Mark Goucher, new chief executive at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre, has announced his first season of shows, with a mixture of musicals, thrillers, and classic plays.
Highlights include the record-breaking family musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring X Factor winner Joe McElderry, The Watermill Theatre’s new productions of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, a new comedy adventure based on Jules Verne’s novel Around The World In 80 Days and a summer treat for the kids: Horrible Histories Live On Stage: The Best of Barmy Britain.
Other top shows include Conor McPherson’s chilling story The Weir. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1997, this is here on its first ever UK tour.
The hit Broadway and West End musical Million Dollar Quartet tells the story of how Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins made rock 'n' roll history and stars Peter Duncan as Sam Phillips, legendary record producer at Sun Records in 1956.
Dame Sian Phillips (I Claudius, Dune) stars in the Pulitzer prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy with Derek Griffiths (West End roles; Coronation Street).
EastEnders and now Redwater star Jessie Wallace, who was on stage last year in Peter James’s The Perfect Murder alongside Shane Richie is back in October in Deathtrap.
Direct from the West End is The Kite Runner, based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, as well as Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's The Wipers Times. They will be at the Everyman on the opening night for an question and answer session.
Tweedy returns at for the Christmas pantomime in Dick Whittington and his Cat.
Goucher said, “I have really enjoyed working with my team at the Everyman to put my first brochure together. There is a great mix of drama, musicals and comedy over the next six months.”