New Adventures - Principal Support Programme
December 2024
We are delighted to join with Sir Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures dance company to assist the Principal Support Programme, created this year to nurture the development of the next generation of young dancers at the early stage of their careers …
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New Foundation Scholars at ArtsEd for 2024-25
November 2024
Continuing the Foundation and Gillian Lynne’s long-standing association with ArtsEd, the Foundation’s ArtsEd awards for 2024-25 have been renamed the Dame Gillian Lynne Scholarships …
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Foundation to support Laurence Olivier Bursaries Programme
July 2024
The Foundation has joined with the Laurence Olivier Bursaries Programme helping to support talented students studying at drama school …
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Spotlight on Foundation scholars Alex Gavin and Calum Isaacs
May 2024
The Foundation has been excited to have followed the careers of two young men - Alex Gavin and Calum Isaacs - who are now coming to the conclusion of their time studying for their BA degrees …
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Arlene Phillips and James Cousins win Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer
April 2024
Congratulations to Arlene Phillips and James Cousins for winning the Gillian Lynne Award for Best Theatre Choreographer at the 2024 Olivier Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall…
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Olivier Award Nominees Celebration Event
March 2024
Many of this year’s Olivier Award nominations gathered at The Londoner on March 22 for a celebration tea in advance of the Olivier Awards which will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday April 14…
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Royal Central School - Merrily We Roll Along
March 2024
The Royal Central School’s Embassy Theatre saw a wonderful production of Merrily We Roll Along performed by the BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre students’ final year group…
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Gillian Lynne Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer - Nominations 2024
March 2024
Nominations announced for this year’s Gillian Lynne Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer…
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ArtsEd - The Drowsy Chaperone
January 2024
A sell-out audience at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre at ArtsEd in Chiswick saw final-year musical theatre students put on a lively and enthralling production of The Drowsy Chaperone…
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Phantom of The Opera closes on Broadway
April 2023
The Phantom of the Opera performed it’s final show on Sunday April 16 at the Majestic Theatre in New York. Broadway’s longest running show - this was show number 13,981 - closed to a rapturous standing ovation with gold and silver confetti raining down and ending with a reprise of “The Music of the Night” performed…
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Patrons and Trustees at the 2023 Olivier Awards
April 2023
Foundation Patrons and Trustees were in attendance at the 2023 Olivier Awards and celebrated the first winner of the newly renamed Gillian Lynne Award for Best Theatre Choreographer - won by Matt Cole for his
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Matt Cole wins Gillian Lynne Award for Best Theatre Choreographer
April 2023
Congratulations to Matt Cole - the first winner of the newly renamed Gillian Lynne Award for Best Theatre Choreographer at the 2023 Olivier Awards for his wonderful work on Disney’s Newsies at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.
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Olivier Award Record-Holding Women
March 2023
Read about some of the exceptional women who have created Olivier Award history through their great achievements…(opens in external website)
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