Paul Farnsworth
Latest News on Paul Farnsworth:
Full Cast Set For THE PRODUCERS at Menier Chocolate Factory (Oct 2, 2024)
Review Roundup: THE BAKER'S WIFE at Menier Chocolate Factory (Jul 18, 2024)
Review: THE BAKER'S WIFE, Menier Chocolate Factory (Jul 18, 2024)
Full Cast Set For THE PRODUCERS at Menier Chocolate Factory (Oct 2, 2024)
Review Roundup: THE BAKER'S WIFE at Menier Chocolate Factory (Jul 18, 2024)
Review: THE BAKER'S WIFE, Menier Chocolate Factory (Jul 18, 2024)
BIO
Paul Farnsworth is a British author best known for his comedy writing, which began with contributions to Deadpan in 1994. Between 2000 and 2006, Farnsworth concentrated on producing comedy material for the website The University of the Bleeding Obvious. In its entry for 'Bleeding Obvious' The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang makes the claim that "in 2003 the British satirical website 'University of the Bleeding Obvious' was one of the most popular comedy sites on the Internet." The final regular update was in February 2006.
Productions
Awards and Nominations
Olivier Awards - 1997 - Best Set Designer
Paul Farnsworth, Passion
Olivier Awards - 1997 - Best Set Designer
Paul Farnsworth, Passion
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News
Full Cast Set For THE PRODUCERS at Menier Chocolate Factory
by Stephi Wild - Oct 2, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced the full cast for Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s The Producers. Learn more about the cast here!
by Stephi Wild - Oct 2, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced the full cast for Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s The Producers. Learn more about the cast here!
Review Roundup: THE BAKER'S WIFE at Menier Chocolate Factory
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 18, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory just celebrated opening night of Gordon Greenberg’s production of The Baker’s Wife – with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Joseph Stein. Let's see what the London critics are saying!
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 18, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory just celebrated opening night of Gordon Greenberg’s production of The Baker’s Wife – with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Joseph Stein. Let's see what the London critics are saying!
Review: THE BAKER'S WIFE, Menier Chocolate Factory
by Mica Blackwell - Jul 18, 2024
A gentler offering from Stephen Schwartz’s catalogue, this immersive show whisks you away to a time long past with a phenomenal ensemble who find the heart and soul in their characters. Perhaps the mistake made 50 years ago was attempting to bring The Baker’s Wife to a larger space. In the Menier’s intimate space, it makes for a real treat.
by Mica Blackwell - Jul 18, 2024
A gentler offering from Stephen Schwartz’s catalogue, this immersive show whisks you away to a time long past with a phenomenal ensemble who find the heart and soul in their characters. Perhaps the mistake made 50 years ago was attempting to bring The Baker’s Wife to a larger space. In the Menier’s intimate space, it makes for a real treat.
Review: JERRY'S GIRLS, Menier Chocolate Factory
by Louise Penn - May 23, 2024
Deeply mining the scores of four musicals Jerry Herman is best known for (Hello, Dolly, Mame, Mack & Mabel, La Cage Aux Folles), with a handful from others like Dear World and Parade, this will appeal to Herman devotees and musical generalists alike.
by Louise Penn - May 23, 2024
Deeply mining the scores of four musicals Jerry Herman is best known for (Hello, Dolly, Mame, Mack & Mabel, La Cage Aux Folles), with a handful from others like Dear World and Parade, this will appeal to Herman devotees and musical generalists alike.
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For JERRY'S GIRLS at Menier Chocolate Factory
by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2024
All new rehearsal photos have been released for Jerry's Girls at Menier Chocolate Factory. Check out the photos here!
by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2024
All new rehearsal photos have been released for Jerry's Girls at Menier Chocolate Factory. Check out the photos here!
Initial Cast Set For Revival of THE BAKER'S WIFE at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Lucie Jones, Clive Rowe, and More!
by Stephi Wild - May 7, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced initial casting for The Baker's Wife – with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Joseph Stein. Learn more about the cast here!
by Stephi Wild - May 7, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced initial casting for The Baker's Wife – with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Joseph Stein. Learn more about the cast here!
