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FEATURED SHOW: Hymn to Love at Jermyn Street Theatre, ★★★★ reviews & a brand-new trailer are in!
Hymn to Love, a unique one-woman homage to Edith Piaf starring Olivier nominee Elizabeth Mansfield, transferred last week to London’s Jermyn Street Theatre, where it’s racked another set of rave reviews. We’ve rounded up some of our favourite highlights below – plus the stunning new show trailer. Time to get booking – it’s on until 18 August 2018 only!
‘There’ve been so many pieces about Edith Piaf; this one is unique because of the songs sung in English’: Elizabeth Mansfield on Hymn to Love
Twenty years after she first played her, Elizabeth Mansfield returns to the role of Edith Piaf in a revised version of hit homage Hymn to Love, opening tonight (27 July 2018) at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre after sell-outs on tour. In our interview below, Mansfield tells us more about her incredible journey with The Little Sparrow and how singing her classic torch songs in English changes everything…
As Hymn to Love opens at Jermyn Street, we look back on Edith Piaf’s tragic timeline
Hymn to Love, Elizabeth Mansfield’s much-lauded tribute to Edith Piaf, transfers to London’s Jermyn Street Theatre this week after sell-out performances and an extended run at Theatre By The Lake and a northern tour. How much do you know about the man for whom Piaf sang her “Hymn to Love”? Gen up and hear the original below – and then get booking!
WATCH: Edith Piaf sings her Hymn to Love to boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died on his way to see her
Hymn to Love, Elizabeth Mansfield’s much-lauded tribute to Edith Piaf, transfers to London’s Jermyn Street Theatre this week after sell-out performances and an extended run at Theatre By The Lake and a northern tour. How much do you know about the man for whom Piaf sang her “Hymn to Love”? Gen up and hear the original below – and then get booking!
PHOTOS: Elizabeth Mansfield is Edith Piaf in Hymn to Love at Jermyn Street
As Jermyn Street gears up for its just-announced autumn Rebels season, this summer’s Reaction season continues apace. The European premiere of Boo Killebrew’s The Play About My Dad finishes tomorrow (21 July 2018) to make way for the critically acclaimed transfer of Hymn to Love, starring Elizabeth Mansfield as Edith Piaf. Gen up and check out production photos below – and then get booking!
‘An engaging, tense & horribly enjoyable evening’: THE BE ALL & END ALL – Windsor ★★★★
Lewis’ last education play was good, but The Be All & End All moves sharply up a notch and should get a wider tour or some capital attention.
NEWS: Full details are revealed on the Bard’s birthday for the pop-up Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre in York
Today, on the birthday of William Shakespeare, full details have been announced for Europe’s first ever pop-up Shakespearean Theatre – Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre – which makes its debut in the historic city of York in June. Preparations are well underway for a ground-breaking ‘Summer of Shakespeare’. Highlights include: Directors Lindsay Posner, Damian Cruden and Juliet Forster to lead two companies …
NEWS: Last train leaves The Railway Children with Paul Hawkyard as Mr Perks
Paul Hawkyard has the duty of making sure the last train leaves King’s Cross Theatre on time, when he takes over as Mr Perks in The Railway Children – Live on Stage from 23 November 2016 until 8 January 2017, when the production finishes after a two-year run.
NEWS: Justin Fletcher extends two weeks in The Railway Children, Show must finish 8 Jan
BAFTA award-winning presenter, actor and voice-over artist, Justin Fletcher, who joined the cast of the Olivier Award-winning production of Mike Kenny’s stage adaptation of E. Nesbit’s novel The Railway Children – Live on Stage on 31 August, has now confirmed he will be playing an extra two weeks, now finishing on 19 November.
NEWS: Cast announced for first large-scale stage production of Brideshead Revisited
The full cast is announced today for the first ever large-scale stage production of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel Brideshead Revisited, adapted by Bryony Lavery, touring this spring and summer in the 50th anniversary year of Waugh’s death. The play, a co-production between English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal, opens at York on 26 April, with previews from 22 April, before touring to Bath, Southampton, Cambridge, Malvern, Brighton, Oxford and Richmond, as well as second run in York.