Category: News

Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World, now known as Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image the Musical, which premièred at Birmingham Rep in 2023, is to transfer to the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End. Written by Al Murray, Matt Forde and Sean Foley, Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image the Musical is directed by the Rep’s artistic director Foley alongside a… Continue reading Spitting Image musical to get West End transfer

Midlands-born performers Alexia McIntosh and Kieran Hamilton-Amos will join Belgrade Theatre creative director Corey Campbell in Big Aunty, directed and devised by Campbell, which will be the first home-produced show of the Belgrade’s spring season. McIntosh appeared in the Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss musical Six in the West End and on its UK tour… Continue reading “Darkly comic family drama” comes to life at the Belgrade

The Lowry and its Centre for Advanced Training hold their annual recruitment drive for young dancers on June 11. It’s for aspiring young movers aged 11–16 from across the North West, who are passionate about dance and interested in exploring this art form further, even pursuing a career. In advance of the audition, young people… Continue reading Seeking young dancers of future

As You Are, a soundwalk for Leeds written for Opera North by South African-born composer and cellist Abel Selaocoe, will open on March 30 as part of Leeds 2023 Year of Culture. It invites audiences to experience Leeds in new and transformative ways, with an emphasis on the meditative and healing power of walking. Audiences… Continue reading A soundwalk around Leeds

Pascal Theatre Company are staging a revival of Julia Pascal’s play A Manchester Girlhood, based on the lives of three Manchester Jewish women and their Romanian immigrant parents. It opens at Blackpool Old Electric Theatre April 20, Manchester Jewish Museum April 23, followed by London dates at Burgh House May 17 and a run at JW3… Continue reading A Manchester Girlhood revisited

Protest is a new play from Hannah Lavery coming to Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. It follows the lives of three young girls as they learn to use their voices and take a stand against injustices in their community. Aimed at young people aged 8 and up, and their grown-ups, the play is an… Continue reading Protest on Northern Stage

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s world première of Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell novel Hamnet which has sold out in Stratford is to transfer to the West End. The production will run for a 14-week season at the Garrick Theatre from Saturday 30 September until Saturday 6 January 2024. O’Farrell said, “it’s wonderful and welcome news.… Continue reading West End transfer for RSC’s Hamnet

London Children’s Ballet presents Snow White with a cast of 50 dancers aged 9–16 from 13–16 April 2023. The LCB creates a new West End ballet each year performed by young dancers. Outreach work takes ballet into schools, care homes and special needs centres in and around London. Choreographer Gavin McCaig trained at the Dance School… Continue reading LCB Snow White at the Peacock

DanceWest Fest, formerly Ignition Dance Festival, returns this spring to the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (19 & 20 May) and Rose Theatre, Kingston (17 June) with an evening of new commissions. It will feature four new commissions from Lea Anderson, Jamaal Burkma, Gerrard Martin and James Wilton Dance, emerging artist commissions from Emma Skyum Poulsen and Dani Harris Walters and… Continue reading DanceWest Fest in Hammersmith and Kingston

Tour dates have been announced for Frantic Assembly’s new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a collaboration between poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay and Frantic Assembly’s artistic director Scott Graham. The new production will première at Theatre Royal Plymouth from September 12–16, before a UK tour arriving at The Lowry, Salford November 14–18. Metamorphosis is a depiction… Continue reading Metamorphosis to tour