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Derren Brown brings Underground to Playhouse Theatre this September

Douglas Mayo21st July 201721st July 2017 News, West End

Derren Brown Underground Tickets West End

Derren Brown has announced that following a sell out season at the Charing Cross Theatre, he will bring his show Underground to London’s Playhouse Theatre this September as part of his current UK tour. Underground is a collection of highlights from his previous work. The two-time Olivier Award-winner has recently completed a US tour of his show Secret and his Underground tour will see him visit a number of UK theatres starting this weekend in Birmingham. Underground will play for a strictly limited season from 11 September – 14 October 2017. DERREN BROWN UNDERGROUND TICKETS DERREN BROWN UK TOUR DETAILS

An Inspector Calls Comes To The Playhouse Theatre

Douglas Mayo27th May 2016 News, West End

An Inspector Calls at The Playhouse Theatre

Twenty Five years after it’s first appearance at the National Theatre, Stephen Daldry’s award-winning production of J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls will return to the West End this winter at the Playhouse Theatre. Since 1992, This production of An Inspector Calls has won a total of 19 major awards, including four Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards, playing to more than 4 milion theatregoers worldwide, making it the most internationally-lauded production in the National Theatre’s history. J B Priestley’s brilliantly constructed masterpiece powerfully dramatises the dangers of casual capitalism’s cruelty, complacency and hypocrisy. Stephen Daldry’s epic production highlights the play’s enduring relevance. Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, An Inspector Calls is a compelling and haunting thriller. The story begins when the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family home. Their peaceful family dinner party is shattered by … Read more

1984 Returns To the Playhouse Theatre

Douglas Mayo8th April 20165th April 2016 News, West End

1984 by George Orwell at the Playhouse Theatre

1984 returns to the Playhouse Theatre following its hugely successful international tour for a limited 12 week season from 14th June 2016. April, 1984.13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical, award-winning adaptation exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever. Now seen by over a quarter of a million people, this Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida Theatre production premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in September 2013. Since opening, 1984 has played to packed houses at the Almeida Theatre, as well as throughout its two West End runs and in performances across the globe during national and international tours. BOOK NOW FOR 1984

Women On The Verge To Close

Douglas Mayo25th February 201623rd April 2015 News, West End

Women On The Verge Of a Nervous Breakdown The Musical to Close at the Playhouse Theatre London

It was announced today the Women On the Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, currently playing at the Playhouse Theatre will close on May 23, 2015. Based on the 1998 Pedro Almodovar film of the same name, the show starred Tamsin Greig and Haydyn Gwynne, who both received Olivier Award nominations for their performances in the musical. Producers released a statement saying: “We’re very proud of this production, our superb cast and creative team, and the wonderful critical and audience response during the season.” It is believed the musical will now be staged outside the UK with productions planned for Germany, Japan and Australia. Meanwhile tickets are still available for performances up to May 23,2015.

Preview Tracks From Women On The Verge Released

Editorial Staff27th November 2014 News, West End

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdwon opens in December at the Playhouse Theatre

Ahead of its opening in December, the producers of the new musical Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown have released these great preview tracks. Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown stars Olivier Award-winning actress Tamsin Greig (Episodes, Green Wing, Jumpy, God of Carnage), the smart new musical comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown also stars Haydn Gwynne (The Audience, Billy Elliot), Jérôme Pradon (Les Miserables, Pacific Overtures), and Anna Skellern (BBC’s The Interceptor, Lip Service). Powered by a live band onstage, music by David Yazbek and a laugh-out-loud book by Jeffrey Lane (writers of the current West End hit musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), the colour and chaos of Pepa’s Madrid will light up London this winter. On the streets of Madrid, a city pulsing with art, industry, and passion, Pepa’s world is unravelling. Her lover leaves her. And then she meets his wife. … Read more

REVIEW: Speed-The-Plow, Playhouse Theatre ✭✭

Stephen Collins23rd October 2014 Reviews, West End

Lindsay Lohan and Richard Schiff in Speed-The-Plow

It’s a mystery why Lindsay Lohan chose this play as her world stage debut. Perhaps she knew she would be the best thing about it? That would seem the only rational explanation. Especially as she was correct.

REVIEW: 1984, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Stephen Collins17th July 201430th March 2014 Reviews

This really is first-rate modern theatre: challenging, entertaining and questioning. Rupert Goold’s vision for the Almeida is electrifying.