Two Almeida musical revivals – Cabaret in the West End and Spring Awakening – were the biggest winners at the 31st annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, for the first time held just one week before the Olivier Awards.
New work, new voices, hybrid approaches: How theatre changed in 2021
It has been another complicated year for theatres with venues unable to welcome in-person audiences for more than five months of 2021 and the tail end of the year returning to enforced closure and performance cancellations.
‘An enthralling, bewitching new staging with a terrific young cast’: SPRING AWAKENING – Almeida Theatre
I’m not sure even the greatest admirers of this 2006 Broadway smash will be prepared for the emotional and visceral impact of this jaw-droppingly fine new production by the Almeida’s artistic director Rupert Goold.
‘The in-your-face ferocity is hugely impactful in such a small space’: SPRING AWAKENING – Almeida Theatre
Directed by Rupert Goold with a cast of highly talented young performers, this energetic production about teenage desire and the failure of parental direction is a rare musical choice for the Almeida.
NEWS: Saoirse Ronan makes her UK stage debut in new Almeida Theatre season
The Almeida Theatre has announced a new season for 2021. Highlights include: The Tragedy of Macbeth, directed by Yaël Farber, featuring Olivier-nominated James McArdle and four-time Academy Award-nominated Saoirse Ronan, making her UK stage debut.
‘I left feeling moved, inspired & overjoyed’: SPRING AWAKENING – Stockwell Playhouse ★★★★★
With tears still filling my eyes, I left the Stockwell Playhouse feeling moved, inspired and overjoyed at the talent of this amazing production, performed by the British Theatre Academy.
What’s Debbie looking forward to in August 2018?
Though at the moment it looks quiet, I have finally got a draft schedule together for my time in Edinburgh, and it seems as if my plan to ease myself in has just gone out of the window… It’s going to be a hectic week for me up there, but it has to be done!
‘The high bar has been raised even further’: SPRING AWAKENING – Manchester ★★★★
Since its arrival in Manchester, Hope Mill Theatre has brought much needed fresh and original plays to its stage. The already high bar that Yank! left has been raised even further by the triumph that is Spring Awakening. Go and see it.
NEWS: Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre presents Aspects of Love, Spring Awakening & new ToyBoy Diaries
The award-winning Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester and Aria Entertainment has today announced the first three in-house productions of an ambitious and diverse 2018: The world premiere of new British musical The ToyBoy Diaries, a new revival of the acclaimed modern Broadway hit Spring Awakening and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic Aspects of Love.
SPRING AWAKENING – Edinburgh
The young company is packed with enough talent to have two casts for some of the key roles not to mention a chorus which brings the cast on stage up to 24. And, when the acoustic of St Stephen’s lets them, they show themselves to be a group which is in firm control of its material.
FROM DOWN UNDER: Spring Awakening
Winner of seven 2007 Tony Awards, Spring Awakening has inexplicably never had a professional Melbourne season. With a cast of a little over a dozen performers, this edgy, abstract musical is the ideal choice for a production that is small on scale but large on talent.
News and reviews from New York: Broadway’s latest Fiddler on the Roof opens
Round-up of reviews and news from Broadway, including Fiddler on the Roof and Xmas productions of Elf and Annie, plus a Spring Awakening cast video and remembering those who’s died in 2015.
SPRING AWAKENING – Edinburgh Fringe
✭✭✭✩✩ Stirring:
Captivate Theatre’s Spring Awakening is a committed and occasionally thrilling production that does not quite have the conviction to carry everything off.
Interview with Camden Giles currently in As Is
I was lucky enough to see AsIs on its press night and met the charming and highly talented Giles Cooper. It occurred to me I knew very little about […]