NEW COMPANY ANNOUNCED FOR OLIVIER AWARD NOMINATED WEST END SENSATION,
NOW ENTERING ITS THIRD SINGSATIONAL YEAR AT THE ARTS THEATRE
TICKETS AT THE ARTS THEATRE AVAILABLE TO BOOK HERE
The producers of Olivier-nominated international stage sensation THE CHOIR OF MAN now entering its third singsational year at the Arts Theatre, are pleased to announce the new company joining the show from 17 September.
Welcome to THE JUNGLE, the best pub in the world.
Here, an (extra)ordinary cast of nine guys combine beautiful harmonies and foot-stomping singalongs with first-rate tap dance and poetic meditations on the power of community.
Brimming with hits from artists such as Queen, Luther Vandross, Sia, Paul Simon, Adele, Guns & Roses, Avicii and Katy Perry to name but a few, this is a pub like no other!
An uplifting celebration of community and friendship with something for everyone – including free beer! Enjoy 90 minutes of feel-good, foot-stomping entertainment unlike anything else in the West End.
The cast members who are staying on as pub regulars are Luke Conner Hall (Bat Out of Hell – International Tour, Australia/New Zealand, Peacock Theatre, QUEENZ: The Show With Balls! – Coventry, Edinburgh Fringe, UK Tour) as ‘Romantic’, Sam Pope (Bat Out of Hell – UK Tour) as ‘Joker’, Rob Godfrey (Choir of Man – Sydney Opera House)as ‘Beast’ and Seán Keany (Once in Concert – West End, China and Japan, The Choir of Man – Korea) continuing as a swing.
The Choir of Man alumni joining the West End Company include Tyler Orphé-Baker (Disney’s The Lion King, Lyceum; The Choir of Man, West End) as ‘Pub Bore’, Shane McDaid (Titanic the Musical, UK/International; The Choir of Man NCL and Chicago) as ‘Poet’, Ifan Gwilym-Jones (The Choir of Man, NCL; Australia and Chicago) as ‘Maestro’, Kristian Morse (The Corn is Green, National Theatre; The Choir of Man, Chicago) as ‘Barman’, George Knapper (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, UK Tour and The Choir of Man NCL; Canada; Australia; Chicago; Florida and West End) as ‘Handyman’ with Bradley Walwyn (We Will Rock You, Royal Caribbean; The Choir Of Man NCL and Australia) as ‘Hardman’ and David Shute (Once: The Musical, Barn and The Choir of Man NCL; Chicago; Tampa; Australia; Edinburgh; Coventry) and Tom Carter-Miles (Frankenstein Illyria; The Choir of Man, NCL and West End), and Paul Deegan (The Choir of Man NCL and Chicago) as swings.
The on-stage band has Jacob Evans on drums, Jack Hartigan on guitar, Darius Luke Thompson on violin and Sam Tookey on bass.
THE CHOIR OF MAN previously played three sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera House and multiple sold-out US and European tours. Following its last run at the Arts Theatre from October 2021 to April 2022, it received an Olivier nomination for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play, and then went on to play in Coventry as part of the City of Culture Assembly Festival season and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show re-opened at the Arts Theatre in October 2022, and has continued to see many sold-out shows, with loyal audiences returning again and again. In 2023 the show announced partnerships with suicide prevention charity CALM (The Campaign Against Living Miserably), and Big Drop Brewing Co – the world’s first brewer dedicated to alcohol-free beer – as the show’s Official Alcohol-Free Beer Partner.
THE CHOIR OF MAN is created by Nic Doodson and Andrew Kay, directed by Nic Doodson, with Daniel Harnett as associate director and resident director; monologues written by Ben Norris; with musical supervision, vocal arrangements and orchestrations by Jack Blume, with Lee Freeman as musical director, and Alistair Higgins as associate musical supervisor; movement direction and choreography by Freddie Huddleston, with Adam Hilton as associate movement director; scenic design by Oli Townsend, lighting design by Richard Dinnen, costume design and associate scenic design by Verity Sadler, sound design by Sten Severson, with Liam McDermott as associate sound designer; casting by Debbie O’Brien.
The show is produced by Immersive Everywhere, Nic Doodson, Andrew Kay, Wendy & Andy Barnes, Gavin Kalin and Hunter Arnold.
Jeffrey Seller and Cameron Mackintosh, producers of the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s HAMILTON at the Victoria Palace Theatre, are delighted to announce that booking is extended until Saturday 27 September 2025.
HAMILTON stars Alex Sawyer as Alexander Hamilton, Jay Perry as Aaron Burr, Nathania Ong as Eliza Hamilton, Emily-Mae as Angelica Schuyler, Simbi Akande as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds, Thomas Vernal as George Washington, Lemuel Knights as Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Jordan Castle as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Jordan Benjamin as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton and Joel Montague as King George III. At certain performances, the role of Alexander Hamilton will be played by Adam J. Bernard.
The company is completed by Gabriela Acosta, Richard Appiah-Sarpong, Elizabeth Armstrong, Turrell Barrett-Wallace, Alishia-Marie Blake, Roxanne Couch, Nicola Espallardo, Remi Ferdinand, Manaia Glassey-Ohlson, Jack Harrison-Cooper, Amie Hibbert, Sam Holden, Barney Hudson, Nicolais-Andre Kerry, Christian Knight, Ella Kora, Aaron Lee Lambert, Jairus McClanahan, Stacey McGuire, Kerri Norville,Jamai Robinson, Samuel Sarpong-Broni,Hassun Sharif and Paulo Teixeira.
HAMILTON has book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is directed by Thomas Kail, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire and is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton. HAMILTON features scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Nevin Steinberg and hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe.
HAMILTON is produced in London by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman, The Public Theater and Cameron Mackintosh.
HAMILTON
Victoria Palace Theatre, Victoria Street, London SW1E 5EA
Hope Mill Theatre announces full casting and extension for the return of rock musical LIZZIE to Manchester this Autumn
Now runs from Thursday 17th October to Sunday 17th Nov 2024
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Hope Mill Theatre has announced the full casting and a week’s extension for the return of its hit production of rock musical LIZZIEin Manchester this October, which due to popular demand, will now run until Sunday 17th November 2024.
The show – which first enjoyed a hit Manchester run in September 2023 – will play at Hope Mill Theatre from Thursday 17th October to Sunday 17th November 2024.
Joining the previously announced Kayleigh McKnight (SIX, Jesus Christ Superstar)as Lizzie will be Katie Tonkinson (Bonnie & Clyde, Bat Out of Hell) as Alice, Jennifer Caldwell (SIX, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World) as Bridget and Emilie Louise Israel(Hamilton, Once on This Island) as Emma. Completing the cast will be Emma Louise Hoey (Lizzie, Club Mex) as Alternate Lizzie and Cover Alice and Eve Kitchingman (LIFT The Musical, The Commitments) as Cover Emma and Bridget.
