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Johnson’s writing is complex and masterful, switching frequently and seamlessly between light and shade. The jokes hit the mark and are well timed, whilst many of the exchanges between Richard and Ellie are achingly sad.
Producers have announced today that Grammy-award winner Sheena Easton is to make her West End debut as Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2017. 42nd Street Tickets are now on sale. Sheena Easton has sold over 20 million records around the world and remains the only artist in history to have top five records on five major Billboard charts. Joining Easton will be Tom Lister as Julian Marsh/ Lister played Carl King in Emmerdale for eight years and most recently starred as Wild Bill Hickok in the Calamity Jane UK Tour. Thre role of Peggy Sawyer will be played by Clare Halse, who most recently appeared in the role of Marjorie May in Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre. 42nd Street arrives in London with an all-singing, high-kicking cast of over 50, ready to explode on to the West End’s biggest stage. The confirmed cast … Read more
Christina Bianco, known as the girl of a thousand voices will premiere her special festive spectacular O Come, All Ye Divas at Charing Cross Theatre for 15 performances from Tuesday 20 December 2016 to Saturday 7 January 2017. Tickets are now on sale. The US vocal impressionist whose You Tube videos have bought her a stunning 23 million views will bring her classic renditions and unlikely interpretations of favourite Christmas holiday tunes along with hilarious sketches and a fabulous on-stage band. Christina promises to take Londoners on a seasonal celebration like no other! You can expect to hear Bianco’s repertoire of impersonations spanning Edith Piaf, Idina Menzel, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey and Ariana Grande at this special Christmas event. Two-time Drama Desk Award nominee, Bianco made her West End debut in Forbidden Broadway at The Vaudeville Theatre. She has performed her critically acclaimed solo shows, Diva Moments and Party Of … Read more
Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years opens at the St James Theatre tomorrow night (Wednesday 2nd December) and we are pleased to bring you these great first look images of the production which stars Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey and is directed by Jason Robert Brown. The Last Five Years tickets can be purchased here. The production has proven so popular that it has been extended by a week ahead of its opening night and will now play until Saturday 3 December 2016. The Last Five Years is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical telling the story of Jamie and Cathy, two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. As aspiring author Jamie gets the book deal of his dreams, actress Cathy struggles to get work and make sense of the way her career has turned out. Can … Read more
The Menier Chocolate Factory and Sonia Friedman productions have announced that Tom Stoppard’s award-winning comedy Travesties will transfer to the Apollo Theatre in February 2017. Travesties tickets are now on sale. Tom Stoppard’s dazzling comedy of art, love and revolution features James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Lenin as remembered — and misremembered — by Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich 1917. When Gwendolen and Cecily wander in from The Importance of Being Earnest, Henry’s mind wanders too. He knows he was Algernon in a production in Zurich. But who was the other one? The original production of Travesties premiered at the Aldwych Theatre in 1974, winning the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and a New York Critic’s Circle and Tony Award for Best Play on Broadway. Travesties broke box office records at the Menier Chocolate Factory selling out ahead of its first preview. This new production is … Read more
DERREN BROWN’S UNDERGROUND IS ABOUT TO EMBARK ON A UK TOUR. FIND OUT MORE DERREN BRINGS UNDERGROUND TO THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE LONDON. Britain’s favourite master showman Derren Brown returns to the stage for this strictly limited season at London’s Charing Cross Theatre. In Underground, Derren has chosen some of his very best stage work from past productions. Derren’s legendary stage shows including Infamous, Enigma and Miracle have been sell-out successes and led to reviews that called him “Simply miraculous” Daily Telegraph, and a “Full on showman” Evening Standard. The intimacy of the Charing Cross Theatre means that you have never seen Derren on such an intimate scale. It also means that tickets for this extraordinarily limited season will sell quickly so book your Derren Brown Underground tickets now. Derren Brown will present Underground at Charing Cross Theatre from 8 March 2017 to 1 April 2017. BOOK TICKETS FOR DERREN BROWN’S … Read more
The Entertainer’, a brilliantly performed play paralleling the breakdown of the British Empire and the decline of music hall, which concludes Kenneth Branagh’s season at the Garrick.
The Old Vic has announced three productions today which will join their already anounced schedule of shows for 2017. The new shows are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax and Girl From The North Country. The Old Vic celebrates the 50th anniversary of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead which premiered on its stage. This is the play that made Tom Stoppard’s name overnight. Against the backdrop of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this mind-bending situation comedy sees two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz (Daniel Radcliffe) and Guildenstern (Joshua McGuire), take centre stage. Increasingly out of their depth, the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of this iconic drama. In a literary hall of mirrors, Stoppard’s brilliantly funny, existential labyrinth sees us witness the ultimate identity crisis. Season 25 February – 29 April 2017 – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tickets are now on … Read more
