Please note this show will be performed in Russian with NO translation.

Demarche of Enthusiasts is a combined story of the modern Russian classics. Popular actor Alexander Filippenko brings to life excerpts from Sergei Dovlatov, Vladimir Vyssotsky, Vasily Aksenov and Bulat Okudzhava, marshalling them under a single epigraph: “All of us hail from the 1960s. To be perfectly honest, we lived better then than now. Although the life itself is better now than it was then…” This comparison – however tragic, illogical and sad it may sound – is also irrepressibly funny, giving Filippenko ample opportunity to make his audience laugh and cry, almost at the same time.
 

Defending the Caveman holds the record as the longest running solo play in Broadway history. Caveman is also now a worldwide rock-solid tour de force that has won the hearts of millions and it’s sure to win yours.  Caveman has been seen in 45 countries and translated into 30 different languages (and counting!).

A hilariously insightful play about the ways men and women relate, Caveman has both sexes roaring with laughter and recognition.  Affectionate nudging between audience members occurs during the performance as they recognize themselves in the stories being told on stage. 

Defending the Caveman makes us laugh at ourselves about all the ways men and women fight, laugh and love. That's why couples all across America and around the world are in love with Defending the Caveman.

Featuring Kevin Burke

Show times are 3 p.m. daily with additional Friday and Saturday evening performances at 7 p.m.
On occasion, previously scheduled and promoted performances of this show may be cancelled.

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Join us on Monday 22nd March 2010 to celebrate 80 years in the life of Stephen Sondheim, with the only concert in the UK to take place on his actual birthday.
 
See some of the West End’s biggest and best musical stars as we celebrate the incredible work of one of the world’s most successful composers.
 
All profits from this concert will be donated to TheatreMAD - The Make A Difference Trust.
 
West End stars signed up to showcase their talents include Aimie Atkinson (Zorro), Lucy May Barker (Spring Awakening), John Barr (Ragtime), Rebecca Caine (Phantom of the Opera), Leila Benn Harris (Imagine This), Mark Evans (Wicked), Adrian Hansel (Hairspray), Jenna Lee-James (We Will Rock You), Jodie Beth Meyer (High School Musical), Jason Pennycooke (La Cage Aux Folles), Gabriel Vick (A Little Night Music), Charlotte Wakefield (Spring Awakening) and many more.*
 
*Please note that all performers listed above are subject to availability. The management cannot be held responsible for the indisposition of a certain performer on the evening of the event.
 
Running time: approx 2 hours with an interval

Be one of the first to to see “The Little Big Club - Live in Concert” - a brand new singing and dancing stage show that brings together an ensemble of the world most popular and best loved preschool characters in one exciting adventure!

The new 90-minute theatrical and musical extravaganza from Premier Stage Productions, Barney^TM, Bob the Builder^TM, Angelina Ballerina^TM, Pingu^TM, Fifi Forget-me-Not^TM and Fireman Sam^TM together on stage for the very first time and offers something younger members of the family will never forget!

So come along and be part of the magic….

For two performances only prior to the Absolut Gay Theatre Festival Dublin. From the team that produced the award winning Lord Arthur’s Bed….

NAKED HOMO written and performed by Martin Lewton
Staged by Andrew McKinnon

Ten scenes of naked gay life performed by one naked homo taken from -

Dark room * naturist * husband * dog * life model * escort * birth * gym * cheat * drag queen * bike ride* the match * death * sauna * webcam * bondage * pride * beach * street * cleaners * bed * stripper….

Starring Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley
 
By David Hirson
Directed by Matthew Warchus
 
American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, La Bête, is a comic tour de force about Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theatre, and Valere (Mark Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves only himself. When the fickle princess (Joanna Lumley) decides she’s grown weary of Elomire's royal theatre troupe, he and Valere are left fighting for survival as art squares off with ego in a literary showdown for the ages.
 
La Bête will star Tony and Olivier Award winner Mark Rylance (Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing), Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce (Dr Niles Crane in Frasier) and BAFTA Award winner Joanna Lumley (Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous) and will be directed by the multi award-winning Matthew Warchus (The Norman Conquests, God of Carnage, Boeing-Boeing).

A new comedy from BAFTA Award-winner and author of Rising Damp Eric Chappell

In life, Dave Thursby was a hugely successful television comedian, loved by the public. In death, he leaves his wife, agent and close companions bereft. They are going to miss Dave terribly. Some of them may even be out of work. Unless, of course, the repeats, television specials, biographies and newspaper tell-alls can fill the vacuum. And who is best placed to exploit the legacy?

Crammed with great jokes, Tom Conti leads a fantastic cast of performers, in this hilarious and fast paced comedy from the author of such classic TV Series as Rising Damp, Duty Free, Only When I Laugh and Home to Roost. Eric Chappell's script reflects a lifetime of working with comedians and he understands the ego of comic genius better than most – exposed hilariously in Wife After Death.

For two performances only prior to the Absolut Gay Theatre Festival Dublin. From the team that produced the award winning Lord Arthur’s Bed….

NAKED HOMO written and performed by Martin Lewton
Staged by Andrew McKinnon

Ten scenes of naked gay life performed by one naked homo taken from -

Dark room * naturist * husband * dog * life model * escort * birth * gym * cheat * drag queen * bike ride* the match * death * sauna * webcam * bondage * pride * beach * street * cleaners * bed * stripper….

World Premiere
 
A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII’s notorious second wife. Anne Boleyn is traditionally seen either as a pawn manipulated by an ambitious father and his friends into the King’s bed, or as a sexually licentious predator, even a witch.
 
But Brenton puts a very different Anne – and her ghost – on the Globe stage. Witty and confident in her sexuality, she takes on the vicious world of Tudor Court politics. She is in love with Henry but also in love with the most dangerous ideas of her day. Conspiring with the exiled William Tyndale, the great translator of the Bible who was to be burnt as a heretic, Anne plots to make England Protestant, forever.
 
Award-winning playwright Howard Brenton’s previous work includes In Extremis at Shakespeare's Globe (2006 and 2007).

Jazzgalore, the Performance Company of Northern Ballet School present "Crazy For Dance - A Musical Journey Through The Decades".

Crazy For Dance is a nostalgic trip through the classics of Broadway from the roaring twenties to the present day…

Directed and choreographed by David Needham this is a Dance Revue for all ages, brimming with energy and style and guaranteed to get your feet tapping!

A Taste of the West End in Manchester…