New English Ballet Theatre returns with a program showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents.
The Royal Ballet’s Marcelino Sambe creates his first work for NEBT to the music of Nathan Halpern.
The Royal Ballet’s Kristen McNally and Valentino Zucchetti return to choreograph new pieces, with Zucchetti featuring music by Rachmaninoff, performed live by emerging pianist Anne Lovett.
Daniela Cardim Fonteyne creates a dynamic new piece, highlighting the physicality and youthful energy of the company's dancers, while English National Ballet Associate Artist George Williamson presents Foreign, a new work based on Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, set to Brahms' cello sonata and played live.
Direct from a sold out season in New York, Academy and Bafta Award-winner Mark Rylance returns to the West End to perform in Nice Fish, a hit new comic play written by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins and directed by Claire van Kampen.
On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season and on the frostbitten, unforgiving landscape, two old friends are out on the ice and they are angling for something big, something down there that is pure need, something that, had it the wherewithal, would swallow them whole.
Mark Rylance, in a unique collaboration with critically-acclaimed Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins, draws on his teenage years in the frozen winters and culture of the American Midwest. Nice Fish is an ice fishing expedition where the ordinary and extraordinary collide. The full New York cast will transfer to London for this limited season. Ron (Mark Rylance) and Erik (Jim Lichtscheidl) play the odd couple, whose ordinary lives are comically exposed in this sublimely playful, profound and very funny play. Kayli Carter, Bob Davis and Raye Birk join them on their journey across the pond to perform in Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter theatre this winter.
Bursting with fresh and astonishing spontaneity, the voice-throwing queen is back at the Criterion Theatre with her sell-out show In Your Face following her hit West End run earlier this year.
British comedy award winning ventriloquist Nina Conti uses face masks to turn her audience members into puppets and improvises a hilarious new show every night. No two shows are ever the same.
Many time star of Live at the Apollo, BAFTA nominated film maker and viral sensation Nina Conti makes people laugh until they cry. Expect the unexpected!
McNally’s multi Tony award winning musical, Ragtime.
It is the turn of the 20th Century in New York. An era is exploding. A century is spinning. And the people are moving in rhythm and rhyme to the music of Ragtime. Based on the novel by E.L Doctorow, Ragtime weaves together the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr, a Harlem musician; Mother and her white, middle class family in New Rochelle and Tateh, a Jewish immigrant who has come to America with his daughter seeking a new life.
Their fictional lives become dramatically intertwined with one another as well as with historical figures including Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, JP Morgan and Henry Ford. Ragtime the 1998 Tony Awards with 12 nominations, winning 4 including Best Book by Terrence McNally and Best Original Score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
In this brand new family musical SCOOBY-DOO and the MYSTERY INC. gang have been called upon to help solve an epic mystery. A trouble-making ghost is haunting the London Palladium and SHAGGY, FRED, DAPHNE, VELMA and SCOOBY-DOO are on their way, and bringing the MYSTERY MACHINE to crack this spooky and theatrical case.
SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES will have the whole family on the edge of their seats in traditional SCOOBY-DOO fashion from the moment this fun, musical show begins.
Maybe this time the gang are in over their heads?!
A major revival of The Dresser by Academy award winning author Sir Ronald Harwood starring Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith. Olivier Award winner Ken Stott and BAFTA Award winner Reece Shearsmith come together as lead actor and Norman the dresser in this eagerly awaited revival of a wonderfully affectionate and intelligent play about the theatre. The Guardian.
Both hilarious and poignant, The Dresser explores the relationship between two men who are reluctantly and inevitably co-dependent. As World War II rages, backstage in a provincial English theatre, an ageing, once-famous classical actor is troubled. Sir, the last in a dying breed of great English Shakespearean actors, is unwilling to take to the stage to deliver his renowned portrayal of King Lear. It falls to his faithful dresser Norman to rouse another great performance from him, to keep both the show and its star from falling apart.
