Danny Dyer News

London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a new hip-hop history lesson to Pinter and Shakespeare, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld reviews, interviews and features!

In what promises to be an exciting event within the Pinter at the Pinter season, Lee Evans will appear in an eclectic mixed bill alongside stage and screen favourite Meera Syal. They join the previously announced Keith Allen and Tamsin Greig from 25th October to 8th December, for 23 performances only.

Some of the country's most exciting young stars - Jessica Barden, Kate O'Flynn, Hayley Squires, Luke Thallon and Russell Tovey have joined the highly-anticipated Harold Pinter season Pinter at the Pinter, together with the legendary Sir Antony Sher and Penelope Wilton.

Direct from 5 sell-out performances in Australia and across the UK, drag superstar Velma Celli delivers an electrifying cabaret featuring the legendary music of Queen, Bowie, Boy George, Lady Gaga, Tina Turner and more in Iconic - A Brief History of Drag. Forget lip-synching for your life, supported by backing singers and an onstage band, this is singing for your soul - from one of the West End's leading performers.

Keith Allen, Phil Davis, Paapa Essiedu, Rupert Graves, Gary Kemp, John Simm and Maggie Steed have joined the extraordinary company of Pinter at the Pinter, the unprecedented season featuring all twenty of Harold Pinter's one-act plays, running from September 2018 to February 2019, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize winner's death. The plays are directed by Jamie Lloyd, Patrick Marber, Ed Stambollouian, Lyndsey Turner and Lia Williams, with design by Soutra Gilmour, lighting design by Jon Clark and Richard Howell, and sound and music by George Dennis and Ben & Max Ringham. Further casting to be announced.

After 'sealing the deal' with critics and audiences alike during its smash hit West End run, Sam Yates' unmissable production of one of David Mamet's greatest and most lauded plays, Glengarry Glen Ross will embark on a nationwide tour from 14 February 2019 opening at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. The hard-nosed sales team in this darkly funny classic will then visit Birmingham, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Glasgow, Richmond, Brighton and Cardiff with further tour dates to be announced shortly.

After 'sealing the deal' with critics and audiences alike during its smash hit West End run, Sam Yates' unmissable production of one of David Mamet's greatest and most lauded plays, Glengarry Glen Ross will embark on a nationwide tour from 14 February 2019 opening at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. The hard-nosed sales team in this darkly funny classic will then visit Birmingham, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Glasgow, Richmond, Brighton and Cardiff with further tour dates to be announced shortly.

With a triple threat of heavenly vocals, theatrical swagger and razor-sharp wit, drag superstar Velma Celli comes to The Epstein Theatre on Thursday 28 June celebrating the most iconic drag moments of film, stage and popular culture in Iconic - A Brief History Of Drag.

The Jamie Lloyd Company, Ambassador Theatre Group, Benjamin Lowy Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions and Glass Half Full Productions present an extraordinary season of Harold Pinter's one-act plays on the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize winner's death, performed in the theatre that bears his name.

The Jamie Lloyd Company presents a complete season of Harold Pinter's one-act plays to celebrate the legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning British writer on the 10th anniversary of his death. 

An ISIS holding cell in Northern Iraq doesn't immediately strike most people as the most obvious setting for a critically acclaimed, sell-out, award-winning (not-so-humblebrag) stage comedy, but I knew in writing Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy that it had to be funny.

Fourteen Main Street Theater students perform in Rudyard Kipling's beloved classic, The Jungle Book. There are 3 public performances: Today and Saturday, January 19 and 20, at 7:30pm, and Sunday, January 21 at 3:00pm. Performances will be held at MST Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd., Houston, TX 77005. For tickets, call 713-524-6706 or visit MainStreetTheater.com. All tickets are $10, and seating is general admission.

Fourteen Main Street Theater students perform in Rudyard Kipling's beloved classic, The Jungle Book. There are 3 public performances: Friday and Saturday, January 19 and 20, at 7:30pm, and Sunday, January 21 at 3:00pm. Performances will be held at MST Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd., Houston, TX 77005. For tickets, call 713-524-6706 or visit MainStreetTheater.com. All tickets are $10, and seating is general admission.

Joe C Brown presents the sensational VELMA CELLI for an alternative festive takeover with special guests RACHEL TUCKER & LIAM TAMNE direct from London's West End. A sparkling, fun and rambunctious Christmas celebration with quick wit, high camp and quirky takes on your seasonal favourites. Tis the Season to be jolly so dust off your Christmas stockings grab your companions, loved ones and Tinder dates for a festive celebration like no other.

Rachel Tucker and Liam Tamne announced as special guests at Velma Celli's Christmas cabaret in December.

Obsidian Theater in association with Standing Room Only Productions is excited to bring the musical comedy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to Houston audiences. This hilarious whodunit will run September 28-October 14 at Obsidian Theater. With book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, this show within a show is based on the final unfinished novel of the same name by Charles Dickens, who left his story unfinished when he passed away in 1870. Due to the novel being incomplete, the identity of the murderer, or the question of Drood's ultimate fate, was never revealed.

Obsidian Theater in association with Standing Room Only Productions is excited to bring the musical comedy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to Houston audiences.

Following a hugely successful run at The Vaults in 2015, Master of the Macabre is returning to London in March. Hot new magical talent Benedict Barber brings his story to the stage - in a script developed by Barber and Matthew Stradling. Directed by Tony Middleton, the production runs for 3 nights from 9th March.

Following a hugely successful run at The Vaults in 2015, Master of the Macabre is returning to London in March. Hot new magical talent Benedict Barber brings his story to the stage - in a script developed by Barber and Matthew Stradling. Directed by Tony Middleton, the production runs for 3 nights from 9th March.

Main Street Theater continues its 2016 - 2017 Theater for Youth season with the regional premiere of Mockingbird based on the book by Kathryn Erskine, Winner of the National Book Award; adapted for the stage by Julie Jensen.