The Oresteia
By Simon Stone after Aeschylus & OthersA man is faced with the choice of killing his daughter or losing a war. Driven by personal ambition, he brutally murders his child and, in doing so, unleashes a chain of vengeance that rips through his family and community. When he returns home victorious, his wife murders him, and...
Continue reading...The Jonathan Larson Project
By Jonathan LarsonThe Jonathan Larson Project is a show about a young man following his heart in New York City trying to change the world. The show offers a rare and exhilarating window into Larson's creative world, featuring previously unheard songs from the late composer's archives. They illuminate the artistry,...
Continue reading...My Fair Lady
By Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe. Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's PygmalionLerner & Loewe's glorious, evergreen musical My Fair Lady – with an overflowing bouquet of ravishing songs including The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, With a Little Bit of Luck and Wouldn't It be Loverly – has never before been produced at Chichester. With its sparkling dialogue, brilliant...
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Here Comes J Edgar! - A Comedy Musical
Book and Lyrics by Harry Shearer & Tom LeopoldKing's Head Theatre, London
As Director of the FBI for almost 50 years, Hoover was the most powerful man in America. Yet behind all the machismo and homophobia was his concealed sexuality, his secret partying and his lifelong love affair with his deputy, Clyde Tolson. Here was a man who stopped at nothing to exert his control - yet underneath the petticoats of power lay his own secrets...
See cast, creatives, and 8 reviewsI Can Die Too
By Frances Ruffelle, Sally George & Alan CummingPitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry
“If you think I'm doing the rest of this in French you've got another thing coming!” A rehearsal from hell. An actress who's way too into her feelings about the role she's playing. And a complete spiral into doubt, defiance, and the uncontrollable urge to sing about it. I Can Die Too is giving fourth-wall-breaking, tragicomedy, musical theatre chaos, all at once. Come and watch something fall apart in real time. It's fine. It's totally fine.
See cast, creatives, and 5 reviewsLocal
By Liz RichardsonFinborough Theatre, London
A show exploring what it means to be local – whoever you are and wherever you're from. Solo storyteller Liz revisits her childhood memories and home in rural Cumbria in an attempt to understand whether she still belongs there, or ever did. In this multi-generational piece, Liz takes the audience on a journey through the landscape and environment of her home, spanning the decades from the early 1990s to today, as she reconnects with voices from the past and her young growing family now, and confronts head-on her devastating fear of loss…
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