Amongst the darkness of an unnamed wood, a lawless gang are trying to bury a dark secret. The group need someone to take charge, but who can they trust? Who do they follow? While lies spiral and tension mounts, everyday adolescence twists and turns into an anarchic game of survival.
This West End premiere will see the National Youth Theatre REP Company bring to life Denis Kelly's moral tug of war between actions and their consequences. Under the dynamic direction of Bryan Forbes Bursary winner Sean Hollands, the NYT REP Company debut this hilarious tale with a very dark heart in the West End Ambassadors Theatre.
In this remarkable year, celebrating 400 years of the genius of Shakespeare, we bring four diverse Royal Shakespeare Company plays to the Barbican - direct from Stratford-upon-Avon.
Two actors enter. Each lights a match and watches it burn. Whoever's goes out first loses and must play the fated doctor, while the other plays the demon Mephistophilis, in this notorious tale of vanity, greed and damnation.
Faustus is a solitary scholar who has exhausted the confines of human knowledge. Frustrated with the futility of religion, law and science, he is desperate for a deeper understanding of the universe and the fame it will bring. Risking everything, he conjures Mephistophilis and asks him to strike a deal with Lucifer. Twenty-four years of absolute knowledge in exchange for his soul.
Transferring to London following its successful run at the Royal Shakespeare Company's home in Stratford-upon-Avon, Maria Aberg's punchy production updates Marlowe for our times with ritual, cabaret and carnival. Bristling with originality and vision, it sees Sandy Grierson and Oliver Ryan share the roles of the doctor and the demon. Who will play Faustus when you see it?
Join us this summer for the world premiere of Groundhog Day a new musical directed by Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus. Groundhog Day is the story of Phil Connors (Andy Karl), a cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman who is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in the isolated small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, when he finds himself caught in a time loop, forced to repeat the same day again and again. As each day plays out exactly the same as before Phil becomes increasingly despondent, but is there a lesson to be learnt through his experiences, will he ever unlock the secret and break the cycle?
Director; Matthew Warchus, composer and lyricist Tim Minchin, choreographer Peter Darling and designer Rob Howell, four of the creators of the international sensation Matilda The Musical, have joined forces with writer Danny Rubin to collaborate on this new musical based on his 1993 hit film.
Andy Karl's numerous Broadway credits include On the Twentieth Century, Rocky, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Jersey Boys, Wicked, 9 to 5, Legally Blonde, Saturday Night Fever.
The Secret Garden: Spring Edition is a brand new 70-minute edition of the 1991 Tony-Award- winning Broadway musical, The Secret Garden, by Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon.
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Orphaned in India, 11 year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive Uncle Archibald and his invalid son Colin. On their estate, she discovers a locked garden filled with magic, a boy who talks to birds, and a cousin she brings back to health by putting him to work in the garden. The Secret Garden has a special place in many people’s hearts. Be it as a novel, a film, or a musical, the timeless story has a way of staying with people far beyond their exposure to it.
The Secret Garden is produced by P2P Productions. P2P is a unique performing arts programme that has inspired and nurtured the talent of thousands of young performers over the past 30 years! We offer a significant opportunity for the diverse new talent of all ages to develop and enrich their quality of life through the practice of performing arts.
We believe that children should be trained as professionals by professionals. Our team maintains an established link with casting directors, music producers, and talent agents across the world. We are passionate about releasing the individual skill and flair of each student in all aspects of their chosen field. Our experienced creative team provide exceptional training and are dedicated in preparing and inspiring our students at the highest level.
Last Summer P2P Productions brought the classic musical Annie back to the West End and had great success. 400 outstanding cast members wowed the audiences all summer long!
One of the anticipated dance events of 2016. London premiere. Choreographer Akram Khan creates a brand new version of the iconic romantic ballet Giselle for English National Ballet.
The classic story of love, revenge and redemption is given a new interpretation, with Academy-Award winning designer Tim Yip (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creating a stunning set design, and composer Ben Frost adapting the original score, which will be performed by English National Ballet Philharmonic.
The world premiere of a new British musical, young photographer Jimmy Tucker faces the biggest and most exciting challenge of his life when a stranger commissions him to find and shoot the seven deadly sins alive and kicking in modern London.
In a break-neck race through the night, a series of extraordinary encounters involving girlfriends, family history and the intoxicating cult of celebrity begin to reveal that there is a whole lot more at stake than just money.
