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Producers of Max Martin musical & Juliet have announced a singalong performance, where the cast will invite audience members to belt out some of the biggest pop hits of the last two decades during the show.On 12th May, audience members at the Shaftesbury Theatre will be able to join in with the show and sing songs by the likes of Backstreet Boys, Adele, Jessie J, Katy Perry, Britney Spears Justin Timberlake and more.The show, which opened in November 2019, follows an alternate conclusion of...
Ahead of next month's opening of Anya Reiss' adaptation of The Seagull at the Playhouse Theatre, the full cast for the production has been announced. They'll star alongside Emilia Clarke as Nina, who makes her West End debut in The Seagull, the second of three productions directed by Jamie Lloyd as part of his current West End season.A star-studded cast in The Seagull Indira Varma will reunite with her Game of Thrones co-star in The Seagull as Arkadina. On stage, Varma has starred in last year's...
UPDATE: Sister Act is now postponed to 2022, with Whoopi Goldberg no longer playing Deloris Van Cartier. Read here for more information.Actor Clive Rowe will join the cast of the Sister Act revival, which is set to star the film's lead Whoopi Goldberg, when it runs in London this summer.Olivier Award winner Rowe will play Eddie Souther in the musical, the police chief who suggests Goldberg's character Deloris joins a witness protection programme which sees her embedded in a convent of nuns.Rowe...
"To die, to sleep; to sleep, perchance to dream", declares Hamlet, in anticipation of the prospect of death, in probably the single most famous speech in all of theatrical literature: To be, or not to be.But for many regular theatregoers, the speech could be rewritten as "to sleep, or not to sleep, that is the question." As my former critical colleague Matt Trueman (who has now hung up his pen to become a creative associate at Sonia Friedman Productions instead) once wrote in the Guardian, "Go...
As part of Sonia Friedman Productions season at the Ambassadors Theatre, The Shark is Broken will transfer to the West End this May. First performed at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, the play gives a behind-the-scenes look into the 1970s film and what happened when the cameras stopped rolling on one of Hollywood's biggest blockbuster.Written by Jaws star Robert Shaw's son Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, The Shark is Broken sees three Jaws cast members as they're stuck on a boat, frustrated by foul...
Katherine Parkinson is set to star in EV Crowe's new play Shoe Lady at the Royal Court in March, in artistic director Vicky Featherstone's production.Crowe has previously written The Sewing Group, Hero and Kin at the Royal Court, and her latest play is about a woman called Viv who is feeling overwhelmed, but believes everything will be okay when she finds her missing work shoe.Parkinson plays Viv, her first stage appearance since her Olivier Award-nominated performance in Home, I'm Darling. Her...
Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, will now be streamed on Disney+ later this year.In a tweet by Disney on 12th May 2020, Hamilton will now be on Disney+ from 3rd July 2020. Ahead of the release, Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted: "Never been so happy/nervous in my life. We all watching this together on July 3, yeah?".The film, which is directed by Thomas Kail, will feature the original Broadway cast including Lin-Manuel Miranda as the title character, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Captured...
"I am stuck across the world and need your help......" Uh-oh. Is this another of those spamming e-mails, trying to implant a virus in my system if I click on a link? No, this time it wasn't. It was actually a real cry for help, from a 25-year-old independent theatre producer called Hannah Farley-Hills, who runs her new company from the attic of her parents' home and is about to launch a national tour of three shows around the UK - two for venues, one for children's PMLD hospices and respite...
Celebrating 60 years since the doors opened at the Hampstead Theatre, four classic plays will be revived at the off-West End venue from March 2020. The upcoming productions will celebrate world premieres by leading twentieth-century dramatists, as well as directorial debuts.Last seen in London as part of the Pinter at the Pinter season, Alice Hamilton directs a new production of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. First performed in 1960, the play sees two hit-men await confirmation of their next...
Initial casting for the revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park has been named, with performances at the Park Theatre from 25th March. The upcoming production will mark the play's tenth anniversary, which went on to win both the Olivier and Tony Award for best play.Bruce Norris' play sees a couple in 1950s America move to the suburbs after their son's death, selling their house to the neighbourhood's first black family. The roles are later reversed 50 years later, when a white...