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The Importance of Being Earnest at the Vaudeville Theatre – 20 July to 20 October 2018
Classic Spring’s Oscar Wilde Season promises to cast new light on Wilde’s ground-breaking work.
Widely considered one of the funniest plays in English, Wilde’s much loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays.
Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners.
‘It is very romantic to be in love. The very essence of romance is uncertainty’
Michael Fentiman’s witty new production stars Olivier-Award winner Sophie Thompson (Guys and Dolls, Chichester/West End; Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Jeremy Swift (Downton Abbey, ITV), alongside Fiona Button (The Split, BBC), Pippa Nixon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, RSC) and Stella Gonet (Handbagged, Hampstead Theatre/West End).
Important information
Child policy
5+
Running time
To be confirmed.
Performance dates
20 July – 20 October 2018
Content
Age guidance: ages 8 plus
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Noel Coward Theatre – 23rd June 2018 to 8th September 2018
Poldark actor Aidan Turner will make his West End debut next year in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, a violently dark comedy by the Oscar-winning Martin McDonagh.
MGC Artistic Director Michael Grandage directs the West End revival of Martin McDonagh’s critically acclaimed, brilliant satire on terrorism, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Aidan Turner, star of stage and screen, best known for his role in Poldark, will play Mad Padraic, a terrorist who is deemed too violent to be a member of the IRA, in this very hilarious, and somewhat acute observation of violence in contemporary culture.
Who knocked Mad Padraic’s cat over on a lonely road on the island of Inishmore and was it an accident? He’ll want to know when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland: he loves that cat more than life itself.
This production follows Michael Grandage’s award-winning production of McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan in 2013.
Important information
Child policy
To be confirmed.
Running time
To be confirmed.
Performance dates
23 June 2018 – 8 September 2018
Content
Recommended for ages 16 and above.
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Tartuffe at the Theatre Royal Haymarket – 25 May 2018 to 28 July 2018
Award-winning playwright Christopher Hampton’s fresh, modern take on Molière’s comedic masterpiece.
L.A. Present day. French media tycoon Orgon has re-located to Tinseltown with his family, his heart set on becoming Hollywood royalty. With a new studio to his name, and a palatial Beverly Hills mansion, his empire seems infallible. But all is not as it seems as Orgon falls under the seductive spell of Tartuffe, a radical American evangelist. So comprehensively has Tartuffe hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to steal his fortune, drive away his son, seduce his wife and marry his daughter.
Starring Paul Anderson as Tartuffe (Peaky Blinders, The Revenant, Legend, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) and Audrey Fleurot as Elmire (Spiral, The Intouchables, Call My Agent, Un village français). Also starring Sebastian Roché as Orgon, George Bladgen as Damis, Olivia Ross as Marianne, Vincent Winterhalter as Cleante, Claude Perron as Dorine, Annick Le Goff as Pernelle, Jaz Deol as Valere.
Important information
Child policy
To be confirmed.
Running time
2hr 30min (including interval)
Performance dates
25 May 2018 – 28 July 2018
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Red at the Wyndhams Theatre – 4 May 2018 to 28 July 2018
Red reunites John Logan and Michael Grandage following Peter and Alice with Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw.
MGC Artistic Director Michael Grandage directs this first ever UK revival since directing the world premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009. The production went on to win six Tony Awards, including Best Play.
Award-winning stage and screen actor Alfred Molina reprises his critically acclaimed performance as the American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. He is joined by rising star Alfred Enoch of US television drama series How to Get Away With Murder as his assistant Ken.
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.
Important information
Child policy
To be confirmed.
Running time
To be confirmed.
Performance dates
4 May 2018 – 28 July 2018
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The King and I at the London Palladium from 21st June until 29th September 2018
Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival, and now tipped to be one of the London’s theatrical events of 2018 – the critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I comes to the London Palladium in June 2018.
Starring the original Broadway stars; reprising her Tony Award-winning performance, Kelli O’Hara and Tony and Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe. Fresh from London’s critical smash hit production of Oslo, director Bartlett Sher reunites the original creative team of Catherine Zuber (Tony Award winner for Best Costume), set designer Michael Yeargan, lighting designer Donald Holder, sound designer Scott Lehrer and choreography by Christopher Gattelli based on the original choreography by Jerome Robbins.
Set in 1860’s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children.
With a score of treasured songs including; Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, and Shall We Dance, and featuring a company of over 50 world-class performers, The King and I is reminder of the golden age of romantic musical theatre.
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Chess the Musical at the London Coliseum from 26th April to 2nd June 2018
From ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus with lyrics by Tim Rice , Chess the Musical is coming to the London Coliseum in 2018.
