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CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ICONIC BLOCKBUSTER JAWS

WEST END AND BROADWAY SMASH HIT PLAY THE SHARK IS BROKEN IS SET TO MAKE WAVES ON A UK & IRELAND TOUR 

FROM JANUARY 2025

THE SHARK IS BROKEN 
STARRING IAN SHAW AS HIS FATHER ROBERT SHAW

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1975 iconic blockbuster Jaws, producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, GFour Productions and Kenny Wax are delighted to announce the critically acclaimed Olivier award-nominated West End and Broadway production, The Shark Is Broken, will embark on a UK and Ireland tour next year. 

Co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing ‘Quint’ in Jaws, The Shark Is Broken is the brilliantly funny play which celebrates movie history as it peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster and imagines what happened on board ‘The Orca’ when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Steven Spielberg’s epic movie.

Starring Ian Shaw (Warhorse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, the UK and Ireland tour will open at Oxford Playhouse on Thursday 23 January and will tour to a further 14 venues culminating with a week at The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin until 17 May 2025. Tickets are now on sale at most venues with further dates coming soon.  

Casting for the roles of Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss are to be announced. 

FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed… again. The lead actors – theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider – are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic… if it doesn’t sink them all. 

Following its critical and sell-out success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, The Shark Is Broken transferred to the West End in 2021 playing at the Ambassadors Theatre for a limited season where it enjoyed an extended run due to huge popular demand and an Olivier award nomination for Best Comedy Play. In July 2023 the production transferred to Broadway for a 16-week run at the John Golden Theatre where it garnered fresh critical acclaim.

Website:TheSharkIsBroken.com

Socials: @SharkonBroadway

Running Time: 90 minutes no interval 

Age guide: 14+

UK & IRELAND TOUR 2025
Thu 23 – Sat 25 January OXFORD Playhouse – onsale soon Eves: 7.30pm, Mat: Sat 2.30pm 11-12 Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2LW 01865 305305 | oxfordplayhouse.com

Tue 28 Jan – Sat 1 February MALVERN Theatres Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Wed & Sat 2.30pm Grange Road, Great Malvern, Worcs WR14 3HB 01684 892277 | malvern-theatres.co.uk

Tue 4 – Sat 8 February SALFORD The Lowry Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2pm Pier 8, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ 0161 876 2000 | thelowry.com

Mon 17 – Sat 22 February RICHMOND Theatre Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2.30pm Little Green, Richmond TW9 1QJ atgtickets.com/Richmond

Wed 26 Feb – Sat 1 Mar NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu 2pm, Sat 2.30pmTheatre Square, Nottingham NG1 5ND 0115 989 5555 | trch.co.uk

Mon 3 – Sat 8 March BATH Theatre Royal – onsale soon Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Wed & Sat 2.30pm Sawclose, Bath BA1 1ET 01224 448844 | theatreroyal.org.uk

Tue 11 – Sat 15 March CANTERBURY Marlowe Theatre Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2.30pm The Friars, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2AS 01227 787787 | marlowetheatre.com

Tue 18 – Sat 22 March NEWCASTLE Theatre Royal – onsale soon Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu 2pm, Sat 2.30pm 100 Grey Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 6BR  0191 232 7010 | theatreroyal.co.uk

Mon 24 – Sat 29 March GUILDFORD Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2.30pm Millbrook, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX
01483 44 00 00 | yvonne-arnaud.co.uk

Mon 31 Mar – Sat 5 April PLYMOUTH Theatre Royal – onsale soon Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2.30pm Royal Parade, Plymouth PL1 2TR 01752 267222 | theatreroyal.com

Mon 7 – Sat 12 April BRIGHTON Theatre Royal Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2.30pm New Road, Brighton BN1 1SD atgtickets.com/Brighton

Tue 22 – Sat 26 April CHELTENHAM Everyman Theatre Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Wed, Fri & Sat 2pm 7-10 Regent St, Cheltenham GL50 1HQ 01242 572573 | everymantheatre.org.uk

Tue 29 Apr – Sat 3 May POOLE Lighthouse – onsale soon Eves: 7.45pm, Mats: Wed & Sat 2.30pm 21 Kingland Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1UG 01202 280000 | lighthousepoole.co.ukTue

6 – Sat 10 May BIRMINGHAM The Rep Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2.30pm Broad St, Birmingham B1 2EP 0121 236 4455 | birmingham-rep.co.uk

Tue 13 – Sat 17 May DUBLIN, IRELAND The Gaiety – onsale soon Eves: 7.30pm, Mats: Thu & Sat 2.30pm King St S, Dublin 2, Irelandgaietytheatre.ie

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I Remember it Well with Judi Dench & Gyles Brandreth

On stage – in person – for a special performance the great Dame Judi Dench and Gyles Brandreth bring their West End and Royal Albert Hall sell-out show to the Grand Opera House York on Thursday 10 October 2024.

Quite simply, it’s the story of her life! A life that began in York.

Dame Judi joins her friend Gyles on a roller-coaster trip down memory lane as together they explore the legendary actress’s extraordinary life, from her childhood in York in the 1930s to her latest Oscar nomination in 2022.  

You can expect moments from Shakespeare and anecdotes galore – stories, sonnets and surprises – in what promises to be a two-hour party of lifetime.

Tickets go on sale for ATG+ members on Thursday 1 August at 10am and on general sale at 10am Friday 2 August. Tickets can be purchased at atgtickets.com/york.

The critically acclaimed manga musical
“Your Lie in April” will end its limited engagement
on Sunday August 11

The West End musical Your Lie in April has set an early closing date at The Harold Pinter Theatre, with a final curtain scheduled for August 11.

Your Lie In April made global theatre history with the simultaneous opening night on two continents – in the West End and in Seoul on 28 June. When the cast takes their final bows, they will have performed a run of 72 shows to a heartfelt and overwhelmingly positive response from critics and audience members alike.

Based on the multi-million-selling manga by Naoshi Arakawa, Your Lie in April is a romantic tearjerker, centering on young piano prodigy Kōsei Arima and his inability to play following his mother’s death. When Arima forms an unexpected friendship with violinist Kaori Miyazono, she slowly inspires him to perform again.

