Donmar Dec 2018 - Mar 2019

Titles have now disappeared from the website so they've obviously noticed

TOO LATE HAHA!!

Hopefully they won't react like the BBC did when people found the Doctor Who series launch date via itunes a day early

www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/series-11-and-the-bbcs-heavy-handed-secrecy-87983.htm

If it is the play by Lynn Nottage that’s yet another American play being scheduled.

Only the fifth American play the Donmar has done since 2013 as far as I can see? (others being Belleville, City of Angels, One Night In Miami, Teddy Ferrera)

True! And I read some interesting stuff the other day on the fact that a large proportion of contemporary plays by women writers put on in London are by US women

I think he takes up office in March but his programming starts in the summer.

From the Donmar email: My final show will be in April 2019, to be announced later this year.

Worth mentioning that Berberian Sound Studio is directed by Tom Scutt, hitherto a designer, in a not particularly common career move (in theatre at least, I know of a number in film).

Just found this snippet in a Tom Brooke interview: "The season, which includes a play yet to be announced that Rourke will direct, also features the UK premiere of US playwright Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat."

So just one more from the Rourke era! And I know there have been complaints, but although some productions haven't worked, I personally have enjoyed her tenure overall.

No, it's an astonishingly poor website even on my laptop and much the worst of any theatre sites I regularly visit: poorly laid-out; faint; hard to see the most important features such as dates/times/availability; forces you to check the 2 seating areas separately instead of showing both at once; requires multiple clicks back and forth, etc etc.

...and the Donmar website seems to have gone completely titsup at Friends booking time. Managed to get tix in my bag for both shows, now the website is completely down. Bring back ATG...

I only got about 600 in the queue on my best device at the Donmar so had quite a wait to get in and after I put my tickets in my basket about 10.25 when I went to checkout it just stopped responding completely and trying to load on a different computer gave a site not found error. Judging by anguished tweets I want the only one. To their credit Donmar asked for a phone number and called me back within the hour and I got pretty much the tix I wanted.

Im up a level at the Almeida so got those Tues and All About Eve yesterday through DMG+ - but what a lot of activity for 10am on a Thursday morning!

Finally got everything sorted, now to do it all again tomorrow for the Old Vic.

At least it is a beautiful day in Manchester, will now amble to the Exchange for Margaret via a Guitar shop or two, adored The War Of The Roses at Kingston a few years ago, therefore high hopes the day will redeem itself.

A painless purchase tonight for both productions with my preferred row C side seats in the the circle available for both shows. Having a quick look across random dates, the stalls seem pretty much sold out with plenty of seats still available in the circle for both productions at all the ticket prices for that area.

I was in a meeting so didn't book till nearly 12 - as you say, Sweat is selling well, nothing in the stalls for the dates I looked at. Plenty left for Berberian Sound Studio.