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Ms Powers has reprised the role of Helene Hanff in the touring production of 84 Charing Cross Road, starting on the 23rd of April at the Darlington Hippodrome before moving to the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, Malvern Festival Theatre, the Richmond Theatre in London and the Oxford Playhouse before finishing its run at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. 

The play, based on the best-selling book by Helene Hanff, tells the story of the book-collecting New Yorker’s 20-year correspondence with Frank Doel (Clive Francis), the chief book buyer for Marks & Co Antiquarian Booksellers located at the eponymous address in London.

Over their two decades of written communication they would form an incredibly tight bond while discussing everything from the sermons of John Donne, to the coronation of Elizabeth II, to the fine art of making a Yorkshire Pudding. Ms Hanff would even go out of her way to send Doel and the other employees at Marks & Co food parcels to ease the strain of post-World War II rationing well as Birthday and Christmas presents.

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Ian Houghton played the roles of  Armagh, Ambulance Man and other ensemble roles in the UK tour of This House, wrapping on the 2nd of June. 

The “beast from the east” stopped us getting up to press night, we were not amused… 

Following smash-hit runs at the National Theatre and in the West End, the production will be touring throughout the UK starting in Leeds before finishing at Sheffield in June. This story by James Graham reveals the fierce political battles and high-stakes drama of British politics in the mid-1970s adapted to stage by director Jeremy Herrin and is a timely, moving and often amusing insight into the workings of British politics.

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Jenny is starring as Ben’s Mum in David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny. Following a national tour  in the Spring and Summer of 2017 and a West End transfer to the Garrick, this award-winning Birmingham Stage Company production is going back on tour starting on the 22nd of March at Hertford Theatre and ending at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on the 15th of July.  

Gangsta Granny is also having a short 2-week run in the West End at the Garrick Theatre starting on the 14th of August until the 26th. 

Every Friday young plumbing enthusiast Ben (Tom Cawte) is sent to stay with his boring Granny (Louise Bailey) by his Strictly Come Dancing-obsessed parents (Jenny Gayner and Jason Furnival), a situation he finds dull and dreary, exacerbated by the fact that it seems the only food his Granny ever serves him is variations on cabbage. However, this all changes when Ben discovers his Grandma’s dark secret, that she is a notorious jewellery thief. With this new perspective on his Grandma, the two of them hatch a plan for the ultimate heist: the stealing of the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. 

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James will be appearing in several episodes of The Crown season 2 on Netflix which went on a global release on Dec 8th. 

Is a must to binge watch over the Christmas break. 

The Crown, a Netflix original series, tells the inside story of Queen Elizabeth II’s early reign, in the fragile social order established after the Second World War. 

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