The Producers said today: “We are proud to have made history by bringing the first manga musical from the Far East to the West End and to have given the opportunity for the first 100% Asian and Southeast Asian cast to perform in a West End musical. Our journey from two sold out concerts at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to a full West End production at The Harold Pinter Theatre (hosting its first musical since 2016) turned around in a matter of weeks due to popular demand. We are immensely proud of the show and the amazing work from the creative team, cast, crew, and musicians – and we thank them for their dedication and incredible work. It is particularly exciting to us how many people made Your Lie in April their first ever West End musical experience. And to our audiences who dressed the part and cheered them on, we say Bravo!”

Ticket holders for performances beyond 11 August will be contacted by email by ATG

WATFORD PALACE THEATRE &
THE NORTHERN PLAYERS COMPANY LTD
PRESENT THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

A PLAY BY MARK STANFIELD, RICHARD SHORT

& BARRY SLOANE
DIRECTED BY SCOT WILLIAMS

RUNNING AT WATFORD PALACE THEATRE FROM

13 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2024

AND HOME MANCHESTER FROM

26 – 28 SEPTEMBER 2024

Adapted from Mark Stanfield’s highly praised screenplay of the same name, and the centrepiece of Steve Marmion’s first season at Watford Palace Theatre, Two Of Us is an intimate exploration of what might have happened during the final meeting of two musical icons.

Starring Barry Sloane (Jerusalem; Boys From The Blackstuff; Call of Duty; Sandman) as John Lennon and Jay Johnson (Nowhere Boy; Wishful Thinking) asPaul McCartney. Audiences will be invited into a New York City apartment to witness the story of two working class boys who loved each other.

A play about reunions and male relationships, Two of Us sees Barry Sloane and Scot Williams working together again, having previously starred together on In His Life: The John Lennon Story for NBC in the US. Also, it was during the Broadway run of Jerusalem, where Sloane befriended cast member Richard Short (The Tragedy of Macbeth; Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) where they had the idea for the play after listening to a podcast of McCartney talking about “his biggest regret [being] not telling John Lennon that he loved him when they last met” in Manhattan in April 1976.

“Men just couldn’t say that to each other then, it was impossible,” Sloane says, “and McCartney just wishes that he had held him and told him that.”It is with this sentiment that the play delves into themes of masculinity and examining male friendships. “We thought that was a great basis for a play,” Sloane continues, “and what we’ve written ruminates on what may have happened behind closed doors on that day.”

In 1976, tired of the spotlight, John Lennon chose to be a stay-at-home dad to his baby son, Sean.

Paul McCartney was number one all over the world with his new band, Wings, and about to embark on a global tour.

Once inseparable, both men were now worlds apart.
Six years after the bitter break-up of The Beatles, Paul paid a visit to John’s apartment in New York City.

Unannounced.

It would be the final time they EVER met.

The play is written by Mark Stanfield, Richard Short & Barry Sloane and directed by Scot Williams, withdesign by Amy Jane Cook, composition and sound design by Adrienne Quartly, lighting design by Katy Morrison, with audio and visuals by DMLK.

THE JAMIE LLOYD COMPANY ANNOUNCES

A SEASON OF SHAKESPEARE AT THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE

STARRING SIGOURNEY WEAVER, TOM HIDDLESTON AND HAYLEY ATWELL

The Jamie Lloyd Company today announces a season of Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with The Tempest starring BAFTA winner Sigourney Weaver, who is being awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81^st Venice International Film Festival, making her West End debut as Prospero; and Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston (Benedick) and Hayley Atwell (Beatrice), both directed by Jamie Lloyd.

The two productions run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, owned and operated by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatres, marking the first Shakespeare plays to be presented at the venue since Peter Brook’s production of The Tempest starring John Gielgud in 1957. The Tempest opens on Thursday 19 December, with previews from 7 December 2024, running until 1 February 2025, and Much Ado About Nothing opens Wednesday 19 February, with previews from 10 February, running until 5 April 2025. Full cast and creatives to be announced.

The Jamie Lloyd Company also continues its commitment to accessibility, offering 25,000 tickets at £25 across the season exclusively for under 30s, key workers and those receiving government benefits. These tickets will be available across the first three levels of the theatre, and go on sale at a later date. Further information to be announced.

Jamie Lloyd said today, “It is such an honour to be invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to be the first company to present Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in decades. I could not be more thrilled to welcome three-time Academy Award nominated and BAFTA and Golden Globe winning actress, Sigourney Weaver — an international icon of stage and screen — to London. Then to collaborate again with two of the greatest actors of their generation — Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell — on one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most tender comedies is a dream come true.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber also commented, “When I was nine years old I was taken to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to see Peter Brook’s legendary production of The Tempest with John Gielgud as Prospero.  It made a profound impression on me.  At the final performance Gielgud broke Prospero’s staff and pronounced that Shakespeare would never again be performed at the Theatre Royal as it would be “lost to musicals.” Ever since I owned the Theatre Royal I have been determined to prove him wrong.  It is therefore a massive joy that Jamie Lloyd is bringing back Shakespeare to the
Lane and even more wonderful that the first of two Shakespeare plays will be The Tempest.”

Sigourney Weaver said, “I am delighted to be making my West End debut in Shakespeare’s The Tempest directed by the brilliant Jamie Lloyd – and to do so in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beautiful and historic Theatre Royal Drury Lane is an extraordinary opportunity. Come and see us!”

Tom Hiddleston said, “Working with Jamie Lloyd on Harold Pinter’s Betrayal was one of the most fulfilling and meaningful experiences of my performing life. I could not be more thrilled to have been given the opportunity to collaborate with him again, this time on one of Shakespeare’s most warm-hearted and joyful plays: Much Ado About Nothing. It’s an honour to have been invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to bring Shakespeare back to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in a season alongside Sigourney Weaver in The Tempest, and to be working with the great Hayley Atwell for the first time.”

Hayley Atwell said, “I am thrilled to be joining Jamie Lloyd’s company for the third time in my career. His bold and electric direction, combined with the warmth and wit of one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated comedic duos is a truly exciting opportunity and one that I hope will delight our audiences. I look forward to working with my talented friend Tom Hiddleston and bringing The Bard back to Theatre Royal Drury Lane.” 

