LONDON – Fun Palaces returns for the 6th year running with a weekend full of action and community-led activities, events and skills sharing. The Fun Palaces’ ethos is simple: there is creativity and genius in every person, in every place and acknowledging and sharing that creativity shines a light on the great work individuals and communities do day in, day out – and for which they … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2019: Fun Palaces 2019 (Preview)
LONDON – Based on a chilling true story, new psychological drama Fast follows cult health professional Linda Hazzard (Caroline Lawrie), whose cures had a shocking mortality rate. Paralleling our modern world of influencers peddling protein shakes and pills, Fast is the true story of how Hazzard advocated a fasting cure that gripped the press and divided a nation. How far would you go to find the perfect cure? In an … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Fast at Park Theatre (Preview)
LONDON – Cameron Mackintosh has announced casting for the second year of the UK and Ireland tour of his acclaimed production of the Boublil and Schönberg musical Les Misérables. From 18th November 2019 Dean Chisnall will play ‘Jean Valjean’, Nic Greenshields as ‘Javert’, Katie Hall as ‘Fantine’, Ian Hughes as ‘Thénardier’, Harry Apps as ‘Marius’, Charlie Burn as ‘Cosette’, Barnaby Hughes as ‘Enjolras’ and Helen Walsh as ‘Madame Thénardier’. Also in the cast will be Joseph Anthony, George Arvidson, Adam Boardman, Olivia Brereton, Danny Colligan, Rebecca Ferrin, … Continue reading Touring the UK 2019/20: Casting for 2020 Tour of UK/Ireland Les Misérables Tour Announced
Following their mid-year production of original play This is What Happens to Pretty Girls, Pangdemonium rounds off the year with one heck of a splash with multiple-award winning musical satire Urinetown. Gleefully taking the piss out of politicians, populism, “people power”, capitalism, corporate corruption, and musicals themselves, local audience members may find more than a passing similarity to home as Pangdemonium immerses them in a fictitious “most expensive city … Continue reading Preview: Urinetown – The Musical by Pangdemonium
‘If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.’ LONDON – The Bard’s classic tale of money, love and revenge gets a staging at the Drayton Arms Theatre this October. Antonio, a merchant, needs a loan. His friend, Bassanio, needs a rich wife in order to clear his debts. Portia, a wealthy heiress, is reduced to a prize that men must gamble for. … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: The Merchant of Venice by Poetic Justice Productions, with Wolf-Sister Productions
LONDON – From the award-winning Gameshow, Nuclear Future is a shattering new play about the dangerous potential which sits quietly in bunkers across the globe. As the apocalyptic impact of a nuclear disaster regains a foothold in public conversation, this show presents this threat on a more human scale. How do we explain to our children that we use the same energy that created the universe, … Continue reading Touring the UK 2019: Nuclear Future by Gameshow Theatre
LONDON – They’ve done Shakespeare, they’ve done musicals – now let Magnificent Bastard give Christmas the Sh!t-Faced treatment. God bless us, every one! Combining cast members from the hilarious Sh!t-faced Showtime and Sh!t-faced Shakespeare for the first time ever, A Pissedmas Carol is the all singing, all drinking alternative Christmas knees-up you never knew you wanted. Parodying Dickens’ Yuletide classic A Christmas Carol, see miserly Scrooge and … Continue reading In London’s West End 2019: Sh!t-Faced Showtime presents A Pissedmas Carol at Leicester Square Theatre
LONDON – From the award-winning Anna Jordan, written between the Brexit vote and Trump’s Presidential victory, We Anchor in Hope captures a moment of deep uncertainty in recent history and the characters’ lives when local pub, The Anchor, closes for good. Chaos is in the air, and yet life goes on. For the duration of the play’s run The Bunker will become The Anchor – transformed … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: We Anchor in Hope at The Bunker
The Bicentennial celebrations never let up, and this year, the NUS Centre for the Arts (CFA) is commemorating it with two brand new FREE to attend productions from two exciting artists – award-winning theatre director Edith Podesta and up-and-coming artist Sean Cham. Staged at NUS itself, with these programmes, the CFA sought to commission new works that dealt with concepts of identity that go beyond the … Continue reading Preview: NUS Centre For the Arts Presents The Last Gap and The Golden Record 3.0
Faking it till you make it only gets you forked. Last seen as part of the 2018 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, local actress Jo Tan’s debut play is back – now with the support of The Finger Players and re-imagined as a one woman show. Directed by Chong Tze Chien and written and performed by Jo herself, Forked is a play that’s all about identity. Based partially … Continue reading Review: Forked (2019) by The Finger Players
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