Hayley Sprout

Category: On Stage

  • The Trench @ Southwark Playhouse*

    The Trench @ Southwark Playhouse*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show/the-trench/ Booking until: 17th November 2018 Production Photos by: Rah Petherbridge Having seen recent success with their immersive production of Alice’s Adventures Underground, theatre company Les Enfant Terribles have brought their production of The Trench to London. The play follows a miner called Bert who goes on a mystical trip…

  • Company @ Gielgud Theatre*

    Company @ Gielgud Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/company-tickets Production Photos by: Brinkhoff/Moegenburg Booking until: 30th March 2019 In their joint venture producer Chris Harper and director Marianne Elliott have brought back the classic Sondheim musical Company, but with a twist. When the musical originated, the show centred around Robert, a newly turned 35 year old man whose married…

  • Quick Fire Questions | Katharine Armitage, director of Frankenstein

    Quick Fire Questions | Katharine Armitage, director of Frankenstein

    Just in time for Halloween, Sutton House will soon play host to director Katharine Armitage’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Through a combination of puppetry, shadows and scares, company Tea Break Theatre not only offers an opportunity to celebrate Halloween through history, but it provides the opportunity to reflect on female identity and their role…

  • Lights Over Tesco Car Park @ Pleasance Theatre*

    Lights Over Tesco Car Park @ Pleasance Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ The second Edinburgh import that I managed to catch was Lights Over Tesco Car Park performed by the Poltergeist theatre company. The premise of the show follows the theatre company being contacted by a man called Robert who claims to have seen bright red lights over the car park in Tesco. Then he received…

  • Pretty Woman: The Musical @ Nederlander Theatre

    Pretty Woman: The Musical @ Nederlander Theatre

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://prettywomanthemusical.com/ Booking until: 9th June 2019 Director/choreographer wizard Jerry Mitchell has waved his magical wand on another musical adaptation that’s arrived on Broadway. Based on the iconic movie, Pretty Woman follows rich businessman Edward Lewis as he meets Vivian Ward who is working as a prostitute on the streets of…

  • Mythic @ Charing Cross Theatre*

    Mythic @ Charing Cross Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: http://charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/theatre/mythic Production Photos by: Marc Brenner Booking until: 24th November 2018 Do you ever look back and think about how much angst you carried in your teenage years? Well, the Titans children did it first by overthrowing their parents and becoming the Olympians. Now, Marcus Stevens and Oran Elder have created…

  • We’ve Got Each Other @ Pleasance Theatre*

    We’ve Got Each Other @ Pleasance Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ As part of their Caledonian Express season, the Pleasance Theatre in Islington is playing host to a whole range of shows that performed at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Having had major FOMO over the summer, I was super excited to check out the season. The first show I visited was Paul O’Donnell’s hysterical…

  • Quick Fire Questions | Scott Alan on The Distance You Have Come.

    Quick Fire Questions | Scott Alan on The Distance You Have Come.

    A new musical is opening at the Cockpit later this month. Award winning composer Scott Alan has created a song cycle using his back catalogue of work, to tell the lives of six individuals who juggle the challenges life throws at them. Under the musical direction of Scott Morgan the production will feature a stellar…

  • Mrs Dalloway @ Arcola Theatre*

    Mrs Dalloway @ Arcola Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/mrs-dalloway/ Production Photos by: Ollie Grove Booking until: 20th October 2018 Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, a new stage adaptation of the classic story Mrs Dalloway has arrived at the Arcola Theatre. The story takes place in 1920s London as the title character Clarissa Dalloway prepares to throw a…

  • Quick Fire Questions | Halley Feiffer, writer of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York.

    Quick Fire Questions | Halley Feiffer, writer of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York.

    Halley Feiffer’s off-Broadway hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York will be making it’s European debut in London at the Finborough Theatre from the 2nd to 27th October. Starring accredited actor, comedian and presenter Cariad Lloyd, A Funny Thing sees Karla, a foul-mouthed twenty-something comedian,…