Casting announced for The Color Purple at Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome
Full casting has been announced for Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s co-production of award-winning musical The Color Purple
Full casting has been announced for Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s co-production of award-winning musical The Color Purple
Nuffield Southampton Theatres have annouced that Faye Castelow will play Queen Elizabeth II in the UK regional premiere of Peter Morgan’s The Audience.
The New Wimbledon Theatre has announced #FromTheFringe for the theatre’s studio theatre from 3 – 22 June 2019.
Award-wining Miriam-Teak Lee will star in & Juliet a new musical featuring the musical of acclaimed songwriter Max Martin which will preview at Manchester Opera House ahead of a West End season at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
Olivier Award-winning actress Rebeca Trehearn is to star in a new version of the Stephen Schwartz musical Rags at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester.
The Theatres Trust announces the Theatres at Risk Register for 2019.
Mark Ludmon continues his look at theatrical highlights outside of London in 2019. Birmingham Hippodrome is collaborating with Curve in Leicester on a new production of the musical, The Color Purple, based on the book by Alice Walker. It tells the turbulent life story of an African-American woman in America’s South, with a score by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray that draws on jazz, ragtime, gospel and blues. Directed by Tinuke Craig, it will be at Curve from 28 June to 13 July and at Birmingham Hippodrome from 16 to 20 July. Nottingham Playhouse will stage One Night In Miami… (7 to 22 June), Kemp Powers’ in-your-face imagined account of what happened in 1964 when four legendary figures came together in a motel room: heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, activist Malcolm X, American football icon Jim Brown and soul star Sam Cooke. First performed at the Donmar Warehouse in … Read more
Mark Ludmon continues his look at theatrical highlights outside of London in 2019.