Avenue Q
By Robert Lopez & Jeff MarxAvenue Q is back on the block. After two decades, the three time Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q returns to the West End in all its glory. Fresh out of college and searching for his purpose, Princeton ends up in a shabby apartment on New York's rundown Avenue Q....
Continue reading...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
By Dale Wasserman. Based on the novel by Ken KeseyInside a psychiatric facility, Chief Bromden has been silent for years — confined and maligned by a system that labels, divides and forgets. But he has a story to tell. He's just been waiting for someone to listen. Enter Randle P. McMurphy, a gambler and provocateur whose defiance unsettles the...
Continue reading...Between the River and the Sea
By Yousef Sweid & Isabella SedlakYousef was raised as a Christian-Arab-Palestinian-Israeli kid in Haifa, and is now raising two Jewish-Arab-Austrian kids in Berlin. Only he's facing a custody battle, so things are getting complicated... A story about family, fear, and imagining a future beyond borders.
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Two Halves of Guinness
By Mark BurgessPark Theatre - Park200, London
& touring
Sir Alec Guinness' commanding performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars secured his fame for future generations. Yet after a distinguished career as one of Britain's greatest actors, the double-Oscar-winning star of over 70 films feared he would only be remembered as a Jedi Knight. Two Halves of Guinness reveals a mysterious life story worthy of the darkest Ealing Comedies, revisiting his most memorable characters and encountering a galaxy of stars along the way.
See cast, creatives, and 5 reviewsCaroline: A New Musical
By Vikki StoneNew Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
& touring
Caroline dreams of something more than stacking shelves at the local greengrocers. Her days are routine, but her nights come alive, walking the pier, sharing laughs with her best friend Mary, and spinning records with Robbie, her music-mad boyfriend who's big on charm but short on direction. But a music revolution is coming, and Robbie lands a shock gig with Radio Caroline – the pirate radio station blasting pop, soul and rock 'n' roll from a ship off the Essex coast – and suddenly everything changes. Caroline is swept into a tidal wave of music, mayhem and a movement that would shake up British culture forever. She's not a DJ. She's not a rock star. But in the middle of Britain's radio revolution, Caroline might just steal the show. Set to a soundtrack of iconic hits from the 60's, Caroline: A New Musical is a vibrant, heart-warming and rebellious new musical about love, ambition and discovering your own voice.
See cast, creatives, and 3 reviewsThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Stephen SharkeySwan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
UK premiere Citizens' Theatre Glasgow, 1967
A small-time crook with big boss ambitions. While the Great Depression inflicts hardship across the nation, Chicago's underworld festers with sex, scandal, violence and corruption. It's the perfect storm for a schemer like Ui, his reputation as hot as hell. Feeding on fear, Ui and his ruthless cronies make back-alley deals to protect the workers. So far, so bad. But his helpless targets watch on as Ui's influence gains dangerous momentum and his venom threatens to seep through the markets, politics and the law to seize the city – and beyond. This is a man on a mission for power. Will anyone stop him? The simmering streets of Chicago come to the Swan Theatre for Seán Linnen's RSC directorial debut. Double Olivier Award-winner Mark Gatiss debuts as the Notorious Arturo Ui, in Stephen Sharkey's translation of Brecht's riotous 1941 ‘gangster spectacle', a blistering satire on Hitler's ascent to power with new music composed by Placebo.
See cast, creatives, and 6 reviews