Points of view: theatre, comedy and news
Universal Pictures Content Group (UPCG) announces today it has acquired UK theatrical rights for box office smash-hit and double TONY award-winning, SIX the Musical Live! The performance, filmed at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, features the Original Queens returning to reprise their roles and will release widely in cinemas via Universal Pictures (UK) on 6 April.
The Olivier Award®-winning ‘Best New Musical’ Operation Mincemeat, created by a quartet of young British creatives, will open on Broadway at the Golden Theatre - its first musical since the Tony Award® Triple Crown winner Avenue Q - on 20th March 2025. From 15th February, when previews begin on Broadway, Operation Mincemeat will run simultaneously in New York and London, with the West End’s Fortune Theatre recently receiving an incredible 10th extension from ATG through 8th March.
Not finished raising a little hell, Bonnie and Clyde is back once again with a live concert version filmed at the Royal Theatre Drury Lane in January 2022. Directed by Nick Winston with music by Frank Wildhorn, book by Ivan Menchell and lyrics by Don Black, this live concert version of Bonnie and Clyde is a simply brilliant example and celebration - not only of this musical and the genre - but for the accessibility and love for theater.
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