Theatre Royal, Plymouth News

IMAGINE THIS, the new musical, will have its premiere at the New London Theatre in the West End on Wednesday 19 November, following previews from 4 November.

The world premiere of the new musical Daydream Believer will take place at the Theatre Royal Plymouth where will it play a limited run starting on August 26th and run through September 6th.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to premiere Philip Ridley's striking drama VINCENT RIVER at Brits Off Broadway.

In the spirit of last season's acclaimed VENGEANCE, the Off-Broadway theatre company the stageFARM (Carrie Shaltz, Founder / Executive Director and Alex Kilgore, Artistic Director) will present the world premiere of SPIN, a series of new short plays commissioned on the timely topic by Adam Rapp, Gina Gionfriddo, Judith Thompson, Elizabeth Meriwether, and Mark Schultz. With direction by Alex Kilgore and Special Guest Director (TBD), SPIN begins performances Friday evening, October 3, 2008 for a limited engagement through Saturday evening, November 8, 2008 at The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street between Barrow & Bedford Streets). Opening night is Saturday evening, October 11, 2008 at 8:00PM.

After completing its two-year West End run on January 12, 2008 Disney's Mary Poppins will launch on a national tour criss-crossing the United Kingdom. The tour begins on June 4, 2008 for a month-long engagement at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Often musicals or plays that deal with highly emotive subjects can be accused of taking themselves too seriously and run the risk of becoming pretentious. The problem with the new musical 'Imagine This' is that it perhaps does not take itself seriously enough. Set in the Warsaw Ghetto during the winter of 1942, where a group of Jewish actors attempt to perform a musical play about the last stand of the Jewish Zealots at Masada in 70 A.D., it has the potential to be a genuinely powerful piece of musical theatre. But the world premiere production at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth fails to achieve that potential.

21 theatres from around the UK have united with the creative team and producers Avalon, to save the tour of the multi-award winning smash hit musical Jerry Springer - The Opera.

The intense and gripping thriller The Gentle Hook, written by one of the world's most popular and prolific thriller writers Francis Durbridge, takes to the stage at the Theatre Royal Plymouth from Tuesday 22 February to Saturday 26 February 2005.