LIZZIEexplores the life of Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in the late summer of 1892.
The rock musical, which premiered on Broadway in 2009, delves into Lizzie’s complex psyche and speculates on the motivations she may have had: loss of inheritance, history of sexual abuse, oppression, and madness.
Lizzie, along with her older sister Emma, maid Bridget, and neighbour Alice, bring to life the infamous story supported on stage by an all-female band.
Lizzie is Rage! Sex! Betrayal! Bloody Murder!
Lizzie The Musical will be directed and choreographed by Hope Mill co-founder William Whelton, and has music by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt, lyrics by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner and a book by Tim Maner.
William Whelton said: “I am thrilled to be bringing LIZZIE back home to Hope Mill Theatre, where this production was originally rehearsed and created last year. Audiences across the UK fell in love with this show just as much as I have and I can’t wait to share it again with fans and welcome even more new audiences into The House of Borden. I am so excited today to share our full cast for the run in Manchester. Lizzie is a story of female empowerment and the talent we have assembled is off the scale. I know that these power-house female performers will blow the roof off the Hope Mill Theatre. I am equally thrilled to announce an extra weeks extension to the run, due to phenomenal demand.”
LIZZIE has swung her axe in over 60 cities, in 6 countries, in 5 languages, across 4 continents and has been honoured with dozens of awards including 8 Best Musical Awards! (and she’s still swinging…)
Music by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt
Lyrics by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner
Book by Tim Maner
Additional Music by Tim Maner
Additional Lyrics by Alan Stevens Hewitt
Based on an original concept by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner
Orchestrations by Alan Stevens Hewit
Produced by Hope Mill Theatre, Director/Choreographer William Whelton, Set and Lighting Design Andrew Exeter, Sound Designer Adam Fisher, Musical Supervision Katy Richardson, Video Designer Dan Light, Associate Video Designer Ieuan Watkins- Hyde, Dialect Coach Manny Crooks, Costume Designer Rachel Tansey, Associate Choreographer Yandass Ndlovu, Assistant Producer Rhianna Swyer and Casting by Pearson Casting CDG CDA CSA. KEY ARTWORK BY FEAST CREATIVE.
LIZZIE is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC. (www.broadwaylicensing.com).
LISTINGS
Lizzie the Musical
Hope Mill Theatre Manchester
Thursday 17th October to Sunday 17th Nov 2024
Halloween Event on 31st October 2024
Emma Louise Hoey will play the role of Lizzie at the Following Performances:
Wednesday 23rd October, Saturday 2nd November, Saturday 9th November and Saturday 16th November – all 2.30pm.
Tuesday 3 September 2024 – Producers Eva Price & Michael Harrison today announced that New York’s ‘must-sea’ and highly anticipated musical comedy, Titanique will begin performances at the Criterion Theatre on Piccadilly Circus in London’s West End, on Monday 9 December 2024.
When the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian love with the eleven-time Oscar®-winning blockbuster film Titanic, you get Titanique, off Broadway’s most award-winning splash hit that turns one of the greatest love stories of all time into a hysterical musical fantasia.
Titanique has taken New York by storm – extending multiple times since its premiere in 2022, it has also been recognised with critical acclaim and multiple awards. Now it is coming to the UK.
Want to find out what really happened to Jack and Rose on that fateful night? Just leave it to Céline Dion to enchant the audience with her totally wild take, recharting the course of Titanic’s beloved moments and characters with her iconic song catalogue. Sailing on fierce powerhouse voices in show-stopping performances of such hits as My Heart Will Go On, All by Myself and To Love you More – backed by a full live band – Titanique is a one-of-a-kind theatrical voyage bursting with nostalgia, heart and campy chaos.
Co-written by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle and Constantine Rousouli, Titanique celebrated its Off-Broadway premiere in June 2022 at Asylum Theater, starring the musical’s co-authors Mindelle and Rousouli as Céline Dion and Jack Dawson. After several sold-out extensions, the musical transferred to the Daryl Roth Theatre on November 20, 2022.
Producer Eva Price said:
“Producing Titanique has been a thrill of a lifetime. I’m so grateful to have productions now happening all over the world, but I’m beyond ecstatic to be coming to the West End. London has always been the epicenter of quality, show-stopping entertainment and I couldn’t be happier then to be dropping anchor in Piccadilly Circus at the esteemed Criterion Theater. I am thrilled Londoners will soon experience the unhinged delight that Titanique brings night after night to Americans.”
Producer Michael Harrison added:
“When I first saw Titanique in New York, I thought it was the funniest show I had ever seen. Every time I have returned since, I have only loved it more, and I was determined to bring it to London so audiences here could also be thrilled by its irresistible joy. We have found the perfect theatre to set sail, and I can’t wait to open the doors later this year.”
The authors are: Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli & Tye Blue, the set is designed by Gabriel HainerEvansohn & Grace Laubacher, costumes are designed by Alejo Vietti, the lighting designer is Paige Seber, the sound designer is Lawrence Schober, the casting director is Pearson Casting CDG, musical supervision, orchestration & arrangements are by Nicholas J Connell, choreography is by Ellenore Scott and Titanique is directed by the co-author Tye Blue (RuPaul’s Drag Race).
Titanique won seven major awards during the 2022/23 theatre season, including three Lucille Lortel Awards, the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical, Las Culturistas’ Culture Award for Best Indoor Performance and two Dorian Awards.
The London production of Titanique is co-produced by Eva Price and Michael Harrison.
All further information, including casting, to follow at a later date.
Listings Information
TITANIQUE
Criterion Theatre
218-223 Piccadilly London
London
W1J 9HR
Creative Team
Authors: Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli & Tye Blue
Set Designer: Gabriel Hainer Evansohn & Grace Laubacher
Costume Designer: Alejo Vietti
Lighting Designer: Paige Seber
Sound Designer: Lawrence Schober
Casting Director: Pearson Casting CDG
Musical Supervisor, Orchestrator & Arrangements: Nicholas J Connell
Choreographer: Ellenore Scott
Director & Co-Author: Tye Blue
Cast
To Be Announced
Performances
Performances begin Monday 9 December 2024
From w/c Monday 9 December 2024
Monday – Saturday at 7:30pm
Friday and Saturday matinees at 3:00pm
Christmas schedule 2024
w/c Monday 16 December:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Friday & Saturday matinees at 3:00pm
Sunday at 5:00pm
w/c Monday 23 December:
Monday at 7:00pm, Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Monday, Tuesday, Friday & Saturday matinees at 3:00pm
Sunday at 5:00pm
w/c Monday 30 December:
Monday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm
Tuesday & Sunday at 7:00pm
Monday, Saturday & Sunday matinees at 3:00pm; Tuesday matinee at 4:00pm
From w/c Monday 6 January as w/c Monday 9 December on-going
“Just when you think it couldn’t get better, Titanique makes you love it more, with a glow-up in a bigger theater that makes the show even more impactful and irresistible! Yet, there’s still a scrappy, endearing “let’s put on a show” energy to it, that gives the musical its Titanic-sized charm. YOU’RE GUARANTEED TO LAUGH YOUR ICEBERG OFF.”
