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Felicity Kendal Will Star in New Sean Mathias Season at Theatre Royal Windsor


Both Accolade and Filumena will take to the stage at Theatre Royal Windsor prior to limited UK tours, under the directorship of award-winning director Sean Mathias. 

Robert Bathurst Returns to JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL at the Coach and Horses Pub


Laughter, Legends, Lock-in! Robert Bathurst returns to star in the immersive production of 'Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell' at the Coach and Horses pub in Soho. Don't miss this critically acclaimed show!

Review: GOOD GRIEF at ARTS Theatre


Sue Wylie is wonderful in what is almost a one-woman show.

Review: JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL, Coach and Horses, Soho


Robert Bathurst holds fort with tale after tale in the pub from which most of them started and a few finished

BWW Review: MR AND MRS NOBODY, Jermyn Street Theatre


Mr and Mrs Pooter have just moved from Peckham to their new home in Holloway, much to the Mrs P's dismay. She tries her best to be “a dutiful wife” and he is the model Victorian husband. But are they, really? English writer Evelyn Waugh once described George and Weedon Grossmith’s novel The Diary of a Nobody as “the funniest book in the world”. The Pooters have gone on to have quite an onward life over the years and have finally landed at Jermyn Street Theatre in an effervescent revival of Keith Waterhouse’s Mr and Mrs Nobody.

MR AND MRS NOBODY Will Be Performed as Part of Jermyn Street Theatre's Footprints Festival


Miranda Foster returns to Jermyn Street Theatre after her memorable roles in All's Well That Ends Well and Tonight at 8.30. Her previous work includes Hamlet (Globe to Globe World Tour), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe),The Merry Wives of Windsor (BBC) and Festen (Bill Kenwright). 

Jermyn Street Theatre Announces FOOTPRINTS FESTIVAL Lineup


Two weeks after announcing Footprints Festival, today Jermyn Street Theatre has unveiled its full programme of 43 shows brought together to celebrate the theatre’s reopening this Summer. Running for three months from May to August this jamboree of live work comprises an exciting combination of familiar faces and new talent.

Jermyn Street Theatre To Reopen With Festival Celebrating Live Performance


Following a year without live in-person audiences, Jermyn Street Theatre, winner of the 2021 Stage Award for Fringe Theatre of the Year, will light up again this May as it launches a three month celebration of drama, music, poetry and comedy.  

Norman's Coach & Horses in Soho Presents JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL


The infamous Jeffrey Bernard will be returning to where his legacy began as Norman's Coach and Horses Soho stages Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell from May 7th - June 1st, 2019. The play comes at a crucial time for the pub and alongside a theatrical evening, gives people a chance to make a stand for an independent landlord under threat from pub giant, Fuller's, despite 76 years of continued independent service as a thriving community pub and London's first vegan and vegetarian pub.

BWW Review: WORTH A FLUTTER, The Hope Theatre


A slice of working class life that tickles the funny bone and pulls at the heartstrings, but never quite resolves its structural issues.

JUKEBOX HERO THE MUSICAL Comes to Canada


Foreigner are back on the road for their 40th anniversary tour - just as a brand new musical based on the timeless hits of the band prepares to open in Canada.

EAST IS EAST National Tour Opens in Brighton Tonight


Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, which was part of Jamie Lloyd's second Trafalgar Transformed season, directed by Sam Yates, on a 16 week National Tour from tonight 11 June 2015, commencing at Theatre Royal, Brighton. East is East is designed by Tom Scutt, with lighting by Richard Howell and sound and music by Alex Baranowski.

James & Jack Fox to Lead West End Transfer of DEAR LUPIN


Father and son James Fox and Jack Fox star in this brand new stage adaptation of the best-selling Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year Dear Lupin, Letters to a Wayward Son in which renowned journalist and author Roger Mortimer's brilliantly hilarious, often touching and always generous letters to his unruly son Charlie are now vividly brought to life. The production transfers to the Apollo Theatre following a successful UK tour, opening on 3 August, with previews from 30 July, and runs for a strictly limited season until 19 September.

EAST IS EAST to Play Theatre Royal Glasgow, Aug 10-15


Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, embarking on a 16 week national tour and making its Scottish debut at the Theatre Royal Glasgow from Monday 10 until Saturday 15 August 2015.

EAST IS EAST National Tour to Open in Brighton, June 11


Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, EastEnders) will play Ella Khan in Ayub Khan Din's critically-acclaimed play East is East, which was part of Jamie Lloyd's second Trafalgar Transformed season, directed by Sam Yates, on a 16 week National Tour from 11 June 2015, commencing at Theatre Royal, Brighton. East is East is designed by Tom Scutt, with lighting by Richard Howell and sound and music by Alex Baranowski.

DEAR LUPIN with James & Jack Fox Begins Next Month at Theatre Royal Windsor


Father and son James Fox and Jack Fox star in this brand new stage adaptation of the best-selling Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year Dear Lupin, Letters to a Wayward Son in which renowned journalist and author Roger Mortimer's brilliantly hilarious, often touching and always generous letters to his unruly son Charlie are now vividly brought to life.

Sian Phillips & Robert Powell to Star in A SUMMER IN THE SOUTH at Birmingham Rep


A SUMMER IN THE SOUTH is a tribute to Colette, one of France's greatest writers. This celebration of her work is brilliantly brought to life for one evening only at Birmingham Repertory Theatre by acclaimed actors Sian Phillips and Robert Powell.

BWW Reviews: WORZEL GUMMIDGE - Original London Cast Recording


Worzel Gummidge was a very successful television series in the late 1970's based on Barbara Euphan Todd's children's novel. Following this, a stage adaptation was created - featuring original TV cast members Jon Pertwee, Una Stubbs and Geoffrey Bayldon - at Birmingham Repertory Theatre over the Christmas period in 1980 and was a resounding hit. It then went on to play at the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End the following festive season, extending until February 1982. This cast recording was made at Abbey Road Studios shortly before their London opening and Stage Door Records are responsible for making it possible to listen to on CD today.

WORZEL GUMMIDGE - THE MUSICAL Original London Cast Album Set for Release Nov 10


Stage Door Records are pleased to announce the original London cast recording of the 1981 musical 'Worzel Gummidge' will be released on November 10th, 2014. The CD release continues Stage Door's London cast album series and commitment to preserve 'lost' British theatre scores of the past 50 years.

Official: Jane Horrocks & Khan Din to Lead EAST IS EAST at Trafalgar Transformed, Begin. 4 October


Award-winning playwright Ayub Khan Din's first play, East is East, which premiered at the Royal Court and was later turned into a much-loved feature film, returns to the London stage after 17 years. This hilarious and ever-pertinent modern classic about growing up in multiracial England will star the multi award-winning stage and screen actress Jane Horrocks (Young Vic's Annie Get Your Gun,Sunshine on Leith, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Absolutely Fabulous) as Ella Khan, one of the greatest female roles written for modern theatre.

Keith Waterhouse FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Keith Waterhouse written?

Keith Waterhouse has written 5 shows including Help Stamp Out Marriage! (Playwright), The Card (Bookwriter), Billy (Source Material), Worzel Gummidge (Bookwriter/Lyricist), Budgie (Bookwriter).

What awards has Keith Waterhouse been nominated for?

Keith Waterhouse was nominated for Comedy of the Year at the Olivier Awards for Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.

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