West End Bares reveals 2017 show

West End Bares 2017

Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s West End Bares which mixes burlesque with musical theatre, featuring the hottest male and female performers. Now in its eighth year, it returns to the Novello Theatre on Sunday October 29, 2017, at both 7pm and 9.30pm. The shows are organised to support the Make A Difference Trust which raises funds for HIV and Aids projects that build awareness and provide care, support and education in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa. West End Bares combines the naughtiness of burlesque along with the razzle-dazzle of the West End and promises over 100 of the hottest male and female dancers from the West End and beyond plus a whole host of celebrity guests. This year’s theme and celebrity guests will be announced in the summer. Previous celebrity supporters have included Graham Norton, Ramin Karimloo, Sheridan Smith, John Barrowman, Paul O’Grady, Joe Lycett, Harriet Thorpe, Bianca Del Rio, Michelle Visage, Helen Lederer and Beverley Knight. West End … Read more

David Oakes and Natalie Dormer to star in Venus in Fur

David Oakes and Natalie Dormer to star in Venus In Fur

David Ives’ hit Broadway play Venus in Fur is to receive its West End premiere this autumn starring David Oakes and Natalie Dormer. For a strictly limited nine-week engagement, TRH Productions will present the two-hander at Theatre Royal Haymarket from October 6 to December 9, 2017. Venus In Fur tickets are on sale now. Natalie Dormer plays enigmatic actress Vanda Jordan who appears unannounced for an audition with director Thomas Novachek (David Oakes). She is determined to land the leading role in his new production despite seeming wrong for the part. Over one evening in downtown Manhattan their charged meeting becomes a seductive dance to the end. It will be directed by playwright Patrick Marber and designed by Rob Howell with lighting by Hugh Vanstone and casting by executive producer Ilene Starger. David Ives was nominated for a Tony Award for best play for Venus In Fur, which has been produced … Read more

FIRST LOOK: On The Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

On The Town at Regent's park Open Air Theatre. Book Now!

With an incredible Bernstein score and Olivier Award-winner Drew McOnie directing and choreographing, On The Town hits Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in London on May 19. They have now released these great rehearsal pictures for what is set to be the venue’s biggest dance musical yet. We are pleased to bring you these great rehearsal photographs by Johan Persson. Danny Mac, Fred Haig and Samuel Edwards play Gabey, Chip and Ozzie – roles made famous on film by Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin – and Siena Kelly, Lizzy Connolly and Miriam-Teak Lee take the roles of Ivy, Hildy and Claire. The cast also features Maggie Steed as Madame Dilly and Naoko Mori as Lucy Schmeeler. It runs to July 1. BOOK TICKETS FOR ON THE TOWN AT REGENT’S PARK

Colm Meaney joins Cat On A Hot Tin Roof cast.

Colm Meaney Joins the cast of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the West End

Producers have announced today that Colm Meaney will join Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell in the upcoming West End production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Apollo Theatre presented by The Young Vic. Colm Meaney’s stage, film and television credits are extensive. he was last seen on stage in London and on Broadway opposite Kevin Spacey in Moon For The Misbegotten at the Old Vic. Film credits include Die Hard 2, Far and Away, The Last of The Mohicans, and The Commitments. Television credits include Star Trek – The Next Generation and Star Trek – Deep Space Nine. Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof premiered on Broadway in 1955 starring barbara Bel Geddes and Ben Gazzara. Peter Hall directed the UK Premiere in 1958 with Kim Stanley and Paul Massie playing Maggie and Brick. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is directed by … Read more

Looking back at nearly five years of Curious Incident

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time

After nearly 1,500 performances, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is nearing its end in London. Mark Ludmon looks back over its five-year run. Nearly five years – or 1,743 days – after Christopher Boone first set out to investigate The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the National Theatre, the show continues to earn standing ovations at its current home of the Gielgud. Audiences are wowed by Bunny Christie’s design, Finn Ross’s video effects, Steven Hoggett and Scott Graham’s movement direction, Simon Stephens’s writing, Mark Haddon’s story and, of course, the talent and physical prowess required to play the lead role of Christopher. After nearly 1,500 performances, the show will end its run in London on June 3. In that time, it will have been seen by over 1 million people in London, with Christopher played by 18 different actors including understudies. With many … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Soho at Peacock Theatre

Stufish presents Soho at Peacock Theatre

Soho is a thrill ride of circus, street and theatre performance, re-creating the edgy, exciting and voyeuristic world of London’s Soho. Soho is created by rock’n’roll global powerhouse Stufish is now playing at London’s Peacock Theatre playing until 20 May 2017. Soho‘s seriously crazy amulti-talentedted international cast tell the fast-paced story of a young man’s walk on the wild side, as the colourful characters he meets reveal an unexpected and darkly fantastical world, where glamour and sleaze rub shoulders. Soaring aerial acrobatics on moving trapezes take the energetic world class performers on a rollercoaster ride. With the pulsating sound of the underground, and the music scene that is Soho’s heartbeat = 21st century indie, buskers, the burlesque of the 50s, the 60s love and peace Carnaby Street generation, disco and punk of the 70s, Cool Britannia pop of the 80s and rave of the 90s – Soho has the iconic … Read more