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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

Oldham Coliseum has declared: If we’re going out, we’re doing it our way. This Friday, they celebrate all things Coliseum with script-in-hand performances of scenes and songs from favourite productions of the past decade, comedy, pantomime and appearances from special guests. The Coliseum’s theatre professionals have crafted this one-night-only event in just two short weeks… Continue reading Oldham Coliseum says farewell

Drag superstar Divina de Campo will be hosting her own, alternative Coronation celebrations this May. Following performances of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at HOME last spring, Divina returns for two-night solo performance of her new show, Creating a Queen. A stalwart on the UK drag scene, Divina was runner-up on the first season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race… Continue reading Devina de Coronation

John Dillon’s Wearing Colours is to be performed in Liverpool for the first time in 15 years. Set before and in the immediate aftermath of the Heysel Stadium disaster, the work explores the differing reactions of four individuals who attended the game on that fateful night. It was written by Dillon and performed only five months after… Continue reading Wearing Colours comes back to Liverpool

In a move that echoes the eviction of VAULT Festival from his usual home in London’s Waterloo, North Tyneside Council is evicting The Exchange Theatre charity in order to bring in a private, more commercial tenant. Performing arts trade union Equity has written to the Mayor, Norma Redfearn DBE (Labour), in a bid to prevent the charity… Continue reading North Shields Exchange Theatre faces eviction

The Olivier Award-winning alternative-rock trio The Tiger Lillies are going on tour to mark the release of their new album. With their signature darkly eccentric humour, this collection, The Worst of The Tiger Lillies, is their “best of” album and the concert will include songs such as “Roll Up”, “Danced All Night” and “Boatman” that the oft-called ‘godfathers… Continue reading The Worst of The Tiger Lillies go to Ukraine

This Monday—World Theatre Day—Unfolding Theatre announces the cast and creative team for its brand new show, A Street Like This. Set and made in Sunderland, it’s written by Alison Carr, directed by Annie Rigby, with music co-written by Ross Millard from The Futureheads and local residents. A Street Like This will première at The Fire Station in Sunderland… Continue reading Right down their street