The English National Opera Announces 2022/23 Plans
The English National Opera (ENO) announces its 2022/23 Main Stage Season. The ENO's 2022/23 Season features nine main stage productions at the London Coliseum: seven new productions and two revivals.
Welsh National Opera Announces Its Autumn 2021 Season
Welsh National Opera has announced full details of its Autumn 2021 Season which features a new production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly and WNO’s much-loved production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. A series of digital talks and events to explore the themes of Madam Butterfly are also planned.
2020 Johnny Mercer Writers Colony At Goodspeed Participants Announced
In what has become an annual ritual, a total of 40 established and emerging composers, lyricists, and librettists will converge on the Goodspeed campus from mid-January through mid-February 2020 to participate in the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. The writing teams, representing 15 new musicals, will populate the campus, creating a truly exciting environment for discovery and inspiration.
Birmingham Hippodrome Announces New Season
This October will mark Birmingham Hippodrome's official 120th birthday. To celebrate, the greatest show on earth will come to the city centre with a range of free performances and workshops honouring the theatre's origins as a circus.
Royal Exchange Theatre Announces Autumn/Winter 2019 Season
Under Sarah Frankcom's Artistic Directorship the Royal Exchange Theatre has been redefined, reimagined and reframed. It has explored classic texts in new and radical ways, celebrated the vitality and significance of new writing, embraced new ways to talk to audiences and engage communities and supported theatre makers to challenge their own practice.
BWW: KISS ME, KATE, London Coliseum
Cole Porter's 1948 love letter to showbiCole Porter's 1948 love letter to showbiz is brilliantly served by Opera North's big, bold and bawdy production - both soaringly romantic and packed with meta winks. A touring staple, Jo Davies' detailed take (the revival helmed by Ed Goggin) beds down very comfortably in the London Coliseum.
BWW Review: OKLAHOMA!, West Horsley Place
Oh, what a beautiful evening in West Horsley! Grange Park Opera open their 2018 summer festival season with Rogers and Hammerstein's vintage musical (the first of its kind in 1943), set in the farming heartlands of America.
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer For KISS ME, KATE at the London Coliseum
Ahead of opening their all-singing, all-dancing production of Kiss Me, Kate at London's Coliseum on June 20th, Opera North today release their full- length West End trailer. Cole Porter's riotous homage to Shakespeare and irresistible celebration of the joy and madness of working in theatre features some of the greatest songs in American musical theatre including, Another Op'nin, Another Show, So In Love, Always True to You In My Fashion and Too Darn Hot.
Al Ravenna Festival arriva l'Opera North con KISS ME, KATE
Per chi conosce la gioia e la follia del teatro, e per chi non sa resistere a spiare dietro le quinte; per chi vuole ripassare Shakespeare e per chi vuole farsi trascinare dalle arguzie del jazz; per i romantici e per i cinici, e semplicemente per chi non vuole perdersi la festa: l'appuntamento e con il musical di Cole Porter Kiss Me, Kate al Teatro Alighieri il 7, 8 e 9 giugno.
FUN HOME Leads June's Top 10 New London Shows
London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a ground-breaking musical to a mighty modern classic, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld reviews, interviews and features!
BWW Review: THE FANTASTIC FOLLIES OF MRS RICH, Swan Theatre
Next up at the RSC's Swan Theatre is an oft-forgotten Restoration comedy by Mary Pix; originally titled The Beau Defeated, Jo Davies' production shifts the focus onto the widowed protagonist with the new title The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich. It comes in the same year as two new productions of another Restoration Comedy, The Country Wife, are unveiled at Southwark Playhouse and Chichester's Minerva Theatre - and plays alongside The Duchess of Malfi and Macbeth (in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre).
Cast Announced For Opera North's Sizzling Production Of KISS ME, KATE
An outstanding cast has been announced for the return of Opera North's award-winning production of Cole Porter's classic musical comedy, Kiss Me, Kate, opening at Leeds Grand Theatre in May, then touring to the Ravenna Festival, to the London Coliseum for a two-week run in June, and moving to the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh in July.
Royal Shakespeare Company Announces 2018 Summer Season
RSC Artistic Director, Gregory Doran, today announced the Summer 2018 season in Stratford-upon-Avon, and launched the fundraising campaign Stitch In Time for the restoration and redevelopment of the company's historic Costume Workshop.