Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster will direct a major new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita at the Leicester venue later this year.
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Curve casts Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
Rising star Georgina Onuorah will star as Dorothy in Leicester Curve’s eagerly anticipated regional premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of The Wizard of Oz this Christmas. Part of the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Onuorah who made her stage debut in Dick Whittington at the National Theatre, […]
Slight delay for Curve’s Billy Elliot debut
Leicester Curve’s new production of the multi-award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical will open slightly later than planned after rehearsals were hit by a number of Covid-19 cases. Directed by Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster, the first new production of the hit show will now begin performances on 13 July 2022, just under a week later […]
New UK tour of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical to open at Curve Leicester
Curve, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Mayflower Theatre Southampton have announced plans to launch a new UK tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, opening at Curve in February 2022. Directed by Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster (Sunset Boulevard, West Side Story), Beautiful will open at Curve […]
Curve to stage first new UK production of Billy Elliot Musical in 2022
Leicester’s Curve theatre will stage the first new UK production of the multi-award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical next summer. Directed by the theatre’s artistic director Nikolai Foster, the Made at Curve production will run exclusively at Curve for a limited six-week season from 7 July to 14 August 2022. Announcing the production, Foster and Curve’s […]
After 14 long months in the desert Leicester Curve has reopened
Aura Simon reports: After 14 long months in the desert, it’s a strange and beautiful thing to be standing once more in a queue for the theatre. On one hand, everything feels potently bittersweet and cathartic after more than a year of having to swallow the loss of our ways of life. Somehow at the […]
Leicester Curve to stage Rent: The Concert in August 2021
Leicester Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster will direct a special concert version of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical Rent this summer. Staged in-the-round in Curve’s specially adapted auditorium the Made at Curve production of Rent: The Concert will run from 10 to 21 August 2021. Announcing the latest addition to Curve’s reopening programme, Foster and Curve […]
Leicester Curve reopening season announced
A celebration of the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber will be part of a special socially distanced season at Leicester Curve when the theatre welcomes audiences back into its auditorium on 20 May 2021 for the first time in over a year. The reopening programme which also includes a new comedy musical and events showcasing […]
Re-release of Curve’s Sunset Boulevard – At Home to raise funds in memory of Andy Nairn
The critically-acclaimed Made at Curve production Sunset Boulevard – At Home is being made available once again next month to raise funds for the newly launched Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre. All money raised from ticket sales and donations for the week-long run will go towards the scheme which has been launched in memory […]
Curve announces extended run for The Color Purple – at Home
Leicester Curve has announced an extension to the hit online run of The Color Purple – at Home. Produced in association with Birmingham Hippodrome, the concert re-working of the hit 2019 production will now stream online until 16 March 2021. The concert version of the first co-production between Birmingham Hippodrome and Curve which had been […]
Curve to reunite with Birmingham Hippodrome for The Color Purple – At Home
Leicester Curve will follow its critically-acclaimed Sunset Boulevard – at Home by reuniting with Birmingham Hippodrome to stream The Color Purple – at Home, a concert reworking of their hit 2019 production. The concert version of the first co-production between Birmingham Hippodrome and Curve had been due to be part of Curve’s reopening season, but […]
Curve extends online run of Sunset Boulevard – At Home
In response to popular demand Leicester Curve has announced an extended run for its critically-acclaimed Sunset Boulevard – At Home which will now continue streaming until 17 January 2021. Following the decision to turn the planned live theatre production of Sunset Boulevard In Concert into an online event in response to December’s lockdown restrictions, in […]
Curve’s Sunset Boulevard Concert to be turned into online event
Forced to re-think its reopening season once again, with Leicester having entered Tier 3, Leicester Curve announced plans to turn the eagerly-anticipated concert version of Curve’s hit production of Sunset Boulevard into an online event. Plans for the return of live theatre are now on hold until the city can exit the country’s toughest restrictions, […]
West Side Story will Be Curve’s Christmas 2019 production
Classic Broadway musical West Side Story will be Leicester Curve’s Made at Curve Christmas production next year. Just a few weeks before the debut of this year’s eagerly-anticipated production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the team at Leicester have announced plans for a major new production of the Romeo and Juliet-inspired musical which will run […]
Peter Andre to join Curve’s Grease tour
Pop star and television personality Peter Andre will play Teen Angel for a number of dates when Curve’s hit version of Grease hits the road in 2019. The first new production of the much-loved musical in 25 years will follow its sold- out run in Leicester with tour dates from mid-June 2019. Directed by Curve’s […]