– People Magazine
“VERY FUNNY! The ‘Titanique’ Musical Finds Its Sea Legs…. Near, far, wherever you are, Céline Dion will be there, in this camp reimagining of the maritime blockbuster that revs up into increasing absurdity.”
– New York Times
“TITANIQUE IS F*CKING GREAT. SWIM, DON’T WALK, to see this Céline Dion jukebox fantasia!”
– Vulture
“SENSATIONAL, HILARIOUS AND DERANGED!
Titanique is, by a nautical mile, the funniest musical in town!”
– The New York Post
“The silliest, smartest, gayest, FEVER-DREAM MIRACLE! A sold-out smash created to manifest pure joy”
“A culture that diminishes women is a disaster – for us all” Baroness Helena Morrissey, The Telegraph (August 2024)
CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR WORLD PREMIERE OF DARKLY SATIRICAL PLAY
THAT TACKLES OFFICE SEXISM HEAD ON
AT THE PLAYGROUND THEATRE LONDON FROM 1 – 27 OCTOBER 2024
Leading the cast in the role of Eve is Miriam Grace Edwards (Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare’ Globe, The Empress, RSC and Lyric Hammersmith) and playing Eve’s mysterious new colleague Heidi is 2023 Spotlight Prize Finalist Jessica Gough.Daniel Kendrick (Our Town at the Almeida, Vera Vera Vera at The Royal Court Theatre) as Kevin and Matt Ray Brown (Julius Caesar, RSC, and Ghosts at Trafalgar Studios) as The Chair complete the cast.
Written by the exciting playwright Tim Edge, whose previous work, Under the Black Rock was praised by The Guardian to have “…razor-sharp, harrowing and darkly funny dialogue” with “the many plot twists and turns are pulled off immaculately…”, One of The Boys offers a sharp commentary on corporate sexism and the compromises many women feel compelled to make to compete equally with men in the workplace.
Eve is on the brink of a ground-breaking career move; she is about to become the first woman in her company to land the role of CEO. Yes, she has had to compromise, make personal sacrifices, but it was all worth it… right?
Enter Heidi, a young executive with an agenda. As Heidi gains a foothold within the company, her presence begins to threaten the established culture in which the company thrives, as well as the position that Eve has worked so hard for. Will Eve’s ambition triumph over her conscience, or is it time to smash it all to the ground and start again?
By highlighting and calling out workplace misogyny, One of The Boys raises awareness about the issues women face in professional settings. This can be an eye-opening experience for audiences who may not be fully aware of the extent of the problem.
With the potential to engage, educate, and inspire audiences by addressing a critical social issue through the lens of storytelling and artistic expression, One of The Boys provides an opportunity for reflection, dialogue, and advocacy for positive change.
Directed by Lydia McKinley, written by Tim Edge with design by Ellie Wintour, One of The Boysis at The Playground Theatre from 1 – 27 October 2024.
A NEW MODERN-DAY GHOST STORY ON STAGE, INSPIRED BY THE STORIES OF M.R. JAMES,
BARN THEATRE, CIRENCESTER SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER – SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
The Barn Theatre has today announced casting for the world premiere of Room 13, a brand-new play by Duncan Abel and Rachel Wagstaff, inspired by the ghost stories of M.R. James, set in the modern day. Room 13, directed by Loveday Ingram, will open on Saturday 28 September and play to Saturday 9 November, with a press performance on Tuesday 1October.
In a lonely hotel, four strangers are forced to spend the night in Room 13. Bearing the weight of their own grief, shame and darkness, they come to realise that Room 13 has secrets of its own. As the four solitary souls develop unexpected bonds, they each share something from their past that still haunts them – stories of a painting that conceals a horrific secret; a macabre song that whispers in the depths of night, and children’s voices that echo from a forgotten well. As the veil between the present and the past, the living and the dead, becomes frayed, the new companions will have to face their darkest fears if they are ever to escape Room 13…
Samuel Collings will play ‘Anderson’. Recent stage credits include The Great Murder Mystery for The Lost Estate, and The Girl on the Train at Salisbury Playhouse. His film credits include Thirty Seven and Bluebird and his TV work includes The Lost Pirate Kingdom, The Last Czars and Outlander.
George Naylor will star as ‘Jacobs’. TV creditsinclude Spirit Rangers, Dancing Queens and Casualty and his stage work includes Henry V at the Changeling Theatre, and the West End production and UK tour of Mousetrap.
Ffion Jolly will play ‘Mary’. Most recently see on stage in The Dark Place at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, her film appearances include Mission Impossible: Fallout, The Marvels and Hotel Cleaners. Ffion’s recent TV credits include Insomnia, Coronation Street and Doc Martin.
Alice Bailey Johnson will appear as ‘Lena’. Stage credits include Tina: The Musical at the Aldwych and Uncle Vanya at Hampstead. She has appeared in films such as Hard Truths and King of Thieves and on TV in Black Mirror 5, Pillow and Sexy Beast.
Duncan Abel and Rachel Wagstaff said, “We are thrilled to be working with The Barn again and very excited to premiere our new play, Room 13, in The Barn’s unique theatre – the most perfect and evocative space for this original ghost story!”
Room 13 is written by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, directed by Loveday Ingram, with design by Alfie Heywood, lighting design by Hector Murray, and sound design and composition by Elizabeth Purnell. Emily Jones CDG is Casting Director. The stage management team are Judith Volk (ASM), Victoria Rose (ASM), Gareth Newcombe (DSM) and Christopher Reid (sound programmer).
Room 13 is a Built by Barn production in association with Bob & Marianne Benton, and Ollie Hancock for Tiny Giant Productions.
Since launching in 2018, the Barn Theatre has gained national recognition having produced over 20 Built by Barn shows and being awarded The Stage Awards’ Best Fringe Theatre of the Year Award 2019. Last year, the theatre celebrated its fifth anniversary with a season that included world premieres of Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Waiting For Anya, Jonathan Lynn’s final instalment of his classic series I’m Sorry Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember, as well as a reimagined revival production of the musical Once and the world premiere of a musical adaptation of Treasure Island. Recent 2024 highlights have included Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend, Constellations, Midsummer and Stones in His Pockets.
