In recent years the ‘rediscovery’ of Summer and Smoke and an impressive production of The Night of the Iguana have awakened an interest in what are considered Williams’ lesser-known major works while the King’s Head Theatre explored identity and desire in some of the shorter pieces under the Southern Belles title, all of which are bringing the writers work to a new audience. Now, Charing Cross Theatre is hoping to do the same for 1962 flop The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore exploring the exploitation of a dying woman grasping for the meaning of her life and refusing to go quietly.
‘Michelle Visage’s casting is a rather inspired move’: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE – West End
Chucking Michelle Visage into the cast of Everybody’s Talking About James at the Apollo Theatre is actually a rather inspired move.
NEWS: RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage will make her West End debut in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
RuPaul’s Drag Race and Ireland’s Got Talent judge Michelle Visage will be making her West End musical debut playing the role of Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie from 18 October 2018 to 26 January 2019.
NEWS: Rebecca McKinnis & Lee Ross are cast in West End’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
The producers of the award-winning Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre have announced that this week Rebecca McKinnis (Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You) is stepping into the role of Margaret New and Lee Ross (EastEnders) is joining the cast to play Hugo.
Album Reviews: Audra McDonald, Louise Dearman & the Everybody’s Talking About Jamie cast recording
Casting my eye over some recent musical theatre album releases: Audra McDonald’s live album Sing Happy, Louise Dearman’s latest collection For You, For Me and the long-awaited cast recording for Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s Lucie Shorthouse
Making her West End debut in the new hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, actress Lucie Shorthouse spoke to Love London Love Culture about her recent award win and the musical’s success in London…
NEWS: Everything’s Talking About Jamie extends West End booking to 6 October, TICKETS ONSALE
Everybody’s Talking about Jamie has extended its West End booking at the Apollo Theatre through to October 2018.
FosterIAN Awards for Best Supporting Actress
Thinking about this most well-received of plays, it is the role of Aunt Maggie Faraway who lingers most in my mind, the elegiac beauty of her speeches an elegant way of folding in traditions of Irish storytelling and emphasising the deep bonds of family.
‘A musical for today’: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE – West End
Written by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae and adapted from a BBC documentary, Jamie casts off the archetypal coming out and gay bashing stories (though not completely ignoring them) in favour of a main narrative about an out and proud teen.
NEWS: Full cast announced for West End transfer of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, TICKETS ONSALE
Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,
directed by Jonathan Butterell and written by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae, which will play a
limited season at the Apollo Theatre from Monday 6 November following a critically acclaimed run at
Sheffield Crucible.
NEWS: Everyone is talking about Everybody’s Talking About Jamie coming to London
Thanks to Jamie Campbell, Firecracker Films, Michael Ball, Sheffield Theatres and Nica Burns, a new British musical by a new British theatre writing and directing team, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie opens at the Apollo Theatre on Wednesday 22 November 2017.
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE – Sheffield
What a joy it is, a breath of feel-good fresh air that can’t help but leave you feeling fabulous. With career advice flying by unheeded, all 16-year-old Jamie is really bothered about as his school-time comes to an end is whether he will attend the school prom as his drag persona Mimi Me or not.