Phil Willmott Company To Present Double Bill At Union Theatre

Phil Wilmott presents a double bill with the Union Theatre

The Union Theatre and The Phil Willmott Company have announced a double bill to be staged at the Union Theatre in early 2016. The season will include the UK professional premiere of Brecht’s Fear And Misery Of The Third Reich, Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show and an Autumn transfer of Queen Lear by Shakespeare from the Union Theatre to the Tristan Bates Theatre. Fear and Misery In The Third Reich is a powerful, tragic and surprisingly funny play by Germany’s most influential playwright which shows people just like us, facing a tide of seemingly unstoppable evil. Brecht asks us to consider how we’d react if (or when) fanaticism were to unexpectedly grip our cosy world. In an interlinked series of snap shots from Hitler’s Germany children inform on parents, justice becomes a joke, old loyalties mean nothing and mere survival demands ruthless cunning. The double bill also sees the first UK … Read more

CRITICS CHOICE: Tim Hochstrasser’s Pick Of 2015

Henry V at Temple Church

My best revival recommendation would go to Antic Disposition’s HENRY V played in the evocative setting of Temple Church. It is very hard to find something new to say about one of the most familiar plays in the canon, but this production developed a fully thought through and reconfigured setting in the period of the First World War that fused precisely and informatively with the original.

Doris Day Tribute Announces 2015 Tour Dates

Claudia Morris stars in Secret Love - a reminiscence of Doris Day

CLICK FOR DORIS DAY TRIBUTE TOUR DATES BELOW To celebrate the 90th birthday of Hollywood legend Doris Day, Claudia Morris will appear in Secret Love – an intimate evening of reminiscence and a celebration of Day’s extraordinary life. Iconic in so many ways, Day’s career spanned the big band era and Hollywood stardom, saw her face financial disaster, domestic tragedy, succeed with a TV comeback and tirelessly campaign for animal rights. With stage credits including Camelot (Loverpool Playhouse), Guys ‘n Dolls (Cheltenham Everyman) and Buddy (Original Cast- Victoria Palace), Claudia Morris released two acclaimed Jazz albums. The first tour of Secret Love ran to acclaim last autumn and now returns due to popular demand with 26 dates nationwide in 2015. Accompanied by a live band and actors, this show is unique and unmissable, and includes such evergreen hits as…‘Que Sera Sera‘, ‘Sentimental Journey‘, ‘It’s Magic‘ & ‘Perhaps Perhaps‘, as well … Read more