The Big Life continues at the Theatre Royal Stratford East until 30 March 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Big Life is a cultural document that should not wait two decades between revivals. It is our Guys and Dolls, and it deserves to be recognised as such.
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Stratford East announces revival of Windrush ska musical The Big Life
The Theatre Royal Stratford East will revive its hit Windrush-inspired ska musical The Big Life in early 2024 – 20 years after it premiered at the East London venue before transferring to the West End.
Cast for The Color Purple tour
Me’Sha Bryan will lead the cast of Leicester’s Curve Theatre and Birmingham Hippodrome’s hit production of The Color Purple as it hits the road for the first time across England and Wales this autumn. Bryan (Romantics Anonymous, Bristol Old Vic, Caroline, or Change, The Playhouse Theatre) will play Celie alongside Bree Smith (The Wiz, Hope […]
Tour planned for Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s The Color Purple
Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s hit production of The Color Purple will visit seven venues across England and Wales this autumn. Directed by Tinuke Craig and originally staged in 2019, the award-winning production which was also re-worked as a concert presentation and successful online event during lockdown will take to the road from 13 September […]
New Theatre Peterborough hosts workshops for The Danish Girl musical
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 […]
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 […]
The Color Purple – at Home – Curve Leicester
The Color Purple at Home is streaming from Curve Leicester until 7 March 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If the cynics are right, if musical theatre is indeed all jazz hands and pomp and fluff – a medium incapable of supporting the weight of “important” stories – then this musical […]
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 […]
Royal & Derngate announces four new musicals for 2021
Northampton’s Royal & Derngate has unveiled plans to premiere four new musicals as part of its Made in Northampton 2021 season. Three original musicals will debut on stage with a fourth appearing online in the culmination of a three-year development project involving a national consortium of partners in support of 150 artists. Innovative theatre company […]
Concert versions of The Color Purple and Sunset Boulevard to feature in Curve’s comeback season
Live theatre will return to Leicester Curve next month for the first time since the venue closed its doors to the public in March with the launch of an autumn season that will feature two re-imagined, socially distanced concert versions of two Made at Curve productions. Launching on 12 November 2020 with an exclusive event […]
The Color Purple – Leicester Curve
The Color Purple continues at Leicester Curve until 13 July 2019, then 16-20 July at Birmingham Hippodrome. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Color Purple is a good shade on any audience, and this Leicester Curve gathering is no different. Alice Walker’s landmark tale of abuse, incest, race and sexuality is as relevant […]
T’Shan Williams is cast as Celie in The Color Purple
First images have been released of T’Shan Williams in the pivotal role of Celie in the Leicester Curve and the Birmingham Hippodrome’s major new co-production of the Broadway musical version of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Williams (Heathers The Musical, Theatre Royal, Haymarket/The Other Palace, The Life, Southwark Playhouse) has joined the cast as the […]
Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome to co-produce The Color Purple
Leicester Curve and the Birmingham Hippodrome have revealed plans for a major new co-production of the Broadway musical version of Alice Walker’s best seller The Color Purple. Directed by award-winning Tinuke Craig (2014 Genesis Future Directors Award), the production which will be the first UK presentation of the award-winning show outside of London, will play Curve […]
Musical highlights of Chichester Festival Theatre 2018 season are Flowers For Mrs Harris and Me and My Girl
Productions of the Noel Gay classic Me and My Girl and new musical Flowers For Mrs Harris will be the musical highlights of artistic director Daniel Evans and executive director Rachel Tackley’s star-studded second season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Following on from a record-breaking 2017, the new season will feature a mix of major revivals […]