Tickets for The Tempest go on sale to those signed up for priority booking on Tuesday 6 August at 11am; general booking opens on Wednesday 7 August at 11am. On sale dates for Much Ado About Nothing to be announced.

Sign up for priority booking and more information here: thejamielloydcompany.com or lwtheatres.co.uk.

The Jamie Lloyd Company presents

THE TEMPEST

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Jamie Lloyd

Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Saturday 7 December 2024 – Saturday 1 February 2025

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”

The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness.

Produced by The Jamie Lloyd Company.

Sigourney Weaver plays Prospero.  

Theatre credits include: The Constant Wife (Shubert Theater), Crazy Mary (Playwrights Horizons), Mrs. Farnsworth, The Guys (The Flea Theater), The Mercy Seat (New York), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Lincoln Center and Broadway), Sex and Longing (Broadway), The Merchant of Venice (Classic Stage Company of New York), Hurlyburly (Broadway – Tony Award nomination), Das Lusitania Songspiel (cowritten by Weaver with Christopher Durang), Titanic, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe. 

Film credits include: Alien, Aliens (Academy Award nomination), Aliens 3, Alien Resurrection, Gorillas In The Mist (Academy Award nomination), V (Golden Globe Award for Best Actress), Working Girl (Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and Academy Award nomination), Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Year Of Living Dangerously, Eyewitness, Half Moon Street, One Woman Or Two, 1492: Conquest Of Paradise, Death And The Maiden, Snow White, Jeffrey, Copycat, The Ice Storm (BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress), A Map Of The World, Galaxy Quest, Heartbreakers, Imaginary Heroes, The Village, Holes, The Guys, Infamous, The TVSet, Snow Cake, Wall-E, The Tale Of Despereaux, Baby Mama, You Again, Avatar, Avatar: The Way Of Water, Master Gardener, Call Jane, The Good House, My Salinger Year, Reassignment, A Monster Calls, Chappie, The Cabin In The Woods, Vamps, Cedar Rapids, Paul. 

Television credits include: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Call My Agent, The Defenders, Political Animals, Prayers for Bobby, The Best of Families, Secrets of the Whales. 

Forthcoming projects include: Dust Bunny and The Gorge.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Jamie Lloyd

Monday 10 February – Saturday 5 April 2025

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”

Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits.

Produced by The Jamie Lloyd Company.

Tom Hiddleston plays Benedick. 

For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/ Broadway/Bernard B. Jacobs Theater – Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, Evening Standard Theatre Award nominee for Best Actor).

Other theatre credits include: Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company), Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse – Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Ivanov and Othello (Donmar Warehouse), Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl – Olivier Award for Best Newcomer) and The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl). 

Television credits include: Loki (Critics Choice’ Award Nomination, People’s Choice Award), The Essex Serpent, The Night Manager (Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Emmy Leading Actor Nomination), Henry IV Parts 1&2 and Henry V (South Bank Sky Arts Award for Breakthrough performance), Return to Cranford, Wallander, Miss Austen Regrets, The Gathering Storm, Conspiracy and Nicholas Nickleby.

Film credits include: Loki in Marvel’s Thor, The Avengers (MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain and Best Fight), Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnorak, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Early Man, Kong: Skull Island, I Saw the Light, High-Rise, Crimson Peak, Tinker Bell and The Pirate Fairy, Muppets Most Wanted, Only Lovers Left Alive, Exhibition, The Deep Blue Sea, War Horse, Midnight In Paris, Archipelago and Unrelated. 

Forthcoming projects include: The Life of Chuck and The Night Manager 2.

Hayley Atwell plays Beatrice.

In 2018 Hayley was awarded the Fellowship in recognition of her contribution to the arts.

For The Jamie Lloyd Company:The Pride (Trafalgar Studios – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress, WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play).

Other theatre credits include: Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Measure for Measure  (Donmar Warehouse), Dry Powder (Hampstead Theatre), The Faith Machine (Royal Court Theatre – Directed by Jamie Lloyd), A View from the Bridge (Duke of York’s Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), Major Barbara (National Theatre – Ian Charleson Commendation), Women Beware Women (RSC) and Prometheus Bound (Sound Theatre).

Television credits include: The Long Song, Howards End, Conviction, Agent Carter Series 1 & 2, Life of Crime, Black Mirror: Be Right Back series 2, Restless, Falcon: The Blindman of Seville, The Silent and the Dammed, Any Human Heart, Pillars of the Earth, The Prisoner, Mansfield Park, Ruby in the Smoke, Fear of Fanny and The Line of Beauty. 

Film credits include:Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One, Blinded by the Light, Christopher Robin, The Complete Walk: Cymbeline, Ant Man, Cinderella, Testament of Youth, The Avengers: Age of Ultron,  Captain America -The Winter Soldier,  Jimi: All Is by My Side, The Man, The Sweeney, I, Anna, Captain America-The First Avenger, The Duchess, Brideshead Revisited, How About You and Cassandra’s Dream. 

Forthcoming projects include: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part Two, Heartstopper and Rogue Trooper.

Jamie Lloyd directs. His credits for The Jamie Lloyd Company include Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s Theatre), Sunset Blvd. (Savoy Theatre – winner of seven Olivier Awards including Best Director and Best Musical Revival; Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director), The Effect (National Theatre/The Shed, New York), A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York – nominated for six 2023 Tony Awards including Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play), The Seagull (Harold Pinter Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre/Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York – Olivier Award for Best Revival; Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Director), Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre – nominated for four 2021 Tony Awards including Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play; Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Director), Pinter at the Pinter (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Maids, The Homecoming, The Ruling Class, Richard III, The Pride, The Hothouse and Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios).

LISTINGS

Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Box Office: lwtheatres.co.uk / 020 3925 2998

THE TEMPEST

Saturday 7 December 2024 – Saturday 1 February 2025

Access Performances:

BSL Interpreted: Saturday 11 January, 2.30pm

Audio Described: Saturday 18January, 2.30pm  

Captioned: Saturday 25 January, 2.30pm        

Please email [email protected] to discuss your booking requirements.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Monday 10 February – Saturday 5 April 2025

Access performances:

BSL Interpreted: Saturday 15 March, 2.30pm

Captioned: Saturday 22 March, 2.30pm

Audio Described: Saturday 29 March, 2.30pm

Please email [email protected] to discuss your booking requirements.