This politically driven musical drama revolves around a Cold War chess match for the world title. The battle between the American and Soviet players is being twisted and turned by their respective governments for politically motivated purposes. When an intriguing Hungarian refugee enters the picture she becomes another player in their emotional game. Being used as pawns by their governments and caught between two world powers, the struggle threatens to destroy their lives.
Chess has an iconic soundtrack which includes such hits as I Know Him So Well, One Night in Bangkok, Anthem, Heaven Help My Heart, and Pity the Child.
This revival of Chess is being presented by the ENO and will feature their award-winning orchestra and chorus. Chess is being directed by Laurence Connor (School of Rock, Miss Saigon) with choreography by Stephen Means. The run opens 26 April 2018 and closes 02 June.
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Mood Music at the Old Vic Theatre – 21 April 2018 to 16 June 2018
Music is medication. The elixir of life. It’s for injecting into the blood stream to take away the pain…to promote euphoria…to adrenalise us and give us courage and fortitude.’
In a top London recording studio, a young songwriter, her producer, their lawyers and psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit song.
‘I’m not saying he’s a sociopath. I’m just saying you find a lot of damaged people are drawn to the music industry. Lack of empathy, raging narcissism, grandiose egocentricity is expected of them.’
A sly, wry exploration of the dark side of the music industry by the writer of Sunny Afternoon and Blue/Orange, the world premiere of Mood Music by Joe Penhall, is directed by Roger Michell.
Cast & Creative
Cast
Ben Chaplin
Pip Carter
Kurt Egyiawan
Seána Kerslake
Jemma Redgrave
Neil Stuke
Creative Team
Writer
Joe Penhall
Director
Roger Michell
Hildegard Bechtler
Composer & Music Supervisor
Rick Fisher
Information
Running time
To be confirmed.
Performance dates
21 April 2018 – 16 June 2018
Content
Recommended for ages 12 and above.
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An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre – 20 April 2018 to 14 July 2018
Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband explores corruption and morality, bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. An ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his past financial chicanery.
A witty new production from director Jonathan Church, (Singin’ in the Rain and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Chichester; West End) An Ideal Husband opens at the Vaudeville Theatre (20 April – 14 July), before playing at the Theatre Royal Bath as part of their Summer Season (18 July – 4 August).
Starring real-life father and son Edward (The Audience, West End; The Day of the Jackal, ITV) and Freddie Fox (The Judas Kiss, West End; Cucumber and Banana, Channel 4; E4), Olivier Award-nominated Frances Barber (Silk, BBC; Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s Globe), Nathaniel Parker (This House, West End; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, BBC) Sally Bretton (Not Going Out, BBC; King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe) and Susan Hampshire (Forsythe Saga, Monarch of the Glen, BBC).
Information
Child policy
Children under 5 will not be admitted.
Running time
2hr 45min (including interval)
Performance dates
20 April 2018 – 14 July 2018
Content
Recommended for ages 8 and above.
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The Moderate Soprano at the Duke of Yorks Theatre – 5th April 2018 to 30th June 2018
David Hare’s The Moderate Soprano, first seen at the Hampstead Theatre, transfers to the West End.
Roger Allam
The two great passions in John Christie’s life were opera and a beautiful young soprano, Audrey Mildmay.
Nancy Carroll
Together they created Glyndebourne, the operatic experience in the rolling hills of the South Downs.
Jeremy Herrin 2012, Photo Johan Persson
David Hare’s new play, first seen at Hampstead Theatre, is the story of an intense love affair and the unrelenting search for artistic excellence in the face of searing scrutiny, sacrifice and the impending Second World War.
Important information
Age restriction
4+
Child policy
Children under 4 will not be admitted
Running time
To be confirmed.
Performance dates
5 April 2018 – 30 June 2018
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Bat Out of Hell at the Dominion Theatre – 2 April 2018 to 28 July 2018
Winner of Best Musical at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2017 and nominated for 8 WhatsOnStage awards in 2018, Jim Steinman’s smash-hit musical Bat Out of Hell returns to London at the Dominion Theatre after a successful 2017 run in London.
Originally written as a musical, Bat out of Hell featuring Meatloaf went on to become one of the most successful albums of all time.
The story centres around young, rebellious leader Strat who falls in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the most powerful man in post-apocalyptic Obsidian.
Important information
Age restriction
5+
Running time
2hr 45min (including interval)
Performance dates
2 Apr 2018 – 28 Jul 2018
Content
Due to mild swearing and scenes of partial nudity, the show is not recommended for children under the age of 12.
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