REVIEW: Skin A Cat, The Bunker ✭✭✭✭
There is a lot, in fact, in the writing – and delivery – that reminds one of the best female stand-up comedy, and the audience here seems to be very like the audience for that other form.
Month: October 2016
SHOW OF THE MONTH: The Bodyguard – Dominion Theatre – Save up to 53%
SHOW OF THE MONTH – The Bodyguard. Beverley Knight stars as Rachel Marron and Ben Richards take on the role of Frank Farmer in the stage musical version of the classic film The Bodyguard, which features a score of Whitney Houston’s greatest hits. BritishTheatre.com is pleased to bring you the following great offer.Band A Tickets: Was £62.50 now £29.50, saving 53% Valid on Monday evening and Wednesday matinee performances from 1 November to 15 December Book by 30 November Band A Tickets: Was £62.50 Now £39.50, saving 37% Band B Tickets: Was £52.50 Now £32.50, saving 38% Band C Tickets: Was £42.50 Now £27.50, saving 35% Valid on Tuesday to Thursday evening performances from 1 November to 15 December Book by 30 November BOOK TICKETS FOR THE BODYGUARD AT THE DOMINION THEATRE AND SAVE Join Our Mailing List For Other Great Offers
FIRST LOOK: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism at Hampstead Theatre
BritishTheatre.com is pleased to bring you these great production images from The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures running until 26 November 2016 at Hampstead Theatre. Tickets are now on sale. Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is shot through with characteristic wit and searing passion, Tony Kushner’s latest play is the story of a family grappling to find meaning in a landscape they no longer recognise and an epic exploration of humanity’s compulsive search for Utopias, both personal and political. New York, 2007. Gus Marcantonio, retired longshoreman, former trade union organiser, renaissance man, feels that the world has turned its back on everything he has fought for in life. With his sister, he summons his three children home, trailing the appendages of their chaotic lives, to their Brooklyn brownstone for the last and most unusual family reunion yet… Tamsin Greig will play the … Read more
FIRST LOOK: Side Show at Southwark Playhouse
BritishTheatre.com is pleased to bring you these first look images of Side Show the musical which opens tomorrow night at Southwark Playhouse. Tickets for Side Show are now on sale. Inspired by the real-life story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, the celebrated conjoined Siamese twins who went from a seedy sideshow act to become the highest paid Vaudeville stars of their time, Side Show is a remarkable story about love, acceptance and embracing the unique. With a score by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls) and book and lyrics by Bill Russell (Elegies For Angels and Punks and Raging Queens) and additional material by Bill Condon (Director – Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters), Side Show’s Broadway production in 1997 marked the first time that two actresses shared the nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. The cast features Louise Dearman (Wicked) and Laura Pitt-Pulford (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Regent’s Park) as conjoined … Read more
Damian Lewis Returns To the West End in Edward Albee Classic
Following his appearance in the acclaimed production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, Damian Lewis will return to the West End in Ian Rickson’s production of Edward Albee’s Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited twelve week season from 24 March 2017. Tickets are now on sale. Best known for his on-screen roles in Homeland, Wolf Hall and most recently Billions, he has regularly returned to the stage in productions at the National Theatre, Almeida as well as in the West End. Lewis will appear on stage alongside Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Sophie Okonedo. Okonedo made her Broadway debut in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. In 2016 she received a second Tony nomination for her portrayal of Elizabeth Proctor in … Read more
After October Returns After Eighty Years
Rodney Ackland’s After October will be presented at London’s Finborough Theatre for a limited season from 22 November – 22 December 2016, the first time the play has been performed in central London for eighty years. Hampstead, 1936. In a shabby basement flat, aspiring playwright Clive Monkhams dreams of a West End hit and winning Francie’s heart. His bankrupt mother Rhoda, a faded actress, frets about the bills and the fortunes of her penniless daughters while reminiscing about her glory days. Clive’s family and an entourage of bohemian dependants all need him to make it big. With opening night approaching and finances fast running out, everything rides on the success of the play and, for Clive, the future looks all too glittering… Renown for his plays Absolute Hell and Before The Party, After October is Ackland’s most autobiographical play. It is both a fascinating portrait of an impoverished family on … Read more
Further Casting Announced For Menier’s She Loves Me
The Menier Chocolate Factory have today announced that Scarlett Strallen will be joined by Alastair Brookshaw (Ladislav Sipos), Les Dennis (Mr Maraczek), Callum Howells (Arpad Laszlo), Katherine Kingsley (Ilona Ritter), Dominic Tighe (Steven Kodaly) and Mark Umbers (Georg Nowack), with Rachel Bingham, Peter Dukes, Luke Fetherston, Olivia Fines, Aimee Hodnett, Sarah-Marie Maxwell and Vincent Pirillo for the company’s major revival of She Loves Me this Christmas. Tickets are now on sale. Meet Amalia and Georg, who work as clerks in Maraczek’s Parfumerie – and aren’t exactly the best of friends. However, they have something in common. They both rapturously write to romantic pen pals. Despite the anonymity of their secret admirers, they live for the love letters that they exchange and the day they will finally meet. This enduring love story has been the basis for the films The Shop around the Corner and You’ve Got Mail. The musical version … Read more
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible UK Tour
Arthur Miller’s classic drama The Crucible will tour the UK and Luxembourg in 2017 in a new production by Sell A Door Theatre Company and The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch in association with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. The tour will start on Friday 17th February 2017 at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. The Crucible will star Charlie Condou (Coronation Street), as the witch-hunter, Reverend Hale. Directed by the Queen’s Theatre’s Artistic Director Douglas Rintoul, this production of The Crucible will take a Brechtian look at this violent story of frail reason in the face of hysteria. One of the twentieth century’s landmark plays, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible stands as both a historical record and a political parable for our times. The unrelenting witchhunt and violence, an allegory of the brutal McCarthyism of American politics in the 1950’s, resonates with an unnerving clarity now in a post-Brexit UK where violent … Read more
