British Theatre Guide

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South East

Reviews

Never Lost At Home

Never Lost At Home

Peter Rowe

New Wolsey Theatre

New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

16 September–9 October 2021

Orla Fitzgerald as Maureen and Ingrid Craigie as Mag

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Martin McDonagh

Chichester Festival Theatre with Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Minerva Theatre, Chichester

9 September–2 October 2021

Stephen Tompkinson as Frank and Jessica Johnson as Rita

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

Theatre by The Lake

The Capitol, Horsham

7–11 September 2021

Venera Gimadieva and Michael Fabiano

La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Pavé

Glyndebourne Opera House

Glyndebourne Opera House

1–29 August 2021

Gatsby and Daisy

The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

Heartbreak Productions

Thatcham Discovery Centre

1 August 2021

Just So

Music by George Styles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe

The Watermill Theatre

Watermill Theatre Newbury

30 July–4 September 2021

News

Collective Identity Project

Collective IDentity tours exhibition

16 September 2021

Danielle Teale’s Collective IDentity Project work with dancers with Parkinson's will tour an exhibition, Who we are now, and then….

Squidsoup’s Where There is Light

Refugee artists’ festival returns in three cities

15 September 2021

A festival created by “artists exploring the refugee experience and global cultures”, which went fully digital for the first time in 2020, is to return in three cities during ten days in October.

The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff

Johnny Longstaff returns to Northern Stage

4 September 2021

The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff, a musical celebration of northern working class activism, created and performed by The Young’uns, returns to Northern Stage before touring.

provoked 2 madness by the brutality of wealth

gobscure on tour

3 September 2021

North East company gobscure takes its latest production on a national tour