Interview with Pastoral Director Steve Marmion and Playwright Thomas Eccleshare.
Previews: Thu 25 Apr - Sat 27 Apr, 7.30pm. Wed 15 May - Sat 8 Jun, 7.30pm (Sat matinees 3pm)
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/pastoral/
A darkly funny, powerful and highly original first play by Thomas Eccleshare, the winner of the Verity Bargate Award
A solo performance by Valentijn Dhaenens
Tue 2 - Sat 13 July, 9.15pm
Soho Theatre
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/bigmouth/
'Brilliant ... a fascinating experience.'
★★★★ Lyn Gardner, Guardian
He who picks his words well, can turn the weakest argument into the strongest.
The sell-out hit of the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe from one of Europe's hottest theatre companies to explode out of Belgium since Ontroerend Goed.
Valentijn Dhaenens has received universal critical acclaim and been described as a one-man powerhouse for his thrilling and virtuoso performance in Bigmouth. Using fragments of well-known and lesser known speeches, he shows that in 2,500 years, the tricks of the trade hardly changed and that whilst the absolute truth doesn't exist, it is just a pretty lie for those who aspire world power or simply just the hand of their beloved.
Direction & performance: Valentijn Dhaenens
Light & sound design: Jeroen Wuyts
Costume design: Barbara De Laere
Production Management: Inge Lauwers
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/pastoral/
Previews: Thu 25 Apr - Sat 27 Apr, 7.30pm.
Wed 15 May - Sat 8 Jun, 7.30pm (Sat matinees 3pm)
A darkly funny, powerful and highly original first play by Thomas Eccleshare, the winner of the Verity Bargate Award.
Moll thinks she's going on holiday but something more sinister is afoot. As menacing cats and strutting voles advance, a dangerously fertile countryside just keeps on growing -- humanity is on the brink.
Starring Anna Calder-Marshall (In The Republic of Happiness, Royal Court Theatre; Salt, Root & Rose, Trafalgar Studios; The House of Bernarda Alba, The Royal Exchange).
LIFT the musical opens and here is them getting the set in!
The world premiere of a new musical by Craig Adams and Ian Watson about love, life and loss in a London lift.
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/lift/
1 Lift. 8 Strangers. 54 Seconds.
A thousand possibilities...
LIFT: How the things we dare not say could change our lives and how those closest to us are often those we've never met.
Cast includes Julie Atherton (Sister Act, Mamma Mia, Avenue Q), Nikki Davis-Jones (Wicked and Blood Brothers), Cynthia Erivo (Sister Act), Jonny Fines (Avenue Q), Luke Kempner (South Pacific),Ellie Kirk(Legally Blonde), George Maguire (20th Century Boy) and Robbie Towns (Legally Blonde).
We've got a new door thanks to The Theatres Trust and The Rose Foundation!
Here is Soho's Associate Artist David Johnson being the first person through the door to our Box Office.
Rehearsal Room Video for LIFT.
The world premiere of a new musical by Craig Adams and Ian Watson about love, life and loss in a London lift.
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/lift/
1 Lift. 8 Strangers. 54 Seconds.
A thousand possibilities...
LIFT: How the things we dare not say could change our lives and how those closest to us are often those we've never met.
Cast includes Julie Atherton (Sister Act, Mamma Mia, Avenue Q), Nikki Davis-Jones (Wicked and Blood Brothers), Cynthia Erivo (Sister Act), Jonny Fines (Avenue Q), Luke Kempner (South Pacific),Ellie Kirk(Legally Blonde), George Maguire (20th Century Boy) and Robbie Towns (Legally Blonde).
First day of rehearsals for LIFT. The world premiere of a new musical by Craig Adams and Ian Watson about love, life and loss in a London lift.
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/lift/
1 Lift. 8 Strangers. 54 Seconds.
A thousand possibilities...
LIFT: How the things we dare not say could change our lives and how those closest to us are often those we've never met.
Cast includes Julie Atherton (Sister Act, Mamma Mia, Avenue Q), Nikki Davis-Jones (Wicked and Blood Brothers), Cynthia Erivo (Sister Act), Jonny Fines (Avenue Q), Luke Kempner (South Pacific),Ellie Kirk(Legally Blonde), George Maguire (20th Century Boy) and Robbie Towns (Legally Blonde).
Season's Greetings from Sam Simmons! Come and see him at Soho Theatre in About the Weather
Shows on 27 - 29 Dec, then 2 - 5 Jan 2013
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/sam-simmons-about-the-weather/
Sam Simmons is here in London only until 5 January at Soho Theatre
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/sam-simmons-about-the-weather/
Surreal, wonderful and exciting - his show brings delight into what you thought was the mundane!
Until 5 Jan 2013
Get nasty this nativity... "The Divine" David Hoyle and Richard "Jerry Springer" Thomas come together with a trashy, meaty buffet of festive filth and darkly funny songs. Stick your big toe into a laddered stocking stuffed with Crimbo melodies redolent of tangerines, tinsel, telly, tears and terror.
Having previously worked together on award-winning feature film Uncle David, our two bad fairies Hoyle and Thomas bring their own alternative Christmas celebration to Soho Downstairs for nights of sin and song. Join them ... or else!
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/the-kingdom/
Three Irishmen. Digging. Telling tales to put down the day. Rooted in the dramas of ancient Greece 'The Kingdom' is Colin Teevan's haunting and lyrical new play
Finding Butterfly at Limehouse Town Hall
3-20 October 2012
The Musical Director of Olivier Award winning La Boheme and guerilla opera-makers The Wedding Collective re-imagine Madame Butterfly; one of the most hauntingly beautiful operas ever made.
