Month: November 2014

Marching On Together Launches Kickstarter Campaign

News, Off West End
Marching On Together by Adam Hughes has its premier at the Old Red Lion in March 2015

Here at Britishtheatre.com we are ardent supporters of new writers and we’re proud to support playwright Adam Hughes and his new play Marching On Together which has its premiere in February 2015. To help raise funds for the production a Kickstarter campaign has been launched. “It’s Leeds, it’s the height of the football season in 1984, and it’s carnage. West Yorkshire miners are on strike and football hooliganism is rife, with bitter battles being fought on both the picket line and the touchline. Macca, ex-leader of the notorious Service Crew, is released from prison into a divided Leeds that he hardly recognises. With Macca’s infamous crew now disbanded, a younger generation of hooligans have taken up his violent mantle defending the mighty Whites, leaving the former general on the side-lines without an army. Abandoned by the only group who respected and supported him, Macca is no longer just fighting for … Read more

Tommy Steele To Star In Glenn Miller Story

Touring
Tommy Steele to star in The Glenn Miller Story

Music legend turns master storyteller as Tommy Steele takes to the stage to narrate the extraordinary tale of the world’s most famous big band leader, accompanied by a live 16-piece Glenn Miller orchestra and a full supporting company of singers, dancers and actors. Tommy Steele was Britain’s first rock ‘n’ roll star. Dubbed the UK’s answer to Elvis Presley, he landed his first UK No.1 with Singing the Blues in January 1957, reaching the top spot before Elvis, who didn’t land his until the June that year. The big screen soon beckoned for Tommy, and that same year he filmed The Tommy Steele Story, which dramatised his rise to fame and was one of the first British rock ‘n’ roll movies. A soundtrack of the same name was released to coincide with the film’s opening and became the first album by a UK-based act to reach No.1. His legendary career … Read more

Casting Announced for Oklahoma! 2015 Tour

Touring
Oklahoma! on tour in the UK in 2015

CLICK FOR OKLAHOMA TOUR DATES BELOW The full cast has been announced for the new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Oklahoma! presented by Music & Lyrics Limited and Royal & Derngate Northampton. From the award-winning producers of the highly successful tours of The King and I and Fiddler on the Roof, this new production of one of the great classic American musicals will feature Lucy May Barker as Ado Annie, James O’Connell as Will Parker, Paul Grunert as Andrew Carnes, Kara Lane as Gertie Cummings, Christopher D Hunt as Cord Elam and Barnaby Thompson as Ike Skidmore. Also in the cast are Simon Anthony, Christina Bennington, Robbie Boyle, Katie Marie-Carter, Lisa Dent, Emilie du Leslay, Ian Gareth-Jones, Hannah Grace, Ross Lee Fowkes, Perry O’Dea, Sasi Strallen and Gabriella Stylianou. They join the previously announced Belinda Lang as Aunt Eller, Gary Wilmot as Ali Hakim, Ashley Day as … Read more

Dame Diana Rigg Reads Capote’s A Christmas Memory

Events, News, West End
Dame Diana Rigg performs at Lift Festival

Having sold out the candleight intimate festive reading of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory with Mark Rylance and Juliet Stevenson, the LIFT festival has announced an extra night of this reading with Dame Diana Rigg and Charles Dance on Wednesday 10th December 2014. This evening is being hosted in collaboration with renowned immersive theatre company Look Left Look Right, and will also feature a cello performance from Harry Napier. Booking:- 10 December 2014 at 7.30pm Kings College London, Strand Campus College Chapel, London WC2R 2LS www.liftfestival.com

Tom Conti To Tour With Twelve Angry Men

News
Tom Conti

Olivier Award Winner, Tony Award Winner, Variety Award Winner, and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Tom Conti is to star in Twelve Angry Men across the UK, following its record-breaking run at the Garrick Theatre in the West End. Following huge critical acclaim and sold-out performances, Bill Kenwright’s production of Twelve Angry Men extended its run at the Garrick Theatre three times. Tom Conti starred as Juror number 8, the role made famous by Henry Fonda, and he is reprising this role for a UK run starting on 27 January at the Theatre Royal Windsor and initially through to 2 May at the Richmond Theatre. Details of additional dates will be announced in due course. Tom Conti is one of the most respected and celebrated actors of his generation. Unforgettable as the leading man in hit films such as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and Shirley Valentine, he has also … Read more

Hamsptead Theatre Annouces Start Of 2015 Season

News, Off West End
Zoe Wannamaker as Stevie at Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre has announced the first two plays on its main stage for 2015. Following a sellout run Downstairs last year, Hampstead Theatre is proud to bring Hello/Goodbye, Peter Souter’s chic comedy, directed by Tamara Harvey to the Main Stage. Starring Shaun Evans and Miranda Raison, Hello/Goodbye is a modern metropolitan guide to falling in (and out of) love. It’s a new year and Juliet, young, smart, and sassy, has got herself a fresh start in a new flat. But amidst the boxes, there’s a strange guy and he is also moving in. He says her agency has messed up and her flat is actually his flat – and he’s not leaving. And the real problem is that, well, he’s rather gorgeous… Hello/Goodbye will run from 21 January – 29 February 2015. Hello/Goodbye will be followed by Zoe Wannamakers return to Hampstead to reprise her acclaimed role as poet Stevie … Read more

REVIEW: Twelfth Night, Richmond Theatre ✭✭✭

Touring Reviews
Michael Benz in Twelfth Night, English Touring Theatre

The alternative title to Twelfth Night is What You Will, and, more than anything else, that seems Munby’s inspiration here. He has, with real determination, found a new way to approach the text; deliberately emphasised different aspects of the story to fundamentally change the experience.

A Musical Love Story – Stuart Matthew Price’s ‘Before After.’

Interviews, West End
Stuart Matthew Price

“I couldn’t imagine never singing or performing again. It is my truest passion, and drives all the other projects that I attach myself to.” People talk about being in love with the industry – an intoxicating and enduring love for theatre that might never be topped. Despite being best known as a musical theatre performer, Stuart Matthew Price’s love for theatre is about more than just saying his lines. As beautifully as he sings the notes, Stuart wants more. He wants to write the notes too, shape and change the industry, help it to grow. As he’s now working professionally as a performer, a producer (United Theatrical Productions) and a composer, it is perhaps fair to say that Stuart has landed a whole handful of roles – for where theatre is concerned, he wants to play every part. Stuart’s new musical, Before After, had its first outing last week with … Read more