Mike Kenny

First Programming Set For Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

The first events in the programme for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture were announced. Taking place across the district throughout 2025, the programme will celebrate contemporary culture in all forms and showcase the rich history and heritage of the area. Events, performances and activities will spread from the city to the towns, villages and green spaces across the district, running from January to December 2025.

Norm Lewis, Myles Frost, and More to Be Honored at NAACP Theatre Awards

The NAACP Theatre Awards has revealed the honorees for the 30th Annual Awards Ceremony, taking place on June 3rd in Los Angeles.

Jenny Sealey Brings SELF-RAISING to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre Next Month

Jenny Sealey, the award-winning artistic director of Graeae, brings her acclaimed one-woman show Self-Raising to Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.  Learn more about the show here!

Cast and Creative Team Set for Holiday Production of AS YOU LIKE IT at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Shakespeare Theatre Company has revealed the cast and creative team for the holiday production of As You Like It, playing in STC's Harman Hall DEC 2 – 31.

Artistic Director Jenny Sealey Takes Her Solo Show SELF-RAISING to Soho Theatre and On Tour

Graeae's award winning artistic director Jenny Sealey will bring her acclaimed solo show Self-Raising to Soho Theatre next February before embarking on nine date national tour.  

Starlight Launches Performance Series For Young Audiences As Part Of Capital Campaign

As part of Starlight's $40 million capital campaign, Uniquely KC, announced in October, the historic theatre is piloting five new Community Engagement programs to enhance the Starlight tradition and extend it to new, diverse participants of all ages.

Jenny Sealey Brings Solo Show SELF-RAISING to Edinburgh Fringe

The world premiere of SELF-RAISING, written by Mike Kenny and Jenny Sealey, performed by Jenny Sealey, and directed by Lee Lyford comes to Edinburgh Fringe in August.

Roman Theatre Open Air Festival Set to Kick off in June

OVO will present The Roman Theatre Open Air Festival at the historic Roman Theatre in St Albans beginning in June.

Mercury Theatre Announces Full Cast For Summer Production of ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Mercury Theatre today announces the full cast for their summer production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, reimagined by Olivier award-winning playwright Mike Kenny with music by Ivan Stott.

Mercury Theatre Announces Season For 2022-23 Led By Summer Production Of ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Mercury Theatre, led by Executive Director, Steve Mannix and Executive Producer, Tracey Childs, today announce their forthcoming season into 2023.

Cast and Creative Team Announced For THE KITE RUNNER

The cast and creative team for the Broadway-bound limited engagement of The Kite Runner at The Hayes Theater (240 West 44th Street) this summer.

World Premiere Production RAPUNZEL ALONE Returns To 24th Street Theatre

24th Street Theatre's world premiere production of Rapunzel Alone, presented in association with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, returns to the 24th Street venue April 9 through May 1 following a two-weekend run at The Wallis. To increase audience accessibility, all performances feature Spanish supertitles.

BWW Review: RAPUNZEL ALONE at The Wallis Annenberg Center Of Performing Arts

Lettie is a city girl and London is her home. But when the war comes to her doorstep, for her safety, Lettie is sent to the country with over 600,000 other children. But it's not as nice as she'd been promised. For the next year, Lettie spends her lonely, monotonous days on an isolated farm wishing she was anywhere else but there.

BWW Interview: Mike Kenny's Never ALONE With RAPUNZEL, Keeping Company With His Multitude of Plays

24th Street Theatre and The Wallis world premieres Olivier Award-winning playwright Mike Kenny’s RAPUNZEL ALONE March 5, 2022, with live performances alternating between 24th Street Theatre and The Wallis. I had the chance toss a few questions to Mike across the ocean on RAPUNZEL ALONE, as well as on his very lengthy resume of past plays.

World Premiere Of RAPUNZEL ALONE Reimagines Classic Fairy Tale At The Wallis

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the 24th Street Theatre world premiere production of RAPUNZEL ALONE, a sophisticated reimagining of a classic fairy tale geared for adults and children (ages 7+) alike in seven performances from Saturday, March 12 through Saturday, March 19, 2022, in The Wallis' Lovelace Studio Theater.

World Premiere Of RAPUNZEL ALONE Reimagines Classic Fairy Tale at 24th Street Theatre & The Wallis

Loosely inspired by the famous children's story, Rapunzel Alone centers on Lettie, a young mixed-race girl from London who is sent to the countryside for her own safety during the daily bombings of World War II. On an isolated country farm, she faces her own battles with a strict new guardian and a very “fowl” goose.

24th Street, The Wallis Release Audio Theater Recording Of RAPUNZEL ALONE

A fully-produced, stand-alone audio theater recording of Rapunzel Alone by Olivier Award-winning playwright Mike Kenny (Walking the Tightrope) is being released in advance of the world premiere production that will be presented live-in-performance next spring.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Announces Fall Programming for 2021-22 Season

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announced it plans to resume live indoor performances beginning in October with an eclectic array of entertaining and groundbreaking programming for the first half of its 2021/2022 Season that encompasses produced and presented works in dance, theater, music, and cinema.

THE PARK KEEPER by Mike Kenny to be Presented by Park Bench Theatre in July

Park Bench Theatre will return to York's Rowntree Park in July with a new play by Olivier award-winning writer Mike Kenny to celebrate the park's centenary this year. The Park Keeper will be performed in The Friends' Garden - where Park Bench Theatre staged three monologues last summer - from 7 to 17 July.

BWW Review: THE SNOW QUEEN at Imagination Stage

Like many of the fairy tales by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, his popular novel The Snow Queen has a dark undertone — representing the struggle between good and evil that two friends Gerda and Kai experience. In the adaptation by Mike Kenny, written for Imagination Stage and directed by Janet Stanford, founding artistic director of the Bethesda -based children’s theater, The Snow Queen is more imperious than truly evil. She imprisons souls more than bodies.