C-O-N-T-A-C-T extends for six weeks and adds new location
A six-week extension has been announced for the UK Premiere of C-O-N-T-A-C-T and a new London location added to the acclaimed outdoor experience.
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The Rhythmics – New Musical announced – First track released
Metta Theatre and Aria Entertainment joined forces to produce new British musical The Rhythmics. The cast album for this musical was recorded in lockdown.
UK Premiere of Night Of The Living Dead Live comes to Pleasance Theatre
The UK Premiere of Night Of The Living Dead Live based on George A Romero’s cult horror film will open at the Pleasance Theatre, London in April 2019.
Hope Mill Theatre Manchester Announce 2019 Musicals Season
Hope Aria announce their 2019 season including a new version of Stephen Schwartz’s Rags, the first UK revival of Mame starring Tracie Bennett and a new festival musical at the Hope Mill Theatre Manchester. Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment and Joseph Houston and William Whelton of the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester have announced the three musicals that will make up the Hope Aria Productions 2019 Season. The three poductions are the UK Premiere of a new version of the Stephen Schwartz musical Rags (opening 2 March 2019), Jerry Herman’s musical Mame starring Tracie Bennett (opening 27 September 2019) and in time for Christmas, a new musical The Astonishing Times Of Timothy Cratchit (opening 22 November 2019). Rags is a heart-warming and powerful musical with book by Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof), lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) and music by Charles Strouse (Annie), which tells the story of Russian immigrant … Read more
From Page To Stage Festival of New Musical Theatre 2018
Now in its 6th year, Aria Entertainment have announced details of the From Page To Stage Festival of New Musical Theatre 2018. Aria Entertainment’s thriving new musical theatre festival, From Page To Stage returns for its 6th year, with submissions now open. This year’s festival will take place in September at Southwark Playhouse, and follows the hugely successful 2017 festival, which took place at The Other Palace, and received over 300 submissions from across the UK and internationally. From Page To Stage 2018 will showcase each step of how an original musical is developed, from a song-writing showcase, to full staged readings of new musicals. There will also be a showcase evening, which will feature sections of at least four different shows in development with a repertory cast. Alongside the 2018 Festival at Southwark Playhouse, FPTS will launch a new venture, From Page To Stage North West in partnership with … Read more
New Musical It’s Only Life Comes To The Union Theatre
It’s Only Life, a musical review featuring the songs of John Bucchino comes to the Union Theatre this June for a limited season.
Pippin to transfer to Southwark Playhouse from Hope Mill Theatre
Jonathan O’Boyle’s production of Stephen Schwartz’s Tony Award-winning musical Pippin will transfer to Southwark Playhouse in February 2018.
UPCOMING: The Break – a new musical
The Break Arts Theatre, Friday 6th October 2017 Seen in a rehearsed reading on the set of the current main house production, ‘The Toxic Avenger’, Katy Lipson’s Aria Entertainments presented a bigger outing than usual for this script sent to her during the last submissions round for the ‘From Page To Stage’. And, indeed, unlike most of the works making it through to that festival, this work is more complete, more finished, and ready to be tested on a full stage, seen as a stand-alone piece and not as part of a wider, more varied programme. It is a full-length musical play, set in Northern Ireland and focused on the tribulations of an ordinary family, one exhibiting characteristics often understood to be typical of Irish domestic situations: a bullish but sentimental father; a meek, rather passive mother; a rebellious, iconoclastic son; a passionate, determined daughter. There is one outsider here, … Read more
