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News

Bedknobs & Broomsticks

Bedknobs & Broomsticks première tour

19 December 2020

Disney’s Academy Award-winning movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks will make its world première as a stage musical next year.

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Julie's Greatest challenge

19 December 2020

With a title like The Greatest Play in the History of the World, Julie Hesmondhalgh sets herself a new challenge.

Andrew Lancel in Swan Song

Swan Song set for tour

13 December 2020

Swan Song, a revised comedy by playwright Jonathan Harvey, is heading out on tour in February to coincide with LGBT History Month.

Jennifer Saunders plays Mother Superior

Superior Saunders for Manchester

13 December 2020

Jennifer Saunders will reprise her role as Mother Superior in the UK tour of Sister Act The Musical at Manchester Palace Theatre.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

New Disney musical to première in Newcastle

12 December 2020

A new stage version Disney’s Academy Award-winning movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks will have its world première at Newcastle Theatre Royal in 2021.

New adaptation: A Christmas Carol

Oddsocks on the road with A Christmas Carol

2 December 2020

Derby's Oddsocks is to tour a new adaptation of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to venues across the UK which are under Tier 2 COVID-19 restrictions.

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel go on tour

18 November 2020

Theatre Space North East is touring a performance in a tent throughout the region this Christmas.

A “mini magical experience”: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Festive show to be performed on Derby doorsteps

17 November 2020

People living within 10 kilometres of Derby Theatre can book a 15-minute performance of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas to experience from their own doorstep.

Reviews

Javaad Alipoor and Peyvand Sadeghian on stage

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran

Javaad Alipoor

The Javaad Alipoor Company at Under the Radar Festival

Public Theater, New York

7–17 January 2021

James Hyland as Jacob Marley

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as told by Jacob Marley (deceased)

Charles Dickens, adapted by James Hyland

Brother Wolf

Two Sisters Arts Centre, Trimley St Mary, nr Felixstowe

11 December 2020

Mustard

Eva O'Connor

Fishamble: The New Play Company, in association with Sunday’s Child Theatre

Traverse 3

1–14 December 2020