Mensah Bediako

Review: THE REALNESS, The Big House

The Realness, directed by Maggie Norris, is “an urban musical” that tells the story of Jay Johnson, a man who has been released from prison. Determined to change for the better, Jay is working to try to stay straight, but soon finds himself being pulled back into the world that had sent him to prison in the first place.

Review: STRIKE!, Southwark Playhouse Borough

Striking Irish shopworkers become unlikely (and problematic) heroes in a crowd-pleasing dramedy

Ardent Theatre Announce The Full Cast Announced For STRIKE at Southwark Playhouse

Kirsty Patrick Ward directs Tracy Ryan's extraordinary account of the Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid Strike which took place in Dublin from 1984 to 1987.  This action would play a pivotal role in world history with Ireland becoming the first Western European state to ban South African imports and ultimately leading to the fall of the apartheid regime.

Review: ON THE ROPES, Park Theatre

On the Ropes is a play about fighting - in more ways than one. In the first act, it’s about fighting in a very literal sense, tracking the boxing career of Vernon Vanriel. After the interval, however, Vanriel faces a new opponent: the Home Office’s new Windrush legislation. Combining a story that spans over fifty years with live singing and choreography, this is an expansive, ambitious production with a real life story at its core. 

Photos: Inside Rehearsal For ON THE ROPES at the Park Theatre

Get a first look into the rehearsal room for On The Ropes, with all new photos below! On The Ropes will be one of the first theatre shows to premiere in 2023, opening at the Park Theatre on 10 January and running until 4 February. 

Cast Announced for ON THE ROPES at the Park Theatre

The Production Exchange and Park Theatre kick off the New Year in electrifying fashion with the World Premiere of On The Ropes, one of the most extraordinary and emotionally rousing true stories staged in Park200 at Park Theatre.

BBC Four Will Screen MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Next Month

The Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Arts today confirmed that Roy Alexander Weise's 2022 production of Much Ado About Nothing will be broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 3 April at 8pm following its run in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Michael Balogun Withdraws From RSC's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Michael Balogun has withdrawn from the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Full Cast Announced For World Premiere Of FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS: The Musical

Star of stage and screen Susie Blake (Mrs Brown's Boys, Bev Unwin in Coronation Street, Nativity 3, Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd, Mrs Fisher in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em) joins the company as pub landlady Maggie, alongside Parisa Shahmir (The Last Ship) as Alwyn, Deborah Tracey (Standing At The Sky's Edge) as record label manager Leah and Georgia Bruce (Malory Towers) as Sally.

BWW Review: MY ONE TRUE SELF, Tristan Bates Theatre

Lady L's 60th birthday is approaching and her children Gordon and Oonagh (Theo Bamber and Lucy Lowe) join her for the celebration. It becomes immediate that they're not there out love, but to claim what is theirs. Meanwhile, Kapenie, the help, makes it clear to his grandson George: his loyalty stands with his employer, even at the expense of his own family. Alexander Matthews's My One True Friend is an underwhelming and overly pretentious account of racism and privilege in 1978 Rhodesia.

Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal For MY ONE TRUE FRIEND at Tristan Bates Theatre

The world première of Alexander Matthews' My One True Friend is today announced with full cast. Antony Law directs Theo Bamber (Gordon), Mensah Bediako (Kapenie), Suzanna Hamilton (Lady L), Lucy Lowe (Oonagh), and Joseph Rowe (George). The production opens on 27 August at Tristan Bates Theatre, with previews from 21 August, and runs until 14 September.

MY ONE TRUE FRIEND Will Have its World Premiere at the Tristan Bates Theatre; Full Cast Announced!

The world première of Alexander Matthews' My One True Friend is today announced with full cast. Antony Law directs Theo Bamber (Gordon), Mensah Bediako (Kapenie), Suzanna Hamilton (Lady L), Lucy Lowe (Oonagh), and Joseph Rowe (George). The production opens on 27 August at Tristan Bates Theatre, with previews from 21 August, and runs until 14 September.

BWW Review: RESPECT- THE ARETHA FRANKLIN SONGBOOK, Edinburgh Playhouse

RESPECT - The Aretha Franklin Songbook is an amazing live concert that pays tribute to the Queen of Soul with an uplifting sermon celebrating her life and greatest hits! Featuring world class lead vocalists accompanied by the sensational URBAN SOUL ORCHESTRA and the incomparable voices of the LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR.

Photo Flash: THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE at the Park Theatre

Prez is a brilliant biochemist. His experiments show a leading herbicide is carcinogenic. He has an existential fight against entrenched interests on his hands - not helped by the fact that he wears dreadlocks, dresses like David Bowie, and carries a chip on his shoulder as big as the sink estate he grew up on. In his heart he knows he's right, but can he prove it? 

BWW Review: THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE, Park Theatre

After exploring themes of vanity and corporate culture in Marius Von Mayerburg's The Ugly One, Park90 now turns its attentions towards science and the environment with Chuck Anderson's brand new play The View From Nowhere. With Brexit looming large, the economic and immigration issues have been headline news, but what effect will that have on the scientific community? Or is big business involved too much for it to matter?

Cast Announced for THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE at Park Theatre

The new PARK90 season opens with the world premiere of a highly topical drama involving a scientific controversy, The View From Nowhere, presented by the same creative team behind the critically acclaimed Warehouse of Dreams at Lion and Unicorn Theatre.

Photo Flash: THE BODYGUARD UK Tour Opens in Southampton!

THE BODYGUARD UK tour opened at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on 12 February 2015. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at opening night!

Stuart Reid, Melissa James & More Join Cast of THE BODYGUARD UK Tour; Full Company Set!

Michael Harrison and David Ian have announced full casting for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of the hit musical THE BODYGUARD www.thebodyguardmusical.com. Directed by Thea Sharrock, the tour opens at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on 12 February 2015.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Completes West End Run Today; Set to Tour May 2014

The National Theatre's critically acclaimed smash-hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors will complete its West End run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket today, 1 March 2014, as previously announced, prior to a third UK and Ireland tour beginning in May 2014.

West End's ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Enters Final Three Weeks of Performances

The National Theatre's critically acclaimed smash-hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors will complete its West End run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 1 March 2014, as previously announced, prior to a third UK and Ireland tour beginning in May 2014.