Production shots from director Matthew Parker’s incredibly inventive European premiere of Snoo Wilson’s play Lovesong of the Electric Bear at the Hope Theatre.
The show, which gives a (very) fresh take on the life of Alan Turing, runs to 21 March.
Photo geeks may be interested to know that lots of these images were shot at f1.2. Which is the production photography equivalent of “terrifying”.
It’s back to the Coliseum for shots from the English National Opera’s magnificent production of Verdi’s La Traviata, with Elizabeth Zharoff as Violetta and Ben Johnson as Alfredo.
The show opened yesterday and runs for nine performances.
Shots from the English National Opera and director Richard Jones’s spectacular production of Wagner’s Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
The show opens on 7 February.
Production shots from the very beautiful retelling of Shakespeare’s Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3 for the Game of Thrones generation, HVI: Play of Thrones.
The show runs at the Union Theatre up to 24 January.
To ring in the new year I thought I’d draw from my archive for something big and different.
And so to director Phelim McDermott and designer Julian Crouch — founders of Improbable Theatre — for their ENO / Metropolitan Opera production of Philip Glass’s opera Satyagraha, which looks at the early life of Mahatma Gandhi.
These pictures are from the 2013 revival.
Theatre company Antic Disposition continue their habit of adopting venerable monuments as (extremely) lavish stage sets. This time, they’ve invaded the Middle Temple Hall for their take on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Starring the inimitable David Burt as Scrooge, the last performance is on 30 December and — since it’s deservedly selling fast — you’ll need to book a ticket swiftly.
It’s not often that a 130-year-old show feels brand new and utterly original, but director Thom Southerland and team have achieved just that in the marvellously colourful interpretation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, The Mikado, currently playing at the Charing Cross Theatre.
A smattering of the production shots below.
It’s back from Iceland to the somewhat warmer climes of the Finborough for some production shots from Obamaology.
The play chronicles the mix of fluffy idealism and brutally efficient activism that got Barrack Obama elected. It’s clever, it’s funny, it’s poignant, and you need to book your tickets quickly because the last performance is on Tuesday.
Some production shots from the extraordinarily literate Silent Planet at the Finborough Theatre. The show, set in a Soviet mental prison, runs until 20 December.
A railway arch, a pile of rubble, a lot of mud, an obstacle course to get to the location, an electrocution risk only avoided by a fortuitous last-minute equipment switch, a very wet producer, costume designer, actor and photographer, all to get some apt publicity shots of star Alastair Brookshaw for The Grand Tour. The escape-the-Nazis musical caper will open at the Finborough on 1 January. 
