The latest piece to grace the stage of the Park Theatre is a curious beast, and no mistake. Taking the form of a (fictional) lecture with illustrative acted examples, a healthy dose of audience focused exercises and with a generally high level of comic content, Winner’s Curse never quite makes up its mind what it wants to be or is trying to do.
NEWS: Park Theatre revives stellar Whodunnit & Covid-postponed Clybourne Park this spring
London’s Park Theatre has announced details of its new spring season, running from 9 February to 30 April 2022.
NEWS: New Park Theatre season will feature the London premiere of Little Women musical
The autumn-spring season at London’s Park Theatre will include the London premiere of new musical Little Women and a work in progress showing of Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] by Harry Hill and Steve Brown.
NEWS: Park Theatre will reopen in January 2021 with socially distanced shows & masterclasses
Jez Bond and the team at Park Theatre have announced that the theatre has plans to reopen its doors in the New Year, with socially distanced shows in both auditoria.
NEWS: We round up the response to the latest tranche of Culture Recovery Fund grants awarded by the Government
More than 1,300 arts and cultural organisations have benefited from a share of £257 million as part of a vital financial boost from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.
‘We don’t have an indefinite ability to keep going’: Park Theatre’s Jez Bond on the importance of the government’s furlough scheme
‘We’ve spent seven years building to this point and three years to open the thing, changed the area and culture of the place, and in the snap of the fingers, it’s a ghost town.’
‘A gloriously entertaining joke that the audience is in on’: WHODUNNIT (UNREHEARSED) – Park Theatre
Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing Whodunnit (Unrehearsed) at the Park Theatre. Today my mouth feels a whole lot wider from excessive laughing and smiling. That is a thing right? Aching mouth aside, this is a much needed dose of pure silliness.
NEWS: Miriam Margolyes, Tracy-Ann Oberman & Meaghan Martin line up for new Park Theatre season
Park Theatre has announced its new July to December 2019 season. Featuring four world premiere productions, two UK and London premieres and a range of revivals from Broadway and the West End and featuring Miriam Margolyes, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Meaghan Martin.
‘I do hope people will come & enjoy’: Gillian Anderson & a stellar line-up raise funds for Park Theatre with unrehearsed Whodunnit
The Park Theatre has revealed initial star casting for world premiere murder mystery Whodunnit [Unrehearsed], presented in association with Avalon, which runs in London in July before transferring to the Edinburgh Fringe.
NEWS: Park Theatre’s new season features Miles Jupp & Peter Duncan and play about Boris Johnson
London’s Park Theatre has announced its new January to June 2019 season featuring seven world and four UK/European premieres.
In House podcast: King’s Head Theatre artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher on spinning lots of plates & tripling in size
Have you bookmarked Stagedoor’s new weekly theatre podcast In House? This week’s episode sees MyTheatreMates co-founder Terri Paddock interviewing King’s Head Theatre artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher. Here are highlights and the full interview…
NEWS: Les Dennis plays End of Pier in new Park Theatre season of seven premieres
London’s Park Theatre today announce their new July-December 2018 season. Featuring a mix of new and existing writing, the season includes six world premieres, one UK premiere, three celebrated revivals and a brace of homegrown productions, two of which have been developed through Park Theatre’s Script Accelerator programme.
NEWS: Angela Griffin & Trevor White star in Trump-inspired Building the Wall premiere
Angela Griffin and Trevor White will star in the UK premiere of Building the Wall, the Trump-inspired dystopian political thriller, written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning writer Robert Schenkkan.
WATCH: Actor-turned-artistic director Iwan Lewis lays out his vision for The Barn
Continuing our series on Cirencester’s new Barn Theatre and its inaugural production of The Secret Garden, we’ve had tingles down the spine watching this speech that artistic director Iwan Lewis gave to local business leaders last year, laying out his vision for the venue as a creative hub in the Cotswolds and the transformational power of theatre for a community. We’ve also rounded up more great interviews with Iwan about this inspiring project.
NEWS: Building the Wall, Rothschild musical & David Haig’s Pressure lead Park’s 2018 season
The first half of the 2018 programme at London’s Park Theatre, running from January to June, will feature five world, European, UK and London premiere productions.
MADAM RUBENSTEIN – Park Theatre
Madam Rubinstein focuses on her career-long rivalries with Revlon and particularly Elizabeth Arden played with venomous camp by Frances Barber dripping fox furs and acid putdowns. It’s staged like a bitch fight between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
NEWS: Frances Barber & Jonathan Forbes join Miriam Margolyes in Madame Rubinstein
Park Theatre’s Artistic Director Jez Bond will direct Miriam Margolyes, Frances Barber and Jonathan Forbes in the world premiere of MADAME RUBINSTEIN.
NEWS: Broadway comedy Chinglish gets European premiere in new Park season of comedies
Park Theatre’s new Spring Summer 2017 season features an array of new writing across both spaces including several world premiere comedies together with the long-awaited European premiere of David Henry Hwang’s Braodway hit Chinglish, an acclaimed musical revival of Jonathan Larson’s tick tick BOOM! and an all-male staging of A Clockwork Orange.
NEWS: Mark Gatiss and Maitland anti-doping play headline new Park Theatre season
Park Theatre Artistic Director Jez Bond today announces its new season of work, all in association with a host of exciting and diverse producers, including four world premieres, three UK premieres, two European premieres and a London premiere.
Jeremy Corbyn and the art of the theatre publicity pic
When news of the Park Theatre’s pantomime, Rapunzel, came through earlier this year, I remember clocking the name of the hero character Prince Corbyn – names are never a coincidence when it comes to pantomimes, surely? But had naming considerations also played a part in casting the role? Finding an actor named Alex Hope to […]