Amanda Hadingue

Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

The Secret Garden, originally published as a children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett in the early 1900s, tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled and angry 10-year-old girl who is brought from her home in British India to Yorkshire after surviving a cholera epidemic that kills not only her parents but all of the servants in the home.

Photos: First Look at THE SECRET GARDEN at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has released first look production images for the stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story The Secret Garden, in a new version by Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard, directed by Howard.

Cast Set For THE SECRET GARDEN at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced the full cast for the stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story The Secret Garden, in a new version by Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard, directed by Howard.

Review: DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD, Barbican Theatre

For all the gleeful whimsey and creative flare, this stage adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s critically acclaimed eco-thriller lacks bite

Cast Announced For Complicité's DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD

Award-winning, international touring company Complicité (The Encounter, Can I Live?) has announced the full casting for the world premiere of a new work for the theatre Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, conceived and directed by their Artistic Director and Co-Founder Simon McBurney.

curious directive Presents SPINDRIFT Next Month

Pioneering theatre makers curious directive present Spindrift, their first new play performed in their new central-Norwich Studio Theatre. 

Photos: First Look at Stephen Mangan & More in A CHRISTMAS CAROL at The Old Vic

Production images are now available from Matthew Warchus’ big-hearted, smash hit Old Vic production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic A Christmas Carol, joyously adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and starring Stephen Mangan (The Split, Green Wing, Episodes). 

Casting Announced For A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Old Vic

The Old Vic has announced the casting for Matthew Warchus’ big-hearted, smash hit production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic A Christmas Carol, joyously adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol returns with a live audience on 24 November, with previews from 13 November. 

BWW Review: DECIPHERING, New Diorama Theatre

In 1940 a group of four teenage friends, thinking they’d be crawling through a secret passage to the close-by Lascaux Manor, made one of the most astonishing discoveries of the 20th Century. Over nine hundred paintings dating back god-knows-how-long, in their eyes. Something inside of them knew that they needed to preserve it, so they camped out day and night to protect it. Then WWII started, and they enrolled in the French resistance.

Photo Flash: First Look at RSC's THE WINTER'S TALE, Part of BBC LIGHTS UP; Broadcast Dates Announced

A filmed adaptation of The Winter’s Tale will be broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 25 April 2021 at 7pm, celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday weekend and marking the first time in RSC history that a production will have a televised World Premiere.

RSC Announces BBC Broadcast of THE WINTER'S TALE and Return to Live Performances With THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

With the one-year anniversary of theatres being forced to close in sight, the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that audiences will now get the chance to see The Winter’s Tale and The Comedy of Errors, two of its postponed 2020 major Shakespeare productions.

BWW Review: FESTIVE TALES, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Broadcasted mere hours after the change in Christmas COVID restrictions in the UK, the RSC’s Festive Tales brings some much-needed escapism. We are met with an empty theatre dotted with candles in lanterns and a lone voice singing a carol. It really magnifies the emptiness of our performance spaces at the moment.

VIDEO: Blackpool Grand Theatre and The RSC Channel Henry V in ONCE MORE UNTO THE BEACH

Blackpool residents channel spirit of Shakespeare's Henry V in stirring new theatre piece inspired by the hopes and fears of communities leaving lockdown for the first time.

VIDEO: Royal Shakespeare Company Releases SONNETS IN SOLITUDE

The Royal Shakespeare Company today released Sonnets in Solitude, a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets self-recorded by RSC actors while in lockdown. Many of the actors were working with the RSC at the time of the theatre's temporary closure on 17 March and have been unable to perform or rehearse since.

Joseph Kloska, Kemi-Bo Jacobs and More to Star in RSC's THE WINTER'S TALE; Full Casting Announced

Casting details have been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) 2020 Summer production of The Winter's Tale, which plays in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from 28 March 2020. Directed by RSC Deputy Artistic Director, Erica Whyman, the production will be cross-cast with The Comedy of Errors (from 25 April 2020) and Pericles (from 15 August 2020). All three plays are sponsored by Darwin Escapes.

Review Roundup: A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON At The Old Vic

The Old Vic today presents Lucy Prebble's new play A Very Expensive Poison, based on the book by Luke Harding and directed by John Crowley.

BWW Review: A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON, Old Vic

How theatre should, or should not, be addressing Brexit is a constant topic of conversation. But while Lucy Prebble's phenomenal new work - a combination of horror, espionage thriller, love story and satire, with dazzlingly theatrical framing - doesn't centre around the B world, it is, unquestionably, the play for the present moment.

The Old Vic Announces Casting For Lucy Prebble's A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON

The Old Vic today announces casting for Lucy Prebble's new play A Very Expensive Poison, based on the book by Luke Harding and directed by John Crowley. The cast includes Thomas Arnold, Tom Brooke, MyAnna Buring, Callum Coates, Marc Graham, Amanda Hadingue, Yasmine Holness-Dove, Lloyd Hutchinson, Robyn Moore, Peter Polycarpou, Sarah Seggari, Michael Shaeffer, Reece Shearsmith, Gavin Spokes and Bea Svistunenko. A Very Expensive Poison opens at The Old Vic on 5 September with previews from 20 August.

Photo Flash: First Look at the National's TOP GIRLS

Marlene is the first woman to head the Top Girls employment agency. But she has no plans to stop there. With Maggie in at Number 10 and a spirit of optimism consuming the country, Marlene knows that the future belongs to women like her.

National Theatre Announces Listings For May - October 2019

National Theatre has announced its listings for May - October 2019. Check out the full lineup below!