Jessica Martin Joins JERRY'S GIRLS at Menier Chocolate Factory
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 22, 2024
Jessica Martin will join Cassidy Janson and Julie Yammanee to complete the company for the revival of Jerry Herman’s JERRY’S GIRLS at The Menier Chocolate Factory. Learn how to purchase tickets.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 22, 2024
Jessica Martin will join Cassidy Janson and Julie Yammanee to complete the company for the revival of Jerry Herman’s JERRY’S GIRLS at The Menier Chocolate Factory. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Cast Set For JERRY'S GIRLS at Menier Chocolate Factory
by Stephi Wild - Apr 11, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for the revival of Jerry Herman’s JERRY’S GIRLS. Hannah Chissick directs Cassidy Janson, Lyn Paul and Julie Yammanee.
by Stephi Wild - Apr 11, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for the revival of Jerry Herman’s JERRY’S GIRLS. Hannah Chissick directs Cassidy Janson, Lyn Paul and Julie Yammanee.
Review: POWER OF SAIL, Menier Chocolate Factory
by Mica Blackwell - Apr 2, 2024
Early in Power of Sail, we learn it’s firmly set in 2019. A mere year later, the world would face a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and online misinformation reaching its peak as right-wing have been given bigger platforms to express their hate under the guise of freedom of speech. Still
by Mica Blackwell - Apr 2, 2024
Early in Power of Sail, we learn it’s firmly set in 2019. A mere year later, the world would face a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and online misinformation reaching its peak as right-wing have been given bigger platforms to express their hate under the guise of freedom of speech. Still
Review: PACIFIC OVERTURES, Menier Chocolate Factory
by Cindy Marcolina - Dec 5, 2023
Matthew White’s latest creation is stunning and Sondheim’s score remains beautiful. White doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to condemning the actions depicted, though at the very end his vision seems to suddenly shift all the violence into the necessary evil that kick-started Japan’s technological advancement. Questionable, but interesting.
by Cindy Marcolina - Dec 5, 2023
Matthew White’s latest creation is stunning and Sondheim’s score remains beautiful. White doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to condemning the actions depicted, though at the very end his vision seems to suddenly shift all the violence into the necessary evil that kick-started Japan’s technological advancement. Questionable, but interesting.
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For PACIFIC OVERTURES at the Menier Chocolate Factory
by Stephi Wild - Nov 9, 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory has released all new rehearsal photos for their co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures.
by Stephi Wild - Nov 9, 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory has released all new rehearsal photos for their co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures.
Full Cast Set For PACIFIC OVERTURES at The Menier Chocolate Factory
by Stephi Wild - Oct 23, 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for their co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures.
by Stephi Wild - Oct 23, 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for their co-production with the Umeda Arts Theater of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures.
Review: THE THIRD MAN, Menier Chocolate Factory
by Cindy Marcolina - Jun 20, 2023
When Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to start a new job after the Second World War, he learns that his childhood friend Harry Lime died a few days prior. A broke novelist who was promised a cut in his business, he finds Harry’s sudden death suspicious and starts to investigate. Considered one of the best British films, it was only a matter of time before Carol Reed and Graham Greene’s 1949 film The Third Man received the musical treatment. With words by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by George Fenton, this premiere is a mid-weight noir directed by Trevor Nunn. While the cast is often impressive, the background against which the plot unravels is far more interesting than the story itself.
by Cindy Marcolina - Jun 20, 2023
When Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to start a new job after the Second World War, he learns that his childhood friend Harry Lime died a few days prior. A broke novelist who was promised a cut in his business, he finds Harry’s sudden death suspicious and starts to investigate. Considered one of the best British films, it was only a matter of time before Carol Reed and Graham Greene’s 1949 film The Third Man received the musical treatment. With words by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by George Fenton, this premiere is a mid-weight noir directed by Trevor Nunn. While the cast is often impressive, the background against which the plot unravels is far more interesting than the story itself.
PACIFIC OVERTURES, CLOSE UP - THE TWIGGY MUSICAL, and More Set For Menier Chocolate Factory 2023 Season
by Stephi Wild - Apr 21, 2023
With Marjorie Prime currently running at the company's home base in South London and Funny Girl on Broadway, the Menier Chocolate Factory announced forthcoming programming for 2023. Learn more about the lineup here!
by Stephi Wild - Apr 21, 2023
With Marjorie Prime currently running at the company's home base in South London and Funny Girl on Broadway, the Menier Chocolate Factory announced forthcoming programming for 2023. Learn more about the lineup here!
