The Railway Children at Waterloo railway station

Waterloo railway station in London is a very busy place and inside you will find it full of buzzing energy as people rush around taking trains to destinations around the country. If you take a moment to just listen though you will find that the primary sound you hear is not people, but the trains themselves.

A [...]

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West End car parking fees will have effect on theatre attendance

Westminster Council has recently introduced more expensive car parking tickets meaning that to park in the centre of the city will cost nearly £5 per hour. Many people have dubbed this the ‘nightlife tax’ as it would generally affect people who are coming into the centre of the city in the evenings.

In order to combat this [...]

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The Harold Pinter Theatre set to open

The Comedy Theatre is operated by the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) and is going to be changing its name to The Harold Pinter Theatre to honour the late writer. Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for his writing and the theatre will be renamed before it starts its latest production. The theatre was recently performing one [...]

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Everyman Theatre set for big changes

Everyman Theatre, in Liverpool is closing for a redevelopment project of over £28m in July of 2011 and has announced its final shows with 70s band Deaf School performing the 17 and 18 of June and Roger McGough and Brian Patten, the Mersey Sound poets, performing a special show on June 20.

As of mid May the [...]

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Summer, youth theatre at Manchester’s Palace

Manchester’s Palace Theatre has been operating successfully for the last seven years, and after 2010′s smash hit, Guys & Dolls, they will again invite the youth in for another amazing production, namely Fame the Musical.

The Theatre provides experience to youth who aspire to become actors. It is a 2-week program in the Summer, targeting singers, dancers, [...]

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Kids are now big theatre goers

Great Britain has several theatres that are solely for children and the shows they want to watch, and theatre managers, directors and producers are hoping to devote even more energy to attracting a younger audience.  Tony Graham, who has been director and leader at the Unicorn Theatre in London for 13 years, said that the audience [...]

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Birmingham to have a “Fame” school

Birmingham will soon open its first “Fame” school with the Birmingham Ormiston Academy.  The school will be dedicated to nurturing performers in stage and screen productions.  Like the fictional school on “Fame” and the real one in the well renowned BRIT School of London, students will receive training in the performance arts along with regular [...]

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Spring Awakening gets an airing in Greenwich

“Spring Awakening,” the highly acclaimed musical by Frank Wedekind is set to play Greenwich next year.  The story of adolescent youth and sex in Germany in the 19th century is set to rock and roll by Duncan Sheik and has enjoyed success on the West End and on Broadway.

In the U.S., “Spring Awakening” won a Tony [...]

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As Bees Drown in Honey drowns Cynthia Nixon

A scheduled production of “As Bees Drown in Honey” by Douglas Carter Beane, has been cancelled because of financing losses.  The remake of the 1997 comedy was to run on the West End and star Cynthia Nixon, of “Sex in the City” fame.

Nixon was reportedly getting prepared to move herself and family to London in order [...]

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Yes, Prime Minister is voted out

“Yes, Prime Minister” will end its West End run on 15 January 2011, it has been decided.  The play, based on the popular 1980s television comedy bearing the same name, has been a box office success.

It will bring the curtains down, as the production prepares to tour nationally with a new cast.  The tour will feature [...]

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