Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith will be broadcast in cinemas nationwide on 24 October, as part of a worldwide release of the smash-hit stage production that played to critical acclaim at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in the West End and on tour. Michael Mayer’s production was filmed during the final week of its run at the Manchester Palace Theatre by Digital Theatre, and will be released in cinemas by Trafalgar Releasing.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will celebrate its German premiere at the Mehr! Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg in the spring of 2020. The announcement was made today by originating producers Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender, Harry Potter Theatrical Productions and the German producer Maik Klokow.

The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson has won the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the 2018 Theatre category. The production is set in Europe’s largest unofficial refugee camp, the Calais Jungle, which in 2015, became a temporary home for more than 10,000 people. A National Theatre and Young Vic co-production with Good Chance Theatre, The Jungle is directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin. It is currently in previews at the Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Tom Kirdahy and Hunter Arnold, following a sell-out run at the Young Vic in December 2017.

Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender announced today that the next US production of the Tony & Olivier Award-winning Best Play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will begin in the fall of 2019 at the Curran in San Francisco, California. With record-breaking productions currently running in London and New York as well as an Australian production set to premiere in Melbourne in early 2019, the San Francisco production will mark the fourth engagement of the smash hit play, as well as its West Coast premiere in North America.

The West End transfer of Tennessee Williams’ intoxicating and rarely staged classic, Summer and Smoke, follows a sold-out and critically lauded run at the Almeida Theatre. Directed by the Almeida’s Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall with the full cast reprising their roles for the West End run, this innovative new production of Summer and Smoke has a limited run from 10 November 2018 - 19 January 2019, at the Duke Of York’s Theatre, with press night on Tuesday 20 November at 7pm.

The 72nd Annual Tony Awards were held on June 10, 2018, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2017–18 season. The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and was broadcast live by CBS. 

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has won 6 Tony Awards® including Best Play—making it the most awarded show of the season.

Sonia Friedman Productions announced that Dreamgirls, which opened in December 2016 at the Savoy Theatre to widespread critical acclaim, will give its final performance on Saturday 12^th January 2019, completing a run of more than two years. Details for a forthcoming UK tour will be announced in due course.

The 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on June 3, 2018, at The Town Hall and streamed live on www.TheaterMania.com

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child received 5 Drama Desk Awards at the ceremony.

The Ferryman and The Jungle have both been nominated in the Theatre category for this year’s South Bank Arts Awards, which will be held on Sunday 1 July at the Savoy Hotel.

The 12-time Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Mean Girls celebrates today’s digital release of “Mean Girls Original Broadway Cast Recording,” the official companion to the smash hit musical comedy based on the iconic film. The album is available now at all DSPs and streaming services; physical CDs will now arrive in stores nationwide on Friday, June 8.

The 84th Annual Drama League Awards were held on May 18, 2018,  at the Broadway Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was awarded Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play.