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NEWS: Sharon D. Clarke & Katherine Parkinson are among the cast for new audio project Written on the Waves

In Audio, Native, News, Online shows, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases22nd September 2020

Sharon D. Clarke and Katherine Parkinson are among the cast for new audio project Written on the Waves presented by 45North and Ellie Keel Productions.

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FEATURED SHOW: Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 at Jermyn Street Theatre, ★★★★★ reviews are in!

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Native, Photos, Plays, Sticky, Ticket recommendations by Featured Content25th April 2018Leave a Comment

A historic hit! Jermyn Street Theatre’s historic staging of Noel Coward’s full Tonight at 8.30 cycle has wowed the critics who attended this past weekend’s trilogy days. We’ve rounded up some of our favourite review quotes below, including from our own Cowardologist Libby Purves. Get your tickets before they’re all gone!

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PHOTOS: First-look at first-ever London revival of Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Native, Photos, Plays, Sticky, Ticket recommendations by Featured Content12th April 2018Leave a Comment

Got your tickets yet for Jermyn Street’s historic staging of Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30? It’s the first time that all nine plays in the cycle have been staged together in London since their 1936 premiere. Check out our gallery of production shots from the first three Bedroom Farces below – and then get booking!

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WATCH: Tonight at 8.30 cast introduce you to the plays in Noel Coward’s epic cycle

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, Native, Plays, Quotes, Ticket recommendations, Video by Featured Content10th April 2018Leave a Comment

We continue our series building up to the opening of Jermyn Street’s complete staging of Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 with these new, rehearsal room videos from the cast introducing the nine plays in the cycle, not seen all together in London since their 1936 premiere. Watch onscreen below – and then get booking to watch onstage!

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Before Brief Encounter: Watch Miranda Foster on Laura in Still Life + other videos

In Features, London theatre, Native, Plays, Quotes, Ticket recommendations, Video by Featured Content4th April 2018Leave a Comment

Before Brief Encounter, there was Still Life. Audiences now have a chance to see Noel Coward’s one-act play, which spawned David Lean’s classic film, as part of Jermyn Street Theatre’s complete cycle of nine short plays, which have not been seen all together in London since their 1936 premiere. Watch our video with Still Life’s new Laura – and then get booking!

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9 short plays make up Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30: Here they are

In Features, London theatre, Native, Plays, Quotes, Sticky, Ticket recommendations by Featured Content3rd April 2018Leave a Comment

Jermyn Street Theatre is reviving Noël Coward’s complete cycle of one-act plays, Tonight at 8.30, for the first time in London since Coward himself starred in the 1936 West End premiere. How well do you know the plays (beyond just Still Life, which later became immortalised onscreen as Brief Encounter)? Gen up below – and then get booking!

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NEWS: Full cast announced for London revival of Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Ticket recommendations by Featured Content5th March 2018Leave a Comment

Final casting has been announced for the first complete London revival of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 since 1936, being staged by Jermyn Street Theatre as part of its The Reaction Season.

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‘Seems strangely prophetic in Brexit Britain’: EAST – King’s Head Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Ticket recommendations by Aleks Sierz20th January 2018Leave a Comment

This lively revival of Steven Berkoff’s 1975 modern classic is energetically sweaty, if a bit messy as well.

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‘An undoubted visceral thrill’: EAST – King’s Head Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster19th January 2018Leave a Comment

Set in the East End of yore, Steven Berkoff uses his bastardised Shakespeare’n’slang prose style to depict the lives there with an extraordinary vigour.

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‘Ripe with expletives & bravura’: EAST – King’s Head Theatre ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Ticket recommendations by Anne Cox17th January 2018Leave a Comment

Shocking, provocative and poetic. Steven Berkoff’s punchy verse play, East, has returned to its roots. No, not Bethnal Green or the Mile End Road, but the King’s Head Theatre Islington, where it made its London debut in 1975.

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PHOTOS: Sneak-peek behind the scenes as Steven Berkoff’s East returns to King’s Head

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Quotes, Sticky, Ticket recommendations by Press Releases10th January 2018Leave a Comment

Steven Berkoff’s masterpiece EAST will open the new year at London’s King’s Head Theatre, where it made its London debut in 1975. The new production, directed by Life According to Saki’s Jessica Lazar, runs from 9 January to 3 February 2018.

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