Philip Ridley News

The release of Dom O’Hanlon’s Theatre in Times of Crisis: 20 Scenes for the Stage in Troubled Times is certainly timely, even without COVID. Written in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the collection of twenty play excerpts compiled by the Senior Commissioning Editor of Methuen Drama explores the theme of crisis in plays previously staged.

Philip Ridley’s new play The Poltergeist will no longer be performed in front of a live audience at Southwark Playhouse due to England entering a second national lockdown today. Each of the performances will now be available to watch live online.

Encompass Productions presents the WORLD PREMIERE of HOMECOMING, A New Theatre Festival, 10 – 14 November, 2020. White Bear Theatre, Kennington – London, 138 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ. Tickets: £16. Concessions: £14 Tickets available via: www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk

Southwark Playhouse today announced Nick Payne's Constellations as the next show to follow the current run of The Last Five Years and Philip Ridley's The Poltergeist in its new socially distanced auditorium. The production will play for three weeks from 26 November - 19 December 2020 to a live socially distanced audience of 110.

The world premiere of The Poltergeist by Philip Ridley comes to Southwark Playhouse this November for three performances only.

Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with HOMECOMING: A NEW THEATRE FESTIVAL, hosting five world premieres. A celebration of theatre returning to its true home - the stage - Homecoming features new work from a wide array of London's very best theatre companies and award-winning talent.

Next up on my local artists interview segment is Michael Beh, the director of upcoming show Vincent River and the founder of The Curators Theatre.

Strovolos Municipality will host the 4th edition of its annual Theatre Festival.

The Luke Westlake Scholarship, formerly known as the JAM Scholarship, is an award designed to provide an actor with artistic and financial support worth over £3,000 in their final year and as they graduate from university or drama school, and begin to navigate their way into the industry.

The Curators' timely revival of Philip Ridley's modern masterpiece VINCENT RIVER debuts at CHRIST CHURCH, Brisbane's newest, inner-city, indie theatre venue, from 13 - 31 October for 13 performances only.

Actors finishing their training this year are being given the chance to perform the World Premiere of a new Philip Ridley monologue online, as part of Tramp's The Beast Will Rise season.

Greenwich Theatre has secured £35,000 in emergency funding from Arts Council England to protect and develop the company's work with young and emerging artists and to move the annual Greenwich Children's Theatre Festival online.

According to BritishTheatre, Philip Ridley will present a series of online monologues, presented as The Beast Will Rise.

Southwark Playhouse has postponed the upcoming professional world premiere of Philip Ridley's The Beast of Blue Yonder.

Jade Ewen, Mirren Mack, Rachel Bright, and Unique Spencer will star in The Beast of Blue Yonder when it opens at Southwark Playhouse in April. Along with comedian and actor Steve Furst (Little Britain, Stephen Polliakoff's Summer of Rockets, Matilda West End), Charlie Quirke (Birds of a Feather), Lucy Gape (Hollyoaks, Hollyoaks Later), and Tyler Conti (Safe) they will form the backbone of a talented ensemble cast in Philip Ridley's rip roaring dark comedy.

In 1930's Hollywood Tex Maverick is casting his new film, Terrorland. He's not after a star. Just someone who can scream.

New Mexico Actors Lab founder Robert Benedetti announced today that co-Artistic Director Nicholas Ballas has been named the group's sole Artistic Director, and that Benedetti will now serve as Managing Director in concert with Mr. Ballas.

Mad Horse Theatre presents Radiant Vermin By Philip Ridley, directed by company member Jake Cote, September 26 - October 13, 2019 at Mad Horse Theatre, 24 Mosher Street, South Portland, ME.

The 23rd edition of the Istanbul Theatre Festival, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Koç Holding Energy Group Companies Aygaz, Opet and Tüpraş, will take place between 13 November and 1 December 2019.

African-American director David Norwood premieres a uniquely re-envisioned American version of TENDER NAPALM by renowned British playwright Philip Ridley (The Pitchfork Disney, Mercury Fur, The Fastest Clock in the Universe). This poetic two-hander originally premiered in London in 2011, before making a limited engagement Off-Broadway debut in 2012 to critical acclaim.