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Pinter At The Pinter Season Announced

Features, West End
Pinter at the Pinter season at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Pinter At The Pinter – a unique season featuring all twenty short plays written by Harold Pinter, the greatest British playwright of the 20th Century has been announced for the Harolder Pinter Theatre from September 2018. Pinter at the Pinter is to be presented by The Jamie Lloyd Company, Ambassador Theatre Group, Benjamin Lowy Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions and Glass Half Full Productions. The entire season will presented at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Pinter at the Pinter will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, Patrick Marber, Lyndsey Turner, Ed Stambollouian and Lia Williams. The season celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize winner’s death. The twenty plays will be presented in repertoire by a company of world-class creatives, many of whom were Harold Pinter’s friends and collaborators. The cast includes Ron Cook, Danny Dyer, Martin Freeman, Tamsin Greig, Jane Horrocks, Celia Imrie, John Macmillan, Emma Naomi, Tracy Ann Oberman, Abraham … Read more

Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2018 Theatre Highlights

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Wandsworth Arts Fringe

Mark Ludmon sifts through the theatre highlights of Wandsworth Arts Fringe Wandsworth Arts Fringe is back, bringing a packed programme of shows to locations across the south London borough from Battersea and Balham to Putney and Tooting. Running from 4 to 20 May, it features more than 170 events from circus, comedy and spoken work to free music workshops, dance and an outdoor carnival. Shillington Park in Battersea will come to life with a dazzling circus in a new purpose-built big top, while The Errant Stage will travel around the borough showcasing the best of the fest. One of the hubs for fringe theatre will be Upstairs at The Cat’s Back in Point Pleasant in Wandsworth in a takeover by Fragility, a partnership of performers based in London. Shows include Doubtful Sound’s The Women of Ishikawa on 5 and 6 May, presenting hilarious and horrifying Japanese folk tales, and Purple … Read more

From Page To Stage Festival of New Musical Theatre 2018

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From Page To Stage New Musicals Festival

Now in its 6th year, Aria Entertainment have announced details of the From Page To Stage Festival of New Musical Theatre 2018. Aria Entertainment’s thriving new musical theatre festival, From Page To Stage returns for its 6th year, with submissions now open. This year’s festival will take place in September at Southwark Playhouse, and follows the hugely successful 2017 festival, which took place at The Other Palace, and received over 300 submissions from across the UK and internationally. From Page To Stage 2018 will showcase each step of how an original musical is developed, from a song-writing showcase, to full staged readings of new musicals. There will also be a showcase evening, which will feature sections of at least four different shows in development with a repertory cast. Alongside the 2018 Festival at Southwark Playhouse, FPTS will launch a new venture, From Page To Stage North West in partnership with … Read more

Brighton Fringe 2018: Our Pick Of Theatre Highlights

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Brighton Fringe 2018

Faced with a bumper 160-page brochure and a packed What’s On section online, we provide our selection of some of the theatre highlights of this year’s Brighton Fringe. Running from May 4 to June 3, this year’s festival features over 4,000 performances across 155 venues, from local theatre companies and touring shows to new writing and old favourites, plus a selection of work coming out of Amsterdam Fringe. After This intriguing concept features one short play that is performed twice – by a mother, played by Syreeta Kumar, with her daughter, and by a father, played by Tom Dussek, with his son. Written by Craig Jordan-Baker, the two performances have been developed separately by directors Dodger Phillips and Rikki Tarascas. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where history is lost, it explores what we pass on to our children, whether they want it or not. Rialto Theatre 10, 11, 12 May … Read more

Nominations Announced for Tony Awards 2018

Broadway, Features, News
Tony Awards 2018

The full list of nominations for the Tony Awards 2018 were announced this morning with SpongeBob SquarePants the musical, and Mean Girls leading a pack which saw several nominations going to British performers and productions. The Tony Awards ceremony on June 10 will be hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. For the Brits, the National Theatre’s production of Angels In America scooped 11 nominations (the most nominated play in Tony history) with the blockbuster Harry Potter and the Cursed Child earning ten nominations. British musical theatre star Gavin Lee earned a nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. The full list of nominations for the 72nd Annual Tony Awards are: Best Book of a Musical The Band’s Visit
 – Itamar Moses Frozen
 – Jennifer Lee Mean Girls
 – Tina Fey SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical
 – Kyle Jarrow Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Angels in … Read more

Australian Performer Julie Mullins Brings One Woman Show To The Pheasantry

Cabaret, Features, News, Off West End
Julie Mullins Returns to The Pheasantry Chelsea with her one woman show All The Girls You Are

Australian Artist Julie Mullins will bring her one-woman show All The Girls You Are back to The Pheasantry, Chelsea By Popular Demand on 30 April and 1 May 2018. It’s been over twenty years since Julie Martin in Neighbours fell to her death. A good many have gone through the Aussie soaps studios and  remain associated with characters that left our screens long ago, but next week Julie Mullins, the actor who played Julie Martin returns to The Pheasantry cabaret stage By Popular Demand to reprise her show All The Girls You Are, displaying her talents not only as an actor but as a vocalist in an intimate cabaret setting. The contrast couldn’t be more marked. Julie has described All The Girls You Are as celebrating the many girls inside every woman. During the show audiences will be taken on a journey from London’s West End and Broadway through anecdote … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Amanda Abbington and Danny Mac to star in A Little Princess

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Andrew Lippa A Little Princess Royal Festival Hall

Andrew Lippa’s musical The Little Princess is to have its UK Premiere at the Royal Festival Hall starring Amanda Abbington and Danny Mac and we have the first photo by Michael Warley. A Little Princess, with book and lyrics by by Brian Crawley (Violet), is based upon Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic childhood novel. It tells the story of Sara Crewe, as she is sent from her home in Africa to boarding school in London and separated from her father. As young Sara’s world is turned upside down, she must rely on her friends and imaginative powers to overcome her strict headmistress Miss Minchin and prove that every little girl deserves to be a princess. A Little Princess will recieve its UK premiere at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 28 May 2018 at 7.30pm. Multi Olivier Award-winner and Tony Award nominee Arlene Phillips CBE is directing the one-off semi-staged concert … Read more

Sierra Boggess Withdraws From Proms West Side Story

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Sierra Boggess withdraws from BBC Proms concert version of West Side Story

Sierra Boggess withdraws from playing Maria in the BBC Proms concert version of West Side Story. Sierra Boggess has announced her withdrawal from the BBC Proms concert version of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. Sierra was due to have played Maria in the one-off concert event at the Royal Albert Hall this summer. The evening is to feature Ross Lekites as Tony and be conducted by John Wilson leading the John Wilson Orchestra, together with students from the Mountview Academy and Arts Ed Theatre School. In a statement, Sierra said: “Last week, it was announced that I will be singing in a concert of West Side Story at Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms in London. Because it was a concert presentation and not the show proper — I had signed on to lend my voice to honor Leonard Bernstein in his centennial this year, with an orchestra … Read more