Anthony Horowitz

Adelaide Festival Announces 2025 Program

Adelaide Festival has announced its 40th program, promising a suite of international and Australian productions and artists which will further enhance its 65-year reputation as Australia's premier international festival.

Special Events Revealed in Conjunction With KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER!

A series of post-show discussions and workshops, in partnership with ATG Entertainment West End Creative Learning, will run alongside performances of Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder! when it opens at the Ambassadors Theatre for a strictly limited season from 25 May - 14 September.   

Review: MINDGAME at The Kranzberg Blackbox Theater

MINDGAME is the current offering from Albion Theatre Company. Albion closes its inaugural season with another exceptional production directed by the company’s artistic director Robert Ashton. Once again, Ashton proves he has outstanding vision as a director and is a masterful storyteller. Production after production, he ensures his cast and crew are thoroughly prepared to present a polished product and MINDGAME is no exception. Ashton has well-rehearsed his trio of actors and they marvelously deliver on Horowitz’s script that is laden with psychobabble. His leadership has resulted in an incredibly satisfying production of Horowitz’s only full-length play with exceptional performances from his cast.

New Old Friends Return With Autumn Tour of CRIMES ON CENTRE COURT

​​​​​​​The latest comedy thriller from New Old Friends will see the action play out on the courts of Whombledun with another dose of mirth, murder and mayhem, this time with a side of tennis. Crimes on Centre Court, based on a story from New Old Friends' award-winning podcast (#2 in iTunes fiction chart), opened at Theatre Royal Bath earlier this year and will now begin a national autumn tour, serving countless characters with quick-fire changes and quicker wits.

New Old Friends' CRIMES ON CENTRE COURT Comes to Theatre Royal Bath

The latest comedy thriller from Theatre Royal Bath favourites New Old Friends will see the action play out on the courts of Whombledun with another dose of mirth, murder and mayhem, this time with a side of tennis.

CRIMES, CAMERA, ACTION Will Embark on UK Tour

When a glamorous Hollywood starlet is stabbed on-set, there's only one man fit for the job of solving the crime: Detective Stan Shakespeare. Following its premiere at Theatre Royal Bath in August 2021, award-winning company New Old Friends return to touring with the latest instalment of their ever-popular Crimes… series.

New Old Friends' A CHRISTMAS GETAWAY Will Be Performed at Theatre Royal Bath in December

New Old Friends are set to return to the Ustinov Studio at Theatre Royal Bath this Christmas with a new, fast-paced festive farce. With a cast of four actors playing multiple roles with lightning quick changes, the award-winning company will bring this frantic Christmas catastrophe to life.

New Old Friends' CRIMES IN EGYPT Will Tour This Autumn

It's 1935 and celebrated Belgian detective extraordinaire, Artemis Arinae, is enjoying a cruise along the Nile – when tragedy strikes again. All passengers and staff are suspects, and the body count is growing - will Arinae's little grey cells identify the murderer in time?!

New Old Friends Bring CRIMES, CAMERA, ACTION To Theatre Royal Bath

New Old Friends presents the world premiere of Crimes, Camera, Action, written by Feargus Woods Dunlop at Theatre Royal Bath, Main House 26th – 28th August 2021.

New Old Friends Presents CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS

The adaptation of their 2016 show Crimes Against Christmas is part radio play, part audio book. Created with long-time sound designer Fred Riding, New Old Friends will release a new chapter every day from 1st December to Christmas Eve while also making it available on YouTube complete with scrolling text for D/deaf and hard of hearing audiences. 

IMDb TV and Amazon Prime Video Greenlight Season Two of ALEX RIDER

IMDb TV, Amazon's free streaming service, and Amazon Prime Video announced today that it has renewed the spy thriller series Alex Rider for a second season.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Will Be Adapted Into a TV Miniseries

The Phantom of the Opera is coming to the small screen in the form of a TV miniseries!

CRIMES, CAMERA, ACTION Embarks on UK Tour

Crimes, Camera, Action will premiere and embark on UK Tour!

SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON Comes to The Core at Corby Cube

Award-winning comedy theatre company New Old Friends brings a brand new adaptation of the classic children's story, Swiss Family Robinson, to the stage for Christmas 2019. Directed by James Farrell, this high-octane production transports audiences to a remote desert island, where the shipwrecked family, dog included, must use ingenuity, inventiveness and intrigue to survive in their new environment and make friends with the creatures great and small they share it with. As the Robinsons battle against time to find shelter, food and safety, they discover some of their new neighbours are friendlier than others.

N.J. Crisp's DANGEROUS OBSESSION Comes to the Belgrade

Following their critically acclaimed UK tour and West End run of Anthony Horowitz's Mindgame, Angela Browne Ltd return to Coventry this autumn with another compulsive psychological thriller.

CRIMES ON THE COAST Will Embark on UK Tour

A secluded island hotel just off the English coast becomes a crime scene after a scandal inducing femme-fatale is fatally felled. All the guests on the island are suspects, but is everything here quite what it seems?

Photo Flash: First Look at THE FALCON'S MALTESER at the Vaults

The much-loved young adult novel by Anthony Horowitz OBE has been adapted for stage in New Old Friends signature style; expect slapstick, comedy songs, a cast for four playing dozens of characters and a fully-realised car chase on stage. The production runs over the summer holidays in The Vaults under Waterloo: the central London premiere for a show named by The Guardian as one of Edinburgh Fringe 2015's Best Family Shows.

BWW Review: THE FALCON'S MALTESER, The Vaults

First seen touring in 2014, Anthony Horowitz's comic mystery The Falcon's Maltester was a hit at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival and now comes to London's The Vaults for a run that's ideal entertainment for the kids' summer holidays.

THE FALCON'S MALTESER Comes to the Vaults

The much-loved young adult novel by Anthony Horowitz OBE has been adapted for stage in New Old Friends signature style; expect slapstick, comedy songs, a cast for four playing dozens of characters and a fully-realised car chase on stage. The production runs over the summer holidays in The Vaults under Waterloo: the central London premiere for a show named by The Guardian as one of Edinburgh Fringe 2015's Best Family Shows.

Two Sets Of Theatre Royal Dates Added To CRIMES ON THE NILE Tour

Not one, but two exciting extra Theatre Royal venues are now added to the Crimes on the Nile tour 2019.