EXCLUSIVE UK CAST RECORDING OF

BECOMING NANCY

RELEASED AHEAD OF THE

FORTHCOMING

UK PREMIERE OF THE NEW MUSICAL

ABOUT FIRST LOVE AND FINDING

YOUR VOICE

*PLUS UPDATED CASTING AND CREATIVE TEAM INFORMATION*

Wednesday 2 October – Saturday 2 November 2024

Birmingham Rep

Birmingham Rep today (Tuesday 30 July 2024) released selected tracks from the exclusive cast recording of Becoming Nancy ahead of its UK Premiere in October 2024.   The tracks can be streamed here; a new video of the cast singing Just For Today  is online here.   Also released today are further casting and creative team details.

Becoming Nancy is a coming-of-age story about first love, friendship, and finding your voice.   This new musical has a book by Elliot Davis, music by George Stiles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe, additional music and lyrics by Terry Ronald, Elliot Davis and George Stiles based on the novel by Terry Ronald and directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. Mitchell’s production of The Devil Wears Prada is currently wowing audiences in Plymouth prior to its West End opening in October 2024.

The creative team also includes:  David Rockwell and TJ Greenway (co-set design), Jean Chan (costume design), Philip Rosenberg (lighting design), Tony Gayle (sound design), Dick Straker (video design), Susanna Peretz (hair and makeup design), Steve Anderson (musical supervision and arrangements) and casting by Jill Green CDG and Tom Shiels, Olivia Laydon (casting associates).

Cast members revealed today are: Layla Armstrong-Hughes (Marcia Tubbert), Shannon Bourne (Ensemble), Elliot Copeland (Swing and Dance Captain), Joseph Craig (Ensemble), Jessica Daugirda (Swing), Isaac Elder (Squirrel), Cameron Gabriel (Ensemble), Tom Andrew Hargreaves (Bus Conductor/Mr Boswell, Ensemble), Ollie Hart-Bradford (Ensemble), Sebastian Harwood (Jason Lancaster), Lucas Impey (Dennis Gordon), Jordan Isaac (Swing) Peter Lavery (Ensemble), Dominique McIntyre (Chrissie Starr), Zara McLellan (Ensemble), Richard Meek (Bob Lord), Rachel Rawlinson (Muriel/Mrs Boswell, Ensemble) and Harry Warburton (Ensemble).

They join the already announced:  Joseph Peacock (The Last Ship; US Tour, Bat out of Hell; West End, Scarborough; BBC) as David Starr,  Joseph Vella (Fame, Annie Get Your Gun, From Here to Eternity), as Maxie Boswell, Paige Peddie (Book of Mormon, Oklahoma; West End, The Lion King; UK Tour) as Frances Bassey, Olivier Award-winning Rebecca Trehearn (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, City of Angels, Showboat; West End), as Kath Starr, Genevieve Nicole (Mother Goose and Magic Goes Wrong; West End and Dr Seuss The Grinch Musical Live; NBC and Sky 1) as Aunt Val, Mathew Craig (Susan Stroman’s s Crazy for You, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; West End, We Will Rock You; UK Tour) as Eddie Starr, Olivier Award-winning Stephen Ashfield (Maria – a new biopic of Maria Callas to be released this year, The Book of Mormon; West End and Broadway as Hamish McClarnon (a role he created at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia) and Daisy Greenwood (Made in Degenham concert; London Palladium, There is Nothing Like a Dame; Cadogan Hall, Christmas with the Stars; Covent Garden) as Abigail Henson.

Jerry Mitchell, the two-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer was returning to New York from the UK in 2013 when he came across the book Becoming Nancy at Heathrow Airport.  By the time he reached the US he knew he had to make the story into a musical!

Jerry Mitchell said ‘Becoming Nancy requires a lot of young fresh talent, and I’m so excited to introduce these incredible young performers to British audiences alongside some spectacular West End stars. This beautiful story about finding your true self and the spotlight each of us deserves is going to be a joy to share with audiences of all ages.’

In Becoming Nancy, it’s 1979 and David Starr is unquestionably one of the smartest, most talented sixth formers in East Dulwich – he’s got a wild imagination, a vocal range to die for, and a bedroom plastered with posters of his beloved pop idols: Blondie, Sting, and Kate Bush.  But being clever, with a great taste in music may not be enough to get him through secondary school, where, to his great surprise, he’s just been given the lead role of Nancy, in the school play, Oliver!  The unconventional casting sends shockwaves to everyone around him – including his parents, his aunt, and his classmates. Before long, it seems like everybody has an opinion on whether David should go on with the show, inspiring him to turn to his no-nonsense best friend Frances and his unlikely co-star Maxie, the enigmatic captain of the football team. 

This exciting new musical, which originally premiered at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, will be built and rehearsed at The Rep.

Becoming Nancy (Original UK Cast Recording) EP – Track Listing

1. The Risk (performed by Joseph Peacock)
2. Just For Today (performed by Joseph Peacock, Joseph Vella & Paige Peddie)
3. Ready To Be Touched (performed by Paige Peddie)
4. About Six Inches From Your Heart (performed by Rebecca Trehearn)
5. On The Night Bus (performed by Genevieve Nicole & Daisy Greenwood) 
6. Is This Something? (performed by Joseph Peacock)

Park Theatre announces Virginia Gay’s Cyrano as Christmas show

The gender-flipped Cyrano plays at Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Traverse Theatre before coming to Park Theatre

The north London venue has also announced Ali Smith novel adaptation Autumn as part of their coming season, and further Park Laughs show from Gabby Bryan

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Park Theatre has announced its Park200 Christmas show will be Cyrano by Virginia Gay, which plays at the Traverse Theatre as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe before coming to the north London venue. The gender-flipped show sees Virginia as Cyrano as she falls for the brilliant and beautiful Roxanne, and plays in Park200 from 11 Dec – 11 Jan. Adding to their next season, Park Theatre is also announcing Autumn by Seasonal Productions, and Gabby Bryan will be part of their ongoing comedy programme Park Laughs.

