Nancy Allsopp is playing the lead role of Nicky in Tim Firth’s award-winning joyous and uplifting show This is My Family, making its London premiere at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, running until 12 July 2025.
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This is My Family – Southwark Playhouse Elephant
This is My Family continues at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London until 12 July 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s something universal to recognise in its charms, its squabbles, its in-jokes and its occasionally buried love.
Full cast for London debut of This is My Family
Anthology Theatre has confirmed the full cast and creative team for the London premiere of Tim Firth’s award-winning musical This is My Family at Southwark Playhouse Elephant this summer.
Vicky Featherstone to direct London premiere of Tim Firth’s award-winning musical This Is My Family
Anthology Theatre will present the London premiere of Tim Firth’s award-winning musical This Is My Family at Southwark Playhouse Elephant this summer.
Theatre industry pleads for Government help
Theatre professionals and industry leaders are adding their voices to the increasingly urgent pleas to the Government to find ways to save the performing arts from imminent disaster. Writing in The Telegraph, producer Sonia Friedman became the latest in a number of industry experts to warn that “British theatre is on the brink of collapse”. […]
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour – Duke of York’s Theatre
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour continues at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London until 2 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Anybody looking for a West End musical involving singing and dancing schoolchildren has a third choice supplementing those of Matilda and School of Rock. But even with a script by […]
Interview – Dawn Sievewright reprises her role in Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
DAWN SIEVEWRIGHT is excited to be reprising the role of Fionnula in the Olivier Award-winning Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour which begins its West End debut run at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 15 May (previews began on 9 May). The production started out at the National Theatre of Scotland, going on to the National Theatre in […]
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour – cast revealed for West End run
Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Lee Hall’s critically acclaimed Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour which will open at the Duke of York’s Theatre next month. Following its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a UK tour and a sell-out run last summer at the National Theatre, the Olivier-nominated show […]
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour to open at Duke of York’s in May
Lee Hall’s critically acclaimed Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour will open at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre in May following a sell-out run last summer at the National Theatre. Reuniting original cast members with director Vicky Featherstone, Hall’s musical adaptation of Alan Warner’s best-selling novel The Sopranos will preview from 9 May ahead of an […]
Curtain Call – A Year Backstage in London Theatre – new photography book
A photographic glimpse behind the footlights of some of London’s leading theatre productions is the subject of the first in a series of new books. Curtain Call – A Year Backstage in London Theatre is the brainchild of photographer Matt Humphrey and actor/director John Schwab. Inspired by the 40th anniversary of the Olivier Awards and benefiting from […]
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour at the Traverse Theatre. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ From the butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-our-mouths opening choral piece, this team of young women have us with them from the get-go. Following this up with: “Everyone else gets to sing about love and death. We get to sing about livestock” takes us with them into […]
