Dream Lover, Jane Elia’s new play inspired by the crimes of London serial killer Dennis Nilsen, premieres this month as part of the Clapham Fringe festival at London’s Bread & Roses Theatre.
NEWS: Meet the new company facing a pub lock-in on tour in Tiny Room’s Loop
Curtis Medley, Martha Furnival and Taro Bahar star in Tiny Room’s fresh new staging of Peter Mulligan’s acclaimed 2018 play LOOP, which launches an inaugural tour this week from Coventry’s Albany Theatre as part of the City of Culture 2021 celebrations.
‘Every actor should try to direct & every director should try to act’: Joe Idris-Roberts on making his directorial debut with Loop on tour
As Tiny Room prepares for its inaugural tour with Peter Mulligan’s LOOP, we caught up with Joe Idris-Roberts, who now makes his professional directorial debut with this latest iteration of his company co-founder’s acclaimed play.
INTERVIEW: When Darkness Falls stars Alex Phelps & Will Barton on ghost stories, Covid & what else scares them
Alex Phelps and Will Barton star opposite another in tense two-hander When Darkness Falls, set in Guernsey and inspired by local paranormal folklore. We talked to them about the play and things that go bump in the night.
NEWS: Tiny Room launches debut tour with revival of acclaimed play Loop
After success at Camden Fringe and London’s Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Peter Mulligan’s acclaimed play LOOP returns with an autumn tour that launches with a performance at the Albany Theatre as part of Coventry’s City of Culture 2021 celebrations.
NEWS: York’s premier sketch troupe The Dead Ducks brings new tour to Camden Fringe
The Dead Ducks, University of York Comedy Society’s premier sketch troupe, is doing a run of seven shows across two venues at this year’s Camden Fringe with their new production Ducks Out of Water.
NEWS: Double bill Spectra, dismantling female stereotypes, premieres at Camden Fringe
Spectra, a double bill of two short plays depicting the intricacies of female relationships in opposing contexts, gets its premiere care of an all-female team at the Etcetera Theatre.
‘It will be a great moment for zoology & fringe theatre’: Simon Stanley Ward on How I Found & Captured Bigfoot During Lockdown
You can discover the strangest things when you’re walking the dog in north London’s Tottenham Marshes. Musician turned Sasquatch-hunter Simon Stanley Ward is proof of that. We talked to him about his new one-man show premiering at Camden Fringe.
NEWS: Sasquatch exists! How I Found & Captured Bigfoot During Lockdown premieres at Camden Fringe
Does Bigfoot exist? In north London? Simon Stanley-Ward, musician turned explorer, presents his findings to the scientific community in How I Found and Captured Bigfoot During Lockdown at the Etcetera Theatre as part of Camden Fringe.
NEWS: All-female cast announced for A Rat, A Rat premiere at new Golden Goose Theatre
An all-female cast and creative team bring Chloe Yates’ electric new play A Rat, A Rat to the stage at south London’s new Golden Goose Theatre, in association with mental health theatre company Stepping Out.
NEWS: Lamda lockdown graduates launch Quackpot careers with Meet Cute
Romantic comedy sketch Meet Cute, created by two LAMDA students who graduated into a shuttered theatre industry during lockdown, gets its world premiere at London’s Etcetera Theatre as part of this month’s Camden Fringe.
NEWS: Alex Bower’s Swimming, exploring male bisexuality, premieres at White Bear Theatre
Returning after sell-out development dates in 2019, Swimming, Alex Bower’s new play about bisexuality and “choosing lanes”, returns this month to London’s White Bear Theatre for its world premiere in a three-week season, running from 3 to 21 August 2021.
NEWS: Queer musical Fabulett 1933, set in Weimar Berlin, launches at Camden Fringe
Fabulett 1933, a new queer one-person musical set in Weimar Berlin, gets its postponed premiere at Camden Fringe, running at London’s Canal Cafe Theatre from 8 to 14 August 2021.
Album Review: The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be – Danielle Steers
West End star Danielle Steers is soon to share her brand new album featuring nine Jim Steinman songs. Entitled The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be, all of the tracks have been rearranged by Noam Galperin to give the upcoming release a fresh feel, particularly fitting to her unique voice.
NEWS: The Da Vinci Code receives its stage premiere, launching UK-wide tour in April 2021
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown’s 2003 novel that became an international bestseller and a 2006 film starring Tom Hanks, is now to become a new stage thriller.
NEWS: ‘Age-blind’ Hamlet starring Ian McKellen begins rehearsals for eventual run
A new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Sean Mathias with Ian McKellen in an age-blind interpretation of the young Prince, will go into rehearsals on Monday 29 June 2020.
NEWS: Sleepless reschedules month’s run from 25 Aug with social distancing measures
SLEEPLESS, A Musical Romance, based on the original screenplay Sleepless in Seattle, has rescheduled its premiere at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre for 25 August to 27 September 2020.
NEWS: Jermyn Street Theatre dark for rest of 2020, artistic director lambasts ‘deafening Government silence’
Jermyn Street Theatre has announced that it will remain closed until some point in 2021. Tom Littler lays bare the lack of support from Westminster.
NEWS: Cameron Mackintosh announces West End closures until 2021, starts redundancy consultations
Cameron Mackintosh has delayed the return of his West End productions of Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, Hamilton and The Phantom of the Opera until as early as practical in 2021.
NEWS: Old Vic streams 2018 production of Joe Penhall’s Mood Music in July
In addition to its experimental #OVinCamera live staging of Lungs, the Old Vic Theatre continues its free streaming of archived productions.