Cast Set For UK Tour of GHOST STORIES
Casting has been announced for Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s worldwide cult phenomenon Ghost Stories, which is set to embark on its first full UK national tour opening at Churchill Theatre, Bromley.
Review Roundup: Ainadamar at the Metropolitan Opera
Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang’s Grammy Award–winning first opera has opened at the Met in a new production by Deborah Colker. Find out what the critics thought of the opera, starring Angel Blue, Elena Villalón, and Daniela Mack. Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts.
BAT OUT OF HELL - THE MUSICAL Sets UK Tour Cast
Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical, featuring Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf’s greatest hits has announced the full cast joining the 2025 UK tour. Performances will begin on 6 January 2025 at Edinburgh Playhouse, running through to 20 September 2025 in Northampton.
Video: First Look at Met Opera's AINADAMAR
Get a first video look at Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s Grammy Award–winning first opera at the Met in a stunning new production by Deborah Colker, starring Angel Blue, Elena Villalón, and Daniela Mack. Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts.
The Metropolitan Opera to Present Osvaldo Golijov's AINADAMAR in October
Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s Grammy Award–winning opera, Ainadamar, has its company premiere in October. Sung in Spanish to a libretto translated by its composer, Ainadamar—literally “Fountain of Tears”—dramatizes the life and work of poet-playwright Federico García Lorca. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Review: SPIRITED AWAY, London Coliseum
Hayao Miyazaki’s legacy is one for the ages. The co-founder of Studio Ghibli revolutionised the Western consumption of anime and set a new standard for Japanese animated films. London isn’t a stranger to the stage adaptations of his creations: a major example is My Neighbour Totoro, which took up shop at the Barbican to great acclaim last year and has already announced a West End run for next year.
Review: MINORITY REPORT, Lyric Hammersmith
It ought to echo with eerie prescience in 2024 as an ever-closer prophecy for an age where AI and algorithms will dictate the minutiae of our lives. But David Haig's new stage adaption is more like a cyberpunk-themed orgy at Printworks.
Review: THE BALLAD OF HATTIE AND JAMES, Kiln Theatre
Somewhere in King’s Cross, a middle-aged woman sits at a piano and plays an original piece with surprising fluency. There begins Samuel Adamson’s tumultuous tale of two teenage musical prodigies whose lives become thoroughly entangled.
Cast Set For A CHILD OF SCIENCE at Bristol Old Vic, Starring Tom Felton
Bristol Old Vic has announced the full cast for their world premiere production of Gareth Farr’s new play A Child of Science, telling the pioneering story of Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy’s creation of IVF, and the army of women whose bravery helped them achieve the impossible.
Review: KING LEAR, Wyndham's Theatre
Alarm bells ring when a director stars in the play they are also directing. Even if that director is Sir Kenneth Branagh. Nine times out of ten the production falls flat and the audience are left wondering if ego is to blame. Branagh’s hotly anticipated stab at King Lear is, sadly, no exception.