Frances Barber to star in musical drama in Manchester
Frances Barber is to star in a new production of Shane Cullinan’s musical drama The Pietà at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in October.
Month: September 2017
REVIEW: Ramona Tells Jim, Bush Studio Theatre ✭✭✭
Ramona Tells Jim is an impressive, entertaining debut that will make you laugh despite the darkness underneath.
REVIEW: 35MM A Musical Exhibition, The Other Palace ✭✭✭✭✭
The score does not just reflects them, however, but much more ingeniously it also reflects the conventional tropes and gestures of musical theatre
Casting announced for Strangers On A Train UK Tour 2018
Casting has been announced for the Strangers On A Train UK Tour 2018 which starts in Brighton in January 2018. John Middleton (Emmerdale) plays Detective Arthur Gerard, Coronation Street’s Christopher Harper will play the charismatic and manipulative Charles Bruno, the psychopathic playboy who has a chance encounter with a troubled stranger Guy Haines played by Jack Ashton (Call the Midwife). Hannah Tointon (Mr Selfridge) plays Guy’s fiance Anne Faulkner. The acclaimed gripping thriller is based on the psychological drama by celebrated writer Patricia Highsmith and immortalised by Alfred Hitchcock in his Academy Award-winning film and is adapted by Craig Warner. Highsmith’s other works include The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol. Strangers On A Train is directed by Anthony Banks and produced by Ambassador Theatre Group and Smith and Brant Theatricals. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN UK TOUR
Patti LuPone and Rosalie Craig to star in reimagined Company
Marianne Elliott will direct a new production of Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s award-winning musical at the Gielgud Theatre from 26 September 2018 for a limited season.
Jennifer Saunders joins cast of Lady Windemere’s Fan at Vaudeville Theatre
Jennifer Saunders is to play the Duchess of Berwick in Kathy Burke’s eagerly anticipated production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windemere’s Fan
ART UK Tour starring Denis Lawson, Stephen Tompkinson and Nigel Havers
Stephen Tomkinson, Nigel Havers and Denis Lawson are to star in the UK tour of Yasmina Reza’s award-winning play Art in early 2018.
Cast announced for Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse has announced the cast for their upcoming production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons which will be directed by Fiona Buffini. All My Sons is a gripping and powerful family drama written by one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th Century, Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Miller whose other works include Death Of A Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. Joe Keller (Sean Chapman – Richard II, Henry IV Pt 1 and 2, Henry V – RSC) is a successful businessman who lives with his wife Kate – (Caroline Loncq – Home Truths – Cardboard Citizens) and son Chris (Cary Crankson – Dial M for Murder – Frinton Summer Theatre) in 1950s suburban America. Their only sadness, it seems, is the loss of their other son Larry, who went missing in World War II. After three years, Kate still clings to the hope that her son … Read more
