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Review: SUS, Park Theatre

Sus retains its power and relevance, but one can't help wondering if it requires an update to account for the changes in policing minorities in the 43 years since it was written - at their roots, the problems are the same, but they present somewhat differently.
Cast Announced for SUS at Park Theatre

The cast has been announced for Dilated Theatre Company's revival of Barrie Keeffe's SUS: joining director Paul Tomlinson in returning to the show following their 2013 production, Alexander Neal will reprise his role as Karn. He is joined by British-Montserratian actor Stedroy Cabey as Delroy, and Fergal Coghlan (For King and Country Southwark Playhouse, The Mousetrap St Martin's Theatre) completes the cast as Wilby.
Dilated Theatre Company Presents SUS At Park Theatre, 21 September " 15 October

Dilated Theatre Company in association with Park Theatre presents: SUS, Barrie Keeffe's incendiary play about institutional racism and abuse of power gets a timely revival Written by Barrie Keeffe | Directed by Paul Tomlinson. Running 21 September – 15 October.
BWW Review: EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION, Trafalgar Studios

Education, Education, Education presses a lot of nostalgia buttons to generate laughs, but leaves its strongest storyline relatively unexplored.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Southwark Playhouse's FOR KING AND COUNTRY

John Wilson's military courtroom drama will be seen in London for the first time in over 30 years this summer to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. The company is hard at work in rehearsals, check out the photos below!
Dilated Theatre Company Presents FOR KING AND COUNTRY

John Wilson's military courtroom drama will be seen in London for the first time in half a century this summer to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. For King and Country follows a soldier's court martial for desertion and the struggle of his defending officer to acquit the young man in the face of bureaucracy and his own naive honesty. Many years before PTSD was officially recognised, it explores the brutality of war and what happened to the men who could take no more. The play was originally performed as Hamp at the Edinburgh Festival in 1964 by a cast including Leonard Rossiter, John Hurt and Richard Briers, and was adapted into the BAFTA-nominated film King and Country.
Post-Apocalyptic MACBETH Takes the Stage at Bussey Building

Devil You Know Theatre Company presents a thrilling new version of one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies, charting the bloody rise and downfall of the legendary warrior Macbeth.
BWW Review: JAM, Finborough Theatre

Jam, Matt Parvin's first play, shows promise but cannot overcome its structural and narrative problems to deliver its full potential.
BWW Review: DIVINE CHAOS OF STARRY THINGS, White Bear Theatre

Divine Chaos Of Starry Things is so concerned about the politics of revolution, colonialism and feminism that the stuff of drama is lost.
London's Immersive SWEENEY TODD Opens Tonight Off-Broadway

The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street welcomes the stars of the original London incarnation of the production, Jeremy Secomb (as Sweeney Todd), Siobhan McCarthy (as Mrs. Lovett), Duncan Smith (as Judge Turpin) and Joseph Taylor (as Tobias), reprising their performances for New York audiences.
London's Immersive SWEENEY TODD Starts Cooking Off-Broadway Tonight

The Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher Bond, directed by Bill Buckhurst, begins performances tonight, February 14, 2017 and officially opens on March 1, 2017 at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street).
BWW Review: SCHOOL PLAY, Southwark Playhouse

Contemporary and hard-hitting, Alex MacKeith's debut, School Play, doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts.
Sweeney Todd in New York: How Rachel Edwards Brought Her Show To Town

Gary Naylor traces five years in which a show playing to 32 customers in a rundown shop on a back street in distant district of South London made it first to the West End and now to New York.
Immersive SWEENEY TODD Starts Rehearsals Off-Broadway

Rehearsals begin today for the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher Bond, directed by Bill Buckhurst.
Breaking News: Carolee Carmello, Norm Lewis & More Join SWEENEY TODD Off-Broadway!

The producers of Sweeney Todd have now announced that Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis (as Sweeney Todd), Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello (as Mrs. Lovett), Jamie Jackson(as Judge Turpin) and John-Michael Lyles (as Tobias) will join the production starting April 11, 2017.  Matt Doyle (as Anthony), Alex Finke (as Johanna), Betsy Morgan (as Pirelli & Beggar Woman) and Brad Oscar (as The Beadle) will continue with the production. The cast also includes Colin Anderson, Liz Pearce and Monet Sabel.
Immersive SWEENEY TODD Releases New Block of Tickets After Record-Setting Sales

By popular demand, the producers of the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street have just announced that a new block of tickets have gone on sale for performances through Sunday, June 4.
Broadway Vets Will Join Original Stars of London's Site-Specific SWEENEY TODD in NYC; Full Cast Set!

Producers of the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street announced today that the stars of the original London incarnation of the production, Jeremy Secomb (as Sweeney Todd), Siobhan McCarthy (as Mrs. Lovett), Duncan Smith (as Judge Turpin) and Joseph Taylor (as Tobias), will reprise their performances for New York audiences.
Casting Announced for the JMK Award-Winning Production of THE MOUNTAINTOP

Casting announced today: Gbolahan Obisesan as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and  RonkeAdekolejo as Camae.
BWW Reviews: BARBARIANS, Central St Martins, Charing Cross Road, October 6 2015

Gary Naylor sees a brilliant revival of Tooting Arts Club's 2012 production of Barrie Keeffe's three mid-70s plays about lads growing up slowly in the mean streets of a London in the throes of huge social changes.
TIFT Sets Cast, Creative Team for GOTCHA

The cast for the highly anticipated production of Gotcha, which will open TIFT's season in November, was announced today.

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Barrie Keeffe has written 1 shows including Scribes (Playwright).

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