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Smash hit musical Blood Brothers which performed to sell-out houses and standing ovations on its most recent UK tour is returning to the New Theatre…
© Marc Brenner Headlines have accompanied every step of the long, pandemic-delayed run-up to the opening of this production of Hamlet. The main one was that at the age of 82, Ian McKellen was about to become the oldest Prince of Denmark the UK has ever seen. He was doing so in a production that was age, colour and gender blind, with Francesca Annis, once McKellen's Juliet, now cast as the ghost of Hamlet's father and an Ophelia in the shape 20-something Alis Wyn Davies. So far, so intriguing. Then bad news began to break. Steven Berkoff, who was due to play Polonius, left the production as ...
A CHANCE meeting and a mutual love of Educating Rita was the spark for the major new production of the acclaimed Willy Russell play, which opens in Southampton next week. Jessica Johnson will play Susan "Rita" White, the Liverpudlian hairdresser aiming for a better life at the Open University, opposite Stephen Tompkinson as her frustrated professor Frank Bryant. And it all came about after a serendipitous meeting between the two leads when both were performing at Live Theatre in Newcastle. Jessica said: "We crossed paths and got chatting, and I just said to Stephen I thought he would ...
First published on Sun 13 Jun 2021 08.58 EDT A visit to a beautiful open-air clifftop theatre in Cornwall by partners of the G7 leaders ended in embarrassment for the UK government after the culture secretary wrongly claimed it had received emergency funding during the Covid crisis. Following the hugely successful visit to the Minack theatre, perched dizzyingly above the Atlantic, the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, tweeted that he was delighted that Jill Biden and Carrie Johnson had visited the âstunningâ theatre. But he added: âThis unique venue was one of more than 650 the...
Glyndwr graduate set to forge successful career as a playwright and director A talented young playwright and director has told how studying at Wrexham Glyndwr University helped on the way to forging a career in the industry. Kallum Weyman – who graduated from WGU a BA (Hons) Theatre, Television and Performance degree – recently earned a bursary for the Theatre Genedlaethol Cymru to develop a new play. Kallum, 22, who grew up in Deganwy, explained how studying at Glyndwr helped them identify and progress their goals, in particular directing and writing dramas. They said: “It’s a dynami...