Cyrano (11 Dec – 11 Jan) is Virginia Gay’s joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, a big-hearted, irreverent rom-com, packed with music and wit. Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room – a wordsmith, a charmer. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as the pretty boys, because she’s deeply ashamed of something about herself. Enter Roxanne, with a penchant for poetry and a way with words, just like Cyrano, but with eyes only for Yan, who suddenly starts saying the most amazing things…

Based on the novel by Ali Smith, Autumn (16 Oct – 2 Nov) is set in summer 2016, when Britain has voted to leave the European Union, Elisabeth has returned home to the village she grew up in, and her elderly former next-door neighbour Daniel won’t wake up. New fences are going up, the library is closed, and elsewhere the sleeping Daniel Gluck dreams – of his long-lost little sister, of Christine Keeler; of art, poetry and music. As the divides between people become ever starker, Autumn finds connections across time and experience, and the resilience of the most unlikely of love stories. 

And Gabby Bryan is joining the Park Laughs comedy programme on 30 Aug. Direct from New York (via Edinburgh Fringe), she is bringing her headlining stand-up comedy act for you, and only you, alongside global girlies Stef Dag and Chris Hall. Drink 1.5 espresso martinis before entering… and dress hot.

Park Theatre presents exceptional theatre in the heart of Finsbury Park, boasting two world-class performance spaces: Park200 for predominantly larger scale productions by established talent, and Park90, a flexible studio space, for emerging artists. In eleven years, it has enjoyed eight West End transfers (including Rose starring Maureen Lipman, The Boys in the Band starring Mark Gatiss, Pressure starring David Haig and The Life I Lead starring Miles Jupp), two National Theatre transfers, 14 national tours, seven Olivier Award nominations, has won multiple OffWestEnd Offie Awards and won a Theatre of the Year award from The Stage.

Listings information

Park Theatre, Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 3JP

www.parktheatre.co.uk | 020 7870 6876*

* Telephone booking fee of £3 per transaction applies. All ticket prices are inclusive of a £1.50 building levy.

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Park200                                                                                                                       Fri 30 Aug

Gabby Bryan | Presented by WIZARD Live in association with Park Theatre

Gabby Bryan is your best friend. Direct from New York (via Edinburgh Fringe), she is bringing her headlining stand up comedy act for you, and only you, alongside global girlies Stef Dag and Chris Hall. Drink 1.5 espresso martinis before entering… and dress hot.

Gabby Bryan is a New York based stand-up comedian, actress, Emmy award winning producer and documentarian. She has acted in Life, Itself on Amazon Prime alongside Olivia Wilde and Oscar Isaac, Ruta Viva a bilingual film on HBO and featured in Comedy on Earth Ilana Glazer’s special on Comedy Central. 

She co-hosts the podcasts L’Podcast and Let Me Ask My Dad which have built global audiences and consistently rank in the Top 40 Comedy Charts.

Gabby has built an audience of over 300K followers across her social media platforms and tours the world doing stand-up style comedy. In the UK, she has appeared on Have A Word Podcast, 16 Degrees with Jamie and Spencer on the BBC and is a regular at Top Secret Comedy Club & The Bill Murray.

She is a featured regular on the 2024 series of ITV’s Stand Up Sketch Show.

Running Time: 90 mins (inc interval)

Fri 30 Aug, 9.30pm | Standard Price: £20 (Access Price: 50% off up to two tickets)

Park200                                                           4 Sept – 5 Oct |

23.5 Hours | Presented by Blue Touch Paper Productions and OPM Productions in association with Park Theatre

European Premiere

Written by Carey Crim | Directed by Katharine Farmer

Leigh Hodges, wife of a once-beloved high school teacher, finds herself thrust into the turbulent aftermath of her husband’s imprisonment. Standing by him amidst doubt and scrutiny, Leigh navigates the ultimate test of love, truth, and loyalty. Each revelation forces her to re-evaluate their life together while she struggles to shield their son Nicholas.

As family bonds strain and secrets unravel, this gripping drama explores the profound impact of a conviction for sexual misconduct and how it impacts their lives, close friends, and wider community. With its thrilling exploration of the collateral damage of past and present actions, 23.5 Hours delves deep into the complexities of trust, family dynamics, and the pursuit of justice.

Running time 2hrs 10min inc interval

Captioned Thu 24 Sep 19.30 | Audio Described Sat 28 Sep 15.00 with a touch tour at 14.00 | Parents and Babies performance Thursday 3 October 11am

Mon – Sat 7.30pm, matinees Thu and Sat 3pm I £47.50 – £22.50 (standard), £26.50 – £20 (65+ Mon eve and Thu mat), £17.50 (access), £10 (Park Up 16-26 years Band C throughout the run) I Previews 4 – 6 Sept, £15 – £29.50

Park90                                                                         18 Sept –  12 Oct |

Ostan | Talking Shop Productions in association with Park Theatre

World Premiere

Written by Arzhang Pezhman | Directed by Gaby Dellal

Rebin has been stuck in the UK immigration system for almost a decade, which has given him plenty of time to get into a routine.    

Work.  

Play.  

Apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain.  

Repeat. 

Work is the local hand carwash, under the nurturing eye of the manager, Destan, an Iranian-Kurd. The Iranian bit helps because the owner, Shapur, is very proud of his Persian roots. 

Play is online gaming with friend Noah, a truck driver and loyal customer of the carwash. Though maybe not so loyal on the virtual battlefield. 

Indefinite Leave to Remain is Gorkem. New worker, fresh off the boat. A Turkish-Kurd who claims to be the grandson of the Kurdish ‘freedom fighter’, Apo Ocalan. 

Rebin, an Iraqi-Kurd with no safe passage home, just sees history repeating itself. While he stays true to his story and stuck in the system, he’s seen half a dozen like Gorkem make their way through the carwash, claiming ‘heroic’ tales of escape, securing indefinite leave to remain and moving on with their lives.  

Rebin has heard it all before.  

That is until the boss, Shapur, proposes using the struggling business as a front for a human trafficking enterprise. Smuggling immigrants into the country in the boots of the carwash client’s cars.   

Rebin’s routine is about to be shattered. Indefinitely. 

