Beckman Unicorn's GREAT EXPECTATIONS TOY THEATRE Now Available on Amazon UK
by Nicole Rosky - June 01, 2021 Beckman Unicorn was the first commercial theatre producer to create a new Toy Theatre for its London West End première production of Great Expectations creating new illustrations to reinvent a 21st Century version of a classic and beloved toy product which has entertained children and adults alike f...
Beckman Unicorn's GREAT EXPECTATIONS TOY THEATRE Now Available on Amazon UK
by Nicole Rosky - June 01, 2021 Beckman Unicorn was the first commercial theatre producer to create a new Toy Theatre for its London West End première production of Great Expectations creating new illustrations to reinvent a 21st Century version of a classic and beloved toy product which has entertained children and adults alike f...
Greenville Theatre Announces 94th Season
by Stephi Wild - January 26, 2020 Greenville Theatre donors, sponsors, and advertisers were treated to a musical 'season reveal' at the annual announcement party on January 26. Executive Artistic Director Allen McCalla thanked the attendees for their continued support before expressing his delight with the remarkable body of work b...
MTI Will Make Licensing Rights Available for ESTELLA SCROOGE
by Nicole Rosky - November 03, 2021 Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has just announced the acquisition of licensing rights for Estella Scrooge (A Christmas Carol with a Twist)....
ESTELLA SCROOGE Is Now Available for Licensing through MTI
by Nicole Rosky - May 05, 2022 Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has just announced that the musical Estella Scrooge (A Christmas Carol with a Twist) is now available for licensing....
THE MAGIC FIRE Opens This Week At Different Stages
by BWW News Desk - January 11, 2019 Different Stages continues its 2018- 2019 season this week with The Magic Fire by Lillian Groag. The Magic Fire is a wonderfully warm and amusing play about a young woman growing up in a family of European immigrants who surround themselves with a 'magic fire' of art to fend off the unpleasant reali...
PRIVATE PEACEFUL Makes Its Epic Entrance To The Belgrade's Main Stage This May
by A.A. Cristi - April 12, 2022 The Belgrade Theatre will play host to a brand new stage adaptation of Private Peaceful, coming to its Main Stage from Tues 17 – Sat 21 May. The ensemble retelling of Michael Morpurgo's acclaimed novel is adapted for the stage by Simon Reade....
Beckman Unicorn's GREAT EXPECTATIONS TOY THEATRE Now Available on Amazon UK
by Nicole Rosky - June 01, 2021 Beckman Unicorn was the first commercial theatre producer to create a new Toy Theatre for its London West End première production of Great Expectations creating new illustrations to reinvent a 21st Century version of a classic and beloved toy product which has entertained children and adults alike f...
BWW Album Review: Lena Hall's OBSESSED: CHRIS CORNELL is Vivid and Stirring
by David Clarke - December 10, 2018 Lena Hall's ambitious and successful year long EP project - Lena Hall OBSESSED - comes to end this month with her lovely tribute to Chris Cornell, the iconic front man of Soundgarden and Audioslave. The four-track OBSESSED: CHRIS CORNELL stands as a vivid and stirring conclusion to the series, offer...
San Jose Stage Company Reschedules STRANGE COURTESIES for Spring 2023
by Nicole Rosky - December 30, 2021 In light of the circumstances presented by the new Covid variant (Omicron), San Jose Stage Company (Randall King, Artistic Director and Cathleen King, Executive Director) is rescheduling the upcoming World Premiere production of STRANGE COURTESIES by L. Peter Callender to take place during the 2022-...
The Barn Theatre Announce Cast For New Production Of Patrick Barlow's BEN HUR
by Stephi Wild - February 05, 2020 The Barn Theatre have announced casting for their upcoming production of the comedy Ben Hur by Olivier award-winning playwright Patrick Barlow. The production, which runs in the historic Roman town from 4 March to 18 April 2020, will star James Dinsmore (Great Expectations) as Edgar T Chesterfield, ...
Olivia Colman to Lead Steven Knight's Adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS for FX & BBC
by Michael Major - February 17, 2022 The stellar cast will feature Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Fionn Whitehead as Pip, alongside Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle and Matt Berry....
