Anna Ledwich News

Hampstead Theatre has announced its next two productions and full casting for Wilderness.

Chichester Festival Theatre's Festival 2019 has been announced today by Artistic Director Daniel Evans, offering the colourful variety of work for which Chichester is renowned. New for 2019 is The Spiegeltent, a unique venue for an eclectic range of events.

Hampstead Theatre has announced the first three productions of 2019.

'That old copper statue by the Courthouse downtown, honouring the dead Confederate soldier, ain't there no more…'

Inequality is a hot topic for dramatists, but Sarah Burgess's deliciously dark comedy comes at it from a surprising perspective: allowing those high-finance gorgons to have their say. Of course, part of the strategy is giving them enough rope to hang themselves with, but this cynical satire argues that no one is clean here; we all have our price.

Hampstead Theatre presents the UK premiere of Sarah Burgess' breathtakingly witty and virtuosic comedy, Dry Powder. Directed by Anna Ledwich, this production explores the vision, the vulnerability, and the vilification of those shaping - and skewing - the economy.

Hampstead Theatre announces the first two productions for 2018.The UK premiere of Sarah Burgess' breathtakingly witty Dry Powder will be directed by Anna Ledwich and begins performances today.

Hampstead Theatre presents the UK premiere of Sarah Burgess' breathtakingly witty and virtuosic comedy, Dry Powder starring Hayley Atwell, Tom Riley and Aidan McArdle. Directed by Anna Ledwich, this production explores the vision, the vulnerability, and the vilification of those shaping - and skewing - the economy.

Hampstead Theatre presents the UK premiere of Sarah Burgess' breathtakingly witty and virtuosic comedy, Dry Powder. Directed by Anna Ledwich, this production explores the vision, the vulnerability, and the vilification of those shaping - and skewing - the economy. Hayley Atwell, currently starring in BBC's Howards End, will make her Hampstead Theatre debut as Jenny and will be joined by Tom Riley and Aidan McArdle.

Hampstead Theatre today announces three new Hampstead Downstairs productions; the candidates for Inspire: The Next Playwright programme; and its continued partnership with the Sphinx Theatre Company.

The world premiere of Emily Jenkins' pioneering new play Cookies is being supported by Lily Allen, Ted Reilly, Maddy Hill and Lady Viola Grosvenor, who will act as Ambassadors to the Cyberscene Project - a venture which uses theatre to tackle cyber bullying.

The world premiere of Emily Jenkins' pioneering new play Cookies is being supported by Lily Allen, Ted Reilly, Maddy Hill and Lady Viola Grosvenor, who will act as Ambassadors to the Cyberscene Project - a venture which uses theatre to tackle cyber bullying.

Hampstead Theatre announces the first two productions for 2018.

Directed by Anna Ledwich, Kiss Me is passionately and heartbreakingly intimate. Stephanie (Claire Lams), a war widow, struggles to reconcile her role as a "modern woman" with her longing to have a baby. She is met by a man, Dennis (Ben Lloyd-Hughes), whose job is to give exactly what the woman wants most. Their meeting will be the start of an unorthodox relationship in a shifting 1929 London which is still learning to adjust to the new world.

'Well today is a brave day, friends are uniting. To help each other's dreams come true.'

Multi-award winning writer Richard Bean's Kiss Me transfers to Trafalgar Studios after a sold out run at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in 2016. Claire Lams (The King's Speech, Chichester Festival Theatre; The Little Mermaid, Bristol Old Vic; Routes, The Royal Court) and Ben Lloyd-Hughes (Future Conditional, Old Vic; Henry V, Michael Grandage Company; Jumpy, Duke of York's Theatre) reprise their roles.

Hampstead Theatre today announces three Hampstead Downstairs Originals which will open this spring.

Visible Theatre's Roundelay is coming to the Southwark Playhouse from 23rd Feb - 18th March.

Visible Theatre's Roundelay is coming to the Southwark Playhouse from 23rd Feb - 18th March.

Beth Steel, who scored at hit at the Hampstead in 2014 with a play about the 1980s miners' strike, has dipped back into history to create one with sickening relevance to the current financial crisis. It's 1978, and Wall Street is packed with cowboys gleefully eyeing up their new frontier: Latin America.