Month: February 2016

New Cast Announced as Jersey Boys Celebrates 8th Birthday in London

Jersey Boys the musical, News, West End
Jersey Boys announce a new cast as the show enters its 8th anniversary in London

From Tuesday 15 March, there will be four new Seasons joining the cast of Jersey Boys at the Piccadilly Theatre ahead of its 8th Anniversary on 18 March. This is the first time since the show opened in London that all four Seasons have changed. Jersey Boys is the remarkable true story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and their rise to stardom from the wrong side of the tracks. These four boys from New Jersey became one of the most successful bands in pop history, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and sold 175 million records worldwide, all before they turned 30. The show is packed with their hits, including Beggin’, Sherry, Walk Like A Man, December, 1963 (Oh What a Night), Big Girls Don’t Cry, My Eyes Adored You, Let’s Hang On (To What We’ve Got), Bye Bye Baby, Can’t Take My Eyes … Read more

Beautiful – Show Of The Month Offer

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Book a £42.50 seat and get a free upgrade to a seat worth £69.50. Long before she was Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, she was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent. Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom. Along the way, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation, with countless classics such as You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, Take Good Care Of My Baby, You’ve Got A Friend, So Far Away, It Might As Well Rain Until September, Up On The Roof and Locomotion. Take advantage of our exclusive offer; buy a £42.50 seat and receive a free upgrade to a seat worth £69.50. Plus, pay no booking fees on all seats. Offers must be booked by 29 February. BOOK NOW FOR BEAUTIFUL AT THE ALDWYCH THEATRE

Arrows & Traps Theatre Company bring Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to life

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Anna Karenina at the Brockley Jack Theatre

Helen Edmundson has translated a thousand pages, with nearly that many characters, into an intimate chamber drama to appear at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre in March. Anna Karenina tells the story of the wife of a provincial governor, who revolts against a superficial existence of compromise and embarks on a scandalous affair with a charming officer Count Vronsky. As Anna is brought to the brink of destruction, she must finally decide whom she is living for. Edmundson’s plays include The Clearing (Bush Theatre), Mother Teresa is Dead (Royal Court), Mary Shelley (Shared Experience at The Tricycle and on tour), and The Heresy of Love (Royal Shakespeare Company). Her other work includes Coram Boy (National Theatre and on Broadway), a new version of Calderon’s Life is a Dream (The Donmar), a musical adaptation of Swallows and Amazons, written with composer Neil Hannon, (Bristol Old Vic, West End and on tour) … Read more

Edward Snowden’s story told with a ‘thriller-like momentum’

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Whistleblower - the story of Edward Snowden at Waterloo East Theatre

Rewritten in the light of current events, Whistleblower the story of Edward Snowden returns for a four-week run at Waterloo East Theatre. The play tells the story of Snowden’s life on the run. He’s abandoned Hawaii and is holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room. Tortured by thoughts of his girlfriend, his mother and father and the fate of other whistleblowers in prison, he waits to see who will find him first. Lynn Gardner for The Guardian said: “Whistleblower is always watchable. Events unfold with a thriller-like momentum…” Whistleblower runs at Waterloo East Theatre from 8th February to 6th March 2016