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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III is an American film and stage actor, playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, as Cowboy Curtis on the 1980s television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It. He became the first African-American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. From 2008 to 2011, he starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Fishburne starred in cult classics like Boyz n the Hood, Deep Cover and King of New York to name a few.
Fishburne has won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running and an Emmy Award for Drama Series Guest Actor for his performance in TriBeCa.

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Laurence Fishburne is currently involved with

Jekyll & Hyde - Director

21:00, Thu 28th May 2020 at Royal Exchange, Manchester
19:15, Sun 31st May 2020 at Liverpool Empire Theatre
20:30, Wed 3rd June 2020 at The Old Vic
20:45, Thu 4th June 2020 at Random Venue 18
20:15, Sat 6th June 2020 at Royal Exchange, Manchester

Jekyll & Hyde is a musical thriller based on the novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally conceived for the stage by Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden, it features music by Wildhorn, a book by Leslie Bricusse and lyrics by Wildhorn, Bricusse and Cuden. Following a World Premiere run in Houston, Texas the musical embarked on a national tour of the United States prior to its Broadway debut in 1997. Many international productions have since been staged including two subsequent North American tours, two tours of the United Kingdom, a concert version and a re-vamped US tour in 2012 ahead of a 2013 revival on Broadway.

Laurence Fishburne is preparing for

  • Camelot - Flute

    20:30, Tue 9th June 2020 at Royal Court Theatre
    20:30, Wed 10th June 2020 at London Palladium
    21:00, Thu 11th June 2020 at Noël Coward Theatre
    21:00, Fri 12th June 2020 at Liverpool Empire Theatre
    20:15, Mon 15th June 2020 at Crucible Theatre
    20:30, Wed 17th June 2020 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

    Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King.
    The original 1960 production,…

  • Blood Brothers - Master Carpenter

    20:15, Sun 19th July 2020 - Thu 23rd July 2020 at Royal Exchange, Manchester

    Blood Brothers is a musical with musics, lyrics and a book by Willy Russell, based loosely on the 1844 novella The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas. The story is a contemporary nature vs. nurture…

  • Oklahoma! - Ali Hakim, Ike Skidmore

    12:00, Sun 16th August 2020 - Wed 19th August 2020 at Royal Court Theatre
    20:30, Sun 23rd August 2020 - Wed 26th August 2020 at Royal Court Theatre
    22:45, Sun 30th August 2020 - Wed 2nd September 2020 at Royal Court Theatre

    Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma…

  • Bye Bye Birdie - Rose Alvarez

    20:30, Fri 16th October 2020 - Mon 19th October 2020 at London Palladium

    Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.
    Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on American society is set in 1958.…

  • Company - Reeds

    20:00, Sat 7th November 2020 - Tue 10th November 2020 at Gielgud Theatre

    Company is a musical comedy based on a book by George Furth with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won six.
    Origin…

  • A Doll's House - Dr. Rank

    19:15, Sun 22nd November 2020 - Wed 25th November 2020 at Chichester Festival Theatre

    A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.
    The play is signific…

  • Sunset Boulevard - Director

    18:15, Sun 4th April 2021 - Wed 7th April 2021 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

    Sunset Boulevard is a musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the 1950 film of the same title, the plot revolves around Norma Desmond…

  • Oliver! - Technical Director

    21:00, Sun 4th April 2021 at Chichester Festival Theatre
    11:45, Mon 5th April 2021 at London Palladium
    20:15, Tue 6th April 2021 at Adelphi Theatre
    20:45, Fri 9th April 2021 at Haymarket Theatre

    Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
    It premièred in the West End in 1960, enjoying a long run, a succ…

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream - Set Designer, Hippolyta

    15:45, Wed 19th May 2021 at London Palladium

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed that it was written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and…

  • Sister Act the Musical - Sound Designer

    21:00, Fri 27th August 2021 - Tue 31st August 2021 at Haymarket Theatre

    Sister Act is a musical written by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner with additional book material by Douglas Carter Beane, with lyrics by Glenn Slater and music by Alan Menken. It is based on…

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