The full casting for the first London revival of Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 since 1936 has been announced. Playing at the Jermyn Street Theatre from the 10th April, Tonight at 8.30 is being presented as part of the theatre’s The Reaction Season. Tonight at 8.30 is formed of nine one-act plays ranging from music-hall pastiche, to… Read More
Rehearsal images for Proud Haddock’s production of The Dog Beneath the Skin have been released ahead of the show’s run at the Jermyn Street Theatre from the 7th March. Here’s a glimpse of what has been happening… Directed by Jimmy Walters, The Dog Beneath the Skin is set to star Pete Ashmore (as Alan Norman and Cressida Bonas… Read More
The Jermyn Street Theatre has announced details of its upcoming four month The Reaction season to be formed of fifteen plays and musicals. The Jermyn Street Theatre has confirmed details of its third season which will include fifteen plays and musicals presented across four months. Running from the 10th April until the 18th August, the… Read More
Missed anything that Love London Love Culture reported on last month? Don’t worry, here’s LLLC’s most popular posts for January… 1. Love London Love Culture’s interview with Annie Fox: the playwright spoke about her debut play Woman Caught Unaware which was performed as part of Heretic Voices at the Arcola Theatre. Read the full interview here.… Read More
This deeply fascinating one woman show brings Peggy Guggenheim’s colourful life vividly to the stage. It is clear what an extraordinarily colourful life Peggy Guggenheim had thanks to this richly detailed and researched play by Lanie Robertson . Filled with pain, love and loss, dotted with stories involving some of the best known artists of the… Read More
It has been announced that Cassie McFarlane and Adrian Hope’s play will be performed at the Jermyn Street Theatre as part of its Scandal Season. A bar in Jamaica. The early 1960s. When womanizing, hell-raising film star Peter Finch meets Eletha Barrett, a charismatic island girl, they both get more than they bargained for. The relationship between… Read More
With the New Year firmly within sight, here’s Love London Love Culture’s guide to some of the best theatre to see during January… Bananaman the Musical, Southwark Playhouse: it might already be in previews, but this world premiere production of the brand new musical officially opens in January. As one of the flagship characters in the world’s… Read More
Opening the Jermyn Street Theatre’s Scandal season, Lanie Robertson’s play arrives in London from the 17th January. Peggy Guggenheim collected art — and artists. Married to Max Ernst, lover of Samuel Beckett, champion of Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso, Peggy’s love life was as colourful as her art collection. She moved to Venice in the… Read More
Here’s a guide to this week’s most popular reads on Love London Love Culture… 1. Review round up for Network, now playing at the National Theatre: Bryan Cranston and Michelle Dockery stars in Lee Hall’s adaptation of Network. But what have critics had to say about it? Find out here. 2. Miss Julie, Jermyn Street Theatre: following… Read More
Howard Brenton’s adaptation of Strindberg’s play is sharp and observant in which the tension is carefully built up in Tom Littler’s production. August Strindberg’s play is one that continues to fascinate directors and adaptors with its passionate speeches as well as its focus on class and sex. But given the numerous adaptions and stagings it… Read More