Award-winning writers Katie Lam and Alex Parker and innovative director Tinuke Craig have joined forces with New Theatre Peterborough in a workshop for a new musical adaptation of The Danish Girl. Inspired by David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel which in turn was loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the […]
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New live Gameplay experience company launched
H & R Entertainment, the parent company of the Selladoor Worldwide theatrical production company, has launched a new company dedicated to developing and staging large-scale experiential and live gameplay productions. With details of the inaugural projects to be announced soon, Gamepath is hoping to attract new audiences for live entertainment from the multi-billion pound gaming […]
Selladoor postpones shows and extends theatre closures
Selladoor Worldwide has announced the postponement of all its 2020 touring shows, with major productions including Footloose, 9 To 5 The Musical and Bring It On now shelved until 2021. The producers behind hit productions including Fame, Avenue Q and American Idiot and the operators of regional theatres in North Devon and Cambridgeshire have also […]
Former X Factor star Holly Tandy to play Dorothy in Blackpool’s festive Wizard of Oz
The X Factor 2017 finalist Holly Tandy will make her stage debut in the Blackpool Opera House ‘s Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz. Tandy who was the youngest contestant in last year’s edition of the TV talent show will step into Dorothy’s ruby slippers alongside local radio star Radio Wave’s Scott Gallagher as the Cowardly […]
Fame The Musical set for new 30th anniversary tour
Fame The Musical is set to tour the UK in a new 30th anniversary tour opening at Manchester Palace on 20 July 2018. Based on the 1980 film, Fame The Musical follows the lives of students at New York’s High School for the Performing Arts as they navigate their way through the highs and lows, the romances and […]
The Wizard of Oz to play Blackpool in Christmas 2018
Blackpool Opera House will follow up its Christmas in Neverland by taking festive audiences over the rainbow to Oz in 2018. With Peter Pan featuring female Captain Hook Jennifer Ellison having just said farewell to audiences, tickets are already on sale for the seaside venue’s next festive musical The Wizard of Oz which will run […]
Selladoor to launch international tours of Jersey Boys and The Producers
Selladoor Worldwide will tour a brand new production of Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning musical Jersey Boys this autumn. The show embarks on an international tour opening at Dubai Opera in October before moving on to China’s Shanghai Daning Theatre, The Jiangsu Centre For The Performing Arts, Guangzhou Opera House and Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts […]
Sell a Door Peter Pan plays Blackpool Opera House in December
Peter Pan will fly once again this Christmas when the award-winning Sell a Door family bring its version of the classic tale of Neverland to the Blackpool Opera House. Peter Pan A Musical Adventure will play the iconic Blackpool venue from Saturday 16 December 2017 until Sunday 7 January 2018. Announcing details of the Opera House’s festive […]
The Silver Sword – musical adaptation begins UK tour autumn 2015
Ian Serraillier’s highly acclaimed and much-loved children’s novel, The Silver Sword, will receive its world stage premiere at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre from Saturday 26 September to Saturday 3 October before embarking on a UK tour throughout autumn 2015. The brand new production also plays at Birmingham Old Rep from 22–24 October. Originally written in 1956, The Silver […]
Avenue Q – Greenwich Theatre and Touring
Avenue Q continues at the Greenwich Theatre until 24 May before continuing on a UK tour until May 2016. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The mad, bad muppets are back and they’re as filthy, foul-mouthed and funny as ever! I somehow managed to miss every opportunity to see Avenue Q when staged here in the UK, […]
Sell a Door Theatre Company presents Avenue Q
Sell a Door Theatre Company, the producers behind the first UK tour of Spring Awakening and the recent West End production of Seussical, will be embarking on a ten-week tour of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q, following a run at their resident venue, London’s Greenwich Theatre. Avenue Q first appeared in 2003 at the […]
