RSC Releases New Artwork for AS YOU LIKE IT
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released new artwork for its forthcoming production of As You Like It, directed by Omar Elerian, which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between 17 June – 5 August 2023.
BWW Review: BLITHE SPIRIT, Harold Pinter Theatre
Richard Eyre’s production of Noël Coward’s 1941 Blithe Spirit was just settling into its West End home last year when lockdown struck. Now revived with most of its original cast, it settles into the Harold Pinter theatre for an eight-week run, featuring a stage-stealing appearance by Jennifer Saunders.
Madeleine Mantock Joins West End Production of BLITHE SPIRIT as Elvira
Jennifer Saunders, one of the UK's most popular comic actors, will revive her role as the preposterous clairvoyant Madame Arcati. She is joined by original cast members Geoffrey Streatfeild who will star as Charles Condomine, Lisa Dillon as Ruth Condomine, Simon Coates as Dr Bradman, Lucy Robinson as Mrs Bradman, and Rose Wardlaw as Edith.
Jennifer Saunders Will Return to BLITHE SPIRIT in West End From 16 September
After celebrating a sell-out run at Theatre Royal Bath as part of its 2019 Summer season, a UK tour and a short run in London of just 12 performances before the country’s first lockdown curtailed its six-week run at the Duke of York’s Theatre in March 2020, this production now returns to the West End for 8weeks from Thursday 16 September at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
BWW Review: BLITHE SPIRIT, Duke of York's Theatre
This is perhaps an odd time for Nöel Coward's comedy about death and supernatural apparitions to land in the West End – Richard Eyre's revival transferring from Theatre Royal Bath. On the other hand, there's something comforting about Coward's portrait of the afterlife as essentially a continuation, with our personalities, desires and enmities very much intact. Plus the opportunity to socialise with Joan of Arc.
CITY OF ANGELS Leads March's Top 10 New London Shows
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a musical with old Hollywood glamour to starry Chekhov and Coward, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld's reviews, interviews and features!
BWW Review: FLEDGLINGS, Nuffield Southampton Theatres
Change can be tricky - not least when you're a teenage girl going through puberty, loss, and friendship trouble. Written by Tamsin Daisy Rees, directed by Emily Collins, and produced by Holly Mitchell, Fledglings is a touching tale of birds, best friendships and blossoming young women.
CONSPIRACY Comes to New Diorama Theatre
Barrel Organ return to New Diorama Theatre on 10 September with the London premiere of their Untapped Award-winning Conspiracy fresh from a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: CONSPIRACY, Underbelly
A powder keg of stupefaction and anxiety. Three people - Rose Wardlaw, Azan Ahmed and Shannon Hayes - explore their conspiracy theories around the famous 1932 photo of 11 builders precariously eating their lunch atop the Rockefeller Centre.
New Productions And Further Casting Announced For Theatre Royal Bath's Summer Season 2019
Theatre Royal Bath today announces four additional productions - Vienna 1934-Munich 1938, The Life I Lead, Trying It On and The Man in the White Suit, to complete its Summer Season 2019 programme and further casting with Katherine Parkinson, Janie Dee as well as Vanessa Redgrave, Miles Jupp and David Edgar among the stars set to take to the stage in both treasured classics and acclaimed new works.
Shakespeare's Globe Announces Full Casting For Matt Hartley's New Play EYAM
Shakespeare's Globe has announced full casting for Matt Hartley's new play Eyam, directed by Adele Thomas, opening in The Globe on Saturday 15 September. When the plague arrives surprisingly in the Derbyshire village of Eyam in 1665, the community face a moral dilemma. They must decide whether to flee and risk spreading the vicious disease, or stay, protect others from the risk, and face the potential of their own slow and painful death.
Photo Flash: First Look at World Premiere of DYL at Old Red Lion
Artistic Director of the Old Red Lion Clive Judd directs Scott Arthur in the role of James and Laurie Jamieson in the role Ryan which sees the three of them reunite following a successful collaboration on Little Malcolm and His Struggles Against The Eunuchs; they are joined by Joyce Greenaway (Wendy) and Rose Wardlaw (Steph).