Weaving a breathtaking, contemporary score around a dazzlingly witty portrait of the price of fame, Exposure is an electrifying and brilliantly original new musical that is simply unmissable.
Award-winning actor Rebel Wilson will be joining the West End cast for a strictly limited 8 weeks only at the Phoenix Theatre to play the part of Miss Adelaide from Tuesday 28 June until Sunday 21 August 2016.
There’s a new doll in town! Hollywood star Rebel Wilson makes her West End Debut in the all American classic as the long-suffering Miss Adelaide. Wilson is best known for her role as “Fat Amy” in the multi award winning films Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2. She will take on this iconic role from the 28 of June for a limited 8 week run until 21 August. Further casting to be announced.
Nathan Detroit is desperate: he needs money for an illegal dice game, and he needs it fast. Not to mention a 14 year engagement with night club singer Miss Adelaide whose patience is finally running out. Enter notorious gambler Sky Masterson, a guy who can never turn down a bet, and straight laced missionary Sarah Brown, a doll with a heart of ice. The wager: Sky has to romance Sarah by taking her to Havana for dinner and in return he’ll provide a dozen & sinners for Sarah’s mission. Surely this is one bet Nathan absolutely can't lose?
The sizzling New York tale of gamblers, gangsters and nightclub singers will leave you walking on air (Daily Telegraph) with a glorious evening featuring some of Broadway's greatest show stopping tunes, including Luck Be a Lady, Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat and My Time of Day. With dazzling choreography by world renowned Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta and Andrew Wright (Singin’ in the Rain and Barnum), and direction from New York's Gordon Greenberg, this production leaves the whole audience purring with pleasure (Times). This is one feel good show you won't want to miss.
Harold Brighouse's classic comic love story is the tale of a Salford cobbler with three unruly daughters that owes more than a little to King Lear and Cinderella. The homage is purely intentional.
Martin Shaw is one of the UK’s favourite actors, well-known for starring in Inspector George Gently, Judge John Deed, and The Professionals on television. His stage roles included Saturday, Sunday, Monday, opposite Laurence Olivier; he was Tony Award nominated for An Ideal Husband on Broadway and won a Drama Desk award. Recent West End credits included A Man for All Seasons and Twelve Angry Men.
Christopher Timothy is best-known for his roles as James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small and Mac in the BBC series Doctors.
Artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre since 2006, where his acclaimed productions have included. Taken at Midnight, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Singing in the Rain Jonathan Church has recently been appointed Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company.
We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead!
So it's time to prepare yourselves for a special production of Horrible Histories featuring your favourite characters from our barmy past to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Barmy Britain in the West End!
Could you beat battling Boudicca? Will King John be a martyr for the Magna Carta? Will you lose your heart or your head to Henry VIII? Can Parliament survive gunpowder Guy? Light up your life with the great fire of London! Escape the clutches of Burke and Hare and move to the groove with party Queen Victoria!
It's the history of Britain with the nasty bits left in!
Following huge public and critical acclaim since it opened in March, Alan Ayckbourn's hilarious tale of matrimonial mishaps, How the Other Half Loves, directed by Alan Strachan, is moving house to the Duke of York's Theatre for just 12 weeks!
The star cast includes Olivier Award nominated stage and screen actor Nicholas le Prevost opposite Jenny Seagrove. Jenny starred in Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular in the West End at the Garrick in 2007, and is best known for her role as QC Jo Millsin ITV's Judge John Deed. Jason Merrells - one of TV’s most popular actors from roles in Lark Rise to Candleford, Cutting It and Waterloo Road stars opposite Andrea Lowe best known for playing DS Annie Cabbot in the popular ITV series DCI Banks. Joining them will be Matthew Cottle, from the BAFTA nominated Game On, and most recently seen in Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business at the National Theatre in 2014 stars opposite Gillian Wright. Gillian is nationally known for her award-winning role as Jean Slater in EastEnders.
As Bob and Fiona clumsily try to cover up their affair, their spouses intervention only adds to the confusion. William and Mary Featherstone become hopelessly stuck in the middle, falsely accused of adultery and with no idea as to how they've become involved. The plot culminates in two disastrous dinner parties on successive nights, shown at the same time, after which the future of all three couples seems in jeopardy.
New York, 2007. Gus Marcantonio, retired longshoreman, former trade union organiser, renaissance man, feels that the world has turned its back on everything he has fought for in life. With his sister, he summons his three grown children home, trailing the appendages of their chaotic lives, to their Brooklyn brownstone for the most unusual family reunion yet.