Darlington Hippodrome – 1 September 2024and on a UK tour
5****
When Baby fairypowered saw this show advertised we knew we needed to buy tickets for it. What’s not to like – songs from the shows sung by the stars of the shows – a perfect fairypowered family night out!
And what a night out! Not just a brilliant show (more on that later) but a female empowered show, with an all women cast and creative – perfect.
The four fabulous females: Michelle Pentecost, Maggie Lynne, Tasha Sheridan and Jodie Nolan sang some of the greatest female powerful anthems of the past and present. Some charged with high emotion (Me and the Sky from Come from Away) or showing leadership (Candy Store from Heathers). Featuring shows such as Waitress, Evita, Blood Brothers, Carousel, Les Miserables, Six, and of course Wicked. All emphasising that there can be some strong female parts. Between the shows the women discussed such things as juggling motherhood and working, auditioning, casting brackets and their favourite shows – both what they’ve worked on and what they would like to work on – fingers crossed they get their wish. The all women band supporting them were equally fantastic and I am sorry I didn’t catch your names.
This is a fairly new show and has the capacity to grow. There are some outstanding female stars out there and this could be an ever changing cast and creative, bringing a different sparkle to an already excellent starting point.
I look forward to seeing this show continue to grow and really look forward to seeing it again.
Channing Tatum and his co-producers are delighted to announce a new booking period for Magic Mike Live at The Theatre at the Hippodrome Casino in London. Patrons will be able to book performances through to Sunday 31 August 2025 from today, Monday 2 September 2024.
The cast of Magic Mike Live in London includes Theo O. Bailey, Clare Billson, Daniel Blessing, Jake Brewer, Jo Calderwood, Joel Ekperigin, Mattia Fazioli, Petr Fedorovskii, Nathan Fernand, Myles Harper, Todd Holdsworth, Mark Lace, Jack Manley, Kay Nicholson, James Percy, Charlotte Perry, Ross Sands and Shane Scarth.
Conceived and co-directed by Channing Tatum, Magic Mike Live, has performed over 2000 shows in the West End, has wowed over 650,000 people in London and over 1,500,000 worldwide. It is a large-scale, live production show based on the hit films Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL, which opened at The Theatre at the Hippodrome Casino in London’s Leicester Square in November 2018. Magic Mike Live inspired a new television series on HBO Max, Finding Magic Mike, and the third instalment of the Magic Mike film franchise, Magic Mike’s Last Dance.Magic Mike Livehas become an international sensation since opening in Las Vegas in April 2017. In addition to breaking box office records and performing to sold-out audiences in Las Vegas and London, the show has thrilled audiences around the world with engagements in Berlin, Australia, and Miami and Dallas in North America.
From the bespoke entrance off Cranbourn Street, to the specially curated lounge and bar experience, to the cast of world-class performers, Magic Mike Live is a complete evening of unparalleled entertainment for guests aged 18 and up. Audience members enter Magic Mike’s mythical club and marvel as a group of extraordinary artists perform a 360-degree dance and acrobatic spectacular in front of, behind, and above them. Sexy dance routines intertwined with one-of-a-kind acts, are presented by a diverse cast of performers from around the world.
Guests can also enjoy pre and post show cocktails and cuisine at two bespoke bar and lounge experiences – Permission and Archive & Myth – designed and curated by Magic Mike Live designer Rachel O’Toole. Patrons can either book their spots in advance or drop in if they fancy an intimate and luxurious space to unwind in the heart of London’s West End.
Permission was recently voted one of Open Table’s ‘Top 10 Best Restaurants in London.’ The intimate and atmospheric lounge, located just steps from the theatre entrance offers a range of food and beverage options, including a weekend brunch package, as well as live music curated by the Magic Mike Live team.
Archive & Myth, hidden beneath the Hippodrome Casino, is accessed by a password-protected door off Cranbourn Street. This secret bar offers a stylish escape from the Square’s hustle and bustle, with a tempting menu of elevated classic cocktails, bespoke vintage spirits and light bites, enjoyed in an elegant space that is richly-inspired by the heritage and legends of the venue itself.
Patrons can also book a Luxe Seats package, guaranteeing the best seats in the house, complimentary cocktails, and entry to Permission with a personal concierge escort to the show. The Luxe package also includes a meet and greet with some of the dancers after the show. For more information visit magicmikelondon.co.uk
Magic Mike Live in London is co-directed by Channing Tatum and Alison Faulk, with Luke Broadlick as associate director, and choreography by Alison Faulk and Luke Broadlick.The Executive Producer is Vincent Marini with General Management by Crossroads Live. The production designer is Rachel O’Toole, with scenic design by Rob Bissinger and Anita LaScala (Arda Studio), costume design by Marina Toybina, lighting design by Philip Gladwell and video design by Luke Halls. Musical supervisor is Jack Rayner, with sound design by Nick Kourtides. Dreya Weber is aerial choreographer & aerial apparatus designer.
Magic Mike Live is produced in London by Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Greg Jacobs, Peter Kiernan, Steven Soderbergh, Nick Wechsler and United Talent Agency in association with Warner Bros., Vincent Marini, The Hippodrome Casino, Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman, TSG Entertainment & Ashley DeSimone, Richard Winkler and The Creative House.
Please note there are no performances w/c 16 & 23 September 2024 and w/c 6 January 2025.
Magic Mike Live London is also introducing the following accessible performances:
Captioned – Stagetext
Wednesday 5 February 2025, 7pm
Wednesday 6 August 2025, 7pm
Audio Described – Vocal Eyes
Wednesday 2 April 2025, 7pm
BSL – Theatre Sign
Wednesday 4 June 2025, 7pm
Customers attending with Nimbus access card are entitled to tickets for these performances at the reduced rate of £65 per person. Those entitled to an essential companion will receive that ticket complimentary. For further information on our access performances please email [[email protected]%20][email protected] or call the box office 020 3978 4400. Customer Service hours are between 12pm – 6pm Tuesday through Sunday.
Christmas 2024 Performance Schedule
Monday 23 December – No Performance
Tuesday 24 December – No Performance
Wednesday 25 December – No Performance
Thursday 26 December – 7pm & 9:30pm
Friday 27 December – 7pm & 9:30pm
Saturday 28 December – 4pm, 7pm & 9:30pm
Sunday 29 December – 4pm & 7pm
Monday 30 December – No Performance
Tuesday 31 December – 7pm
Wednesday 1 January – 7pm
Thursday 2 January – 7pm & 9:30pm
Friday 3 January – 7pm & 9:30pm
Saturday 4 January – 4pm, 7pm & 9:30pm
Sunday 5 January – 4pm & 7pm
Magic Mike Live guests must be at least 18 years to attend – appropriate photo ID will be requested on arrival at the venue – begambleaware.org
Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) today announces the full cast for the West End run of Oedipus, a new adaptation created by Robert Icke after Sophocles.
