Liverpool writer and musician Asa Murphy has penned a musical play set to première in the city next month. New Generations looks at the importance of love and support within family life and will be performed at Hope Street Theatre September 22–23 for three performances. The play follows the journey a mother and daughter share when… Continue reading Family life to fore in new musical
Month: August 2023
Young Love
Previous productions from Dare to Know Theatre have been modest in scale but high in quality. With an original score composed by Chloe Greenfield, choreography by Jayne Sladen, not to mention a cast totalling 17 performers and breaking the single-act barrier, Young Love is a swaggeringly confident show, not characterised by a lack of ambition.… Continue reading Young Love
Perfect casting for Sheffield debut play
We Could All Be Perfect is the debut play by Doncaster writer and actor Hannah Morley, commissioned, developed and produced by Sheffield Theatres and performed in its intimate and flexible Playhouse. The cast includes Anshula Bain, Heather Forster, Rosa Hesmondhalgh, Alice Walker and Jada-Li Warrican, all making their Sheffield Theatres debuts. A teenage girl steps… Continue reading Perfect casting for Sheffield debut play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
It’s an indication of one of modern opera’s most spectacular success stories that the re-issue of this recording from its première 1981 season coincides with the production’s sixth revival, currently showing to sell-out audiences at Glyndebourne, with Peter Hall’s masterpiece of staging now in the hands of original choreographer Lynne Hockney. The visual quality of… Continue reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Friel’s Faith Healer tour to start in Staffordshire
London Classic Theatre is to tour Brian Friel’s Faith Healer beginning at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Consisting of four monologues delivered by three characters, Faith Healer follows the story of Frank, Grace and Teddy, each of whom takes the audience on a journey of shifting perspectives and conflicting memories as they individually reflect on lives… Continue reading Friel’s Faith Healer tour to start in Staffordshire
Andalucia
Classical music meets flamenco. One may ask, how can classical music go with flamenco? Well, see this show and you will know that in the right hands, they can complement each other. The show premièred this year and is based on the music of the eight cities of Andalucia. Daniel Martinez, director of the company,… Continue reading Andalucia
Winnie and friends take seaside break
Disney’s Winnie the Pooh takes a Grand trip to the seaside. Winnie and friends bounce into The Grand Theatre August 14–16. Deep in Hundred Acre Wood, an exciting new adventure is about to happen… This musical adaptation is told through the eyes of characters that have played roles in the lives of children for generations. Created by… Continue reading Winnie and friends take seaside break
Solve Along A Murder She Wrote
Fans of the popular television show Murder She Wrote will love this hilarious interactive production featuring a 1985 classic episode of Sing a Song of Murder where Jessica Fletcher arrives in London and becomes embroiled in a new murder mystery. Our convivial Australian host ,Tim Benzie, dressed in a grey tracksuit and a grey wig, guides us through this… Continue reading Solve Along A Murder She Wrote
Meet super sleuth Aki Browne
She’s got the time, the curiosity, the resources—and a thirst for true crime. Meet Aki Browne—online sleuth like no other… A one-act play, Being Purple Aki, featuring the hunt for a real-life bogeyman / racist caricature, this is an absurd journey into the obsessive world of a digital detective. It’s at the White Hotel, Dickinson Street, Salford… Continue reading Meet super sleuth Aki Browne
My Last Two Brain Cells
Brain Cell 64,928,460,784 (Joe Pike) welcomes us, the hormones, for a rare tour of Gary’s brain, which can’t start until we’ve had the full health and safety briefing. Brain Cell 12 (Tom Hazelden) wants to bring some much-needed excitement to the tour; after all, why go through all that, when there hasn’t been a single… Continue reading My Last Two Brain Cells