Renowned as Ronald Harwood’s greatest play, The Dresser has been nominated for Olivier and Tony Awards as well as an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film. With a multi-award winning creative team of Ken Stott (Rebus, God of Carnage), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen, Inside Number 9) and Sean Foley (The Ladykillers, Jeeves and Wooster) this promises to be an unmissable production of a theatrical classic.
The Olivier nominated creators of Alice’s Adventures Underground, Les Enfant Terribles theatre company and ebp in association with Madame Tussauds present THE GAME’S AFOOT. Become Baker Street’s finest detective. Travel back to Victorian London and delve into the world of Sherlock Holmes, using your powers of deduction to solve the case before time runs out.
As the newest recruits of Scotland Yard, follow in the footsteps of the great detective himself, interview suspects, read reports and search for hidden clues in this free roaming, multi-sensory and intricate world. Which case will you want to crack: The Case of the Poisonous Poet or The Case of the Bloodthirsty Beast? Your sleuthing skills will be rewarded with a trip to our bar to celebrate with your fellow Scotland Yard officers. Sherlock is waiting. THE GAME’S AFOOT.
The Cases: cases for The Game’s Afoot alternate each evening, when booking your preferred performance it will state for which Case you are booking. If you would prefer to see the other cases select an alternative date.
Case 1: The Case of the Poisonous Poet.
A serial killer is on the loose and three bodies have been found, one each night over the past three evenings. In each case the victim was killed in the same way - stabbed in the heart with a poisoned pen - each with a grizzly poem pierced through it. What links the victims? What is the murderers’ motive? And who might be next? Solve the case of the poisonous poet before they strike again...
Case 2: The Case of the Bloodthirsty Beast.
A mutilated body has been discovered. Could the rumors that a fearsome beast is roaming the moorlands baying for its next victim be true? Or has something vicious escaped from the travelling circus? Perhaps there’s just a murderous maniac on the loose? Whichever way there are murky going on afoot and it’s up to you to solve the mystery and discover the truth in the case of the bloodthirsty beast...
The Magic Hour is a sellout magic show in the heart of London, awarded the 2015 Certificate of Excellence (TripAdvisor). Performed in the evocative old drawing room of the Grand Royale Hyde Park, you will take an unusual trip back in time to discover the illusions and deceptions of the Victorian masters.
Tony Middleton is an international magician who has performed from Rome to Rio de Janeiro. He’s appeared on ITV’s Penn Teller: Fool Us and entertained the likes of Sir Roger Moore, who commented one of the finest magicians I have ever seen.
The Magic Hour is a unique experience of Victorian parlour magic, featuring sleight of hand made popular by conjurors at the turn of the century. So why try something different? Objects with vanish and spirits will write messages from the other side. Watch closely because your eyes will deceive you.
Actor, writer, presenter, comedian and two-time Olivier award-winner Griff Rhys Jones returns to the West End in a hilarious new adaption by Sean Foley and Phil Porter of Moliere’s classic comedy, The Miser. Griff has most recently been seen on stage as Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh’s Oliver, and previously in Feydeau’s An Absolute Turkey.
Fanatical about protecting his wealth, the paranoid Harpagon (Griff Rhys Jones) suspects all of trying to filch his fortune, and will go to any length to protect it. A matchmaker motivated only by money, he sets his sights on wealthy spouses for his children, so his riches are safe from their grubby hands.
As true feelings and identities are revealed will Harpagon allow his children to follow their heart, or will his love of gold prove all-consuming? Passion and purse strings go head to head in this rip roaring comedy, by France’s greatest dramatist.
This major revival is directed by Sean Foley (The Painkiller, The Ladykillers, Jeeves and Wooster), with further star casting to be announced. Book now to be among the very first to see this major revival.
A true story of family, hope and survival told through the world’s most beautiful music. Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitz, The Pianist of Willesden Lane tells the true story of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish pianist who is dreaming about her concert debut at Vienna’s storied Musikverein concert hall. But with the issuing of new ordinances under the Nazi regime, everything for Lisa changes, except for her love of music and the pursuit of her dream as she is torn from her family and sent onto the Kinder transport to London.
