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The Theatre Royal Stratford East (commonly referred to as just Stratford East) is a 460 seat Victorian producing theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. Since 1953, it has been the home of the Theatre Workshop company, famously associated with director Joan Littlewood , whose statue is outside the theatre.
The Big Life is a British ska musical with book and lyrics by Paul Sirett and music by Paul Joseph, originally produced by the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2004. It combines Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost with the story of the Windrush immigrants [1] [2] (those Jamaicans who arrived in Britain aboard HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, which began an era of multiculturalism).
Brighton Festival: I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky: Leila Theatre Royal, Stratford East: 2011 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: Madeleine Gielgud Theatre/ Curve Theatre: 2011–2012 Sister Act: Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence UK Tour 2013 Lift: Lap Dancer Soho Theatre: The Color Purple: Celie Harris Johnson Menier ...
Stephen Sondheim first conceived of a musical version of the story in 1973, after he saw Bond's take on the story at Theatre Royal Stratford East. [2] Bond's sophisticated plot and language significantly elevated the lurid nature of the tale. Sondheim once observed, "It had a weight to it ... because [Bond] wrote certain characters in blank verse.
The subsequent tour included stops in Toronto at the Royal Alexandra Theatre (Sept 29-Nov 6, 1993)[need more tour stop info] Cincinnati, OH at the Taft Theatre (18–23 January 1994). [ 8 ] In 2002 a "Theater in the Round" production was mounted at the Drury Lane South Theatre in Chicago, IL.
It was first performed by Theatre Workshop, produced and directed by Littlewood in February 1959 at their home, the Theatre Royal Stratford East. It subsequently played at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End, starting on 11 February 1960. It ran for 886 performances. [1]
Ken Hill (28 January 1937 – 23 January 1995) was an English playwright and theatre director.. Ken Hill was a protégé of Joan Littlewood at Theatre Workshop.He was known for his chaotic musicals on the tiny stage of the old Theatre Royal Stratford East, [1] Theatre Workshop's home in Stratford, London, but he also had hits in the West End and abroad.
Meet Mo (2020) produced online by Theatre Royal Stratford East, a short musical composed by Leo Butler, directed by Eva Sampson. [21] Cinderella (2022) produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East book and lyrics by Leo Butler, music and lyrics by Robert Hyman, directed by Eva Sampson. [22] Innocent Creatures (2023) produced by National Theatre ...