On Coronation Day we look at shows based on royalty running in the West End
Today sees the coronation of King Charles III and we thought it worth a brief look at the portrayal of royalty in current productions playing in the West End.
Today sees the coronation of King Charles III and we thought it worth a brief look at the portrayal of royalty in current productions playing in the West End.
The Donmar Warehouse has announced that David Tennant will play Macbeth and Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s are to conclude the Donmar Warehouse’s 2023 programme.
Paul T Davies reviews Imitating The Dog’s production of Macbeth at the Mercury Theatre Colchester.
Gary Stringer reviews Douglas Rintoul’s touring production of Macbeth with Paul Tinto and Phoebe Sparrow, now at Derby Theatre
Derby Theatre and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch have announced casting for their production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth to be directed by Douglas Rintoul.
The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth will undertake a UK tour in 2018-19. The Macbeth UK Tour starts at the Lowry in September.
Mark Ludmon examines the year ahead for regional theatre in 2018. Bolton girl Maxine Peake has made her mark on TV and the London stage but she returns to her roots with her second play, Queens of the Coal Age. Based on the true story of four women in Lancashire during the miners’ strike in the 1980s, it will be at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from 28 June to 21 July. Also at the Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake will star in Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days from 25 May to 23 June. Other highlights coming up at the Royal Exchange include Julie Hesmondhalgh in Kendall Feaver’s new play The Almighty Sometimes and April De Angelis’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. A new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Michael Boyd, the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will come to the Royal Exchange … Read more
Theatre in 2018 – Star names, revivals, transfers and new writing lie ahead for what promises to be another exciting year for London theatre.
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