Rotherhithe Playhouse Offers Free Tickets To GREAT EXPECTATIONS To Those Accessing Food Banks Or Subsidised School Meals
by Stephi Wild - September 02, 2021 A new production of 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Phil Willmott ,will be the next production at Rotherhithe Playhouse, with a pay what you can ticket pricing and free tickets for families accessing food banks....
60 MILES BY ROAD OR RAIL Will Be Performed at Royal & Derngate in September
by Stephi Wild - July 27, 2021 The company of performers consists of Subika Anwar-Khan (Sophia, Arcola Theatre; Hear Me Now, Theatre503; Julie, National Theatre), Helen Crevel (Seedling, Carbon Theatre; Pippi Longstocking, Royal & Derngate; Loop, Theatre in Black), Jo Blake (Blodeuwudd Untold, Edinburgh Fringe) Dan McGarry (Danny...
The Park Square Presents The Summer Mystery You've Been Waiting For
by A.A. Cristi - June 19, 2019 Park Square Theatre's summer fare continues on the Proscenium Stage with the regional premiere of AGATHA CHRISTIE'S RULE OF THUMB (July 12 - August 25, 2019). Directed by local powerhouse Austene Van*, the evening featured three one-act murder mysteries by the most-read mystery writer of all time - ...
'Great Expectations' - West End Première Now Available on VOD
by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2021 Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter, Estella, cruelly breaks Pip’s heart – can he win her heart with his new-found wealth? But who is his mysterious benefactor? Featuring some of the most famous characters in literature including the manipulative lawyer Jaggers, the terrifying convict Magwitch and a ca...
Kentucky Performing Arts and KMEA to Present Free Gheens Great Expectations Concert This Week
by Stephi Wild - February 01, 2022 Kentucky Performing Arts and KMEA will present Gheens Great Expectations Concert featuring a side-by-side performance by The Louisville Youth Orchestra and The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by Louisville Youth Orchestra Music Director Doug Elmore, conductor Nicholas Finch and featuring soloist Ani...
Casting Announced For PRIVATE PEACEFUL at Nottingham Playhouse and UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - January 13, 2022 Today Nottingham Playhouse announces the full cast of Simon Reade's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's award winning First World War novel Private Peaceful....
Dialect Coach Joan Washington Dies at 74
by Stephi Wild - September 17, 2021 Washington was born on December 21, 1949 in Aberdeen, Scotland as Joan Geddie. She was a voice and dialect coach for numerous TV and film projects beginning in 1983. She is known for her work on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Crimson Peak (2015) and Red Sparrow (2018). She was married to...
Rita Anderson's GLIDERS Opens This Weekend at Different Stages
by A.A. Cristi - February 03, 2020 Different Stages continues its 2019 - 2020 season with the premier of Rita Anderson's Gliders. In the summer of 1969, three generations of seemingly ordinary women begin to uncover secrets about themselves even as the extraordinary events of the Apollo 11 mission unfold overhead. ...
THE MAGIC FIRE Opens This Week At Different Stages
by A.A. Cristi - January 09, 2019 Different Stages continues its 2018- 2019 season this week with The Magic Fire by Lillian Groag. The Magic Fire is a wonderfully warm and amusing play about a young woman growing up in a family of European immigrants who surround themselves with a 'magic fire' of art to fend off the unpleasant reali...
Review: ESTELLA, Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
by Gary Naylor - July 17, 2022 Charles Dickens' novels are filled to the brim with characters who capture different elements of the human condition - evil and good and, crucially, plenty in-between. Perhaps the most fascinating of them all - at least she was to me when first I read Great Expectations in my mid-20s - is Estella, P...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Embarks on UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - October 03, 2019 This festive season European Arts Company returns following a highly successful 2018 run of A Christmas Carol. Inspired by Dickens's own charitable work, the 2019 tour is in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, reflecting the heart-warming message of Scrooge's philanthropic transformation in this p...
Giles, Baum, Weinhold And More Join PICT's THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
by BWW News Desk - December 15, 2018 Martin Giles, Karen Baum, Jordon Ross Weinhold and more join the cast of PICT Classic Theatre's upcoming production of The Old Curiosity Shop....
Vanessa Kirby Joins Hugh Jackman & Laura Dern in THE SON
by TV News Desk - June 28, 2021 The Son focuses on Peter (Hugh Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.... |