Nagasaki, 1948. In a country ravaged by war and destruction a young man returns home, searching through the rubble for memories of his mother, a beautiful geisha called Cio-Cio-San but known to the world as Butterfly.
Torn away from his Japanese homeland and brought up in America, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, Jr. is forced to confront his true heritage as well as his father's monstrous act of betrayal.
Sung by a cast of professional opera singers and using Puccini's original score, Finding Butterfly picks up where the original masterpiece ended, tracing Butterfly's final tragic steps and featuring the best known and loved arias from one of the most iconic works in the opera canon. Performed as an operatic, site specific play in Limehouse Town Hall, with words in English and an Italian libretto.
Tickets http://www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/finding-butterfly/
This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same.
A new play by Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner Phil Porter, Blink is an exciting collaboration between Soho Theatre -- London's most vibrant venue for new writing, comedy and cabaret -- and internationally acclaimed, Fringe First winners nabokov.
Blink will be at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from 2-26 August 2012, and Soho Theatre, London from 29 August - 22 September 2012.
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/a-walk-on-part-arts-theatre/
Channel 4 Political Correspondent Michael Crick quizzes the ex-PM over the recent West End transfer of A Walk On Part; the hit political comedy adapted from the diaries of Chris Mullin.
A WALK ON PART
Tue 19 June - Sat 14 July
An insider's view of the last and most turbulent decade in politics; this is a fast, funny and furious theatrical ride based on the critically acclaimed diaries of former MP Chris Mullin. With a huge host of well-known characters including John Prescott, David Cameron, George Osborne, Tony Benn and Tony Blair.
★★★★ 'Exhilarating... excellently performed...
I cannot recommend it too highly.' Guardian
★★★★ Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday,
The Spectator, Telegraph, Time Out, Times
Video produced by Blind Crow Pictures
Dixie Longate becomes an intern for the day at WGN.
Dixie's Tupperware Pary comes to Soho Theatre 7 - 19 May 2012.
Tickets available at: http://www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/dixieandrsquo-s-tupperware-party
http://sohotheatre.com/whats-on/shallow-slumber
Dawn never thought motherhood would feel like this. Moira never thought she'd have a case like this. How far would you go for someone who ruined your life?
Unfolding backwards to the heart-rending moment when everything changed, Shallow Slumber looks past the headlines to the lives beneath. A story for social workers everywhere and anyone with a heart.
Chris Lee is an award-winning playwright, social worker, former Pearson playwright-inresidence at the Finborough, and Associate Witer at The Abbey, Dublin. His explosive new play is produced by Supporting Wall, following their sell-out world premiere of Philip Ridley's Tender Napalm.
Directed by Mary Nighy
'Talented to within an inch of their lives, Bourgeois & Maurice define neo-cabaret. You'll fall in love'
★★★★
Time Out
'Gloriously inappropriate songs, laugh-out-loud and completely unmissable. Without a doubt, the coolest kids in cabaret'
★★★★★
Gay Times
'What you need to remember is that if you don't like it, you're boring'
★★★★★
Pink Paper
Last Christmas, due to the credit crunch, Bourgeois & Maurice didn't give each other gifts. Luckily this year they have been fortunate enough to come across a couple of HD TVs, 14 left-footed trainers and a bin bag of Imodium and they could NOT be happier.
Having sold out Soho Theatre earlier in the year with their brand new four-piece rock band, alt-cabaret's most peculiar musical siblings are back with a brand new Christmas show.
Joined once again by extra musicians on drums, guitar and a stolen child's wooden recorder, the award-winning duo celebrate the most wonderful day in the capitalist's calendar with their unrivalled mix of musical comedy, cutting satire and fashion that's so high you'll wonder what you've taken.
New Year's Eve special!
Start your night with this musical duo on 31 Dec at 7.30pm for just £20 a ticket, or see in the New Year with their special show at 9.45pm for £25 a ticket! The bar will stay open until 2am after the 9.45pm show. Reserve a prime location table for up to four people with a bottle of bubbly for £150 -- to book, please call our box office on 020 7478 0100
Week 1 of rehearsals for EX, a new British musical at Soho Theatre.
In this video blog we meet the cast and learn about what they've been getting up to...
EX
Thu 10 Nov - Sat 3 Dec
A sour-sweet, funny-sad and shamelessly romantic new British musical.
Two former lovers meet in a bar.
When they were together, Jack walked all over Ruby, and she let him.
But things are different now.
Ruby looks amazing. She's bursting with confidence and about to emigrate to America with Mr Right; the handsome and charming Keith. So long Jack...
But there's a catch. She still loves Jack. Or does she?
Can Jack win back the girl before she leaves town forever?
Should Ruby follow her heart or her head?
Funny, romantic and bursting with song, EX is an exuberant new show starring some of the West End's hottest talent.
sohotheatre.com/whats-on/ex-a-play-with-songs/
Interview with Pastoral Director and Playwright
LIFT - Set built in the theatre!
Christmas blues? Sam Simmons will get rid of them!
Sam Simmons asks an Important Question
A Christmas sing-song from Late Night Gimp Fight
David Hoyle & Richard Thomas: Merrie Hell
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange Trailer
A Walk On Part with Michael Crick & 'Tony Blair'
Interview with Moses, star of The Table
Dixie Longate - Intern for a day!
Soho Theatre Fundraising Gala 2012
Bourgeois & Maurice: Fa la la la la Trailer
