Category History

REVIEW: To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee, , Writer - Harper Lee, Adapter/Playwright – Aaron Sorkin, Director – Bartlett Sher, Associate Director – Louisa Muller, Set Designer – Miriam Buether, Design Supervisor – Ed Pierce, Costume Designer – Ann Roth, Lighting Designer – Jennifer Tipton, Sound Designer – Scott Lehrer, Composer (Original Score) – Adam Guettel, Musical Supervisor – Kimberley Grigsby, Casting Director – Serena Hill CDG, Hair and Wigs Designer – Campbell Young Associates, Resident Director – Laurence Belcher, Cultural Coordinator – Tavia Jefferson, (UK & Ireland tour, opening at Leeds Playhouse, 2025) Atticus Finch – Richard Coyle, Scout Finch – Anna Munden, Jem Finch – Gabriel Scott, Dill Harris – Dylan Malyn, Calpurnia – Andrea Davy, Judge Taylor – Stephen Boxer, Tom Robinson – Aaron Shosanya, Bob Ewell – Oscar Pearce, Mayella Ewell – Evie Hargreaves, Horace Gilmer – Richard Dempsey, Mrs Dubose – Sarah Finigan, Miss Stephanie / Dill’s Mother – Phillipa Flynn, Mr Cunningham / Boo Radley – Harry Attwell, Sheriff Heck Tate – Colin R Campbell, Link Deas – Simon Hepworth, Ensemble – Paul Albertson, Ensemble – James Mitchell, Ensemble – Jonathan Rubin, Ensemble – Cheryl Burniston, Ensemble – Charlotte Luxford, Ensemble – Oyin Orija, Ensemble – Tiwai Muza, Ensemble – Tom Brace-Jenkins, Ensemble – John J. O’Hagan

Reading Time: 2 minutesAaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence.
We need to talk about the truth

Acclaimed stage and screen actor Richard Coyle (Heads of State, Fantastic Beasts and Player Kings) returns to this iconic production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch, reprising the role he played to great critical acclaim in the 2022 West End Production.

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Lara Parmiani 

Reading Time: 4 minutesInspired by Aidan Hehir’s illustrated novel, drawing on his experience of travelling from Sarajevo to Srebrenica, the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide is marked by a new theatre production that asks ‘can remembering be an act of resistance’ We sat down with Director Lara Parmiani to discuss their upcoming production.

REVIEW: The Bride and The Goodnight Cinderella at Southbank Centre

Credit: Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Teddy Oyediran and Joseph Munroe-Robinson

Reading Time: 2 minutesTalawa, the UK’s leading Black British theatre company and the historic Liverpool Playhouse have come together to co-commission Syncopated, a brand-new play that brings a little-known piece of Black British history to life through music, memory and storytelling. We sat down with Teddy Oyediran and Joseph Munroe-Robinson to discuss their upcoming performances.

REVIEW: Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain

Image Credit: Mark Douet

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead!

So get ready for Horrible Histories live on stage with the best of Barmy Britain!

Can you beat battling Boudica? Will King John be a martyr for the Magna Carta? What if you caught the putrid plague? Can Parliament survive gunpowder Guy? Would you stand and deliver to dastardly Dick Turpin? Escape the clutches of Burke and Hare and take a terrible trip with the Night Soil Men!

It’s the history of Britain with the nasty bits left in – to entertain the whole family this Summer!