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FIRST LOOK: Sheila Hancock and Bill Milner in Harold and Maude

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Harold and Maude at Charing Cross Theatre

As Harold and Maude starts previewing at Charing Cross Theatre starring Sheila Hancock and Bill Milner we bring you Darren Bell’s great production photos. Harold and Maude is an idiosyncratic romantic fable told though the eyes of the most unlikely pairing: a compulsive, self-destructive young man and a devil-may-care, septuagenarian bohemian. Dame Marjorie “Maude” Chardin (Sheila Hancock), is a free spirit who wears her hair in braids, believes in living each day to its fullest, and “trying something new every day”. Harold Parker Chasen (Bill Milner) is an 18-year-old man who is obsessed with death, attends funerals of strangers for entertainment and stages elaborate fake suicides. Through meeting Maude at a funeral, he discovers joy in living for the first time. Part dark comedy and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with ones that separate people by class, gender and age. Olivier Award-winning … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Joe Pasquale in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em UK Tour

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Some MOthers Do 'Ave 'Em

Joe Pasquale takes on the iconic role of Frank Spencer in the Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em UK Tour. Take a look at Scott Rylander’s great production images. Based on the original TV comedy series by Raymond Allen, the stage adaptation of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em is written and directed by Guy Unsworth and stars Joe Pasquale as the loveable but accident-prone Frank Spencer, Sarah Earnshaw as Betty, Susie Blake as Mrs Fisher, Moray Treadwell as Mr Luscombe/Mr Worthington, David Shaw-Parker as Father O’Hara and Chris Kiely as Desmond/Constable. SOME MOTHERS DO ‘AVE ‘EM TOUR SCHEDULE      

FIRST LOOK: A Princess Undone at Park Theatre

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A Princess Undone at Park Theatre

We are pleased to bring you some great first look production images by Simon Annand of the new production of A Princess Undone now playing at the Park Theatre.   Kensington Palace, 1993. She was the Diana of her day. That day has gone, but HRH The Princess Margaret has a final chance to be of service. Acquiring sensational letters from Charles and Diana, she means to burn them all. But there are other papers, relating to Margaret herself. And when an ex-gangster admirer returns from her past, the Queen’s sister has the choice to make or break her family yet again. In Netflix’s acclaimed global hit series, The Crown, Margaret (Vanessa Kirby) re-emerged as the most controversial and enigmatic member of the Royal Family. Craig Brown’s recent best-selling Ma’am Darling reinforces how infuriating yet compelling her story still is. A Princess Undone – inspired by actual events – sheds … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Shrek UK Tour 2018 – Production Images and New Trailer

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Shrek UK Tour 2018

STOP PRESS: A new tour of Shrek the musical has been announced for 2023. (7/6/23) Shrek the musical UK Tour 2018 has released a great new trailer for the show and a series of great production photos. Shrek the musical is now touring the UK and Ireland until January 2019 with a cast starring Steffan Harri as Shrek, Call The Midwife star Laura Main as Princess Fiona, who shares the role with actor and recording artist Amelia Lily at selected venues whilst filming continues on the new BBC series, Marcus Ayton as Shrek’s wisecracking sidekick Donkey and Samuel Holmes as the pint-sized villain Lord Farquaad. The company of fairy-tale characters includes Adam Baker, Ethan Bradshaw, Michael Carolan, Joseph Dockree, Will Hawksworth, Sarah-Louise Jones, Reece Kerridge, Thomas Lee Kidd, Amy Oxley, Jemma Revell, Lucinda Shaw, Sam Stones, Adam Taylor, Jennifer Tierney, Sophie Wallis, Francesca Williams, Laura Wilson and Kevin Yates. FIND … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Kneehigh’s production of Brief Encounter by Noel Coward

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Brief Encounter Kneehigh Theatre

Take a look at Steve Tanner’s first look production images from Kneehigh Theatre’s award-winning production of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter, adapted and directed by Emma Rice which is currently playing at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until 17 February, followed by The Lowry, Salford from 20 to 24 February, before its West End season at Empire Cinema Haymarket from 2 March to 2 September 2018. Switching between live action and film, Brief Encounter stars Jim Sturgeon as Alec, Isabel Pollen as Laura, Lucy Thackeray as Myrtle, Beverly Rudd as Beryl, Jos Slovick as Stanley and Dean Nolan as Fred/Albert, with Katrina Kleve and Peter Dukes. Brief Encounter is produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers. A chance meeting in a railway station café where they were brought together by Laura ‘getting a little piece of grit in my eye’, led to one of the most haunting and heart-breaking love stories ever told. … Read more

FIRST LOOK: The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk at Wilton’s Music Hall

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The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk

Kneehigh Theatre’s The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk comes to Wilton’s Music Hall this week and we are pleased to bring you these great first look production photos of Emma Rice’s production. Marc and Bella Chagall were the flying lovers of Vitebsk. Partners in life and on canvas, they are immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas they flew, in life they walked through some of the most devastating times in history. Emma Rice directs Marc Antolin, who reprises his role as Chagall. Joining him as his wife Bella is Daisy Maywood, in Daniel Jamieson’s critically acclaimed and dazzling play, vividly drawn from the early life of this iconic artist. This much anticipated revival traces the lives of the young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other in a vigorous staging woven throughout with live Klezmer music from Ian Ross and James Gow … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Strangers In Between at Trafalgar Studios

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Book tickets for Tommy Murphy's Strangers In Between at Trafalgar Studios 2

We are pleased to bring you these great first look production images by Scott Rylander of Tommy Murphy’s play Strangers In Between which plays at Trafalgar Studios 2 from 12 January to 3 February 2018. Strangers In Between tells the story of Shane, a timid 16 year-old who has fled his rural hometown for the glitz and glamour of Sydney’s King’s Cross, in order to escape his troubled past and attempt to establish an urban family. This coming-of-age, dark comedy looks at the importance of friendship and the highs and lows of growing up gay in modern Australia. Directed by the King’s Head Theatre’s Artistic Director, Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the cast includes Roly Botha as Shane, Dan Hunter as Will and Stephen Connery-Brown as Peter. BOOK TICKETS TO STRANGERS IN BETWEEN

FIRST LOOK: Bananaman the musical at Southwark Playhouse

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Bananaman the musical at Southwark Playhouse

Take a look at Pamela Raith’s great first look production images from Bananaman the musical now playing at Southwark Playhouse. Bananaman began life in the Nutty comic in 1980, and was a flyaway success, transferring to The Dandy before joining the world’s longest-running comic, The Beano in 2012 and he is now one of The Beano’s flagship characters. A send-up of the likes of Superman and Batman, he was the subject of the hugely popular TV cartoon that ran between 1983 and 1986 for three series and 40 episodes on the BBC and featured the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie from The Goodies. Fans of the the TV series will remember the iconic opening sequence, “This is 29 Acacia Road. And this is Eric Wimp. He’s a schoolboy who leads an amazing double life. For when Eric eats a banana an amazing transformation occurs. Eric is … Read more