Mark Dawson News

SNOW WHITE to Begin Performances at New Victory Theater in November

by Chloe Rabinowitz — October 23, 2025

New 42 will kick off the 2025-26 New Victory season with a rustic retelling of the classic fairytale Snow White.

Musical Theatre Melodies to Celebrate 70th Anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ME AND JULIET

by Blair Ingenthron — May 27, 2023

The next Musical Theatre Melodies broadcast, hosted by Rob Morrison on 96.

Photos: Inside Rehearsal For Tobacco Factory Theatres' REVEALED

by Stephi Wild — September 16, 2022

The cast for Tobacco Factory Theatres’ world premiere production of REVEALED have reached the final week of rehearsals before previews begin on Thursday 22 September.

Tom Felton to Play Guy Fawkes in THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

by Marissa Tomeo — April 7, 2022

Tom Felton (who first found fame playing Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series and is about to tread the boards in 2:22 in the West End) is set to play Guy Fawkes London’s biggest new attraction – The Gunpowder Plot.

BWW Review: OZ, Tobacco Factory Theatres

by Shane Morgan — December 17, 2021

This year, Pins and Needles Productions, in league with Bristol’s Tobacco Factory Theatre makes a reliably bold move by taking something familiar and confounding expectations every step of the way.

Arts Centre Melbourne Presents TRUCKLOAD OF SKY - The Lost Songs Of David McComb

by Stephi Wild — February 16, 2020

A posthumous album of lost songs from the pen of iconic artist David McComb will be performed live at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse Theatre on 24 April.

BWW Review: ONCE UPON A TIME, Tobacco Factory Theatres

by Alice Cope — September 26, 2019

Once upon a time there lived two storytelling brothers, their younger sister and a very silly story.

ONCE UPON A TIME Announces UK Tour

by Stephi Wild — September 16, 2019

Gonzo Moose Theatre Company have announced the UK Tour of their new Once Upon A Time.

EDINBURGH 2019: Jon Long Q&A

by Natalie O'Donoghue — August 1, 2019

Musical comedian JON LONG's debut comedy hour PLANET KILLING MACHINE provides a selection of brilliantly original songs, whilst also launching into a hilarious tirade on all the ways we are destroying the planet and the steps we can all take to turn the tide.

BWW Review: OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD, Tobacco Factory Theatres

by Tim Wright — April 24, 2019

It's a sensible time to be tackling Timberlake Wertenbaker's modern classic Our Country's Good.

BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT, Theatre Royal Brighton

by Fiona Scott — April 17, 2019

Green Day's 2004 concept album American Idiot shot to fame for its themes of disillusion and angst in society during events such as the war in Iraq.

BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Tobacco Factory Theatres

by Tim Wright — March 1, 2019

It's fitting that the once industrial space of the Tobacco Factory is now the dystopian setting for the latest outing of the Factory Company - a gender-bending A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Guest Blog: Garrett Millerick on SUNFLOWER at Soho Theatre

by Natalie O'Donoghue — February 12, 2019

Garrett Millerick blogs for BroadwayWorldUK about bringing his 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Sunflower to London's Soho Theatre.

Photo Flash: First Images Of the 10th Anniversary UK Tour Of Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT

by A.A. Cristi — January 24, 2019

First look at the 10th anniversary tour of American Idiot - the ground breaking Tony award-winning rock musical with music by punk-pop and multi Grammy award-winning band Green Day.

BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

by Jo Fisher — January 25, 2019

American Idiot brings Green Day's much-loved album to life in a punk-rock production that rebels against the musical archetype and vigorously sticks its middle finger up to everything and anything that gets in its way.

BWW Review: THE BORROWERS, Tobacco Factory Theatres

by Tim Wright — December 5, 2018

This Christmas, instead of merely treading the boards at Tobacco Factory Theatres, the actors are treading in between the boards in a delightful adaptation of Mary Norton's The Borrowers, a story about a family of tiny people, no bigger than a crayon.