Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens continues at the Union Theatre, London – until 8 June 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is easy to forget, in these days of effective drug treatments, that life for HIV-positive people was so very different 30 years ago. There was no drug […]
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Unexpected Joy – Southwark Playhouse
Unexpected Joy continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 29 September 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The European Premiere of Bill Russell and Janet Hood’s new musical Unexpected Joy is an… Unexpected Joy! Following the Off-Broadway premiere earlier this year producers Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and Jim Kierstead for Kierstead Productions have brought […]
A passionate woman: New musicals champion & producer Katy Lipson brings Unexpected Joy & the From Page to Stage festival to the Southwark Playhouse
The European premiere of Unexpected Joy, opening this week at the Southwark Playhouse, tells the story of three generations of female singers and their week together to try and clear some long-held family feuds. Joy is a baby boomer pop star, who lived the hippie life and is now preparing for a concert to honour […]
London’s Aria Entertainment and New York’s Jim Kierstead announce new producing deal
Award-winning producer Katy Lipson has announced a major new transatlantic partnership with Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre and film producer Jim Kierstead. Aimed at developing and presenting new and ground-breaking work on both sides of the Atlantic, the partnership between Aria Entertainment and Kierstead Productions will launch with a co-production of the new musical Unexpected […]
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens – Criterion Theatre
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens at the Criterion Theatre, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Started in 1985, the AIDS Memorial Quilt memorialises the lives lost to HIV with a series of personalised panels that, as they have become stitched together, form the largest – and yet most intimate – piece of public art […]
Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens staged in West End in aid of The Make a Difference Trust
Tickets are now on sale for a West End revival of the song cycle Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, taking place at the Criterion Theatre on Sunday 31 May 2015. More than 30 of the West End’s most talented performers will take to the stage for the special ‘one night only’ performance in aid […]