Shot through with characteristic wit and searing passion, Tony Kushner's latest play is at once the story of a family grappling to find meaning in a landscape they no longer recognise and an epic exploration of humanity's compulsive search for Utopias, both personal and political.
Pulitzer Prize winner Kushner makes a highly anticipated return to Hampstead where his Slavs! Debuted in 1994. His other plays include the classic Angels in America and screenplays include the Oscar nominated Lincoln and Munich.
Olivier Award winner Michael Boyd’s recent directing credits include Orfeo (Royal Opera House/Roundhouse) and Marlowe's Tamburlaine (Broadway). Boyd was the Artistic Director of The RSC from 2002 until 2012.
Bienvenido al maravilloso mundo de Ripley Believe It or Not! Localizada en el corazón del West End Londinense, al 1 London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, este museo ofrece más de 700 objetos extraños que se encuentran ordenados de forma temática a lo largo de las seis plantas del edificio.
Entra en el reino misterioso de Robert Leroy Ripley, un antropólogo apasionado por los objetos insólitos y los acontecimientos extraños e inexplicables.
Descubre a algunas de las personas más asombrosas de la historia. Los objetos estrella del museo son algunas cabezas reducidas por los indios jíbaros de Ecuador, que se muestran junto a un vídeo explicando los rituales llevados a cabo para realizar la reducción
La novedad de este año es la Galería de Leyendas, alberga la mayor colección del mundo de antorchas olímpicas, con nada menos que 31, incluyendo una antorcha de los Juegos de Londres firmada por la ciclista Laura Trott, doble medallista de oro.
Experimenta exhibiciones interactivas y adéntrate en el Laberinto de Espejos encantado de Ripley, un nuevo tipo de casa de espejos que cuenta con más de 100 espejos con iluminación LED y sonido digital. O acepta el desafío del LaseRace, tu objetivo es navegar por el laberinto sin romper ningún rayo de láser en el menor tiempo posible demostrando fuerza y agilidad.
Esta atracción presenta de forma única una mezcla de entretenimiento, educación y diversión para toda la familia, que resulta atractivo a cualquiera con un mínimo de curiosidad.
El museo está abierto desde las 10 horas de la mañana hasta medianoche. La última entrada es a las 22h30. La atracción está abierta los 365 días del año. Los audio guías están disponibles en alemán, francés, italiano y español. El tour está también disponible con guía bajo petición y reserva previa. Se permite realizar fotos. Los shows en vivo se realizan en el vestíbulo durante la temporada alta.
Summer 1914. In order to dedicate themselves to a life of study, the King and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for three years. No sooner have they made their idealistic pledge than the Princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting arrive, presenting the men with a severe test of their high-minded resolve.
Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy delights in championing and then unravelling an unrealistic vow, and mischievously suggesting that the study of the opposite sex is in fact the highest of all academic endeavours. Only at the end of the play is the merriment curtailed as the lovers agree to submit to a period apart, unaware that the world around them is about to be utterly transformed by the war to end all wars.
Following the productions 2014 run in Stratford-upon Avon and a subsequent run in Chichester, the RSC Chichester Festival Theatre productions of Christopher Luscombe’s heart-warming double bill Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado about Nothing or Love’s Labour’s Won will transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a limited season.
From the imagination of one of Ireland’s foremost dance and theatre-makers, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael Keegan-Dolan, comes a magical new adaptation of one of the most famous ballets in the world, Swan Lake.
Accompanied by an original score of traditional Irish and Nordic Folk music played live on fiddle, nyckelharpa, cello, voice and percussion, this new Swan Lake is rooted in 2016 in an imaginary place where ancient Irish mythology and modern Ireland meet. Featuring powerful imagery and beautiful dancing, Michael Keegan-Dolan has worked with eight dancers, two actors and three musicians to create a world of magical realism.
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
This Christmas, see a musical inspired by the recording session that brought together these rock & roll grandees for the first and only time.
On December 4, 1956, these four star musicians gathered at Sun Records in Memphis, the studios of legendary record producer Sam Phillips, for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions ever.
Million Dollar Quartet brings the night to life, featuring a score of rock hits including Blue Suede Shoes Fever That’s All Right, Sixteen Tons, Great Balls of Fire, Walk the Line, Whole Lotta Shakin Going On, Who Do You Love? Matchbox, Folsom Prison Blues, Hound Dog and many more.
Discover the true story of the night that became a defining moment of rock & roll history.