Joining the previously announced Mark Strong (Oedipus) and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) are Samuel Brewer (Teiresias), Michael Gould (Creon), Sara Hazemi (Lichas/Understudy Antigone), Gary McDonald (Driver), Bhasker Patel (Corin), Phia Saban (Antigone), Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), June Watson (Merope) and James Wilbraham (Polyneices), with Jim Creighton (Ensemble/Understudy Oedipus & Creon), Derek Elroy (Ensemble/Understudy Corin, Teiresias & Driver), Celia Nelson (Ensemble/ Understudy Jocasta & Merope) and Jake Rory (Ensemble/Understudy Polyneices, Eteocles & Lichas) completing the cast.
Tickets for the strictly limited run at Wyndham’s Theatre are on sale now, with a further 3000 tickets just released across the run, including the front Stalls. Sonia Friedman Productions is also offering 1000 tickets at £30 exclusively for those aged 30 and under across the run, reflecting their ongoing commitment to ticket accessibility within the arts. For more details visit oedipustheplay.com/ticket-information.
The creative team is Hildegard Bechtler (Set Design), Wojciech Dziedzic (Costume Design), Natasha Chivers (Lighting Design), Tom Gibbons (Sound Design), Tal Yarden (Video Design) and Julia Horan CDG (Casting Director).
Behind every great man is a great woman.
Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change.
Starring the internationally renowned, multi-award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller.
After his revelatory Oresteia, visionary director Robert Icke (1984, The Doctor) reimagines another Ancient Greek tragedy, bringing the secrets of the past bursting into the present.
Oedipus opens on Tuesday 15 October, with previews from Friday 4 October 2024, and runs until Saturday 4 January 2025.
Icke’s production was originally produced in Dutch by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival.
CAST BIOGRAPHIES
Mark Strong (Oedipus)
Multi-award-winning actor Mark Strong returns to the stage. He previously appeared in A View from the Bridge (Young Vic, West End and Broadway – Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play and Tony Award nomination); The Red Barn, Closer, Death of a Salesman, Murmuring Judges, Fuente Ovejuna, Napoli Milionaria, King Lear and Richard III (National Theatre); Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); Speed the Plow (New Ambassadors Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre); The Thickness of Skin and The Treatment (Royal Court Theatre); Hess is Dead, The Plantagenets and The Man Who Came To Dinner (RSC).
His television credits include Temple (also series Executive Producer); Deep State; Low Winter Sun; The Long Firm (Broadcast Guild Award for Best Actor and BAFTA nomination); Prime Suspect; Fields of Gold; The Jury; Anna Karenina; Our Friends in the North and the forthcoming Dune: Prophecy (HBO Max).
An acclaimed film actor, he recently appeared in The Critic with Ian McKellen; Dead Shot with Felicity Jones; Nocebo with Eva Green; Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston (Netflix) and will next appear on screen in various projects including The End We Start From with Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch; Shadow Force opposite Omar Sy and Kerry Washington and Atlas opposite Jennifer Lopez.
His other film credits include Todd Field’s Tár with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ 1917; Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain; Cruella alongside Emma Stone; The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley; The Kingsman films with Taron Egerton and Colin Firth; Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman;Thomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Gary Oldman; Peter Weir’s The Way Back; John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard; Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood with Russell Crowe; Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law; Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern; The Young Victoria opposite Emily Blunt; Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty; Danny Boyle’s Sunshine; Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana with George Clooney; Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist and Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love.
Lesley Manville (Jocasta)
Award-winning British Actor, Lesley Manville has had an expansive career to date, across both screen and stage. Lesley most recently appeared on our screens in the sixth and final series of Netflix’s critically acclaimed series, The Crown – reprising her role of Princess Margaret. Lesley also starred in Sam Taylor Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, Back To Black, for StudioCanal. Further upcoming projects include Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, opposite Daniel Craig, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer for Apple and Cold Storage, alongside Liam Neeson. In addition, Lesley will star in The Critic, alongside Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton.
Lesley recently appeared as the villainous Dahlia Archer in Citadel for Prime Video, alongside Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra. Notable television credits include Mum(RTS Best Female Comedy Performance and two BAFTA nominations for Best Female Performance in a Comedy) and the BBC’s Sherwood, for which Lesley received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at this year’s BAFTA Awards. The series has been announced for a second season, which will air later this year.
Notable roles in film include Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread(Academy Award nomination for Best Performance by An Actress in a Supporting Role, BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress), the titular role as Mrs Harris in Mrs Harris Goes To Parisfor Focus Features (which earnt Lesley a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress) Let Him Go, Ordinary Love, Misbehaviour.
On stage, Lesley’s theatre credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Ghosts (Olivier Award for Best Actress and Critics Circle Best Actress Award), Grief (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Three Sisters (Clarence Derwent Award) andThe Visit. Further credits include, Six Degrees Of Separationand All About My Mother at the Old Vic Theatre and Some Girls and The Cherry Orchard in the West End.
Samuel Brewer (Teiresias)
Training: BA Acting CDT at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
Theatre includes: It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (Vault Festival/Soho Theatre/New Diorama Theatre/Underbelly at Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Soho Playhouse/UK Tour/Southbank Centre); Frankenstein (Parkwood Theatre), Who Plays Who? (Asylum Arts / Barbican Open Labs), CRIPtic Pit Party (Barbican Theatre), Night Out in Nature (Frozen Light), Farenheit 451 (Complicité); The Eyes of the Night (Cervantes Theatre).
Other work includes: Odd & The Frost Giants (Workshop, Unicorn Theatre); Otto Weidt’s Brush and Broom Workshop for the Blind (Workshop, Leeds Playhouse); The Sleeping Sword (Workshop, Watermill Theatre). Samuel co-created It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (dir. Josh Roche), where at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he was chosen as one of The Fringe Five by The Stage alongside his co-creators & director.
Jim Creighton (Ensemble/Understudy Oedipus & Creon)
Theatre includes:The Suspicions of Mr.Whicher (Watermill Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Good (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre); The Best Man (The Playhouse Theatre/UK Tour); Macbeth (Theatre Severn); An Enemy of the People (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston); Journey’s End (Watermill Theatre); The Silver Tassie (National Theatre); Richard III (Nottingham Playhouse); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket); 1936 (Arcola theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre); Fram (National Theatre); Loot (Tricycle Theatre); The Entertainer (Old Vic) Market Boy (National theatre); On the Middle Day (Old Vic); The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National theatre); Brand (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre/Royal Shakespeare Company); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Money (National Theatre); Summerfolk (National Theatre); Troilus & Cressida (National Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre); An Enemy of the People (National Theatre); Skylight (National Theatre); Three Tall Women (Wyndham’s Theatre).
