A Christmas production of The Sound of Music, a new production of Abigail’s Party and top touring shows are highlights of the autumn and winter season at Leicester’s Curve.
The theatre’s artistic director Paul Kerryson commented, “This autumn, Curve presents a dynamic programme of drama, musicals, comedy and dance with visits from some of the UK’s most prominent theatre companies and artists.”
Curve’s Christmas musical is the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of Music with choreography by Drew McOnie, who choreographed Curve’s 2013 festive production Chicago.
The autumn season begins with Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre’s touring production of Barnum from 5 until 13 September.
Blind Hamlet, in the Studio on 9 and 10 September, “transforms Shakespeare’s tragedy into an interactive theatrical battle and reimagines the bloody struggle for Hamlet’s Elsinore”.
Marie Jones’s award-winning comedy Stones in his Pockets visits Curve on 22 and 23 September and will be directed by the original director Ian McElhinney.
The National Theatre’s comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, with a cast including Gavin Spokes, Norman Pace and Emma Barton, returns to Curve from 6 until 11 October.
The London production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird tours to Curve from 13 until 18 October.
Curve’s associate director Suba Das will direct a new, in-the-round version of the Mike Leigh cult comedy Abigail’s Party in the Studio from 17 October until 8 November.
Frantic Assembly returns to Leicester with Shakespeare’s Othello from 28 October until 1 November.
The Birmingham REP production of The Snowman, the stage show based on Raymond Briggs’s book, flies into Curve from 12 until 16 November.
Kerryson’s production of The Sound of Music will be alive at Curve from 28 November until 17 January while in the Studio Hiccup Theatre will present Michael Rosen’s new version of Pinocchio from 10 December until 3 January.
Full listings are available at the Curve web site.