BREAKING: International Singer-Actor Gerald Santos to Reprise Thuy in MISS SAIGON Denmark
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 16, 2022
Singer-actor Gerald Santos, who hails from the Philippines, is poised to revisit his previous role in 'Miss Saigon,' Thuy, in Det Ny Teater’s 2023 production of the mega-musical. The Det Ny Teater is Denmark’s only privately operated theatre, producing Broadway and West End titles since 1994.
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 16, 2022
Singer-actor Gerald Santos, who hails from the Philippines, is poised to revisit his previous role in 'Miss Saigon,' Thuy, in Det Ny Teater’s 2023 production of the mega-musical. The Det Ny Teater is Denmark’s only privately operated theatre, producing Broadway and West End titles since 1994.
BWW Review: KINKY BOOTS at DET NY TEATER
by Niels Søndergaard - Feb 13, 2022
Det ny teater og musical af høj kvalitet plejer at gå hånd i hånd og denne gang, har de kastet sig over Broadway succen Kinky Boots som har manuskript af Harvey Fierstein og musik af Cyndi Lauper, som nok bedst er kendt for Girls just want to have fun.
by Niels Søndergaard - Feb 13, 2022
Det ny teater og musical af høj kvalitet plejer at gå hånd i hånd og denne gang, har de kastet sig over Broadway succen Kinky Boots som har manuskript af Harvey Fierstein og musik af Cyndi Lauper, som nok bedst er kendt for Girls just want to have fun.
Menier Chocolate Factory Announces Spring Season For 2020
by Stephi Wild - Jan 17, 2020
With the critically acclaimed production of The Boy Friend currently running at the theatre, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announce the forthcoming two productions a?" the European première of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-winning play Indecent, directed by Rebecca Taichman; and Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus directed by Patrick Marber, who returns to the Menier following his smash-hit production of Tom Stoppard's Travesties.
by Stephi Wild - Jan 17, 2020
With the critically acclaimed production of The Boy Friend currently running at the theatre, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announce the forthcoming two productions a?" the European première of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-winning play Indecent, directed by Rebecca Taichman; and Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus directed by Patrick Marber, who returns to the Menier following his smash-hit production of Tom Stoppard's Travesties.
Photo Flash: First Look at THE BOYFRIEND at Menier Chocolate Factory
by Stephi Wild - Dec 4, 2019
Sandy Wilson's all-singing all-dancing love letter to 1920s musical comedies returns for the first major London revival in over 10 years. Set in Madame Dubonnet's finishing school in the south of France, these perfect young ladies burst into song at the least provocation, and forbidden boy friends are forever popping through the French windows to sing and dance with them. Since its premiere in 1953, this light-hearted soufflé of a show has delighted audiences worldwide and has become one of the most well-loved British musicals of all time.
by Stephi Wild - Dec 4, 2019
Sandy Wilson's all-singing all-dancing love letter to 1920s musical comedies returns for the first major London revival in over 10 years. Set in Madame Dubonnet's finishing school in the south of France, these perfect young ladies burst into song at the least provocation, and forbidden boy friends are forever popping through the French windows to sing and dance with them. Since its premiere in 1953, this light-hearted soufflé of a show has delighted audiences worldwide and has become one of the most well-loved British musicals of all time.
BWW Review: THE BOY FRIEND, Menier Chocolate Factory
by Marianka Swain - Dec 4, 2019
How ripping! A saucy French maid doing the Charleston with a handsome chap in tennis whites sets the scene for the most delightful escapism in town: Matthew White's gossamer-light revival of Sandy Wilson's 1953 love letter to the Roaring Twenties. It was once the third-longest-running stage musical, and boosted Julie Andrews' career on Broadway.
by Marianka Swain - Dec 4, 2019
How ripping! A saucy French maid doing the Charleston with a handsome chap in tennis whites sets the scene for the most delightful escapism in town: Matthew White's gossamer-light revival of Sandy Wilson's 1953 love letter to the Roaring Twenties. It was once the third-longest-running stage musical, and boosted Julie Andrews' career on Broadway.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What awards has Paul Farnsworth been nominated for?
Best Set Designer (Olivier Awards) for Passion and Best Set Designer (Olivier Awards) for Passion .
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