SoHo Playhouse 2024 International Fringe Encore Series Begins Tonight
by Stephi Wild - Jan 4, 2024
SoHo Playhouse's 2024 International Fringe Encore Series begins tonight! The series runs Off-Broadway from January 4 - February 11. Join SoHo Playhouse and stars from global Fringe Festivals for a roundup of the best Fringe plays this season has to offer!
Cast & Design Team Set for U.S. Premiere of BACON at SoHo Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 20, 2023
Don't miss the U.S. premiere of 'Bacon' at SoHo Playhouse! This award-winning play explores masculinity, sexuality, and power through the eyes of two troubled teenagers. Get your tickets now for this limited engagement Off-Broadway production.
SoHo Playhouse Reveals 2024 International Fringe Encore Series Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Dec 6, 2023
SoHo Playhouse has announced the full lineup for the 2024 International Fringe Encore Series, running Off-Broadway from January 4 – February 11, 2024. Join SoHo Playhouse and stars from global Fringe Festivals for a roundup of the best Fringe plays this season has to offer!
Photos: First Look at BACON at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 13, 2023
Hannah Farley-Hills for HFH Productions’ multi-award-winning production of Bacon by Sophie Swithinbank has opened to sell-out performances at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The production runs at Summerhall’s Cairns Lecture Theatre until 27 August ahead of transferring to Bristol Old Vic from 12-16 September. Check out production photos here!
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: BACON, Summerhall
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Aug 5, 2023
In Sophie Swithinbank's award-winning Bacon, friendship and love are inextricable from danger, anger, and hurt. It's a play that lives on the boundaries, the scales constantly tipping - literally, as the set takes the form of an oversized seesaw.
Ian Charleson Awards 2023 Nominations Announced
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Apr 24, 2023
Nominees have been revealed for this year’s Ian Charleson Awards.
The annual awards celebrate actors under 30 who have performed in a classical role, which is defined as a play written before 1918.
Review: THE SILENCE AND THE NOISE, Streaming
by Louise Penn - Apr 18, 2023
Raw, brutal, twisted, and full of rich wordplay, this play makes its political points and highlights a relationship which uses regret, mistakes, and teasing to hide what is really happening at its core. It is less the star-crossed young lovers of Shakespeare than the smack-stained children of a modern wasteland.
Pentabus Launch Their Spring/Summer Season
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 3, 2023
Pentabus are launching their Spring/Summer season which features one new commission, two new Digital theatre premieres, two new Writers-in-Residence and the return of Pentabus Young Writers live production with eight brilliant new plays.
Full Cast Announced For BRITANNICUS, Coming to The Lyric Hammersmith In May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 22, 2022
Full casting is announced today for Jean Racine's Roman tragedy Britannicus, translated and adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker and directed by award-winning director Atri Banerjee, in a thrilling, new production exploring monarchy, succession, dictatorship and depravity, set in modern day Rome.
BWW Review: BACON, Finborough Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Mar 17, 2022
“The memories are imprinted in my mind like ink that spreads”. This is Mark’s story. New at school, his Year-10 classmates ignore him and the highlight of his day is going back home to play with his dog Barney. Then, he meets Darren. A lads’ lad and part of the local bully group, he chooses Mark as his target-slash-buddy. Mark, starved of friendship and constantly seeking approval, cautiously follows him through petty thievery and other malarkey until he realises his feelings for the boy.