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NEWS: Hampstead Theatre will stream series of hit productions for free
Hampstead Theatre, in partnership with The Guardian, is going to stream a series of hit productions from its digital archive for free.
‘Playful, poignant & raw’: I AND YOU – Hampstead Theatre (Online Review)
Filmed in 2018, I And You by American writer Lauren Gunderson makes a welcome, limited, return to Hampstead Theatre’s Instagram.
Screencap from I And You
Maisie Williams makes a stunning stage debut in the role of Caroline, trapped within four wa…
NEWS: Hampstead Theatre will stream its hit production of I and You starring Maisie Williams
Hampstead Theatre is releasing its hit production of I and You by Lauren Gunderson on Instagram for free for a week from 23 March at 10am to 29 March at 10pm.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Jude at Hampstead Theatre
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Edward Hall’s production of Howard Brenton’s latest play Jude.
‘In the end this is more comedy than tragedy’: JUDE – Hampstead Theatre
Jude, Howard Brenton’s new cerebral tragi-comedy about a Syrian refugee’s Oxford dreams, is just too gnomic.
‘For all its good intentions, I just didn’t believe any of it’: EDEN – Hampstead Theatre
New play Eden at the Hampstead Theatre, about corporate capitalism and local resistance, is let down by poor and unbelievable writing.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Cost of Living at Hampstead Theatre
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living.
NEWS: Adrian Lester will star in the UK premiere of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living at the Hampstead Theatre
Adrian Lester, Katy Sullivan, Emily Barber and Jack Hunter will make their Hampstead Theatre debuts in the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living at the Hampstead Theatre – making it the 100th premiere since Edward Hall and Greg Ripley-Duggan took charge in 2010.
NEWS: Roxana Silbert is announced as Hampstead Theatre’s new artistic director & CEO
Roxana Silbert has been announced as the new artistic director and joint chief executive of Hampstead Theatre and will join the theatre in spring 2019, taking over from Edward Hall.
NEWS: Hampstead Theatre’s first productions for 2019 include the UK premiere of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living
Hampstead Theatre has announced its first three productions of 2019. Highlights include: Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Cost of Living, making its UK premiere directed by Edward Hall on the Main Stage.
‘Irreverently noisy & often hilarious’: THE HOES – Hampstead Theatre
It seems to be a great time to be a female playwright, and Ifeyinwa Frederick’s irreverently noisy, and often hilarious, debut play The Hoes is proof that there is a lot of upcoming new talent waiting to make its mark.
Will Broadway musicals dominate the West End in 2019?: Mark Shenton offers his round-up of the week ahead in London & New York
Mark Shenton offers a wrap-up of news from the West End, Broadway and Edinburgh, including the West End transfer of Waitress, Edward Hall saying farewell to Hampstead Theatre and Laura Benanti joining My Fair Lady on Broadway.
NEWS: Edward Hall will step down as Hampstead Theatre artistic director in 2019
After almost ten years, Edward Hall will be stepping down as Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive of Hampstead Theatre in the spring of 2019, the theatre announced today.
‘Defects apart, this is a fine drama by a young writer who will go far’: THE STRANGE DEATH OF JOHN DOE – Hampstead Theatre
At its’s best Fiona Doyle’s text is an ambitious, theatrically exciting and fast-moving panorama which conveys something of the breath-taking scope of contemporary migration, as well as details of its horrors.
NEWS: Hampstead Theatre presents UK premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night in spring season
Artistic director Edward Hall has announced Hampstead Theatre’s spring/summer season, comprising three premiere plays: The UK premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s darkly comic post-truth play Describe the Night will be directed by Lisa Spirling. The world premiere of Jemma Kennedy’s blisteringly entertaining Genesis Inc. will be directed by Laurie Sansom. The world premiere of Fiona Doyle’s haunting and provocative new drama …
‘Christou’s debut is thrilling in its aplomb’: YOUS TWO – Hampstead Theatre
Parenthood can be both empowering and fragile and Georgia Christou’s debut Yous Two at the Hampstead Theatre is thrilling for its potential. Definitely a name to watch.
‘Intelligent, sharp, eloquent, humane’: CELL MATES – Hampstead Theatre ★★★★★
All honour to Ed Hall for reviving it now in his theatre, fretfully apt in the age of Putin and cyberspying and just as the Death of Stalin film is creeping us out in cinemas.
Cell Mates: ‘We are endlessly fascinated by spies & betrayal’
We are endlessly fascinated by spies and the nature of betrayal. For those who knew the men spying for Russia in the mid-Twentieth Century, more than country or ideology, it is the personal treacheries that still rankle.
NEWS: Geoffrey Streatfeild returns to Hampstead to star in Simon Gray’s Cell Mates
Geoffrey Streatfeild and Irish actor Emmet Byrne star in the first revival of Simon Gray’s Cell Mates, which hasn’t been performed since Stephen Fry famously walked out of the 1995 premiere production, in which he co-starred with Rik Mayall, after three days due to stage fright.