Television includes:EastEnders; The Curse; The Crown; Bulletproof; The Child in Time; Grantchester; Apple Tree Yard; WPC 56; Doctors; The Hour; Holby City; King Lear; Ashes to Ashes; The Merchant of Venice.
Theatre includes: One Man Two Governors (The National Theatre/Theatre royal Haymarket/National tour Nick Hytner); Kingston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Calendar Girls – The Musical (UK tour); Grim Tales (Dukes Play House); Wind in The Willows (Rose Theatre Kingston); Grenfell: Value Engineering scenes from the Inquiry (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre).
Television includes: Hope and Glory (BBC); Fortitude (Tiger Aspect); Casualty (BBC) If… (BBC) Rev (Big Talk Productions); The Bill (London Weekend Television).
Film includes: Breakfast on Pluto (Pluto Films); Bridget Jones Diary (Working Title).
Michael Gould (Creon)
Theatre includes:The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear; The Writer (Almeida Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); The Audience (West End); A View from the Bridge (West End and Broadway); Hamlet; The Jungle; (Young Vic); Kerry Jackson; All of Us; Anna; Our Class; Women of Troy; Waves; The Seagull; Earthquakes in London; The Oresteia; (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Swive; (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Ugly One (Royal Court); Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); The Phoenician Women; Othello;The Theban Trilogy (RSC).
Television includes:I Am Maria (Channel 4); There She Goes; Showtrial; You Don’t Know Me; Black Earth Rising (BBC).
Film includes:One Life; Darkest Hour; Rogue One; Undergods; The Duke.
Sara Hazemi (Lichas/Understudy Antigone)
Theatre includes:The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear; The Writer (Almeida Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); The Audience (West End); A View from the Bridge (West End and Broadway); Hamlet; The Jungle; (Young Vic); Kerry Jackson; All of Us; Anna; Our Class; Women of Troy; Waves; The Seagull; Earthquakes in London; The Oresteia; (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Swive; (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Ugly One (Royal Court); Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); The Phoenician Women; Othello;The Theban Trilogy (RSC).
Television includes:I Am Maria (Channel 4); There She Goes; Showtrial; You Don’t Know Me; Black Earth Rising (BBC).
Film includes:One Life; Darkest Hour; Rogue One; Undergods; The Duke.
Gary McDonald (Driver)
Theatre includes: Hardtime Pressure (Royal Court Theatre); Heroes Welcome (Royal Court Theatre); Gregory Motton’s Downfall (Royal Court Theatre); Some Singing Blood (Royal Court Theatre); Been so Long (Royal Court theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Kiln Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (The Tyne Theatre/Bloomsbury Theatre); Macbeth (National Theatre); Black Poppies (National Theatre); Great Big Shame (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Leonardo in Blood Wedding (National Theatre); The Trader in Market Boy (National Theatre); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse/New Ambassadors Theatre); Headmaster Marrow in Choir Boy (Royal Court); Sitting in Limbo (Watford Palace Theatre).
Television includes: London’s Burning pilot; EastEnders; Valentine Falls; Thief Takers; Brothers and Sisters; Dreamteam (Sky One); Numb3rs; Airforce One is Down
Film includes: Shooting Stars; Secrets and Lies; All or Nothing; Until Death; The Shepard; Airforce One is Down; Outpost – Black Sun; Lapse of Honour
Celia Nelson (Ensemble/Understudy Jocasta & Merope)
Training: The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Theatre includes: Dear Octopus (The National Theatre); The House of Bernarda Alba (The National Theatre); The Doctor (Richmond Theatre/The Duke of York’s Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Sherman Theatre); Big Fella (Dublin Festival); Blithe Spirit (Salisbury Playhouse/Perth Rep); Broken Glass at (Theatre Royal Northampton); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (The Torch/Milford Haven); Hard Times (The Torch/Milford Haven); Having a Ball (Perth Rep); Joking Apart (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); La Vie de Boheme (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Salisbury Playhouse); Loot (UK tour); Private Lives (The Stephen Joseph Theatre); Saints Day (The Orange Tree); Spokesong (Sherman Theatre); Sticks and Stones (The Old Red Lion); Tartuffe (Perth Rep); The Animals (Dublin Festival); The Playboy of the Western World (The Torch/Milford Haven); The Rehearsal (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Turn the Old Year Go (The Torch/Milford Haven); Vanity Fair (Sherman Theatre); Virtual Reality (The Stephen Joseph Theatre).
Television includes: The Bill; Slap; Telephone Detectives.
Radio includes: The Archers (BBC Radio 4).
Bhasker Patel (Corin)
Theatre includes: Silence; The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); Anthony and Cleopatr (Liverpool Playhouse); A Map of the World; Nation; The Royal Hunt of the Sun; Tartuffe; Wicked Yaar; The Magic Carpet; Playing with Fire (Royal National Theatre); Blood; The Great Celestial Cow (Royal Court); Timon of Athens (Young Vic); The Comedy of Errors (Bolton Octogan); A Passage to India (Farnham Redgrave); Passing (Park Theatre); MacBeth (New York International Theatre Festival).
Television includes: Emmerdale; Coronation Street; Dirty Filthy Love; Jewel in the Crown; Crown Court; A&E (ITV/Granada); Doctor Who;The Garden; Spooks; Holby City; My Family; Murder in Mind; Only Fools & Horses; Birds of a Feather; Casualty; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Moving On (BBC), Brookside (Channel 4).
Film includes: Drachenfutter (CIVIS Award – Best Actor/ Germany); Snowden; Octopussy; Goldeneye; Being Human with Robin Williams; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Kidulthood; Anuvahood Someotherhood; Hanif Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic; Wild West; Thunderbirds (Working Title); Twin Town; My Beautiful Launderette.
Credits while training include: Macbeth in Macbeth; Edward in The Voysey Inheritance; Val in Orpheus Descending; Lopakin in The Cherry Orchard; Captain Chen in Qibla.
Phia Saban (Antigone)
Training: Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Credits while training include: Amanda in Private Lives;Nina in The Seagull; Ollie in Pomona;W in Cock; Cassandra in The Trojan Women;Iago in Othello; The Girl in The Wheel; Antigone in Antigone.
Television includes: Helaena Targaryen in House of the Dragon (HBO); Aelfwynn in The Last Kingdom (Netflix/Carnival Films).
Jordan Scowen (Eteocles)
Training: LAMDA.
Theatre includes: Darkin in The History Boys (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre).
Television includes: Robert Tipton in Belgravia: The Next Chapter (MGM/Carnivals drama); Sgt John Shaffer in Masters of the Air (Apple TV+); Ringo Starr in Urban Myths (SKY); Home (Channel 4).
Film includes: Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (BBC Films).
