Piers Torday

New Children's Festival Will Take Place at the New Wimbledon Theatre in Summer 2024
by Stephi Wild - Dec 8, 2023

New Wimbledon Theatre and Roast Productions will present the first Wimbledon Children's Festival from 30 July – 11 August 2024. Learn more about the initial programming here!

Erica Whyman Announces Final Programme with RSC
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jun 1, 2023

Erica Whyman has announced details of her final season of work as Acting Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) ahead of her stepping down this month. 

Photos: First Look at THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Adaptation at Wilton's Music Hall
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 25, 2022

Get a first look at Kenneth Grahame's compelling The Wind in the Willows, now playing at Wilton's Music Hall, in a brand-new version. The Wind in the Willows Wilton's by acclaimed children's author Piers Torday will immerse adults and children into the charming and playful world of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad.

The Best Value Shows to Book Now for Christmas!
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Nov 11, 2022

This year it seems that Christmas cheer is needed more than ever. Here at BroadwayWorld, we want to give you the inside scoop on some incredible deals and hidden offers so you can enjoy a theatrical festive treat, without having to part with too much cash.

Tickets From £16 for THE WIND IN THE WILTON'S at Wilton's Music Hall
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Sep 16, 2022

A brand-new adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s much loved The Wind in the Willows by award winning children’s author Piers Torday (The Last Wild series) comes to Wilton’s this Christmas.

WIND IN THE WILLOWS Adaptation Comes To Wilton's Music Hall This Christmas
by Stephi Wild - Sep 14, 2022

This Christmas, Kenneth Grahame's compelling The Wind in the Willows is coming to Wilton's Music Hall, in a brand-new version The Wind in the Willows Wilton's by acclaimed children's author Piers Torday that will immerse adults and children (+5 years) into the charming and playful world of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad.

ONLY AN OCTAVE APART Will Make London Premiere at Wilton's Music Hall
by Stephi Wild - Jul 5, 2022

Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo’s critically-acclaimed Only An Octave Apart, a theatrically musical evening coalescing wildly divergent genres and voices, is crossing the pond this Fall for a month-long premiere London engagement at Wilton’s Music Hall.

Wilton's Music Hall Announces 2022 Autumn Season
by Stephi Wild - Jul 5, 2022

Wilton's Music Hall announced an Autumn season for August-December 2022, with an impressive array of world-class theatre, music, comedy and opera in collaboration with a variety of distinguished production companies and talent.

BWW Review: THE CHILD IN THE SNOW, Wilton's Music Hall
by Cindy Marcolina - Dec 3, 2021

It doesn’t take much for Wilton’s Music Hall to be atmospheric. The Victorian building, with its balcony, stripping paint, and heartbreakingly beautiful cast-iron pillars, lends itself very well to Christmas ghost stories. All of this, combined with Tom Piper’s ambitious set design and Hayley Egan’s overachieving projections, seems like the perfect production for the theatre’s festive comeback. Too bad The Child In The Snow is a tonally confused and intensely unengaging project.

VIDEO: Little Angel Theatre Turns 60 Today and Release A New Behind-the-Scenes Video
by Stephi Wild - Nov 24, 2021

Today, 24 November 2021 iconic children's venue Little Angel Theatre celebrates 60 years of entertaining and inspiring generations of families through the magical artform of puppetry.  When a troupe of enthusiastic puppeteers under the leadership of John and Lyndie Wright transformed a derelict temperance hall in Islington into a theatre specially designed for children's marionette shows in 1961, nothing like it existed anywhere in London. 

Debbie Chazen To Star In The World Premiere Of THE CHILD IN THE SNOW At Wilton's Music Hall This Christmas
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 14, 2021

Wilton's Music Hall today announced that Debbie Chazen will star in its Christmas production The Child In The Snow, a thrilling, eerie and ultimately uplifting new adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Victorian ghost story 'The Old Nurse's Tale' brimming with festive magic and mystery, created by award-winning author Piers Torday.

Little Angel Theatre Announces Autumn/Winter Season
by Stephi Wild - Aug 19, 2021

60 years later, under the leadership of artistic director Samantha Lane and executive director Peta Swindall, this unique theatre continues to evolve and innovate, reaching millions across the globe through its acclaimed live and digital programme.

BWW Review: CHRISTMAS CAROL, Wilton's Music Hall
by Cindy Marcolina - Dec 6, 2019

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol places Ebenezer Scrooge centre-stage, shoving all its female characters to the side in an attempt to paint a deeply unfair and harrowing picture of London's Victorian society. The protagonist has been an immovable presence in theatres around Christmas time from the same year the novella was published, establishing Scrooge as a historically male role. That is, until now.

Shakespeare's Globe Announces 2019/20 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Season: She Wolves And Shrews
by Stephi Wild - Jul 12, 2019

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the 201920 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Season. Centred around She Wolves and Shrews, the season is a celebration and interrogation of women, power, and the role of the feminine in shaping our past, present and future. The candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will play host to a world-premiere of Ella Hickson's new play Swive [Elizabeth], Shakespeare's Henry VI, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew, and Middleton's Women Beware Women. Sandi and Jenifer Toksvig have written a new family show dubbed, Christmas at the (Snow) Globe, and a series of candlelit ghost tales will include a new story from Jeanette Winterson. Other events running throughout the season include half-term storytelling festival, Half Term Tales at the Globe, with the new Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell, and a double bill of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, marking the centenary year since the removal of the sex disqualification act. The Globe's flagship project for secondary and post-16 students, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, reaches its 14th year with Macbeth.

First Female Scrooge On The English Stage In A CHRISTMAS CAROL Leads Wilton's Autumn Season
by Stephi Wild - Jul 1, 2019

Wilton's Music Hall has announced its brilliant Autumn season, welcoming some of the UK's most prestigious theatre companies into the wonderfully intimate surroundings of the oldest working music hall in the world.

BWW Review: THE BOX OF DELIGHTS, Wilton's Music Hall
by Gary Naylor - Dec 6, 2018

Some spectacular special effects and a wonderful set are let down by a stodgy and confusing script.

BroadwayWorld's Top Christmas Picks For London Theatre
by Marianka Swain - Nov 19, 2018

There are plenty of seasonal treats served up in the capital this year, from pantos and plays to opera and dance. Here are some of the tastiest morsels for the 2018-19 festive period.

THE BOX OF DELIGHTS Returns To Magical Wilton's Music Hall This Christmas
by Stephi Wild - Oct 2, 2018

The Christmas classic The Box of Delights by Piers Torday based on the novel by John Masefield returns to London's most festive venue Wilton's Music Hall from 30th November 2018 - 5th January 2019 in a wintery adventure full of magic, talking animals, and even a flying car…

Wilton's Music Hall Announce Autumn Season With ENO, James Graham's SKETCHING And The Return Of Christmas Classic THE BOX OF DELIGHTS
by Stephi Wild - Jul 2, 2018

Wilton's Music Hall today announces its stunning autumn season, which sees collaborations with forward-thinking theatre companies, era-defining playwrights and prestigious institutions. Continuing what has been an incredible year of theatre for Europe's oldest music hall, this new season is set to be the best yet.

BWW Review: THE BOX OF DELIGHTS, Wilton's Music Hall
by Debbie Gilpin - Dec 8, 2017

Victorian music hall Wilton's takes a trip back to the 1930s this Christmas, as it brings a new version of John Masefield's fantasy story The Box of Delights to the stage. Justin Audibert directs Piers Torday's adaptation that stars Matthew Kelly, offering up alternative festive entertainment.