Barney Norris

SECOND BEST Starring Asa Butterfield Extends Run at Riverside Studios
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 5, 2025

Second Best, starring Asa Butterfield, will present an extra week of performances at the Riverside Studios. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Review Roundup: SECOND BEST Opens at Riverside Studios
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 4, 2025

Asa Butterfield is making his theatrical debut in the comedy-drama Second Best, directed by Michael Longhurst and written by Barney Norris. See what the critics are saying and read the reviews.

Review: SECOND BEST, Riverside Studios
by Amber-Rae Stobbs - Feb 4, 2025

The human psyche is something so easily disturbed, and Barney Norris’s newest play-adaptation is a prime example of that. Based on the novel by David Foenkinos, Second Best tells of Martin Hill - the boy who felt he never fully lived.

Photos: Asa Butterfield in SECOND BEST at Riverside Studios
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 30, 2025

Asa Butterfield is making his theatrical debut in the comedy-drama Second Best, directed by Michael Longhurst and written by Barney Norris. Get a first look at photos here!

Photos & Video: Asa Butterfield in Rehearsals for SECOND BEST
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 21, 2025

Opening at the Riverside Studios this Friday (24 January), Asa Butterfield will swap the small and silver screens for the stage, as he makes his theatrical debut in the comedy-drama Second Best. See rehearsal photos and videos here!

Arcola Theatre Reveals Spring/Summer Season of Their 25th Anniversary Year
by Stephi Wild - Nov 29, 2024

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
by Stephi Wild - Nov 13, 2024

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
by Stephi Wild - Oct 22, 2024

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
by Stephi Wild - Sep 25, 2024

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
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 10, 2024

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
by Stephi Wild - Jul 10, 2024

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
by Stephi Wild - Jul 8, 2024

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
by Stephi Wild - Dec 1, 2023

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
by Stephi Wild - Sep 27, 2023

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
by Mica Blackwell - Apr 5, 2023

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
by Stephi Wild - Feb 27, 2023

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
by Stephi Wild - Feb 10, 2023

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
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 14, 2022

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
by Cheryl Markosky - Oct 13, 2022

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
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 6, 2022

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.