Though the title is a bit of a mouthful, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is an unexpectedly brilliant retelling of the Victorian tale. With Robert Bathurst as Scrooge and a live band onstage, you can’t go too far wrong.
‘Plenty of stunning gymnastic-inspired choreography, high levels of energy & joy’: BRING IT ON – Queen Elizabeth Hall then Touring ★★★★
This pom-pom filled musical might be slight in story, but it certainly has much to enjoy thanks to Fabian Aloise’s choreography.
‘Learning a new skill in cheerleading was really exciting’: Actor & resident director Samuel Wilson-Freeman on Bring It On
Samuel Wilson-Freeman is currently starring as Steven in Bring It On The Musical, which is at London’s Southbank Centre this month before continuing its UK-wide tour.
‘Something for everyone, including comic interludes’: CIRCUS 1903 – Royal Festival Hall
With two hours of acts ranging from catchers to aerialists, jugglers to puppet elephants, teeterboard leapers to hula hoopers, Circus 1903 has something for everyone.
NEWS: Bring It On The Musical will play a London season at the Southbank Centre in December 2021
Selladoor Worldwide has announced that Bring It On The Musical will play its delayed London season at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall from 8 December 2021 to 22 January 2022, following eight performances at the New Theatre, Peterborough from 30 November to 4 December 2021.
‘Engaging insights into living with & exploring the nature of disability’: Unlimited Festival – Southbank Centre (Online review)
Festivals are a vital part of the theatre ecosystem, a place to try out new material, explore form and style while giving a valuable platform to all kinds of performance. These activities have been among the hardest hit during the period of closur…
NEWS: Emma Rice’s Malory Towers returns for national tour & summer run at the Southbank Centre
A new production of Emma Rice’s critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, originally created with Wise Children, is set for a national tour, concluding at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall,
NEWS: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show transfers from Paris to London
Eccentric, scandalous, provocative, exuberant and funny as ever, internationally renowned designer Jean Paul Gaultier is shaking up London with his stunning new creation, Fashion Freak Show.
‘As thrilling as it is beautiful to watch’: CIRCUS 1903 – Royal Festival Hall ★★★★★
Thanks to films such as Water for Elephants and more recently The Greatest Showman, there is an irresistible appeal for the traditional circuses from around the 1900’s. Now thanks to Circus 1903, there is a great opportunity to revisit the golden age of circus.
‘Plenty of silliness to appeal to both kids & grown-ups’: RUMPELSTILTSKIN – Southbank Centre
Think you know the story of Rumpelstiltskin? Think again. This Christmas, the classic fairy tale gets a distinctly bizarre new look courtesy of Windmill Theatre Company’s Rosemary Myers and Julianne O’Brien.
‘Seems to have been written for two different audiences’: RUMPELSTILTSKIN – Southbank Centre ★★★
Bright and cheerful, the UK premiere of the Windmill Theatre Company and State Theatre Company’s production of Rumpelstiltskin is playful but doesn’t tell the story as well as it could.
NEWS: Bush Theatre artistic director Madani Younis steps down to take on creative director role at the Southbank
Madani Younis will step down as artistic director and chief executive of the Bush Theatre to become creative director of the Southbank Centre in January 2019.
‘Let’s hope this isn’t the last we see of this sweet show’: A LITTLE PRINCESS – Royal Festival Hall ★★★
After the recent success in the UK of Big Fish and The Addams Family, Andrew Lippa’s lesser-known show A Little Princess has had its UK premiere at the Southbank Centre.
‘Entertaining & satisfying tribute’: THE BEST OF JAMES BOND – Royal Festival Hall
The structure of The Best of James Bond is simple but effective, taking each film in turn, with the occasional digression into the wider cultural context, which makes for an entertaining and satisfying tribute to the continuing influence of the franchise.
‘Mesmeric in its ability to transport’: YAYAYA AYAYAY – Southbank Centre
Performer Ultimate Dancer gives a fairly emotionless performance, but in the hyper-worldly circumstances this distinctive atmosphere evokes, it oddly fits.
‘Mesmeric in its ability to transport’: YAYAYA AYAYAY – Southbank Centre
Performer Ultimate Dancer gives a fairly emotionless performance, but in the hyper-worldly circumstances this distinctive atmosphere evokes, it oddly fits.
Today in Manchester: The WHY? Festival at the Contact Theatre
Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre, London, brings her creation inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children, to Manchester, offering our young people a celebration of their rights and capabilities, offering inspiration: we can make change in our world.
KLANGHAUS: 800 BREATHS – Southbank Centre
A dozen or so of us were led to the roof of the Royal Festival Hall where we were told to expect: ‘A multi-sensory encounter of shifting sound, colour and light, which reinvents the gig-going experience as a site-responsive close-up standing performance.’ Whatever that is.
CATCH ME (Attrape-Moi) – Udderbelly
We enter the space greeted by cold blue lighting and a soundscape of rain and thunder. It is soothing, relaxing and worlds away from the summer party that is happening around the beer stalls just outside.
NEWS: Slava’s Snowshow returns to Southbank for fifth Christmas run
SLAVA’S SNOWSHOW returns to London’s Southbank for a fifth Christmas season as part of a new 2017 tour.
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