Featuring the music of Grieg, Beethoven, Debussy, Bach, Chopin and more, performed live on a Steinway concert piano, The Pianist of Willesden Lane is based on performer Mona Golabek’s family story.
From November 1915 to Easter 1916, as the rebellion builds to a climax half a mile away, the disparate residents of a Dublin tenement go about their lives, peripheral to Ireland’s history. Sean O’Casey places a fixed lens to watch as a dozen vivid characters come and go selfless, hilarious and desperate by turns while the heroic myth of Ireland is fought over elsewhere.
BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated JESSE EISENBERG, making his West End debut, is renowned for playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. He also starred in To Rome with Love, directed by Woody Allen and is currently appearing in the blockbuster film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. London born KUNAL NAYYAR is known to audiences across the globe from The Big Bang Theory. His theatre credits include the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Love’s Labors’ Lost.
Joining Eisenberg and Nayyar in one of the best ensemble casts assembled in the West End are ALFIE ALLEN (Game of Thrones) making his West End stage debut and Olivier award winner KATIE BRAYBEN (Beautiful, My Mother Said I Never Should, King Charles III, American Psycho). Completing the line-up is American actress ANNAPURNA SRIRAM (Billions).
Nobody likes Ben. Ben doesn't even like Ben. He bullies everyone in his life, including his roommate Kalyan, an earnest Nepalese immigrant. When Ben discovers that his school crush is marrying a straight-laced banker, he sets out to destroy their relationship and win her back.
Critic’s Choice The New York Times Time Out (New York)
The year 1961, the place Pine City, California and some broad is threatening to throw herself off the top of the fanciest hotel in town. There’s trouble brewing and Lieutenant Al Wheeler wants answers. First stop, Club Extravaganza where we meet delectable Deadpan Dolores. Her name says it all, she’s not shy, so what’s she hiding? As Wheeler is thrust into a sleazy underworld of strip-joints and lost lonely hearts, the truth isn’t the only thing he uncovers. Based on Carter Brown beloved pulp fiction story, with music and lyrics by Richard Hartley and Richard O’Brien, the writers of cult favorite The Rocky Horror Show. Brought to you by the creative team behind Shock Treatment and The Toxic Avenger. Club Extravaganza takes residence in the Studio for six weeks. Get ready to see the full story from every angle.
From the producers of Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience comes this immersive comedy experience, which is based around the story of a wedding.
They may share the names of the world’s most famous couple, but this Will and Kate are far from royal. Their dream was for a small intimate wedding, but with everyone else planning exactly the opposite, the couple eloped. Now it’s the date of their original wedding day and they’re back for the big reception the one that neither of them wanted in the first place. What could possibly go wrong? Join the party. It’s a roller-coaster journey full of fun, frolics and more than a few surprises.
A rare theatrical treat. Five stars! The New Current, Brighton Fringe 2015
Highly recommended. A fantastic performance
The Wedding Reception is a show by ITI, producers of the globetrotting mega-hit that is Faulty Towers The Dining Experience. It’s a two-hour piece of immersive, interactive and highly improvised comedy theatre that also includes a three-course meal and four award-winning performers in multiple roles. It had its world premiere at Brighton Fringe 2015 and won five star reviews across the board.
Thunderstorm is an award-winning modern opera about family, society and corruption in Old Shanghai. Zhou Puyuan is the head of a wealthy, successful and seemingly happy Shanghai household. But a storm is gathering for behind this veneer of respectability lies a web of intrigue, and a dark family secret. As corruption is exposed and his family disintegrates, Zhou is confronted with a changing society and the emergence of a new China.
Based on the acclaimed play by Cao Yu, and set to music by legendary composer Mo Fan, this lavish production of Thunderstorm is a beautiful evocation of the atmosphere of Old Shanghai and not to be missed.