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Sir Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett announce tenth collaboration
Nicholas Hytner will direct the world premiere of Alan Bennett’s Allejujah!, previewing at the Bridge Theatre from 11 July 2018 with opening night on 18 July and running to 28 September 2018. Designed by Bob Crowley, Allelujah! will have lighting by Natasha Chivers and music by George Fenton. Tickets will go on sale at 10am today for priority members with public booking opening on…
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Launch of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Cafe de Paris
Hosted by Will Young, who will be starring in the show as bandleader Wally Stand, the launch of Strictly Ballroom the musical offered all the sequinned glamour you would expect. Young sang the two breakout pop hits from the show Time After Time and Love is in the Air, and the cast twirled and sparkled…
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Ian McKellen to feature in the West End premiere of The Exorcist
Ian McKellen will feature in the West End premiere of The Exorcist as the voice of the Demon. The trailer which features a preview of McKellen’s devilish new role can be viewed here From 20 October at the Phoenix Theatre, the stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s iconic best-selling novel will be unleashed onto the London stage for the very first time in…
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Diary of Teenage Girl, Southwark Playhouse
A guest review by Jake Laverde Like the title suggests, Diary of a Teenage Girl is told from the point of view of Minnie Goetze. A 15-year-old girl living in 70’s San Francisco whose sexuality doesn’t so much blossom as bursts wide open when she embarks on an affair with her mother’s boyfriend and throws…
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Swifties, Theatre N16
Swifties is a tale of two young women who deal with their boring and unfulfilled lives by pretending to be Taylor Swift and her fan/member of her Squad. Isabella Niloufar (soon to be seen in the National Theatre’s production Salome) is the violent Nina who plays the obsessive to Yasmin’s (Tanya Cubric) Taylor. The productions adapts The…
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