Reading Time: 2 minutesTheatre503 announces the cast and creative team for 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award finalist Nia Akilah Robinson’s debut play The Great Privation: How to flip ten cents into a dollar.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWritten and performed by the star of BBC1’s All Together Now, Paulus The Cabaret Geek, with accompanist Michael Roulston and directed Sarah-Louise Young, Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood is a funny and touching musical tribute to a much-loved and sorely missed national treasure.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDirected by Liesl Tommy (Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, Tony nominated Eclipsed), this new production of the hit Broadway show follows a young musician as he sets out on a musical odyssey, through 80s L.A, Amsterdam and Berlin. It features book and lyrics by Stew, music by Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald. Previews begin at the Young Vic from 14 May with opening night for press on 21 May and it runs until 6 July.
Reading Time: 5 minutesDespite being one of the world’s most accomplished and thrilling dance companies, The State Ballet of Georgia has never appeared in London during its distinguished 175-year history. That absence is soon to end as this revered company is to perform Swan Lake –the world’s most treasured ballet - at the London Coliseum from 28th August to 8th September 2024; and then at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin from 20thto 24th November.
Reading Time: 2 minutestiata fahodzi, the UK’s leading British African heritage contemporary touring theatre company, presents the London Premiere of cheeky little brown by Papatango Prize-winning playwright Nkenna Akunna - coming to Theatre Royal Stratford East, Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 April 2024.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Natasha Bain, playing Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
Marking 30 years since the 1994 genocide against Tutsi people in Rwanda, Agathe tells the true story of the extraordinary woman who became Rwanda’s head of state for less than a day.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFuturistic Folktales tells the momentous story of the first womb - an environment where life and death intimately coexist. Humbly attempting to unify humanity through the infinite narrative of birth, the show experiments with contemporary, breaking, and Scottish Highland dance to probe questions of tradition, preservation, myth, and identity.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe sat down with Arcadia's producer, Kay Michael. Arcadia is a creative and interactive festival sparking conversation, the imagination and activism to ‘re-forest’ our minds and places.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Guido García Leuches ahead of his show, Playing Latinx arriving at the Soho Theatre, 10 - 13th April, for the late night slot.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether you have a closet full of Elvis T-shirts or you just enjoy listening to his Christmas album every winter, the new Elvis exhibition at the Arches London Bridge is definitely not to be missed.