This is London Magazine New Year Edition 2026 - Flipbook - Page 30
THE PRODUCERS EXTENDS
HIT RUN AT GARRICK
The critically acclaimed, smash-hit
production of The Producers has
extended its run at the Garrick Theatre,
with performances now booking until
19 September.
With a book by Mel Brooks and
Thomas Meehan, and music and lyrics by
Mel Brooks, the production is directed by
Patrick Marber. The show transferred from
the Menier Chocolate Factory following its
acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this year.
Artistic Director of the Menier
Chocolate Factory David Babani today
said: ‘I’m thrilled that our revival of The
Producers is extending at the Garrick
Theatre. Patrick Marber’s take on Mel
Brooks’ musical still retains the sharp
satirical humour of the original but also
allows audiences to laugh at things that
still remain relevant today.’
Based on Brooks’ cult classic film the
original Broadway production won a
record-breaking twelve Tony Awards and
this revival proves why. When down-onhis-luck producer Max Bialystock teams
up with timid accountant Leo Bloom to
stage a surefire flop their scheme
backfires with thunderous applause and
unstoppable laughter.
Reimagined by Tony Award-winning
director Patrick Marber and with
triumphant performances from Andy
Nyman, Marc Antolin, Trevor Ashley, Raj
Ghatak, Harry Morrison and Joanna
Woodward, The Producers is 'the musical
riot of the century' - a joy-filled hit.
Photo: Manuel Harlan
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Hugh Bonneville in Shadowlands.
Photo: Manuel Harlan / ArenaPAL
SHADOWLANDS
William Nicholson’s beloved and
deeply moving play Shadowlands,
directed by Rachel Kavanaugh is to open
at London’s Aldwych Theatre with
performances running from 5 February
to 9 May.
Hugh Bonneville will play C.S. Lewis
– the celebrated author of The
Chronicles of Narnia – whose orderly
academic life is upturned and
transformed by the unexpected love of
American poet Joy Davidman, played by
Maggie Siff.
What begins as a meeting of minds
becomes an uplifting and powerful
journey of love and the fragile beauty of
life. Based on a true story, Shadowlands
is written by William Nicholson and was
adapted from his own original BAFTA
Award-winning TV Movie. It soon
became a West End smash-hit winning
the Evening Standard Award for Best
Play, followed by a triumphant Tony
Award-winning Broadway transfer. In
1993 the play was adapted into a major
feature film directed by Richard
Attenborough and starring Anthony
Hopkins and Debra Winger, which
subsequently won the BAFTA Award for
Outstanding British Film.
DANIEL BREAKER JOINS CAST OF
HADESTOWN
Broadway and television star Daniel
Breaker is currently playing Hermes in
the critically acclaimed West End
production of Hadestown.
Blending American songwriting
traditions, from indie folk, to pop, blues,
and New Orleans-inspired jazz,
Hadestown has music, lyrics, and book
by acclaimed Tony® and Grammy®winning singer-songwriter and BBC
Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Anaïs
Mitchell who originated Hadestown as
an indie theatre project and acclaimed
album, before transforming the show
into a genre-defying new musical
alongside artistic collaborator and
Tony® Award-winning director Rachel
Chavkin.
Hadestown takes you on an
unforgettable journey to the underworld
and back, intertwining two mythic love
stories – that of young dreamers
Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King
Hades and his wife Persephone. A
deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful
theatrical experience, Hadestown invites
you to imagine how the world could be.
28 DAYS LATER LIVE IN CONCERT:
ORCHESTRATED RAGE
For the first time ever, for one-night
only, witness Danny Boyle’s awardwinning, post-apocalyptic horror film 28
Days Later and John Murphy's genrebending score, performed by live orchestra
and rock band with guest vocalists.
On Saturday 10 January, the cult
classic film infects the bounds of the
Eventim Apollo in a hair-raising evening of
symphonic Rage.
An unknown virus has torn through
Britain, reducing the place we call home to
nothing but desolate wasteland. It doesn’t
just kill its victims, it takes complete
control, filling them with murderous Rage.
This is not just a screening. This is the
answer to infection - Can you survive the
night?
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