Full casting for Wizard Of Oz at The Rep in Birmingham
Full casting had been announced for Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s revival of the stage version of The Wizard of Oz this Christmas.
Full casting had been announced for Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s revival of the stage version of The Wizard of Oz this Christmas.
Curve and Jamie Wilson have revealed the full casting for the upcoming festive Made at Curve production ofIrving Berlin’s White Christmas.
The Theatre Royal in Brighton is one of the oldest working theatres in the UK with an exquisite example of a Regency auditorium.
The multi-purpose 1200 seat Aylesbury Waterside Theatre is located on Exchange Street in the heart of Aylesbury. Find out what’s on.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced its summer 2019 season, featuring a new work by John Kani plus two Restoration classics and three Shakespeare plays that will tour in rep for the first time.
With new productions at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Hull Truck Theatre this month, Mark Ludmon examines the continuing popularity of Abigail’s Party With its dissection of marriage and social mobility to the sounds and tastes of the Seventies, Abigail’s Party was very much a play for its day when it was first staged in 1977 at London’s Hampstead Theatre. Attitudes to class and the impact of “women’s lib” and other changes in society were played out in the painfully awkward drinks party hosted by Beverly and her husband Laurence for their neighbours, young couple Ange and Tone and Sue, escaping her 15-year-old daughter Abigail’s eponymous party down the road. After it was adapted for BBC1 later that year, it was such a hit that it was broadcast several times, with one repeat gaining 16 million viewers (boosted by storms and an ITV strike), putting it firmly on the path … Read more
The organisers of the Manchester Theatre Awards (MTA) have announced that the annual event is to come to an end after 37 years.
Mark Ludmon reviews Abi, Atiha Sen Gupta’s contemporary response to Abigail’s Party now playing at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch.