began, if my memory isn’t too hazy, almost three years ago now. I was working in-house at Theatre503 at the time, as their Resident Assistant Director. One of my first directing gigs was to work on their …
Howard Brenton: ‘What are you prepared to do for revolutionary change?’
Howard Brenton: In my play MAGNIFICENCE, a group of squatters, occupying the room of an empty house in protest against homelessness, write a slogan on the wall: ‘What are the weapons of happiness?’. Follow @MyTheatreMates on Twitter to win tickets…
Howard Brenton: ‘What are you prepared to do for revolutionary change?’
Howard Brenton: In my play MAGNIFICENCE, a group of squatters, occupying the room of an empty house in protest against homelessness, write a slogan on the wall: ‘What are the weapons of happiness?’. Follow @MyTheatreMates on Twitter to win tickets…
MURDER BALLAD – West End
Sara is freewheeling but needy; she falls for Tom who is sexy but untrustworthy. With clever use of minimal props and the stage’s revolve, we watch the trajectory of a relationship play out through song and choreography … until it runs its course and ends badly.
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