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Opera North has announced the five artists chosen for this year’s Resonance residencies: Ellen Beth Abdi, Balraj Samrai, Rory A Green, Jonas Jones and Satnam Galsian. Resonance offers resources to professional music-makers from the Global Majority based in the north of England, to enable them to experiment with collaborators and fresh ideas and to try… Continue reading Opera North Resonance artists for 2024

Belfast’s Lyric Theatre and Prime Cut Productions are to reunite following the success of last year’s award-winning staging of The Beauty Queen of Leenane with another Martin McDonagh play, The Pillowman. First seen at the National Theatre in 2003 when it won an Olivier Award for best new play and subsequently transferred to Broadway, The Pillowman is a macabre portrait of a… Continue reading Lyric, Belfast and Prime Cut revive McDonagh’s Pillowman

Five new opera productions will be unveiled at the 2024 Buxton International Festival—works by Verdi, Handel, Haydn, Bizet and Ethel Smyth. Artistic director Adrian Kelly said, “Buxton is nothing if not brave and we have some formidable casts lined up this year, with faces old and new. We’re packing a punch this summer, make no mistake.”… Continue reading Five new operas for Buxton

Leicester’s Curve is to stage the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady at Christmas 2024. Curve’s chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster said, “Lerner and Loewe’s music and lyrics, matched with the words and imaginative brio of George Bernard Shaw, make My Fair Lady one of the finest musicals from the traditional canon. “It’s a… Continue reading Curve Christmas show is My Fair Lady

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production about the city’s famous rock band Black Sabbath is attracting international interest. Black Sabbath—The Ballet which sold out in Birmingham, Plymouth and London, is to have its European première at the Luxor Theatre, Rotterdam as part of the Holland Dance Festival in June 2024. The company is also in advanced talks about… Continue reading Black Sabbath ballet rocks off to Rotterdam

The casting team of Dear Evan Hansen are searching for the next generation of talent to appear in the first tour of the musical. Performers with or without formal training can apply for any role in the show. Those interested are invited to upload a video on TikTok singing any number from the production with the hashtag… Continue reading Chance to appear on Evan Hansen tour

Dance Umbrella has issued a statement announcing the death of Emma Gladstone OBE, its Artistic Director and Chief Executive from 2013 to 2021, on Monday 22 January, after a short illness. As Artistic Director of the Rolex Arts Festival (Athens, 2023), Director of the Big Pulse Intensive (Creative Europe 2021–24) and former Artistic Director, BBC… Continue reading Emma Gladstone dies at 63

Following the Christmas panto of Aladdin, Regal Entertainments is returning to St Helens Theatre Royal with the panto The Wizard of Oz for February half term, the first of four pantomimes in 2024. Join Dorothy and Toto on their epic adventure to the Emerald City and follow their journey as they meet Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion. Produced… Continue reading Regal brings Oz to St Helens

Michael Starke will perform opposite is real-life wife, Lynn Francis, in Haunted Scouse by Gerry Linford at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre. Charlie Moon (Starke) is sadly missed and his widow, Molly (Francis), is the one doing most of the missing. She feels guilty about how he passed and wants to make things right with him. If only… Continue reading Husband and wife in Scouse ghost story

This is a very earnest recording with quite a few majestic and soaring melodies – I wouldn’t expect, based on the showtunes in the recording, a full production of this musical to have very many, if any at all, high-energy song and dance numbers, though it would be a pleasant surprise. Songs of hope, or… Continue reading Rosie The Musical – Original Studio Cast Album