Tennessee Williams’ Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur Casting

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur by Tennessee Wiliams at The Print Room At The Coronet

The rarely performed Tennessee Williams’ play A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer is to open the Autumn Season at The Print Room at The Coronet. One of the greatest American playwrights of the last century and best known for plays including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie, this play is one of Williams’ rarer plays. It’s Sunday morning in early June, 1930s St Louis. In a sweltering apartment, as Dorothea completes her rigorous daily exercise regime, Bodey is in the kitchen, frying chicken for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. Upstairs neighbour Mrs Gluck has depression so bad she can’t even make coffee, and now Dorothea’s spinster colleague Helena arrives with the news that she’s found a lovely new apartment for them to share. But Dorothea’s mind is elsewhere, she is hoping for a call from the man of her dreams… Casting … Read more

The Print Room Moves To Notting Hill

The Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill to be home to The Print Room

In a move set to secure its long-term future, West London fringe theatre is moving to former playhouse The Coronet in Notting Hill. The Print Room’s current landlord recently announced plans to demolish its current building to make way for luxury accommodation, prompting a search for a new home. Now, the Print Room is to take up permanent residency at the Coronet in Notting Hill, which was originally built as a theatre but has most recently been a two-screen cinema. The Print Room will launch its inaugural season at the venue this autumn in the building’s smaller cinema space, which will be converted into a 100-seat theatre. Plans for the venue will eventually see it’s conversion into three flexible spaces – the largest of which will remain operational as a cinema, under the direction of the Print Room’s team, led by artistic director Anda Winters. There will also be rehearsal … Read more