Cast Revealed For Emma Frankland's GALATEA At Brighton Festival
A vibrant and diverse cast of 14 LGBTQIA+ and Deaf performers will come together to perform Emma Frankland and Subira Joy's adaptation of John Lyly's early modern play Galatea at Brighton Festival, which was written in the 1580s and performed in front of Elizabeth I.
World Premiere Of Emma Frankland's GALATEA Comes To Brighton Festival in May
The work of Shakespeare's best-selling but now long forgotten contemporary John Lyly, will be brought vividly to life in a field on the South Coast this Spring in a radical revival of his early modern play Galatea, adapted by Emma Frankland and Subira Joy and edited by theatre historian Andy Kesson, in a production that fuses together groundbreaking research and experimental theatre.
The Roundhouse Announces Spring 2020 Season
The Roundhouse today announces a Spring 2020 Season of stereotype-smashing performing arts. Featuring Emma Frankland's Hearty, Miguel Hernando Torres Umba's Stardust, Rachael Young's Nightclubbing and Out, and Emma Dennis-Edwards' Funeral Flowers, the season runs from 27 February to 9 May.
Guest Blog: Owen Calvert-Lyons On Ovalhouse's Demolition Party Season
It's 10am and the walls of Ovalhouse are reverberating to the sound of a kango hammer. A team of builders have been on-site for the past two days performing what might appear to be the ultimate sacrilege for a theatre: they are smashing a 2m-deep hole through the middle of our stage. We are preparing for the Demolition Party.
Ovalhouse Announces its Demolition Season 2019
For the final season in their Kennington home, Ovalhouse's Demolition Party Season will see collaboration between engineers and companies to allow artists dismantle parts of the building as part of their creative process. After 80 years as a community venue and 55 years as a professional theatre, Ovalhouse will relocate to Brixton, opening a brand new, purpose-built theatre in spring 2021.
Summerhall Announces 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Programme
The 8th Summerhall Festival Programme is announced today by the year round Edinburgh arts venue. The programme is full of exciting, invigorating and fresh theatre, music and visual arts. Whilst the venue grows into its reputation for hosting new, avant-garde and personal work, it also begins to create partnerships with artists. The Eclipse Award, Fringe of Colour, Autopsy Award and a series of annual artist in residence positions see Summerhall actively supporting artists making new work and responding to our world.
NOW 18, Festival Of Radical New Theatre Comes To The Yard
The Yard Theatre will be kicking off the new year with NOW 18, their annual festival of radical performance. Over five weeks, double-bills of shows that are powerful, political, loud, hilarious and messy will play on The Yard stage for five nights.
Photo Flash: First Look at SUMMER IN LONDON at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Theatre Royal Stratford East presents the world premiere of Summer in London, a new romcom about four young homeless men living in Stratford during a summer heatwave, with an all-transgender cast. The production runs at Theatre Royal Stratford East until 29 July. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Camden People's Theatre's Autumn Season to Feature CALM DOWN DEAR & More
Video-gaming/theatre mash-ups, foul-mouthed puppets, theatrical self-help and special mentions for Robert Downey Jr, JFK & the Beastie Boys: this Autumn at Camden People's Theatre is bursting at the seams with the most innovative, bold and thrilling new theatre from the UK's best emerging theatre-makers.