June Watson (Merope)
Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar Warehouse); Sea Creatures; Uncle Vanya; Good People (Hamsptead Theatre); As You Like It (@Sohoplace); After Life; The Welkin; John; Scenes from the Big Picture; The Good Hope; Our Lady of Sligo; Cardiff East; The Prince’s Play; Le Cid; Rutherford and Son; Machinal; Billy Liar; Whale; Garden of England; As I Lay Dying; The Beggar’s Opera; Lark Rise; The Passion; The World Turned Upside Down; The Long Voyage Home;Il Campiello; State of the Revolution (National Theatre); Road; Kosher Harry; Beside Herself; Saved; Small Change; Life Price; Glasshouses (Royal Court Theatre); Escaped Alone (Royal Court Theatre/ BAM/ UK tour); The Father; Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios); The Cripple of Inishmaan – Clarence Derwent Award (Noël Coward Theatre/ Broadway); Before the Party, Hippolytus (Almeida Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre); Calendar Girls (UK tour); Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal Bath); Aristo (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange Theatre); Smaller; Middle Aged Spread (Lyric West End); Mary Stuart (Apollo Theatre); Talking to Terrorists; Sliding with Suzanne (Royal Court/Out of Joint); Romeo & Juliet (RSC); Streetcar to Tennessee (Young Vic); Blue Heart (Out of Joint); Coriolanus; The Winter’s Tale; The Wars of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company); Ballroom (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Waiting for the Parade (Lyric Hammersmith).
Television includes: Whitstable Pearl; The Cockfields; All Creatures Great and Small; Casualty; The Midnight Gang; Chernobyl; Call the Midwife; To Walk Invisible; Agatha Raisin; Thirteen; Unforgotten; A Song for Jenny; Holby City; The Café; Doctors; Wallander; Law and Order UK; Coming Up; Above Suspicion; New Tricks; Hancock and Joan; The Bill; The Street; Billy Goat’s Gruff; City of Vice; Clapham Junction; Wedding Belles; The Time of Your Life; Strictly Confidential; In Denial of Murder; The Key; Willian & Mary; Midsomer Murders; Brotherly Love; Thursday 12th; In A Land of Plenty; Where the Heart Is; Berkeley Square; Kavanagh QC and A Mug’s Game.
Film includes: Your Christmas or Mine; The Bike Thief; The Death of Stalin; The Lady in the Van; Ghost Hunter; 102 Dalmatians; Highlander IV: Endgame; The Last Yellow; The Knowledge and Bloody Kids.
James Wilbraham (Polyneices)
Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Credits whilst training includes: Den in The Electric; Sebastien in All That I AM; Feste/Student in Twelfth Night Remembered; Angelo in Measure for Measure; Captain Brice in Arcadia.
Theatre includes: Ikaria (UK Tour).
Television includes: Tom Jones (Mammoth Screen for ITV); SAS Rogue Heroes (Kudos); In My Skin (Expectation for BBC); Ordinary Lies (BBC); Pobol y Cwm (BBC Wales); Gwaith/Cartref (Fiction Factory).
CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES
Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and director, working in theatre and on screen. His recent production of Player Kings, starring Ian McKellen, opened at the Noël Coward Theatre before a national tour. His other recent work includes Judas, Children of Nora, and Oedipus at International Theater Amsterdam, where until he was the inaugural Ibsen Artist in Residence. His adaptation of Animal Farm played an extensive national tour in 2022 and is slated for a London transfer. His monologue condensation of Enemy of the People starred Ann Dowd at Park Avenue Armory and was one of the first new pieces of theatre to play in New York post the pandemic shutdown.
In six years at the Almeida, he made eight productions; five transferred to the West End, and four to New York. These included his adaptations of The Wild Duck, Mary Stuart (also West End and National tour), Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also West End; Schauspiel Stuttgart; Park Avenue Armory), and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway; West End; national and international tours). As a director, his productions included Hamlet starring Andrew Scott (also West End; Park Avenue Armory; and broadcast on BBC2); The Fever and Mr Burns. His play The Doctor, which played successful runs at Park Avenue Armory in 2023 and in the West End in 2022, remains in repertoire at both the Burgtheater in Vienna and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, as well as in numerous new productions across the globe.
His awards include two Evening Standard ‘Best Director’ Awards; the Critics’ Circle Award, the Kurt Hübner Award (for his debut production in Germany); and the Olivier Award for ‘Best Director’, of which he was the youngest ever winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Hildegard Bechtler (Set Design)
Hildegard Bechtler is an award-winning designer based in London and working internationally. Work in theatre includes designs for the Almeida Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Donmar, on Broadway and extensively in the West End including Top Hat, Oresteia (both Olivier-nominated for best set design), Mary Stuart, Hamlet, Consent, Arcadia and The Crucible. Credits for the National Theatre include Antony and Cleopatra, Hansard, After the Dance (Olivier Award) and Iphigenia at Aulis (Evening Standard Award nomination). Credits for the Royal Court include The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape, My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Recent work includes The Doctor, Hamlet/Oresteia and Enemy of the People at the Park Avenue Armory; Four Quartets in the West End; Judas, Nora and Oedipus for Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam, The Doctor in the West End, at the Burgtheater Vienna and at the Adelaide Festival and Iwanow at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Her many designs in opera and ballet include productions for English National Opera, La Scala Milan, Glyndebourne and the world premieres of The Cellist for the Royal Ballet and Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House. She won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House. Upcoming work includes a world premiere for Zurich Ballet; and Dr Strangelove in the West End.
Wojciech Dziedzic (Costume Design)
Wojciech Dziedzic designs costumes for opera, theatre and musical and leads, in parallel, a career of a stylist. He studied fashion design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, institutions in which he later taught. Between 2010 and 2019, he directed the fashion department of the Poznań School of Design in Poland.
Recent credits include Simon Boccanegra (New National Theatre in Tokyo); Die Blume von Hawaii (Theater Magdeburg); Shirine (Opéra de Lyon); Acis and Galatea (Concertgebouw Amsterdam); Keine Stille außer der des Windes (Nationaltheater Mannheim); Cardillac (Polish National Opera); Anatomy of a Suicide (Berliner Ensemble); Apocalypse Arabe (Aix en Provence); Ivanov (Schauspiel Stuttgart); Les Indes Galantes (Opéra national de Paris); Aus Licht (Dutch National Opera); Tristan and Isolde, Penthesilea (La Monnaie Brussels); The Crucible (Theatre Basel, Dir. Robert Icke); Eugene Onegin, Il Serpente di Bronzo and A Wintery Spring (Oper Frankfurt); Invasion-Explosion (Holland Festival); Shirine, GerMANIA, Macbeth (Opéra de Lyon); The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Broadway); Nora, A Sort of Hades, Blindeness, Phaedra, Crave, Caligula (Theater Utrecht); Fidelio (Erl Festival); Boris Godunov, the Conquest of Mexico, Bomarzo, Lohengrin, El Público, Brokeback Mountain (Teatro Real Madrid); Oedipus, From The Life of The Marionettes, The Maids, Mary Stuart, Danton’s Death, Nora, Angels in America, And never we’ll be parted, The Miser, All my Sons (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The Crucible (Broadway, Dir. Ivo van Hove); Cries and Whispers (BAM); Mazeppa (Komische Oper Berlin).
