Keith Allen and Mica Paris head into Rehab

Rehab the Musical is returning to London in January 2024 at the brand new venue Neon 194 directed by Gary Lloyd and designed by Simon Kenny. With an all star cast featuring Keith Allen and soul legend Mica Paris, don't miss this timeless story about changing our lives for the better, and that just for today, we'll be ok.

We are delighted to be returning to Rehab for the second time to general manage this fantastic new British musical.

The Most Precious of Goods

Winter 1943, a forest in war-torn Eastern Europe: a poor woodcutter’s wife finds a little bundle thrown into the snow from a moving goods’ train. It contains something for which she has always yearned, but…

Jean-Claude Grumberg’s best-selling French language novella, The Most Precious of Goods, now translated into 20 languages, is storytelling at its most profound. The stage production of the novella, directed and translated by Nicolas Kent, opens at the Marylebone Theatre on 22 January 2024 to coincide with National Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. Special preview performances will take place at JW3 on 15 and 16 January.

Allan Corduner (National Theatre, The Motive and the Cue and films: Tár, Topsy-Turvy) stars with a live score performed by acclaimed cellist Gemma Rosefield. Smart Entertainment are delighted to general manage this extraordinary production.

Nutcracker at the Tuff Nutt Jazz Club

Smart Entertainment will co-general manage The McOnie Company’s Nutcracker with Underbelly.

Packed with hope, heart and humour, this mischievous production of Nutcracker is for anyone who wants to live life in full technicolour.

Join Clive, Nutcracker and Sugar Plum on a wild-spirited adventure of self-acceptance.

Brought together by Oliver Award-winning choreographer Drew McOnie and Mercury-nominated jazz artist Cassie Kinoshi, Nutcracker sees premier dancers of The McOnie Company performing to Tchaikovsky’s unforgettable score, reimagined for a live onstage jazz band.

The McOnie Company’s Nutcracker takes over the Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, located beneath the Royal Festival Hall, facing Southbank Centre Square. Nutcracker is co-produced by Underbelly, The McOnie Company and Francesca Moody Productions.

You & AI: a new musical

Smart Entertainment are delighted to be partnering with Korea based producers, EG Musical Company, to adapt their hit musical You & IT for English language audiences under the new title You & AI.

The musical by Seoeun Oh and Eunggyu Lee will be adapted by award-winning writer Gus Gowland and is currently preparing for its first workshop which is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea and the Korea Arts Management Service.

Feykom Tarab? A Night with Miami Band announced for The Arena, Kuwait City

Smart Entertainment have been working with Free Jabriya in Kuwait, to bring one of the Gulf’s biggest bands to the stage in a way never previously experienced in Kuwait.

This extraordinary new concert, featuring Miami Band, is co-created and directed by Jassim Al Qames and Maryam Al Khatrash, with choreography and staging by Shelby Williams, set by Rebecca Brower, costumes by Susan Kulkarni, lighting design by Terry Cook for Woodroffe Bassett and video design from Studio Flint. Smart Entertainment are the production’s executive producers and general managers.

Glory Ride announced for Charing Cross Theatre

We are delighted that a fully staged production of Glory Ride by Todd and Victoria Buchholz will premier at Charing Cross Theatre in April 2023 directed by Olivier-winner Kelly Devine with general management from Smart Entertainment.

Gino Bartali, Tour de France winner and one of the most beloved Italian athletes of all time, had a secret life. 

With his cycling career as a cover, Bartali cycled thousands of miles between cities across Italy. Hidden in the frame of his bike were falsified identity cards and other secret documents to help victims of the Second World War cross borders to safety from Mussolini’s fascist regime. His efforts saved hundreds of persecuted Jews and other refugees, many of whom were children. 

Bartali was a local hero as well as a national figurehead, renowned in his community for his unwavering commitment to helping others. His story has a powerful message for audiences today about bravery, loyalty and doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

Continued acclaim for GRENFELL

GRENFELL has been listed by the BFI as one of the best pieces of British TV of 2022.

“The television play, like accountability in public life, has become increasingly rare. Channel 4’s staging of Richard Norton-Taylor’s Tabernacle play Grenfell: Value Engineering – Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry resurrected the former to reveal the latter’s absence.”

https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/best-british-tv-2022-picked-bfi-curators

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Peter Huntley appears on The Daily Report on Arirang News

Peter recently appeared on a panel discussion about the development of the Korean musical.

Grenfell: Value Engineering Scenes from the Inquiry to be broadcast on Channel 4 as GRENFELL

Smart are proud to executive produce the Channel 4 broadcast of Grenfell. Grenfell: Value Engineering Scenes from the Inquiry was filmed as live during its run at the Tabernacle.

Airing dates are to be confirmed.

Grenfell: Value Engineering Scenes from the Inquiry is “state of the nation stuff” (Daily Telegraph)

Grenfell: Value Engineering Scenes from the Inquiry has opened at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill and received stellar reviews including five star raves from Daily Telegraph, WhatsonStage and The New European. The four star Evening Standard review suggested ‘every politician needs to buy a ticket’, whilst Dominic Maxwell of The Times tweeted it is ‘mesmerising, informative and alarming’.

Smart are proud to executive produce and general manage this bold piece of documentary theatre.

Grenfell: Value Engineering Scenes from the Inquiry

Smart Entertainment are proud to executive produce and general manage this new verbatim play. The dramatic evidence, based entirely on the words of those involved in the current Grenfell Tower Inquiry, is brought to the stage by the creative team responsible for the dramatisation of The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - The Colour of Justice at the Tricycle Theatre, the National Theatre, in the West End and on BBC TV, and the Olivier Award-winning Saville Inquiry play Bloody Sunday.