Running time 90 mins (approx.)

Audio Described Fri 4 Oct 19.45, with touch tour at 18.45 & Sat 5 Oct 15.15, with touch tour at 14.15

Captioned Thu 10 Oct 19.45 (English and Sorani), Fri 11 Oct 19.45 (English and Kurmanji) & Sat 12 Oct 15.15 (English and Farsi)

Mon – Sat 7.45pm, 3.15pm matinees Thu & Sat | £25 – £15 standard, £9 (access), £10 (Park Up 16-26 years, throughout the run I Previews 18 – 21 Sept (£15)

Park200                                                                                               11 Oct – 7 Dec

The Forsyte Saga: Parts 1 and 2 | Presented by Ashley Cook for Troupe in association with Park Theatre

World Premiere

By John Galsworthy

Adapted by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan | Directed by Josh Roche

‘’Now I know what Soames did, what my father did, I will never be able to not know it.’’   

London, 1886.  Wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte is a man of property, and his beautiful wife Irene is his most prized possession. When he commissions an architect to build him a house in which to keep her, the cracks in their marriage finally begin to show, until something happens so shocking that it tears the Forsyte family apart. Years later, Soames’ daughter Fleur is haunted by the family secret when history begins to repeat itself…  

John Galsworthy’s classic story The Forsyte Saga (famously adapted for television and recently for BBC Radio 4) is newly dramatized for the stage in two parts by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan, bringing the unheard female voices to the fore for the first time. Spanning 40 years from the last gasp of the Victorian age to the beginning of the roaring 1920s, this is an epic tale of sex, money and power.  

The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene and The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur play across alternate nights and run consecutively on matinee days, featuring a cast of nine in a stylish period production.

Running time Part 1: 2hr 20 min including interval | Part 2: 2hrs 20 mins including interval

Captioned performances (Part 1 & 2) Saturday 26 October | Audio described performances (Part 1 & 2) Saturday 2 November

Mon – Sat 7.30pm, matinees Thu and Sat 3pm I £47.50 – £22.50 (standard), £26.50 – £20 (65+ Mon eve and Thu mat), £17.50 (access), £10 (Park Up 16-26 years Band C throughout the run) I Previews 11 – 18 Oct, £15 – £29.50

Book for both parts together and save 10%*. The two parts of The Forsyte Saga are separate and intended to be seen sequentially. However, each part constitutes a complete theatre-going experience on its own.

Please see website for Part 1 and Part 2 schedule

Park90                                                                         16 Oct – 2 Nov |

Autumn | Presented by Seasonal Productions in association with Park Theatre       

Based on the novel by Ali Smith | Adapted by Harry McDonald | Directed by Charlotte Vickers

“Whoever makes up a story makes up a world, so you should always try and welcome people into the home of your story. That’s my suggestion.”

Summer 2016. Britain has voted to leave the European Union, Elisabeth has returned home to the village she grew up in, and her elderly former next-door neighbour Daniel won’t wake up. New fences are going up, the library is closed, and her mother keeps talking about the latest antiques show on TV.

Elsewhere, the sleeping Daniel Gluck dreams – of his long-lost little sister, of Christine Keeler; of art, poetry and music. 

From writer Harry McDonald (Foam, Don’t Smoke in Bed) and director Charlotte Vickers (Sap, Andromeda) comes an adaptation of Ali Smith’s Booker-Prize shortlisted novel. As the divides between people become ever starker, Autumn finds connections across time and experience, and the resilience of the most unlikely of love stories.

Running time 90 mins (approx.)

Captioned performance tbc

Mon – Sat 7.45pm, 3.15pm matinees Thu & Sat | £25 – £15 (standard), £9.50 (access), £10 (Park Up 16-26 years, throughout the run I Previews 16 & 17 (£15)

Park90                                                                         6 Nov –  30 Nov |

Going For Gold | Presented by ComeForGold Productions in association with Park Theatre

London Premiere

By Lisa Lintott I Directed by Philip J Morris
Cast includes: Jazz Lintott, Cyril Blake

Going For Gold is a riveting drama inspired by the true story of Frankie Lucas, a young black boxer navigating the vibrant yet challenging world of 1970s London. Frankie’s dreams of sporting glory face relentless trials as he confronts the intricate politics of boxing, the weight of his ambitions, and the pressing needs of his family.

At the heart of the play, we witness Frankie’s astonishing rise, marked by his early victories winning the National ABA middleweight title. But his journey is far from straightforward. When the path to representing Team GB at the Commonwealth Games is blocked, Frankie turns to his roots, competing for the island of Saint Vincent under extraordinary circumstances. His resilience and determination lead to an unexpected triumph that redefines his career and legacy.

Back in the UK, with his sights set on professional boxing, Frankie’s career is shaped by his association with legendary trainer George Francis. Yet, the road ahead is fraught with personal and professional challenges that test his spirit and resolve to the utmost limits. Amidst these trials, Frankie’s story delves deep into themes of identity, belonging, and the true essence of success.

Going For Gold explores the profound questions of what we fight for and what we leave behind. This powerful narrative invites audiences to reflect on the meaning of home, the bonds of family, and the enduring spirit of perseverance. Frankie’s journey is not just about winning in the ring but about finding one’s place in the world and leaving a lasting legacy.

Running time 2hrs 10 mins inc interval

Captioned Mon 18 Nov 19.45 | Relaxed Thu 28 Nov 15.15

Mon – Sat 7.45pm, 3.15pm matinees Thu & Sat | £25 – £15 (standard), £9.50 (access), £10 (Park Up 16-26 years, throughout the run I Preview 6 Nov (£15)

Park200                                                                       11 Dec – 11 Jan |

Cyrano | Presented by Roast Productions in association with Park Theatre 

London premiere

Written by Virginia Gay | Directed by Clare Watson

Virginia Gay’s joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, packed with music, wit and aching romance, is a love letter to hope; to language and desire; to the irrepressible magic of theatre. A big-hearted, irreverent rom-com, perfect for a feel good Christmas treat.

Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room – a wordsmith, a charmer. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as the pretty boys, because she’s deeply ashamed of something about herself. Enter Roxanne: brilliant and beautiful, with a penchant for poetry and a way with words, just like Cyrano. But Roxanne only has eyes for Yan: hot, manly Yan; all brawn-and-no-brains Yan; who is dumbstruck around Roxanne. Probably shy, right? Until suddenly he starts saying the most amazing things. But it’s not Yan writing these perfect love scenes, it’s Cyrano …

Running time 90 mins (approx.)

Mon – Sat 7.30pm, matinees Thu and Sat 3pm I £44.50 – £22.50 (standard), £22.50 – £20 (65+ Mon eve and Thu mat), £18.50 (access), £10 (Park Up 16-26 years Band C throughout the run) I Previews 11 – 16 Dec, £15 – £25

Social Media

Instagram: @cyranolive

Twitter: @CyranoLive_

CASTING AND TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED FOR

THE 20^TH ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION OF ALAN BENNETT’S

THE HISTORY BOYS

“History? It’s just one f***ing thing after another…”

Casting is announced for the 20^th Anniversary production of Alan Bennett’s modern classic The History Boys which will open at Theatre Royal Bath with performances from Thursday 22 August – Saturday 31 Augustprior to a national tour, including dates in Truro, Nottingham, Plymouth, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Coventry, Malvern, Aberdeen and Richmond.

The cast will include Simon Rouse as Hector, Milo Twomey as Headmaster, Gillian Bevanas Mrs. Lintott and Bill Milner as Irwin. The students are played by Archie Christoph-Allenas Dakin, Lewis Cornay as Posner, Teddy Hinde as Timms, Yazdan Qafouri as Scripps, Ned Costello as Rudge, Mahesh Parmar as Akthar, Tashinga Bepete as Crowther, Curtis Kemlo as Lockwoodand Zrey Sholapurkar as ensemble, many of whom are making their professional stage debuts. 

A-Level results day. Cutlers’ Grammar School. 1980s Sheffield.

Eight unruly teenagers burst into adulthood with the best grades their school has ever seen,and their sights are set on something higher: to study at the most famous academic institutions in the world – Oxford and Cambridge. But their teachers can’t agree how best to tutor them. There’s Hector – the maverick English teacher who believes in culture for its own sake; Irwin – the shrewd supply teacher full of soundbites; Felix – the headmaster obsessed with league tables and Mrs Lintott – the History teacher who thinks her colleagues are all fools.

The History Boys followsthis bright bunch of boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university, lifting the lid on staffroom rivalries and the anarchy of adolescence.

The History Boys is the winner of over 30 major international awards. The original production at the National Theatre which opened in 2004 before international tour and film adaptation, starred the late Richard Griffiths and launched the careers of James Corden, Dominic Cooper, Russell Tovey, and Jamie Parker among others.

Alan Bennett has been a household name in British theatre for more than fifty years. His numerous plays include Habeas Corpus, Single Spies, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads and The Lady in the Van.

This creative team for this timely revival includes Director Seán Linnen, Set and Costume Designer Grace Smart, Lighting Designer Ryan Day, Composer, Arranger & Sound Designer Russell Ditchfield, Movement Director Chi-San Howard, Casting Director Matilda James CDG, Musical Director Eamonn O’Dwyer, Assistant Director Emily Oulton.

Social media: HistoryBoys20

Thursday 22 August – Saturday 31 August 2024
NATIONAL PRESS NIGHT Wednesday 28 August 7pm
Theatre Royal Bath
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Tuesday 3 September – Saturday 7 September 2024
Hall For Cornwall
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Tuesday 10 September – Saturday 14 September 2024
Nottingham Theatre Royal
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Tuesday 17 September – Saturday 21 September 2024
Plymouth Theatre Royal
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Tuesday 24 September – Saturday 28 September 2024
Cheltenham Everyman Theatre
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Tuesday 1 October – Saturday 5 October 2024
Cambridge Arts Theatre
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Tuesday 8 October – Saturday 12 October 2024
Coventry Belgrade Theatre
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Tuesday 15 October – Saturday 19 October 2024
Malvern Theatre
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Tuesday 22 October – Saturday 26 October 2024
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen
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Tuesday 29 October – Saturday 2 November 2024
Richmond Theatre
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World premiere tour of a new play – The Lion and the Unicorn heads across the UK with a star-studded cast

UK Tour: Wednesday 2nd October – Saturday 19th October 2024

Fascinating new drama The Lion and the Unicorn is set on an evening in 1939, just six weeks after war has been declared, at a private dinner between Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain and their wives, Clementine and Anne.

Prime Minister Chamberlain has seen all his efforts to negotiate peace with Hitler shattered, while Winston Churchill has been recalled to the cabinet after ten years, his dire warnings of the Nazi threat finally vindicated. History tells us this was the only time the four ever met alone – there is no official record as to what transpired during that unique evening…

This exciting world premiere – based on the book Dinner With Churchill by Robin Hawdon – is presented as a radio-play-live-on-stage. The setting is a radio studio, the actors ready as if for a radio broadcast, and the sound effects created live on stage, all combining to transport the audience to wartime London.

The play is brought to life by a star-studded cast of actors, including Brian Capron (Coronation Street, Where The Heart Is) as Neville Chamberlain and Tim Hudson (De Gaulle, Father Brown) as Winston Churchill. Corrinne Wicks (Doctors, Emmerdale) will play Clementine Churchill, Sarah Gain (Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing) plays Anne Chamberlain and Frazer Hines (Emmerdale, Doctor Who) is Inches, the Churchill’s butler.

From the pen of Robin Hawdon (Don’t Dress For Dinner, Revenge), this compelling new play is epic and intimate, dramatic and moving. It also has a striking relevance to the modern day and asks the question, how far should one go to pacify a threatening dictator?

Martin Parsons, the director, comments, Combining terrific performances, huge historic characters and issues that are as relevant today as they were in 1939, The Lion And The Unicorn is a striking, enthralling and original play. Offering a behind the scenes glimpse at the most personal conversations in the corridors of power, the drama sees the characters sharing their courage, convictions and doubts about decisions that affect the future of millions – and asks what would YOU do in the same situation? An impressive new play that I’m sure will be hugely popular with audiences, and feel privileged to bring to theatres across the country for the very first time – plus to have such fine and popular actors in these iconic roles.

