The Other Palace has announced changes to its management team and programming direction, including the departure of artistic director Paul Taylor Mills and the re-introduction of plays to its schedule. Previously the St James Theatre, the west London venue was rebranded and relaunched as a musicals-only house last February.
NEWS: Mel Giedroyc joins Rosalie Craig & Patti LuPone in Company in West End
Mel Giedroyc will join the cast of Elliott & Harper’s highly anticipated new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony award-winning musical, Company, directed by Marianne Elliott.
HEISENBERG: The Uncertainty Principle – West End
Enough of stories about men getting women half their age, it is time to redress the balance. Stronger roles for older women, a reappraisal of the sexual dynamic that dominates the cultural discourse.
What do 31 Hours, All The Little Lights & Heisenberg have in common?
I can’t get out of my mind the idea of touring two new, one-act plays I’ve seen recently – Jane Upton‘s All The Little Lights and Kieran Knowles‘ 31 Hours – as a double bill.
HEISENBERG: The Uncertainty Principle – West End
The idea of music existing “between the notes” seems to be the best description of Heisenberg. A bit like the principle from which it takes its name, that you cannot view a thing and observe it’s momentum at once. The music analogy is more romantic though.
HEISENBERG: The Uncertainty Principle – West End
I think I should start off by saying Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle that launches a brave new commercial venture in the West End by director Marianne Elliott and producer Chris Harper, had me hooked.
HEISENBERG: The Uncertainty Principle – West End ★★★
This one has been received with respect, but it was hard to help feeling that this 80-minute two-hander represents one of those cases where an immensity of theatrical talent gets heaped on a work so weightless that it would crumble to dust without that exoskeleton of high craft and sincerity.
In praise of Elliott Harper: The theatre company I’ve been waiting for
It’s all exciting, and has the potential, we already know, to produce exciting work. A company that is starting with a new Simon Stephens play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham is obviously off to a pretty strong start.
NEWS: Patti Lupone & Rosalie Craig star in West End gender-switch Company, TICKETS ONSALE
Broadway legend Patti LuPone and Rosalie Craig will star in Marianne Elliott’s 2018 gender-switch production of Stephen Sondheim’s COMPANY in the West End.