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Arcola Theatre Reveals Spring/Summer Season of Their 25th Anniversary Year

Arcola Theatre has released its Spring/Summer 2025 season, with nine productions announced and tickets on sale now. Learn more about the upcoming performances here!
Riverside Studios Reveals Christmas and New Year Line Up of Theatre, Cinema and Events

Details have been announced for the creative programme at Riverside Studios for this Christmas season, which includes five theatre productions, festive events and cinema.
Farnham Maltings Reveals Cast and Creative Team For CHRISTMAS IN EXETER STREET

Farnham Maltings has announcedthe cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Christmas in Exeter Street. Bringing Diana Hendry and John Lawrence's children's book to life, Christmas in Exeter Street will be performed at Farnham Maltings from Fri 13 - Tue 24 December.
Asa Butterfield Will Make His Stage Debut in One-Man Comedy Play, SECOND BEST

Asa Butterfield, star of Netflix’s Sex Education will make his stage debut in the one-man play, Second Best – a fictional story about the boy who came second to play Harry Potter. 
Review Roundup: THE BAND BACK TOGETHER at Arcola Theatre

See what the critics are saying about The Band Back Together at Arcola Theatre. Learn more about the production and read the reviews.
Three Arcola Premieres, Rose Matafeo, and Political New Plays Festival Set For The Arcola Theatre This Autumn

This autumn Arcola Theatre will present three Arcola Theatre productions and welcome the return of political new plays festival Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art and acclaimed comedian Rose Matafeo with the UK premiere of On and On and On.
THE BAND BACK TOGETHER Comes to the Arcola Theatre in September

Arcola Theatre has announced the London premiere of The Band Back Together on the day that its playwright and director Barney Norris faces the polls as the Green Party candidate for Salisbury.
19th Annual Olwen Wymark Awards Winners Revealed

WGGB presents its annual awards for the encouragement of new writing in London on Friday 1 December 2023.
Manhattan Theatre Club Reveals New Sloan Playwrighting Commissions & Evening of Excerpts at the American Museum of Natural History

The latest recipients have been announced for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions for new theatrical works surrounding themes of science, math, and technology.
Review: VISITORS, Watermill Theatre

Barney Norris wrote his debut play Visitors when he was only twenty years-old. Following its 2014 premiere at the Arcola, it garnered critical acclaim and earned Norris a Critic’s Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. Following a national tour and Off-West End run at the Bush, Norris returns almost a decade later in the director’s chair for Visitors’ first major revival at the Watermill Theatre.
Casting and Creative Team Announced For Barney Norris' VISITORS at The Watermill

Casting has been announced for VISITORS the major new UK revival of Barney Norris' award-winning play that will run at The Watermill Theatre Friday 31 March until Saturday 22 April.
Revival of VISITORS Will Open at The Watermill Theatre Next Month

A major new UK revival of Barney Norris' award-winning play VISITORS will run at The Watermill Theatre Friday 31 March until Saturday 22 April. It will also be directed by Barney Norris (The Wellspring – Royal and Derngate, Nightfall – The Bridge Theatre), who's an Associate Artist at The Watermill. 
Arcola Theatre Announces Reopening Of Studio 2 And Programming For The New Year

Arcola Theatre, led by Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen, and Executive Producer, Leyla Nazli, has announced the reopening of Studio 2 for the first time since the pandemic, and the initial programming for that space which includes three transfers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Mistake, Afghanistan Is Not Funny and VERMIN.
Review: THE WELLSPRING. Salisbury Playhouse

The Wellspring is a new father and son two-hander by award-winning playwright Barney Norris (Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall) and novelist (Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, Undercurrent); and his father - pianist, composer and broadcaster David Owen Norris.
NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND Included in The Watermill Theatre' s Spring 2023 Season

Artistic Director Paul Hart, Executive Director Claire Murray and the team at Newbury’s The Watermill Theatre announced the programme of work from February to July 2023, a season with one major revival and four new adaptations that explores the deep joys and troubling complexities of life on our shores.
Royal & Derngate Announces Made in Northampton Season 2022-2023

James Dacre, the Artistic Director at Royal & Derngate Northampton, has announced the theatre’s new Made in Northampton season, featuring eighteen productions. The programme encompasses plays, musicals, a feature film, On Demand theatre, podcasts and a new interactive digital work.
Wiltshire Creative Announces Autumn/Winter Season 2022

With the return of Salisbury International Arts Festival imminent, Artistic Director of Wiltshire Creative Gareth Machin today announces the line up the company's Autumn/Winter season.
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For WE STARTED TO SING at the Arcola Theatre

All new rehearsal images have been released for Barney Norris’ upcoming production of We Started to Sing at the Arcola Theatre, which marks the reopening of the theatre since March 2020.
Arcola Theatre Announces Full Cast For WE STARTED TO SING

Arcola Theatre today announces the full cast for the world première of Barney Norris' new play We Started To Sing, which marks the reopening of the theatre since March 2020. Barney Norris directs Barbara Flynn, David Ricardo-Pearce, Naomi Petersen, George Taylor and Robin Soans.
Royal & Derngate Northampton Present THE WELLSPRING by Barney and David Owen Norris

Royal & Derngate will produce the World Premiere of The Wellspring as part of its Made in Northampton 2021/22 season. A deeply autobiographical work from award-winning playwright Barney Norris (The Remains of the Day) and his father, internationally acclaimed pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris, The Wellspring examines that age-old story of a boy and his dad, and how they can relate to one another, in every sense of the word.

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