Previous praise for Crime and Comedy Theatre Company’s work:

5-stars! A phenomenal evening at the theatre, I can’t recommend this play enough! (The Entertainment Views)

4 stars! An immensely entertaining evening (West End Best Friend)

A master class in razor-sharp interplay (Henley Standard)

BIGGER CAST / FINAL CASTING and THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET ANNIVERSERY REMEMBERED AT CABLE STREET

The Battle of Cable Street’s Anniversary will be remembered at

CABLE STREET

Performance on FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER 2024

New musical marches onwards to Southwark Playhouse Elephant

The performance of CABLE STREET on Friday 4 October at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant will be particularly poignant for all the cast and company, alongside any audience member lucky enough to grab a ticket for this special night, the 88th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street that was fought and won on the 4 October 1936. A timeless story, as powerful today as it was in 1936.

The evening on Friday 4 October will start at 7.20pm with the audience seated in the auditorium to hear a lively discussion between CABLE STREET’s key creatives and Professor Nadia Valman, who specialises in the history and culture of east London (Queen Mary University of London, co-editor of Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Society).

The emotionally charged performance of CABLE STREET will then start at its usual time of 7.45pm, immediately after this fascinating talk. All ticket holders will, of course, be given admittance for this memorable talk, or arrive to be seated for show time. The hugely powerful and topical CABLE STREET celebrates a community who came together with a call for action. Post show please do stay to meet the cast and raise a glass to The Battle of Cable Street. No Pasarán – They Shall Not Pass.

Nearly 70% of all the tickets for this thrilling new musical’s limited run of just 42 performances have already sold! So, grab your tickets while you can as it prepares to open at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant from Friday 6 September to Thursday 10 October 2024. The excitement and rush on tickets, once again shows that CABLE STREET catches the zeitgeist to tell this urgent story for today’s audiences. The world premiere of CABLE STREET (Southwark Playhouse Borough – February/March 2024) – sold out before the show even opened!

In this further developed new run of the critically acclaimed 5* British musical CABLE STREET, there is now a larger cast, with the final line up also including born and bred East Ender Gemma Salter (Made in Dagenham, Only Fools & Horses), Jimmy Chambers (Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood – Watermill Theatre) and Brady Isaacs Pearce (The Sandman – Southwark Playhouse, Les Misérables – International Tour). They will appear alongside the already announced new cast members Davina Moon, known for her West End roles including Life Of Pi, Bombay Dreams, Miss Saigon and many on screen credits including the film Matilda and popular TV series Ted Lasso. Making her London debut is Mia Overfield (Demon Dentist – UK tour, Jack & The Beanstalk – York).

The original cast returning to their much loved roles include Danny Colligan (Dirty Dancing, Book of Mormon, Les Misérables), Sha Dessi (Les Misérables – nominated by Sir Cameron Mackintosh for the Stage 25 Awards 2022) and Joshua Ginsberg (Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley – BBC Radio 4, 2024) – as the three young friends (Ron, Mairead and Sammy) who passionately live their lives in the multi-cultural melting pot that is Cable Street in 1936.

Marching again further original cast members Max Alexander-Taylor (The Lion – Southwark Playhouse); Aiofe Mac Namara (Cable Street), Ethan Pascal Peters (Showstopper! The Improvised Musical), Sarah Leatherbarrow (Miss Saigon) and Jez Unwin (Groundhog Day, Once, Ghost, Sweet Charity, Evita), making up the fantastic full line up of on-stage talent.

The extraordinarily talented ensemble company tell their stories as they all desperately try to carve out their own lives on Cable Street, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts) start to march on the East End. Over a hundred thousand Jews, Irish workers, trade unionists, the labour and communist parties, women and children all unite to blockade Cable Street – the road they all call home. As the people raise their voices with cries of, They Shall Not Pass, they take a united stand against hatred. The lives of the streets’ residents will change forever.

CABLE STREET is an electrifying reimagining of one of London’s most momentous days – when The Battle of Cable Street was fought and won in the heart of London’s East End on the 4October 1936 as racial tensions were running high and people took to the streets.

The Battle of Cable Street still resonates today, and the award-winning composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin and playwright Alex Kanefsky decided that CABLE STREET must feature a contemporary score: bringing to life a vital part of London’s rich diversity and history.CABLE STREET is Directed by Adam Lenson, Lead Producer Dylan Schlosberg’s 10 to 4 Productions (a production company dedicated to developing and investing in new musicals) and Producer Neil Marcus. The production team also includes Choreography Jevan Howard-Jones, Musical Supervisor Tamara Saringer, Musical Director Ellen Campbell, Associate Director Jamie Buller, Orchestrations and arrangements by Tim Gilvin, Vocal arrangements by Tim Gilvin & Tamara Saringer, Set Design Yoav Segal, Lighting Design Sam Waddington, Sound Charlie Smith, Costume Design Lu Herbert, Dramaturg Olivia Mace, Production Management The Production Office, Casting Sarah Leung.

CABLE STREET is the dazzling new British musical with an urgent story for today’s audiences.  Make sure you buy your tickets for CABLE STREET before it opens on 6 September!

★★★★★ “An Absolute Belter Of A Show” -WhatsOnStage
★★★★ “Dazzling Musical Portrait Of A Community Against Fascism” – The Guardian
★★★★ “Genuine Theatrical Swagger” – The Stage
★★★★★ “A Thrilling New Musical” – Broadway World
★★★★ “A Welcome Message Of Hope” – The Sun

FULL LISTINGS INFORMATION

LIMITED RUN – only 42 performances!

FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER to THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2024

CABLE STREET

Southwark Playhouse ELEPHANT, 1 Dante Pl, London SE11 4RX

southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

BOX OFFICE: 020 7407 0234 Box Office opens Monday – Saturday 10:00am-6pm Suggested age 13+

Evening shows: 7.45pm

Matinees: Thursdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm

Extra matinees: Monday 7 October and Tuesday 8 October 2024 

Ticket Prices

FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER & 2 x shows SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2024 – all seat £18 Previews.

MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER to THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2024 – £45/£35/£25 plus concessions

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