Theatre highlights this Month embody The Lonely Londoners tailored by Roy Williams
You can too catch Cymbeline with Martina Laird and Gabrielle Brooks and PLAY ON! directed by Michael Buffong at Bristol Previous Vic and Lyric Hammersmith.
Cymbeline with Martina Laird and Gabrielle Brooks
A secret marriage adjustments the course of two historical kingdoms. For the primary time in ten years, see Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s late, tragic comedy of affection and rebel, within the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Cymbeline is the queen of historical Britain. When her daughter, Innogen, secretly marries towards her mom’s will, Posthumus is banished to Rome. In exile, Posthumus locations a guess on Innogen’s innocence, a big gamble they may quickly remorse.
As Rome readies for conflict, can Innogen bridge her two worlds to carry peace and reconciliation? Solid consists of Aaron Anthony, Madeline Appiah, Amanda Shiny, Gabrielle Brooks, Angelina Chudi and Martina Laird.
Cymbeline runs at Shakespeare’s Globe from Friday tenth January – Sunday twentieth April 2025
The Lonely Londoners tailored by Roy Williams
Fifties London. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ‘Sir Galahad’ Oliver is impatient to begin his new life in London. Carrying simply pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts by Moses Aloetta’s door solely to seek out Moses and his associates already soured on metropolis life. Will the London fog dampen Galahad’s desires? Or will these Lonely Londoners make a house in a metropolis that sees them as a menace? Director Ebenezer Bamgboye. Solid consists of Tobi Bakare, Shannon Hayes, Solomon Israel, Gilbert Kym Jnr, Carol Moses, Aimee Powell and Romario Simpson.
The Lonely Londoners runs at Kiln Theatre from Friday tenth January – Saturday twenty second February 2025
A Good Home @ Royal Court docket Theatre
‘As soon as they’ve been right here lengthy sufficient, they’re not squatters.
Then they’re merely… Neighbours.’
Within the quaint suburban group of Stillwater, a mysterious shack springs up from the mud, and its inhabitants are nowhere to be seen.
As hypothesis abounds, new residents, Sihle and Bonolo are recruited by their neighbourhood to be the face of a marketing campaign to demolish the shack on this biting satire of group politics. Solid consists of Mimî M Khayisa and Sifiso Mazibuko.
A Good Home runs at Royal Court docket Theatre from Saturday eleventh January – Saturday eighth February 2025.
Kinky Boots starring Johannes Radebe
After inheriting his household’s failing shoe manufacturing unit and with a relationship on the rocks, life is proving to be very difficult for Charlie Worth. That’s till he meets Lola, a drag queen whose sparkle and unsteady heels would possibly simply maintain the reply to saving the struggling shoe enterprise.
Starring Strictly Come Dancing’s Johannes Radebe, with Newton Matthews, Kofi Dennis and Ashley-Jordon Packer.
Kinky Boots runs at Curve Theatre Leicester from Friday seventeenth – Saturday twenty fifth January 2025
An Night With Sir Lenny Henry @ Bush Theatre
For one evening solely, nationwide treasure Sir Lenny Henry hosts a particular occasion to lift funds for the Bush Theatre, performing extracts from his smash-hit play, August in England. Returning to the Bush, Lenny Henry will reprise his function as “August” – the charismatic Brummie greengrocer with the present of the gab, whose world is turned the wrong way up within the wake of the Windrush scandal.
Bringing his distinctive mix of wit, heat, and storytelling, Lenny will carry out chosen extracts from his critically acclaimed one-man present. This will likely be adopted by a dwell Q&A about his trailblazing profession, chaired by tradition author and podcaster Nancy Durrant.
An Night With Sir Lenny Henry at Bush Theatre from Saturday twenty fifth January 2025
PLAY ON! directed Michael Buffong
If music is the meals of affection…
Vy is a proficient songwriter seeking to make it large in Nineteen Forties Harlem. She shortly learns from her uncle Jester that girls won’t ever be taken critically in a person’s world. However she refuses to simply accept defeat. Via gender-fluid crafty, she meets membership proprietor The Duke and sensational singer Girl Liv and is quickly swept up in a syncopated symphony of melody, mistaken id and romance.
Set within the jazz scene of New York’s Cotton Membership, this trendy retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Evening fuses the thrilling and timeless music of Duke Ellington with road dance choreography. Put together to be wowed by this musical spectacular that’s positive to have your toes tapping and arms clapping.
Solid consists of Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Koko Alexandra, Earl Gregory, Cameron Bernard Jones, Lifford Shillingford, Tanya Edwards, Llewellyn Jamal, Gleanne Purcell-Brown, Jarnéia Richard-Noel, Andre Coulson, Alex Okoampa, Natalia Brown, Dylan Blake-Colbet, Tanaka Bingwa, Amber Cayasso and Freya Karlettis.
Play On! runs at Bristol Previous Vic Thursday sixteenth – Saturday twenty fifth January | Lyric Hammersmith Thursday twenty eighth January – Saturday twenty second February 2025
Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership with Billy Porter
In a time when the world is altering endlessly, there’s one place the place everybody will be free…
Welcome to the Package Kat Membership. Residence to an intimate and electrifying new manufacturing of CABARET. That is Berlin. Chill out. Loosen up. Be your self. Solid consists of Marisha Wallace and Billy Porter, Daniel Bowerbank, Xenoa Campbell-Ledgister, Sam Darius, Hicaro Nicolai, Anne-Marie Wojna, Patrick Wilden, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Liz Kamille and Jazmyn Raikes.
Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership with Billy Porter and Marisha Wallace begins from Tuesday twenty eighth January 2025 on the Umbrella Rooms
…Blackbird Hour Written by babirye bukilwa
“This love phrase. Do folks simply use it after they really feel sorry?”
Eshe hasn’t left the flat.
Family members maintain reaching out: blowing up her cellphone and exhibiting up at her entrance door. They are saying they’re going to “save” her. She’s not saying something again.
Till, at the hours of darkness early hours, surrounded by half-eaten meals, soiled washing and a rattling good playlist, she focuses on the letter in entrance of her.
…Blackbird Hour rans at Bush Theatre from Thursday thirtieth January – Saturday 1st March 2025