Multi award-winning musical Come From Away will open its UK and Ireland tour in a Curve co-production at the theatre from 1 to 9 March 2024.
Winner of Best New Musical across the globe, Come From Away shares the incredible real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in Canada during the wake of 9/11, and the small Newfoundland community that invited these ‘come from aways’ into their lives.
A Junkyard Dog Productions and Smith & Brant Theatricals production, the tour of Come From Away will be co-produced by Curve.
Curve also shared details of its annual co-production with De Montfort University, which gives performing arts students the opportunity to work with professional teams at the theatre. From 18 to 20 May 2023, students will perform Jim Cartwright’s Road. Originally staged at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1986, the drama gives voice to community members living on a street in northern England in the 1980s.
The theatre also revealed plans to welcome the stage adaptation of Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel The Book Thief. Following an acclaimed try-out season at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre last year, the musical will come to Leicester 29 September to 14 October 2023. With libretto by Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald, music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson, The Book Thief follows the story of a young German girl who learns the power of words in the shadow of the Nazi regime.
Tickets for Come From Away, Road and The Book Thief will be on sale to Curve Friends 7 February, Curve Supporters Wednesday 8 February, Curve Members, Groups and Access Register customers Thursday 9 February and on general sale Monday 13 February, all at 12noon.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.curveonline.co.uk, calling 0116 242 3595 or by visiting Curve’s Box Office in-person.
