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Dreamgirls West End Releases Stunning New Trailer

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Dreamgirls tickets

The West End production of Dreamgirls now playing at the Savoy Theatre has released a stunning new trailer featuring the current cast. Marisha Wallace, Moya Angela and Karen Mav share the iconic role of Effie White throughout the week with Brennyn Lark as Deena Jones and Asmeret Ghebremichael as Lorrell Robinson, making up the soulful trio ‘The Dreams’. Joe Aaron Reid plays Curtis Taylor Jr, Tosh Wanogho-Maud plays Jimmy Early, Durone Stokes plays C.C. White, Delroy Brown plays Marty and Kimmy Edwards plays Michelle Morris. The full cast of Dreamgirls includes Michael Afemaré, Callum Aylott, Georgia Bradshaw, Jabari Braham, Ashford Campbell, Sanchia Amber Clarke, Nicole Raquel Dennis, Nicole Deon, Rhiane Drummond, Ashlee Irish, Emma Louise Jones, Ashley Luke Lloyd, Samira Mighty, Jayde Nelson, Aston New, Sean Parkins, Kirk Patterson, Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton, Ryan Reid, Rohan Richards and Joshua Robinson. The award-winning production is now in its second year at London’s Savoy … 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

Ian McKellen’s King Lear Transfers To Duke Of York’s Theatre

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Ian McKellen as King Lear at Duke Of York's Theatre

The Chichester Festival’s acclaimed production of King Lear starring Sir Ian McKellen, directed by Jonathan Munby will transfer to the Duke Of York’s Theatre from 11 July to 3 November 2018. King Lear tickets are now on sale. Two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with shocking ends. Tender, brutal, moving and epic, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written. This production of King Lear sees Sir Ian McKellen returning to the Duke Of York’s Theatre where he made his West End debut in the 1964 production of A Scent Of Flowers. This intimate and contemporary production of King Lear ran for a sold-out acclaimed season at the Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minerva Theatre … Read more

Full cast announced for Bat Out Of Hell at the Dominion Theatre

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Bat Out Of Hell at Dominion Theatre

Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington are to lead the cast of Bat Out of Hell when it opens at London’s Dominion Theatre. Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell returns to the West End at the Dominion Theatre from 2 April 2018 starring Andrew Polec as Strat and Christina Bennington as Raven. The cast of Bat Out Of Hell will also feature Rob Fowler as Falco and Sharon Sexton as Sloane.  Also starring will be Alex Thomas-Smith as Tink, Danielle Steers as Zahara, Wayne Robinson as Jagwire, Giovanni Spanó as Ledoux and Patrick Sullivan as Blake.  At certain performances the role of Strat will be played by Simon Gordon or Jordon Gage.  Also in the cast will be Kyle Anthony, Emily Benjamin, Christopher Cameron, Georgia Carling, Natalie Chua, Jonathan Cordin, Rob Copeland, Hannah Ducharme, Isaac Edwards, Collette Guitart, Eric Hallengren, Vicki Manser, Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky, Aston Newman Hannington, Eve Norris, Joseph Peacock, Kyle Roberts, Craig Ryder, Dawnita Smith, Courtney Stapleton, Julie … Read more