In Georgian London, the actress Sarah Siddons was not just famous, she was a phenomenon. Siddonsmania they called it, for all things Siddonian. “Tragedy personified,” wrote William Haz-litt, the ...

4 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities The Sarah Siddons Society will present its 2024 Award to Tony Award-winner and eight-time nominee Kelli O'Hara, whose numerous Broadway ...

Read on for some recent theatre headlines you may have missed in today's news. Brian Stokes Mitchell Named Sarah Siddons' Actor of the Year Two-time Tony recipient Brian Stokes Mitchell has been named ...

April De Angelis comedy, to be premiered in Hampstead, explores life of actor at a time when married women were ‘legally dead’ She was known as the Queen of Drury Lane and the first truly respected ...

The Sarah Siddons Society will present the Swell Soirée, a remarkable evening of cabaret performances celebrating The Great American Songbook on Wednesday, August 16 at 6 pm at Piano Forté, 1335 S.

There are shades of Blackadder in April De Angelis’s play about the great tragedian of 18th-century British theatre There is a certain chutzpah to writing a comedy about the life of Sarah Siddons, the ...

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An 18th Century actress, described by one biographer as the "greatest female performer" in English theatre history, has been honoured with a blue plaque. Sarah Siddons began her career in Worcester, ...