Natasha Chivers (Lighting Design)
Natasha’s awards and nominations includes: Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play, and nominated for an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for Prima Facie.She won the Olivier Award for best lighting for Sunday in the Park with George. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for 1984 and for an Olivier Award for Oresteia
Her extensive work in theatre includes: The Hills of California (West End); Prima Facie (Harold Pinter Theatre/ Broadway); SYLVIA, The American Clock (Old Vic); Peaky Blinders (Rambert); Doctor, Hamlet, Oresteia (Almeida/ West End/ Park Avenue Armory); Enemy of People (Park Avenue Armory, New York); Judas (Internationaal Theater, Amsterdam) Mates in Chelsea, Shoe Lady, White Pearl, The Cane, Bad Roads, Mistress Contract, Fireworks (Royal Court); Ivanov (Staatstheater, Stuttgart); ; Kan Ya Ma Kan (Riyadh); Message in a Bottle, Electric Hotel, Gravity Fatigue (Sadler’s Wells); Drive and Live: La Bohème (ENO); The 1984 (Playhouse Theatre/ Broadway); The Antipodes, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, Statement of Regret (National Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea, The Chalk Garden,The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre); We Are Here (La Mama, New York); Allelujah! (Bridge Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Belleville (Donmar); Electric Counterpoint, Strapless (Royal Ballet); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Macbeth (Broadway); Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndham’s)
Tom Gibbons (Sound Design)
Recent work includes Dear England (National Theatre, West End); Dead Man Walking (The Metropolitan Opera); Here We Are (The Shed, New York); Jesus Christ Superstar (DeLaMar Theatre, Amsterdam);Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre, Young Vic); Grey House (Lyceum Theatre, Broadway); Good (West End); Hamlet, Oresteia, The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida Theatre, West End); Animal Farm (UK tour); West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); Cabaret (Göteborg Opera); Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam); The Antipodes, Home, I’m Darling, People, Places and Things (Winner for Best Sound Design, Olivier Awards 2016), Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn (National Theatre/West End); All About Eve (West End); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Doctor, Wild Duck (Almeida/West End); Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Mr Burns, 1984 (Almeida/West End/Broadway); Fanny and Alexander, The Lorax (Old Vic); A View From the Bridge (Young Vic/West End/Broadway); Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican); Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead Theatre); White Devil, As You Like It (RSC); Translations, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); After Life, The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar, St Ann’s Brooklyn); The End of History, Pah La, The Woods, Love Love Love, (Royal Court).
Tal Yarden (Video Design)
London credits: Get Up, Stand Up, Anna X, My Brilliant Friend, Hamlet, Antigone, The Damned, Kings of War, The Fountainhead, Roman Tragedies, Lazarus. Broadway credits: Indecent, Network, The Waverly Gallery, Sunday in the Park with George, The Crucible; Off-Broadway & Regional credits: Becky Nurse of Salem, Grey Rock, King Lear, Distracted, Liberty City, The Misanthrope; A Walk on the Moon, Ocean Filibuster, Passing Strange, Frost/Nixon; Opera credits: Exterminating Angel, Between Worlds, Mahagonny, Salome, Brokeback Mountain, Macbeth. Video: Pat McGrath, Rick Owens, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, James Brown, Patti Smith; Awards: Molière, Lucille Lortel, Noinations: Tony, Drama Desk, Hewes, Outer Critic.
New cast announced for the Spectacular, Spectacular! MOULIN ROUGE!
THE MUSICAL
Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life
Natalie Kassanga to play Satine, Dom Simpson to play Christian, and Craig Ryder to play Harold Zidler in the hit musical at the Piccadilly Theatre, London
Global Creatures, Producers of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, are delighted to welcome a new cast of bohemians and aristocrats as the hit show enters its fourth year at the Piccadilly Theatre in London.
From 14 October 2024, Natalie Kassanga (Dreamgirls)joins the cast to play Satine alongside current cast members Dom Simpson (The Book of Mormon) as Christian and Craig Ryder (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) who will play Harold Zidler having previously covered the role. The show welcomes Dex Lee (The Scottsboro Boys) as Toulouse-Lautrec, joining Ben Richards (Emmerdale) as The Duke, Ivan De Freitas (& Juliet) as Santiago and Charlotte Gooch (Dirty Dancing) as Nini. Hannah Jay-Allan (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical) and Helen K Wint (Oklahoma!) will alternate the role of Arabia, and Matteo Johnson (Bat Out of Hell) will play Baby Doll, joining Bernadette Bangura (My Fair Lady) as La Chocolat, and Angela Marie Hurst (TINA: The Tina Turner Musical) as Alternate Satine.
The full cast will also include Oliver Adam-Reynolds, Takaiyah Bailey, Erin Bell, Emily Bolland, Ross Chisari, Athena Collins, James Davies-Williams, Katie Deacon, Serenar Douch, Rola Elliott, Myles Hart, Grace Hawksworth, Maiya Hikasa, Melvin LeBlanc, Tom Mather, Kira McPherson, Paul Mukembo, Dean Read, Ben Rutter, Gavin Ryan, Mark Samaras, Jamie Shields, Catrin Thomas, Lindsey Tierney, Alex Tranter, Matt Trevorrow, Kevin Tristan, Ben Whitnall, and Sasha Woodward.
Set in Paris, 1899, a world of indulgent beauty and unparalleled extravagance, of bohemians and aristocrats, of boulevardiers and reprobates, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the story of a lovesick American writer, Christian, and Satine, the dazzling star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub.
When their lives collide at the Moulin Rouge, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be thwarted by the nightclub’s host and impresario, Harold Zidler, and The Duke of Monroth, the wealthy and entitled patron of the club who thinks he can buy anything he wants, including Satine. Together with his Bohemian friends – the brilliant and starving artist Toulouse-Lautrec, and the greatest tango dancer in all of Paris, Santiago – Christian stages a musical spectacular in an attempt to save the Moulin Rouge and win the heart of Satine.
Baz Luhrmann’s iconic film comes to life onstage, remixed for today in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Moulin Rouge! The Musicalinvites you to enter a world of passionate romance and eye-popping splendour… a place where Bohemians and aristocrats revel together in electrifying enchantment… a place where all your wildest dreams come true!
