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KENDAL CALLING
FELICITY KENDAL, right is to make her musical debut at the age of 74 in Anything Goes at the Barbican in London.
She says: “It’s wonderful to be joining this classic joyous show after the past terrible year of loss and lockdown. We need to connect together again in our theatres and there is nothing quite like the thrill of a live audience experiencing a great show. I am sure that this is a perfect moment for this glorious, funny and uplifting musical.”
The cast also includes Gary Wilmot, Megan Mullally and Robert Lindsay and runs for a limited season from June 5.
■ Tickets and details from anythinggoesmusical.co.uk
TELLING TALES OF LOVE AND TRAGEDY
SIR DEREK JACOBI, pictured, is to appear as the narrator in a filmed theatre production of Romeo & Juliet starring Sam Tutty and Emily Redpath as Shakespeare’s tragic young lovers.
Cutting-edge technology has been used to produce and film the production and it will be available to stream via romeojuliet2021.com from February 13 to February 20. Tickets are on sale now and a portion of proceeds will go to theatre charity Acting for Others.
PURPLE REIGNS ONLINE
AWARD-WINNING musical The Color Purple is to be streamed online by Leicester’s Curve in association with Birmingham Hippodrome.
A total of 2,000 free tickets are available to NHS staff and the production, based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will be available from February 16 to March 7.
■ Book tickets at curveonline.co.uk