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Theatre exhibits opening this week
THE FROGS at Southwark Playhouse
Star of the smash-hit TV present GLEE, Kevin Mchale begins performances this week in Stephen Sondheim‘s THE FROGS at Southwark Playhouse (23 May – 28 June 2025). The musical was originally performed in Yale University’s gymnasium’s swimming pool in 1974. This manufacturing is not going to be.
Advertised as a laugh-a-minute musical comedy, The Frogs is a “freely adapted” (by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove) model of an Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes. In the musical, Dionysos, despairing of the standard of residing dramatists, travels to Hades to convey George Bernard Shaw again from the useless. William Shakespeare competes with Shaw for the title of greatest playwright, which he wins. Dionysos brings Shakespeare again to the world of the residing within the hope that artwork can save civilisation.
Sharing the function of Pluto over the run of the present are Victoria Scone, Danielle Steers, Sooz Kempner, Jo Foster and yet another nonetheless to be introduced.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF on the Barbican Theatre
The critically acclaimed manufacturing of Fiddler on the Roof opens on the Barbican Theatre this week (24 May till 19 July), following a sold-out season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre final yr.
Immediately following the Barbican run, the present will embark on a serious five-month UK and Ireland tour. The tour of Fiddler On The Roof opens on 24 July at Churchill Theatre Bromley and can go to Leeds, Belfast, Norwich, Nottingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, High Wycombe, Liverpool, Southend, Dublin, Manchester, Eastbourne, Canterbury and Cardiff earlier than ending the tour on 6 December in Sunderland.
Fiddler On The Roof, is ready in 1905 within the tiny village of Anatevka the place Tevye, a Jewish milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his 5 daughters, meaning a go to from the matchmaker. As every daughter challenges his beliefs, towards the backdrop of a altering world, can Tevye maintain on to his roots, or should he bend to the need of his kids and be taught to embrace the unfamiliar?
STEREOPHONIC at Duke of York’s Theatre
Stereophonic grew to become essentially the most Tony Award-nominated play ever and essentially the most Tony Award-winning present of 2024. This week, it opens in London’s West End on the Duke of York’s Theatre (24 May – 20 September 2025).
As a band strives to good every observe of their make-or-break album, the solid of actor-musicians mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation because it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a brand new album finds itself immediately on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures may spark their breakup — or their breakthrough.
Theatre exhibits closing this week
HANDBAGGED UK Tour
Moira Buffini’s fly-on-the-wall comedy HANDBAGGED about Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher, reimagined with music that includes re-workings of 80s pop classics will finish its four-month UK tour at Oxford Playhouse this weekend. The tour opened at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch on 6 February and visited Wolverhampton, Doncaster, Peterborough, Salford, Leicester, Wakefield, Blackpool, Bury St Edmunds, Coventry, Guilford and Newcastle earlier than arriving in Oxford this week.
DEAR ENGLAND on the National Theatre
The National Theatre‘s production of James Graham’s smash-hit Dear England had its world premiere within the Olivier theatre on 20 June 2023. Following a sold-out run, Dear England transferred to the Prince Edward Theatre, in London’s West End, from 9 October 2023 to 13 January 2024, the place it broke field workplace information.
Dear England returned to the Olivier theatre on 10 March this yr and can shut its run this weekend on 24 May 2025. Dear England will then have a 4-week run on the Lowry in Salford from 29 May to 29 June 2025. Directed by the Almeida Theatre’s Artistic Director Rupert Goold, Dear England tells the story of the England males’s soccer crew underneath Gareth Southgate.
Accessible Theatre Performances happening this week
This week, you may catch Audio Described Performances of Dear England on the National Theatre (Friday) and MJ the Musical on the Prince Edward Theatre (Saturday).
There may also be Captioned Performances of My Master Builder at Wyndham’s Theatre and Here We Are on the National Theatre.
For all upcoming Accessible Theatre Performances try https://westendwilma.com/accessible-performances/