Casting unveiled for Titanic Musical UK and Ireland tour


Horrible Histories – Part Four heads to West End


A cast of 25 actors from across the country will take the first UK and Ireland tour of Titanic The Musical to cities associated with the famous ship. The show will open in


Southampton on April 12 – in the week of the 106th anniversary of the Titanic disaster in which 1,517 people lost their lives. Based on real people aboard the ship, Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s musical focuses on their hopes and aspirations. Yeston said: “The idea that a


troupe of actors will tour this show in the UK, birthplace of the ship, where the workers of Belfast, the cabin boys and maids and stewards from Liverpool, the officers and crew, the stokers and stevedores from the Midlands all created a


The Birmingham Stage Company will produce the world premiere of Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain – Part Four in London’s West End this summer. Written and directed by


Neal Foster, the production will play at the Apollo Theatre (August 2-September 1). It marks Horrible Histories’


The idea that a troupe of actors will tour this show in the UK, birthplace of the ship, means more to me than I can say


miraculous floating city, means more to me than I can say.” After opening at the Mayflower


Theatre in Southampton, the production will transfer to Belfast, where the ship was constructed. It will then visit Cardiff, Salford, Dublin, Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Plymouth, Northampton, Nottingham, Blackpool, Bromley and Liverpool. titanicthemusical.co.uk


Ian McKellen to star in title role of King Lear


The Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s King Lear will run at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London for 100 performances (July 11-November 3). Sir Ian McKellen will play King


Lear, returning to the Duke of York’s Theatre where he made his West End debut in the 1964 production of A Scent of Flowers. McKellen has enjoyed an illustrious career on stage and screen, and has played many of Shakespeare’s most famous roles including Hamlet, Macbeth, Iago, Richard II and III. Full casting for the West End


production of King Lear will be announced in due course. kinglearwestend.com


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seventh year in the West End and makes Barmy Britain the only show in West End history to launch a fourth sequel.


Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain


– Part Four follows the success of Barmy Britain – Parts One, Two and Three as well as the most recent ‘Best of’ productions. Audiences can re-live the times of the ruthless Romans, terrible Tudors and gorgeous Georgians, with sketches inspired by Terry Deary’s original Horrible Histories books. barmybritain.com


BEATLES ON TOUR: A show featuring the Beatles’ music will tour the UK starting in Cardiff (August 20). The team behind Let It Be have created a new production, incorporating Let It Be Part II into the show. Part II imagines The Beatles reuniting for one night, a decade


after they went their separate ways. It features many of the Fab Four’s songs including A Hard Day’s Night, Day Tripper, Twist and Shout, I Want To Hold Your Hand and Strawberry Fields Forever. letitbelive.com


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