REVIEW: It Is Easy To Be Dead, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭✭
Lively, animated, emotional, real, Knox takes the writings of Sorley and brings them wondrously to live with a zeal that is astounding.
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GALLERY: School Of Rock Opening Night
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical School Of Rock opened in London’s West End last night (14 November). The New London Theatre played host to guests including Ben Aldridge, David Baddiel, Duchess of York, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Jimmy Carr, Julian Fellowes, Blake Harrison, David Haye, Patricia Hodge, Jodie Kidd, Myleene Klass, Andrew and Madeleine Lloyd Webber, Giftie Louise, Conor Maynard, Michael McIntyre, Freddy Parker, Arlene Phillips, Cliff Richard, Gaby Roslin, Janet Street-Porter, Sean Walsh and Vogue Williams. Starring David Fynn as Dewey and three casts of the most incredibly talented young performers ever, School of Rock is now booking until 12 February 2017. Enjoy this gallery of images for the Opening night of School Of Rock BOOK NOW FOR SCHOOL OF ROCK
Jesus Christ Superstar Recieves Encore Season at Regents Park
Following a critically acclaimed sell-out season this year at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar will return in Summer 2017 for a limited season of 41 performances.
REVIEW: An Inspector Calls, Playhouse Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
The entire production is a fascinating interpretation, and completely lives up to its ‘landmark’ hype. In these times of political upheaval, Priestley’s reminder that “we are responsible for each other” is not only timely, but timeless. After a turbulent 2016, An Inspector Calls is a must see.
FIRST LOOK: It Is Easy To Be Dead, Trafalgar Studios
It Is Easy To Be Dead, a play by Neil McPherson, based on the letters, poetry and brief life of Charles Hamilton Sorley transfers to Trafalgar Studios 2 after a critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Finborough Theatre opening on Armistice Day – Friday 11 November 2016. When twenty-year-old Charles Sorley is killed in action during the First World War, his devastated parents are left with only his letters and poems to remember him by. Using his extraordinary writings, together with music and songs of the period, It Is Easy To Be Dead is a tender portrait of a brief life filled with promise, cut short by the futility of war. It Is Easy To Be Dead features live music and songs from some of the greatest composers of the period including George Butterworth, Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, Rudi Stephan and Ralph Vaughan Williams. It Is Easy … Read more
What’s New In November – Editor’s Pick
There’s so much happening in November, it’s been a difficult choice to narrow it down to a few that we class as “must-see”. Here is what we came up with. WEST END – Nice Fish – Harold Pinter Theatre On a unique collaboration with critically-acclaimed Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins, Mark Rylance draws on his teenage years in the frozen winters and culture of the American Midwest. This beguiling new play follows an ice fishing expedition where the ordinary and extraordinary collide in a sublimely playful and profound way. On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season and on the frostbitten, unforgiving landscape, two old friends are out on the ice and they are angling for something big, something down there that is pure need, something that, had it the wherewithal, would swallow them whole. BOOK TICKETS … Read more
FIRST LOOK – Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Apollo Theatre
Following critically acclaimed seasons in London and around the UK (and just in time for Christmas), Mischief Theatre’s Peter Pan Goes Wrong returns to the Apollo Theatre in London for a strictly limited season. Recently nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Peter Pan Goes Wrong sees the team behind the award-winning box office hit The Play That Goes Wrong bring their trademark comic mayhem to the J.M. Barrie classic and festive favourite, Peter Pan. In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the much-loved members of The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society once again battle against technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes on their way to Neverland with hilarious and disastrous results. The cast for Peter Pan Goes Wrong includes Matt Cavendish, Bryony Corrigan, Susan Harrison, Harry Kershaw, Bailey Patrick, Laurence Pears, Daniel Pitout, Oliver Senton, Sydney Smith and Adeline Waby. Mischief Theatre’s other hit The Play That Goes Wrong … Read more
Theatre 503’s production BU21 Transfers To Trafalgar Studios
Stuart Slade’s BU21, the award-nominated play that follows six Londoners in the aftermath of a fictitious terrorist attack will transfer to the Trafalgar Studios
