Simon Scullion News

The West End will welcome a record number of new British musicals this autumn, thanks to the world's first major season for an improvised musical.

Two more famous faces from stage and screen are set to become AGATHA CHRISTIE'S latest guests as they join the UK tour of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE this summer, which marks the 10th anniversary of THE AGATHA CHRISTIE THEATRE COMPANY and the 125th anniversary of the author's birth.

Celebrated West End newcomers and winners of the Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy 2014*, Mischief Theatre have embarked on a major UK tour with their new show Peter Pan Goes Wrong, causing chaos at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday 14 until Saturday 18 April 2015.

Last April I reviewed The Play That Goes Wrong for BroadwayWorldUK during its UK tour prior to its West End run. I enjoyed it immensely and the reaction to the production is clearly widespread as the production company recouped their investment within the first portion of their stint in London. Peter Pan Goes Wrong is the response to their success and is equally, if not more, hilarious than its predecessor.

For a strictly limited Christmas holiday run, double Best Entertainment Olivier Award nominees Dan and Jeff star in the London premiere of their new show Potted Sherlock, hot on the heels of worldwide hit Potted Potter and festive funhouse Potted Panto. This show sees the duo return with their greatest challenge yet: the entire works of one of the greatest detectives in literary history, Sherlock Holmes. All sixty stories retold in eighty elementary minutes! Scroll down for a first look at the cast onstage!

Celebrated West End newcomers and winners of the Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy 2014*, Mischief Theatre are set to come to Birmingham with their new show Peter Pan Goes Wrong. This comedy spin on a classic family favourite opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 27 January until 1 February.

Next year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of the 'Queen of Crime', Agatha Christie, and the 10th anniversary of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company. To mark both occasions, her most popular and best-selling thriller AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, is set to return to the stage for a UK tour - visiting Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Monday 2 - Sat 7 February 2015.

Celebrated West End newcomers and winners of the Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy 2014*, Mischief Theatre are set to embark on a major UK tour with their new show Peter Pan Goes Wrong. This comedy spin on a classic family favourite will open at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on 21 November until 29 November, prior to a 4-week Christmas season at The Lowry, Salford Quays, where it will play from 16 December to 11 January 2015. Peter Pan Goes Wrong will then continue to tour nationwide, until July 2015.

POTTED POTTER toured Australia in 2012 and played to sold-out houses across the country, and now by popular demand this hugely entertaining show makes a welcome return.

POTTED POTTER toured Australia in 2012 and played to sold-out houses across the country, and now by popular demand this hugely entertaining show makes a welcome return.

Black Coffee is the first play that Agatha Christie wrote for the stage back in 1929, when the show is set. Sir Claud Amory summons the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and his trusted friend Captain Hastings to his London house to investigate who has stolen a formula from his safe. Upon arriving, Sir Claud is found dead in his library so the enquiry turns to into a murder investigation as well.

59E59 Theaters welcomes KPS Productions, in association with the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh to Brits Off Broadway & supported by Jersey Arts Trust, with PLAYING WITH GROWN UPS by Hannah Patterson, directed by Hannah Eidinow. PLAYING WITH GROWN UPS began performances on Tuesday, April 29 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 18. Press opening is today, Tuesday, May 6 at 7:15 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:15 PM; Friday at 8:15 PM; Saturday at 2:15 PM and 8:15 PM; and Sunday at 3:15 PM and 7:15 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $35 ($24.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279- 4200 or visit www.59e59.org.

59E59 Theaters will welcome KPS Productions in association with the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh to Brits Off Broadway with PLAYING WITH GROWN UPS by Hannah Patterson, directed by Hannah Eidinow. PLAYING WITH GROWN UPS begins performances tonight, April 29 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 18.

59E59 Theaters will welcome KPS Productions in association with the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh to Brits Off Broadway with PLAYING WITH GROWN UPS by Hannah Patterson, directed by Hannah Eidinow. PLAYING WITH GROWN UPS begins performances on Tuesday, April 29 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 18.

The Agatha Christie Theatre Company is delighted to announce that one of Britain's most instantly recognisable actors ROBERT POWELL is to star as Hercule Poirot in a new production of her first ever play Black Coffee.

The Agatha Christie Theatre Company is delighted to announce that one of Britain's most instantly recognisable actors ROBERT POWELL is to star as Hercule Poirot in a new production of her first ever play Black Coffee.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents the hit off-Broadway show Potted Potter - The Unauthorized Harry Experience-A Parody by Dan and Jeff, at the Byham Theater in Pittsburgh, PA from tonight, November 20-24, 2013.

Jeff loves Harry Potter and wants to provide an entertaining, yet accurate, recap of all seven of the novels. Dan, who is moderately aware that Harry Potter exists at best, just wants to have fun and play Quidditch. As the two bumble their way through the seven books, storytelling through puppetry, audience participation, and outrageous 1970s song, hijinks ensue and lots of trouble is made.

The hit off-Broadway show Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff comes to Boston for a limited, three week engagement, playing today, September 17 through October 6 at The Paramount Center Mainstage (559 Washington St.). The Boston engagement follows a run at off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre, and a hugely successful North American tour. The press opening is set for tonight, September 17 at 7:30 pm.

For a strictly limited Christmas holiday run, Dan and Jeff bring the Olivier-nominated Potted Panto back to the Vaudeville this December for its third West End season. The show sees the creators of sell-out, international touring phenomenon Potted Potter cram all the classic pantos into one incredible show - that's seven pantomimes in just eighty minutes!