Casting Announced For MAMMA MIA! UK Tour
by Stephi Wild
- Nov 22, 2021
Full casting is today announced for the new UK Tour of the sensational feel-good musical MAMMA MIA! commencing on 18 January 2022 at Plymouth Theatre Royal.
BWW Review: BLITHE SPIRIT, Harold Pinter Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan
- Sep 22, 2021
Richard Eyre’s production of Noël Coward’s 1941 Blithe Spirit was just settling into its West End home last year when lockdown struck. Now revived with most of its original cast, it settles into the Harold Pinter theatre for an eight-week run, featuring a stage-stealing appearance by Jennifer Saunders.
Madeleine Mantock Joins West End Production of BLITHE SPIRIT as Elvira
by Stephi Wild
- Aug 16, 2021
Jennifer Saunders, one of the UK's most popular comic actors, will revive her role as the preposterous clairvoyant Madame Arcati. She is joined by original cast members Geoffrey Streatfeild who will star as Charles Condomine, Lisa Dillon as Ruth Condomine, Simon Coates as Dr Bradman, Lucy Robinson as Mrs Bradman, and Rose Wardlaw as Edith.
Chichester Festival Theatre's SOUTH PACIFIC Begins Streaming Next Month
by Stephi Wild
- Jul 23, 2021
The production is led by Gina Beck (Matilda, Show Boat, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera) as Nellie*, Julian Ovenden (Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Merrily We Roll Along, Grand Hotel, BBC Proms) as Emile, Joanna Ampil (Cats, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon) as Bloody Mary, Keir Charles (Quiz, Back To Life) as Luther Billis and Rob Houchen (Les Misérables, The Light in the Piazza) as Cable.
Jennifer Saunders Will Return to BLITHE SPIRIT in West End From 16 September
by Stephi Wild
- May 28, 2021
After celebrating a sell-out run at Theatre Royal Bath as part of its 2019 Summer season, a UK tour and a short run in London of just 12 performances before the country’s first lockdown curtailed its six-week run at the Duke of York’s Theatre in March 2020, this production now returns to the West End for 8weeks from Thursday 16 September at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
BWW Exclusive: How MAMMA MIA! Is Bringing Theatre Back to Japan
by Nicole Rosky
- Jul 29, 2020
The dancing queens are having the time of their lives again in Japan. As BroadwayWorld previously reported, MAMMA MIA! opened on July 14 at the Kanagawa Arts Center in Yokohama, making it the very first production of the show to return in the world.
Harrison Releases New Single 'Praise You'
by Kaitlin Milligan
- Jul 13, 2020
With 'Praise You', his second single on Virgin Records Germany, British artist Harrison releases his own interpretation of the song by the same name by Fatboy Slim.
BWW Interview: Nina Dunn Talks THE DARK THEATRES PROJECT
by Cindy Marcolina
- Jul 9, 2020
When the lockdown started in mid March, theatres all over the country were forced to shut down in a hurry. Nina Dunn, video designer with credits spread all over the West End and Europe, has been documenting the struggle of the industry through chilling photographs of empty theatres where silence dominates. A fundraiser has accompanied her online photo essays, which are now being turned into a book whose proceeds will go straight to charity. We had a chat to discuss her project, the effects of the closures, and dark theatres.
Review Roundup: BLITHE SPIRIT at the Duke of York's Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 11, 2020
Noël Coward's classic comedy Blithe Spirit, directed by Sir Richard Eyre and starring Jennifer Saunders, has returned to the UK for a limited 6-week engagement at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre.
BWW Review: BLITHE SPIRIT, Duke of York's Theatre
by Marianka Swain
- Mar 11, 2020
This is perhaps an odd time for Nöel Coward's comedy about death and supernatural apparitions to land in the West End – Richard Eyre's revival transferring from Theatre Royal Bath. On the other hand, there's something comforting about Coward's portrait of the afterlife as essentially a continuation, with our personalities, desires and enmities very much intact. Plus the opportunity to socialise with Joan of Arc.
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