Thursday, November 26, 2015
In 2014-15 the National Theatre's worldwide paying audience was 4.1million. More people saw National Theatre shows on tour in the UK than on the South Bank. 46% of the UK audience of 2.9mill…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:33AM[SHARE]Charl Brown (Smokey Robinson) and Sifiso Mazibuko (Marvin Gaye) join the previously announced Cedric Neal (Berry Gordy) and Lucy St. Louis (Diana Ross) in the West End production of Motown t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:55AM[SHARE]As The Winter's Tale hits cinema screens tonight, the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company announces its next Branagh Theatre Live date, for Romeo and Juliet, and releases the first image of its …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:45AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
Disney Theatrical Productions announced today that Dean John-Wilson will play the role of Aladdin alongside Jade Ewen as Jasmine in the West End premiere of the new musical based on the clas…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
The star-studded event, co-hosted by owner of the Evening Standard Evgeny Lebedev with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, and presented by Rob Brydon, attracted the biggest names in the theatre wo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
Hampstead Theatre presents the UK premiere of acclaimed playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize winning drama Rabbit Hole directed by Edward Hall.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:08AM[SHARE]On Wednesday evening, on the advice of her doctors, Kim Cattrall withdrew from the Royal Court Theatre's production of Linda. She is replaced by Olivier Award winner Noma Dumezweni.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
After its phenomenal run on and off Broadway, the critically acclaimed five times Tony award nominated play Hand to God (including Best New Play and Best Director) is making its way to Londo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
"Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery… all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts"… so begins the international award-winning musical CHICAGO, which …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
The Railway Children play and In the Heights musical have both added three months to their booking periods at the King's Cross Theatre, taking them through to Sunday 10 April 2016.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
After five years away, the most electric rock 'n' roll party of the year is coming back to the Arts Theatre in The Blues Brothers: Xmas Special. David Kristopher-Brown and Joshua Mumby will …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:26AM[SHARE]Created by The Birmingham Repertory Theatre 22 years ago, The Snowman has been delighting young and old alike for 18 years at the Peacock Theatre with its wonderful mix of storytelling, spec…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:17AM[SHARE]CLOSE TO YOU: BACHARACH REIMAGINED has today announced that it is extending its West End transfer at the Criterion Theatre until Valentine's Day 14 February 2016.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Verity Rushworth will play the role of Holly Golightly on the UK Tour of Breakfast at Tiffany's from 2 May to 11 June 2016, appearing at His Majesty's Aberdeen, Nottingham Theatre Royal, The…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:48AM[SHARE]The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park announces its summer 2016 season, including a new Michael Morpurgo puppet adaptation, a return of Shakespeare and a Park debut for Andrew Lloyd Webber.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:36AM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
The long-running, multi award-winning music phenomenon, Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds, receives its West End premiere at the Dominion Theatre in the new year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:09AM[SHARE]Michael Grandage Company and Emily Dobbs Productions today announce the full company for their co-production of the UK première of Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle at FOUND111, at the site of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:02AM[SHARE]The Jamie Lloyd Company's first production of 2016 will be the full-throttle UK premiere of a contemporary adaptation of Jean Genet's powerful psycho-drama, The Maids, with an all-star cast …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:49AM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
The London Evening Standard today announces the shortlist for its 61st Theatre Awards, with the National Theatre leading the way with seven nominations.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:41AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
Full casting has today been announced for the West End run of the Royal Court Theatre's production of Hangmen. Producers Robert Fox, Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions and Royal Court…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]Due to unprecedented demand the Menier Chocolate Factory Production of Funny Girl transfers to the Savoy Theatre in London's West End, following the sold out run at the Menier Chocolate Fact…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
Elaine Cassidy will be taking on the role of Madame de Tourvel in the Donmar's production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, replacing Michelle Dockery who regrettably has had to withdraw from the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
For the past year, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock has also been working on a new business venture, dedicated totally to musical theatre. Today, after months of testing, she officially announ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:34AM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2015
A major revival of Noël Coward's hilarious masterpiece, Private Lives will embark on a prior to the West End UK tour starring stage and screen stars Tom Chambers (Top Hat, Strictly Come D…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:59AM[SHARE]Michael Grandage Company and Emily Dobbs Productions today announce their co-production of the UK première of Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle at the new FOUND111, at the site of the old Cent…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45AM[SHARE]Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play by Jack Thorne will receive its world premiere in London's West En…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
The new spring season for the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, south London, features plays by Robert Holman, Chris Urch, Brad Birch and Bernard Shaw, directed by Ellen McDougall, Alice Hami…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:07AM[SHARE]London's St James' Theatre today announces its spring 2016 season, comprising: the UK premiere of critically acclaimed Blitz-set play with music The Pianist of Willesden Lane, the world prem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Lyric Hammersmith today announces its Spring 2016 Season. They will present the first professional production of Simon Stephens' Herons since the play premiered at the Royal Court in 200…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
People, Places and Things, the highly acclaimed production of Duncan Macmillan's intoxicating new play will transfer to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre from 15 March 2016, with a press nigh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:55AM[SHARE]UK Theatre has announced the winners of the UK Theatre Awards 2015 " the only awards to honour outstanding achievement in performing, producing and management in theatres throughout the Unit…
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