Queens Critic Is at It Again
It's another busy calendar week in the earth of London theatre, and we've rounded up all the latest and greatest news just for you. Learn which extra will be the latest to accept on the iconic Roxie Hart, which immersive show just set a U.K. record, and whether or not Les Misérables may exist taking a break.
Await, Les Misérables may have a break? Is this the end of the world?
Nah, we're just messing with yous. But the prove may accept a cursory respite from its fourteen-year stint at The Queen's Theatre. Cameron Mackintosh is restoring a number of West End theatres and so that these venues tin can continue hosting shows for years to come up. Following the successful restoration of the Victoria Palace Theatre (now hosting Hamilton), Mackintosh has appear plans to similarly restore Wyndham'southward, Noël Coward, Gielgud, the Novello, and The Queen's Theatre. Work on The Queen's Theatre won't brainstorm until 2019 or 2020, and arrangements will be made for Les Misérables to continue its run elsewhere during renovations, and then never fear.
Fresh from her star turn in Chess at the London Coliseum, Alexandra Burke will before long join the cast of Chicago. She'll play Roxie Hart in the West End production from xiii August to thirteen October.
Meanwhile, we have farther casting announced for Pinter at the Pinter: the season of one-act plays past Harold Pinter starting at the Harold Pinter Theatre in September. Penelope Wilton will play in Landscape and A Kind of Alaska aslope Tamsin Greig and Keith Allen. Antony Sher (Male monarch Lear) and Kate O'Flynn (The Ferryman) will join the previously announced casts of One For The Route, New World Order, Mountain Language, and Ashes to Ashes. Russell Tovey (Angels in America) and Hayley Squires (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) will bring together the casts of The Lover and The Collection. Also announced is Jessica Barden in Night School, and Luke Thallon in The Room, Victoria Station, and Family Voices.
Kevin Elyot's celebrated play Coming Clean volition transfer to the West End starting next Jan. Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the Male monarch's Head Theatre's artistic manager, will direct. Elyot's starting time play, Coming Clean premiered in 1982, and tells the story of a gay couple whose relationship is breaking downwardly. Spreadbury-Maher directed the show'south first London revival and its 35th ceremony production. And so needless to say, this transfer is in good hands.
Put on your dancing shoes and grab your flapper headbands, because The Guild of Misrule'southward production ofThe Keen Gatsby but became the longest running immersive bear witness in the U.K. That means, amidst other things, that its bandage have now said "One-time Sport" ix,088 times. Running since June 2017, The Great Gatsby has extended (even so again) to the end of the year. Will it extend again later that? It's quite possible, but yous never know….
Another West End evidence that just extended is Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell. The rock musical with songs by Meat Loaf is now booking through five January 2019.
Acclaimed dancer and stage and screen player Richard Windsor will play Tony Manero in a new touring production of Saturday Dark Fever that kicks off in August.
John Logan's London production of Cerise, starring Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch, volition play the big screen this fall. On 7 November, you can take hold of information technology in motion picture theatres throughout the U.K. and Northward America. Watch the trailer here:
Sir Ian McKellen is at information technology again: dazzling critics in his latest performance as King Lear at the Duke of York's Theatre. In what's rumoured to be his last major Shakespearean part, McKellen gives a performance critics are calling "magnificent" and "a Shakespearean masterclass." McKellen got his acting start at The Duke of York'due south, so the cycle has come full circle. But that doesn't hateful we're ready for him to retire only notwithstanding.
Source: https://blog.fromtheboxoffice.com/2018/07/27/london-theatre-weekly-round-up-queens-theatre-renovations-celebrity-chicago-casting-record-breaking-immersive-show/
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