Full Creative Team Set For HEAVY With Talawa Young Peoples' Theatre
Olivier award nominated director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy; Rumble in the Jungle; 2022 Black British Theatre Award for Best Director) will lead a company of young artists aged 18-25 and amazing professional creatives in HEAVY.
Talawa's Flagship Programme TYPT Returns, Supporting Black Emerging Theatre Makers
TYPT, Talawa Theatre Company’s flagship free programme for emerging theatre makers, is back this summer. The annual programme sees a team of 12 emerging artists, aged 18-25, work with established artists to create a brand-new show in just four weeks. This year’s showcase will be 16th – 18th August at Talawa’s HQ at Fairfield Halls in Croydon.
Photos: Wolverhampton Grand Transformed Into A Boxing Ring As Roy Williams' SUCKER PUNCH Opens Tonight!
The cast of Roy Williams’ SUCKER PUNCH have arrived in Wolverhampton ahead of performances running until Friday 16 June, with the city’s iconic stage transformed into a boxing ring for the performances. The revival of the play is on its first major UK tour as part of theatre network Theatre Nation Partnerships made up of theatres and creative organisations across the country and the National Theatre. See photos of the cast!
Cast and Creatives Announced for the Revival of SUCKER PUNCH
Roy Williams' SUCKER PUNCH will embark on its first major tour across England from March – June 2023 as part of theatre network Theatre Nation Partnerships made up of theatres and creative organisations across the country and the National Theatre.
BWW Review: J'OUVERT, Harold Pinter Theatre
We have been to space; now it’s party time. Following Amy Berryman’s Walden, Sonia Friedman Productions’ RE:EMERGE season continues at the Harold Pinter Theatre with Yasmin Joseph’s J’Ouvert. Set in the annual Notting Hill Carnival in 2017, Joseph’s spirited debut play was first produced in 2019 at Theatre503, in a staging that also marked the directorial debut of actor Rebekah Murrell. In the play’s West End outing, Murrell is once again at the helm, and the result is a joyous, plucky work that thrusts us into a communal tradition as experienced by three young women.
Creative Team Announced For FAMILY TREE From ATC and the Young Vic
Directed by ATC's Artistic Director Matthew Xia, this site-responsive outdoor production is designed by Sandra Falase (J'Ouvert, Sonia Friedman Prods., Romeo and Juliet – Orange Tree), with music by Fran Rivers (Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund Award winner, 2021; Othello, NYT) and movement by Vicki Igbokwe (founder and creative director of Uchenna Dance, Mass Movement Choreographer, Olympic & Paralympic Ceremonies).
Photo Flash: First Look at J'OUVERT Ahead of BBC Four Premiere
Yasmin Joseph’s J’Ouvert broadcasts on BBC Four this evening as part of the BBC’s Lights Up season, ahead of opening at the Harold Pinter Theatre as part of Sonia Friedman Productions RE:EMERGE season, which also includes Amy Berryman’s Walden and Joseph Charlton’s Anna X.
Cast Announced For Edition 2 Of LIVING NEWSPAPER
Moronkẹ Akinola, Hammed Animashaun, Ayesha Antoine,Alex Austin, Lisa Hammond, Mariam Haque, Zachary Hing, Siu-see Hung, Wendy Kweh, Tasha Lim, Ntonga Mwanza, Rochelle Rose and Liza Sadovy have been cast in Edition 2 of the Royal Court Theatre's Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative.
Writers For Edition 1 Of LIVING NEWSPAPER Announced
From December over 60 writers will be involved in the creation of the Royal Court Theatre's upcoming project Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative, a weekly live newspaper running over six weeks which will see the theatre reopen since its closure in March.
Morley's Chicken Sponsors Theatre Tickets For Young People To See CHICKEN BURGER N CHIPS
South London's favourite fried chicken franchise, Morley's Chicken, is lending its support to South London actor and playwright Corey Bovell's new edgy and moving one-man play Chicken Burger n Chips. The production, which has sold out in advance, plays the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre from Tuesday 10 until Saturday 14 March - a venue just a stone's throw away from the streets, estates and takeaways of South East London at the heart of Corey's drama.
CHICKEN BURGER AND CHIPS Comes to Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
After a sold-out run of his debut play, 32 Peak Street during Camden Fringe in 2018, Corey Bovell now brings his edgy and moving one-man play Chicken Burger and Chips to the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre from Tuesday 10 until Saturday 14 March 2020 (Press Night, Thursday 12 March) a?" a venue just a stone's throw away from the streets, estates and takeaways of South East London at the heart of the drama.
Recipients Of The Third Year Of MGCfutures Bursaries Announced
Michael Grandage today announces the recipients of the third annual MGCfutures Bursaries awarded across a range of theatrical disciplines including directing, writing, producing, designing, composing, choreography and performance makers. Offering both financial and ongoing mentoring support from the MGCfutures team, the recipients come from across the UK.