REVIEW: Twitstorm, Park Theatre ✭✭✭

Twitstorm at the Park Theatre

Twitstorm Park Theatre 1st June 2017 3 Stars BOOK NOW The great thing about this theatre is that you can never – quite – tell where Artistic Director Jez Bond is taking it. Each new show comes along and brings with it a new departure, and certainly a bold contrast to whatever preceded it.  Each production is a risk, and while many pay off, occasionally some do not.  Well, that is the privilege of an experimental, new-writing house: it must reserve ‘the right to …’, well, if not exactly ‘fail’, then certainly to be slightly less than completely successful. Never was that more true than with this opus, a contemporary boulevard comedy, by and partly starring Chris England, set – in theory – in the world of Twitter and celebrity culture. In practice, this feels more like an endearingly old-fashioned, light-hearted slab of cheeky but still not too saucy entertainment. … 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

Olivier Awards 2017 – The Winners

Olivier Awards 2020

The Olivier Awards 2017 are now underway. We’ll be updating this post as the awards are underway to let you know who has won what. OLIVIER AWARDS 2017 – THE WINNERS Best Actress Glenda Jackson for King Lear at The Old Vic Cherry Jones for The Glass Menagerie at Duke of York’s Theatre Billie Piper for Yerma at Young Vic – WINNER Ruth Wilson for Hedda Gabler at National Theatre – Lyttelton Best New Comedy The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at Criterion Theatre Nice Fish at Harold Pinter Theatre Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour at National Theatre – Dorfman – WINNER The Truth at Wyndham’s Theatre Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre Cuttin’ It at The Maria, Young Vic The Government Inspector at Theatre Royal Stratford East The Invisible Hand at Tricycle Theatre It Is Easy To Be Dead at Trafalgar Studios 2 Rotterdam at Trafalgar Studios 2 – … Read more

Hamlet Starring Andrew Scott Transfers To The West End

HAMLET STARRING ANDREW SCOTT TICKETS

ON SALE AT 10AM TODAY (WEDNESDAY 5 APRIL) We are pleased to announce that following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Robert Icke’s new production Of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet starring Andrew Scott will transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre this Summer. Hamlet will be presented from 9 June – 2 September 2017. The production stars Olivier Award and BAFTA winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Birdland, Pride) as the renown Danish prince. Hamlet is bought to the stage by the critically acclaimed award-winning creative team behind Oresteia and 1984. BritishTheatre.com will have access to a priority access on sale period from 10am on Wednesday 5 April 2017. Read our review of Hamlet at the Almeida. BOOK NOW FOR HAMLET

Olivier Awards 2017 – Nominations Announced

Olivier Awards 2017 Nominations announced

This year’s Olivier Awards look set to be amongst the most exciting in recent times with Harry Potter And The Cursed Child receiving 11 nominations, Groundhog Day (8 nominations), The Glass Menagerie (7 nominations)  and Dreamgirls (5 nominations) featuring prominently. Presented by The Society Of London Theatre, The Olivier Awards are named after Sir Laurence Olivier, one of Britain’s finest actors. Thies year the awards will be held on 9 April 2017 at The Royal Albert Hall in London. BOOK TICKETS FOR THE OLIVIER AWARDS NOMINATED SHOWS FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE OLIVIER AWARDS 2017 https://youtu.be/1oTpkGVtZx8 OLIVIER AWARDS 2017 NOMINEES Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical Ian Bartholomew for Half A Sixpence at Noël Coward Theatre Adam J Bernard for Dreamgirls at Savoy Theatre Ben Hunter for The Girls at Phoenix Theatre Andrew Langtree for Groundhog Day at The Old Vic Best Actress in a Supporting Role … Read more

Audience Eating Ban Means No Munching During Virginia Woolf!

Book tickets to Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

A statement released today has announced that a ban on eating during performances of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf will be enforced during the run of the show at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre. In a move that is sure to delight hard-core theatre fans the statement made the following policy decisions public:- Out of consideration for the actors and for fellow audience members, we ask that no food be consumed during the performance, whilst food purchased at bars in the theatre may be eaten before the show, or during one of its two breaks. Drinks will be allowed into the auditorium in plastic cups. Latecomers are also not being admitted during the performance, with those who leave the auditorium not able to return until an interval. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? stars Imelda Staunton and Conleith Hill and is now in previews. In recent times Staunton has been critical of … Read more