The British Theatre Academy completes its summer season at the Southwark Playhouse with a heartfelt production of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s musical Dogfight.
‘Unearthing of another gem’: THE DAME – Park Theatre ★★★★
In an impressive Duncan double-act, The Dame transfers from the Edinburgh Fringe to London’s Park Theatre and makes for compelling theatre. In her first play, Katie Duncan writes, for father Peter to enact, the fictional story of Ronald Roy Humphrey a decaying dame in the twilight of his career, whose working life has revolved around winter pantomimes and summer seasons in end of the pier music hall.
‘Powerful & poignant’: THE DAME – Park Theatre ★★★★★
The Dame is a powerful and poignant look into the fragile creature behind the painted smile and is brought to life by a captivating performance by Peter Duncan.
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.
NEWS: Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme for 2018 encourages audiences to leap ‘into the unknown’
The official 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme was launched today, inviting performers and audiences from across the globe to ‘leap into the unknown’ and embark on their very own Fringe adventure.
HAIRSPRAY – Touring
Stylish: The power of dance, song and big hair are used to heap scorn on all kinds of prejudice as Hairspray returns for a week-long flash of brio and fun at the Edinburgh Playhouse, as part of its ongoing tour.
HAIRSPRAY – Touring
Based on the classic 1988 film and subsequent Tony award-winning Broadway production this is an all-singing, all-dancing delight of a show. It’s the story of a larger-than-life teenager who is fighting both sizeism prejudices and trying to bring colour integration into a wholesome 1960s early evening entertainment programme. This effervescent teen, Tracy Turnblad, falls in love and has a few scrapes along the way, which makes for a super fun entertaining show.
Birdsong
✭✭✭✩✩ Unsettling:
Emotionally uneven, Birdsong at the King’s has much to recommend it but struggles to convince fully.