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SMALL TOWN BOYS Comes to the Union Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Aug 30, 2024

Based on a true story, Small Town Boys by Tim McArthur (A Word For Mother) is coming to the Union Theatre this September.

Laura Horton's New Show LYN FACES Heads To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jul 30, 2024

Laura Horton, Fringe First Award Winner, returns with her second play to be staged at the Edinburgh Fringe. Lynn Faces, is a personal and punk rock look at regaining confidence after trauma.

2024 Drama Desk Awards Winners- The Full List
by Nicole Rosky - Jun 10, 2024

The best of Broadway and off-Broadway came together for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were held at The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

2024 Drama Desk Awards Nominations- The Full List!
by Nicole Rosky - Apr 29, 2024

Nominations for the 2024 Drama Desk Awards have just been. Check out the full list of nominees here for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway during the 2023-2024 season!

EDINBURGH 2023: BED Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 6, 2023

BWW catches up with the team behind Bed about bringing the new musical to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Review: BREATHLESS at 59E59 Theaters Enthralls from Beginning to End
by Marina Kennedy - Apr 26, 2023

'Breathless,' the one-woman show presented by Theatre Royal Plymouth at 59E59 Theaters, is the talk of the town.

Cast Announced for THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF HERSCHAL GRYNSZPAN at The Other Palace Studio
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 15, 2023

The cast has been announced for the new LGBQT+ musical 'The Strange Affair of Herschel Grynszpan'. Based on true events but with imagined relationships. What might have been.

59E59 Theaters to Present Brits Off Broadway 2023 Season Featuring BREATHLESS, THE HABIT OF ART & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 28, 2023

59E59 Theaters has announced productions for the Brits Off Broadway 2023 Season, their annual celebration of U.K. theatre.

Review: BREATHLESS, Soho Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Feb 10, 2023

It’s been a strong few months for Edinburgh Fringe transfers at Soho Theatre, and Fringe First winner Breathless is no exception. Written by Laura Horton based on her own experience, the show shines a light on the real life consequences of hoarding through a touching, warm-hearted one-woman show.

Review: STRANGER SINGS!, The Vaults
by Paige Cochrane - Oct 24, 2022

Nestled deep underneath the Waterloo railway, get ready to be reintroduced to all your favourites, who will have you laughing your way through the chaotic events of season one (yes, that includes a dancing Demogorgon.) Even if you’re not a fan of the original, there are enough quirky pop culture references and nostalgic 80’s synth for you settle in and enjoy the on-stage absurdity.

Edinburgh 2022: Review: BREATHLESS, Pleasance Courtyard
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Aug 10, 2022

What happens when the things we covet hide us from ourselves? Opening up to new experiences in her late 30s, Sophie is exploring long repressed sides of herself. When a secret she’s keeping from those she loves, and even from herself, threatens to unravel it all, she has to make a choice. Who or what will she decide to give up? Breathless is a funny, honest and stylish exploration of the knife-edge of hoarding, from the joy, to the addiction and suffocating shame.

Four Seabright Productions Filmed at Wilton's Music Hall Will Receive Streaming Premiere in July
by Stephi Wild - Jun 18, 2021

The four critically acclaimed productions were curated by Olivier Award-winning producer, James Seabright, and filmed last month before socially distanced audiences at Wilton's Music Hall, the oldest surviving Grand Music Hall in the world.

QUENTIN CRISP: NAKED HOPE and More to be Featured in Wilton's Music Hall Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 22, 2021

‘Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope’, a glorious, truthful and uplifting celebration of a genuinely unique human being, multi award-winning cabaret-musical ‘A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad)’ and acclaimed play ‘Black Is The Color of My Voice’ will be presented.

Creation Theatre and Big Telly Theatre to Present Streaming Production of THE TEMPEST
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 6, 2020

Join Creation Theatre, Big Telly Theatre and a cast of nine actors over the Easter Bank Holiday and be the first to experience a new innovative, interactive, anarchic response to making theatre under lock down.

A SUPER HAPPY STORY (ABOUT FEELING SUPER SAD) to Kick Off the 2020 Brits Off Broadway Season at 59E59 Theaters
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 25, 2020

59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director), will welcome the US premiere of A SUPER HAPPY STORY (ABOUT FEELING SUPER SAD), written by Jon Brittain and directed by Alex Mitchell, with music by Matthew Floyd Jones. Produced by Silent Uproar and James Seabright for Brits Off Broadway, A SUPER HAPPY STORY (ABOUT FEELING SUPER SAD) begins performances on Tuesday, April 14 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 3.

BWW Review: A SUPER HAPPY STORY (ABOUT FEELING SUPER SAD), VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - Jan 31, 2019

Sally (Madeleine MacMahon) is celebrating her 16th birthday seeing her favourite band playing live. Everything seems to be going well in her life and she looks happy as she can be, especially on that night. Except that she's not feeling that great on the inside. Olivier Award winner Jon Brittain writes a playful epic about navigating depression.

BWW Review: A SUPER HAPPY STORY (ABOUT FEELING SUPER SAD), Tron Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Oct 26, 2018

Written by Olivier award winner Jon Brittain (Rotterdam & Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho) with music by Matthew Floyd Jones (Frisky and Mannish) prepare for a hilarious cabaret musical about depression that explains how it's OK to not be OK.

BWW Review: INTO THE WOODS, The Cockpit
by Charlie Wilks - May 26, 2018

Following a sell-out production in 2014, Sondheim's dark comic masterpiece detailing fairytale distress arrives at the Cockpit for a limited run. Performed in the round, the audience are thrown right into the action, and observe an ensemble of 17 working together to create a modern-day adaptation, that finds it hard to get off its feet.

Stellar Cast Announced for INTO THE WOODS at The Cockpit
by Stephi Wild - Apr 23, 2018

This May, All Star Productions - Winner of the Best Producer in the Off-West End Awards 2018 - join forces with Trilby Productions to bring their fresh new adaptation of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods to The Cockpit. Performed in the round, this darkly comic production has been given a 21st century twist with an ensemble of seventeen larger-than-life characters drawn from modern day Britain.

Photo Flash: First Look at New Diorama Theatre's THE DARK ROOM, London
by James T Harding - Apr 13, 2012

The NEW DIORAMA THEATRE, working with emerging theatre company PIT, open their first in-house theatre show and world premiere of THE DARK ROOM April 10 to 28, 2012. Check out these photographs of the cast in action, featuring Natalie York, Hannah Duncan, Madeleine MacMahon, Leah Milner, Andy Mcleod and Ed Cobbold.