The National Theatre, returning to performances with full capacity audiences from later this month, has announced further casting details for forthcoming productions of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, original musical Hex, Moira Buffini’s new play Manor, and more.
NEWS: Birmingham Repertory Theatre announces 50th anniversary autumn season
Artistic director Sean Foley has announced his programme for the 50th anniversary season of Birmingham Repertory Theatre in its current home on Centenary Square.
NEWS: Birmingham Repertory Theatre announces the commissioning of 12 new plays
Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced 12 new commissions titled The Park Bench Plays – a series of micro-plays that ‘illuminate, interrogate and even celebrate today’s socially distanced world’.
NEWS: Creative partnership between Birmingham Royal Ballet & Birmingham Repertory Theatre announced
A brand new partnership has been confirmed between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which will see the two established companies combine creative ingenuity to stage new dance works in the heart of Birmingham city centre.
NEWS: Rachel O’Riordan’s debut season at Lyric Hammersmith continues with Chris Bush’s Faustus: That Damned Woman
Rachel O’Riordan’s debut season as artistic director at Lyric Hammersmith continues this month with Faustus: That Damned Woman, a co-production between the Lyric and Headlong, in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
NEWS: Corelli tour mandolin goes missing
Forthcoming touring show Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is appealing for the return of its most vital prop after it was left on a commuter train by the lead actor.
‘Theatre doesn’t come in any better packaging than this’: THE SNOWMAN – Birmingham ★★★★★
In its 25th anniversary year, The Snowman stage show, based on the Raymond Briggs classic, is heart-warming and brings tears to the eyes in equal measure.
NEWS: Four wins for Manchester’s Royal Exchange at UK Theatre Awards plus honours for Maxine Peake & Richard Eyre
There were four wins for Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre at this year’s UK Theatre Awards. The winners were revealed in a lunchtime ceremony at London’s Guildhall.
NEWS: First major stage production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin will tour the UK from April 2019
The first major stage production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, based on the best-selling novel by Louis de Bernières will tour the UK in 2019, 25 years after the book was first published.
‘Every emotion is captured’: BRIEF ENCOUNTER – Touring & West End ★★★★★
Directed by Emma Rice, Kneehigh’s Brief Encounter is a fast-paced, superbly powerful, moving and yet hilarious piece of theatre.
101 DALMATIONS – Birmingham ★★★★★
101 Dalmatians – no easy feat for a stage production, one might imagine, getting all those dalmatians up on stage in one go with no unruly canine behaviour, etc. What’s the answer? Use puppets of course, reminiscent of War Horse – and it works fantastically well.
WHAT SHADOWS – Park Theatre
Chris Hannah’s What Shadows, making its London debut after a critically acclaimed run at the Birmingham Repetory in 2016, looks at the ever-changing United Kingdom by focusing on Enoch Powell, a Tory MP who managed to divide and unite a country through one explosive speech in 1968.
WHAT SHADOWS – Park Theatre ★★★
As a play, there is so much in What Shadows that touches on and echoes today’s myriad trouble spots, it could hardly be more topical.
WHAT SHADOWS – Edinburgh & London
Ian McDiarmid’s extremely fine performance as Enoch Powell is resentful, fidgety and frustrated, either from feeling overlooked earlier in life or from illness later on.
JANE EYRE – Touring ★★★★★
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte’s well-known classic has been reincarnated on stage and screen with regularity. So, with my in-depth knowledge gathered from my A-Level English Literature studies still ricocheting in my older than teenage brain, I prepared myself to watch another take on the story.
NEWS: Birmingham Rep Theatre’s Autumn 2017 Season Boasts Three World Premieres
Birmingham Repertory Theatre today announces its Autumn and Winter 2017 season offering a rich, varied and entertaining programme to enthral audiences across the city and beyond.
NEWS: Birmingham Rep Theatre’s Autumn 2017 Season Boasts Three World Premieres
Birmingham Repertory Theatre today announces its Autumn and Winter 2017 season offering a rich, varied and entertaining programme to enthral audiences across the city and beyond.
WHAT’S IN A NAME – Birmingham
What’s In A Name resembles a snapshot into every day family life. The witty, observational script combined with a cast who are all at the top of their game ensures that this production wouldn’t look out of place in the West End.
THE SNOWMAN – Birmingham
The live stage version of The Snowman at Birmingham Repertory Theatre provides a beautiful, elegant and engaging light ballet version of the popular story and was the perfect January family pick me up.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE – Touring
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife! It also seemed to be acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice had landed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre this week, as a healthy house full of enthusiastic theatregoers packed the auditorium to see the popular period piece.
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