Theatre News
Pop star and former EastEnders actor Michelle Gayle, and Benidorm and Coronation Street star Alice Barlow will play the roles of Alison and Kat respectively in Son of a Preacher Man – a new musical that plays at Cardiff’s New Theatre next week from 15 – 19 May as part of a major UK tour. Directed by Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood, it features the soulful music of Dusty Springfield.
New Theatre Cardiff have announced a further FOUR stars for this year’s beast of a pantomime, Beauty and the Beast with Ben Richards, Danny Bayne, Adam C Booth and Stephanie Webber joining the cast of Wales’ biggest pantomime, which opens on Saturday 8 December.
A Welsh dance artist and teacher has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to the creative industry at a national award ceremony at the Lowry, Manchester.
We’re being advised to watch out for a very large owl, as well as the most awful Auntie in history.…
The Play That Goes Wrong, the West End’s Olivier Award winning box office hit, is back on the road and returning to the New Theatre – where the original tour began in 2014 – next week from 30 April – 5 May.
Cardiff and Vale College has hosted its first student musical, ‘Schools We Will Rock you’.
Wales’ arts and cultural industries are set to lead the way in forging greater links with Germany by staging the first ‘Welsh Performing Arts Festival’ in Dresden.
Agatha Christie and Frank Vosper’s play Love from a Strangerhas been rebooted in a brand new production directed by Lucy Bailey, whose production of Gaslightat the New Theatre last year was praised by both critics and audiences.
Christ College, Brecon student Ben Masters is to make his West End debut, in the Youth Music Theatre UK production of Tess of the d’Urbervilles.