Paterson Joseph News

The Bath Festival 2023 focuses on the theme Opening Up for its internationally renowned annual celebration of music and books in May. The festival will hold over 130 events in more than 50 of Bath's distinctive buildings and spaces.

The Gate Theatre has announced the appointment of Nicola Clements as its new Executive Director and CEO. Nicola joined the Gate in November, succeeding Shawab Iqbal who stepped down to start a new position as Executive Director at Leeds Playhouse.

Two visionary Tony Award winners — director Matthew Warchus (Matilda the Musical) and playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) — have created a magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens' timeless story, A Christmas Carol.

Following a long search for more accessible premises, the Gate Theatre has announced that it will be moving to a new theatre space in Camden in July 2022.

Following a critically acclaimed run at Soho Theatre earlier this year, audiences will take centre stage as work.txt comes to Summerhall for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. work.txt is a show without any actors, where the audience perform the whole show.

19 drama school students from across the UK have been awarded a total of £77,500 worth of bursaries by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), to help them complete their training.           

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) announced that Gregory Doran will step down as Artistic Director from today after 35 years with the Company including the last ten years as Artistic Director.

Following a critically acclaimed digital version work.txt online, audiences will take centre stage as work.txt returns for an in-person run at Soho Theatre. work.txt is a play about a person in a city who has stopped working, and the audience must work together to attempt to figure out why through various means.

Park Theatre has today announced the full line up of almost 40 celebrities who will take to the Park200 stage this February and March – completely unrehearsed – to play the Inspector in a farcical whodunnit.

Peacock has released the trailer for their new series, Vigil. The series was written and created by Tom Edge and based on an original idea by George Aza-Selinger. The cast includes Suranne Jones, Rose Leslie, Shaun Evans, Martin Compston, Patersn Joseph, Ada, James, Connor Swindells, Gary Lewis, and more. Watch the new trailer now!

GHOST WALK is a site-specific, digital audio show for the streets of City of London, playable on audience's smartphones. Created by multi-award-winning POLTERGEIST THEATRE, star casting includes Juliet Stevenson, Lydia West, Adam Buxton, Paterson Joseph, Nina Wadia & Tanya Reynolds, and original music by Alice Boyd.

The film is a prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and serves as an origin story of the Willy Wonka, played by Timothee Chalamet, who later created an elaborate house of confectionary creations.

Alan Stacey has today announced that he will be stepping down as Executive Director of Headlong in March 2022 after six years with the company. During his tenure Stacey has helped bring some of Headlong's most critically acclaimed work to over 900,000 people in theatres across the UK.

Following on the heels of The Defeated, a post WWII thriller starring Taylor Kitsch, which will have its global release later this year; Peter McKenna’s Irish family crime drama, Kin, airing this fall on AMC+; and John Morton’s UK adaptation of the popular French series, Call My Agent!

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, January 23-24, 2020.

Having raised almost $180,000 to date in support of arts organizations and other charities across the country impacted by the COVID-19 virus in its first season of thirty-seven major live-streamed events, Play-PerView is launching its 2021 season and announces programming and casting for upcoming events through February 13th.

With the Royal Shakespeare Company's theatres currently closed to the public, RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran has invited Associate and Honorary Associate Artists from throughout the Company's history to join him for an exclusive series of online conversations discussing their experience of performing Shakespeare at the RSC and beyond.

The Almeida Theatre announces SHIFTING TIDES a?" a new digital festival exploring the intersection between art and the climate crisis.

BWW is reviewing the BBC's epic adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays, The Hollow Crown, available for streaming on Britbox (free 30 days trial).

As a means of bringing joy and creativity into homes during these uncertain times, the Rose has today announced their latest initiative, 'Readings from the Rose'.