Beautiful Thing News

Digital Theatre is today delighted to announce its next release - Jonathan Harvey 's landmark play, Beautiful Thing, captured live during its acclaimed West End run at the Arts Theatre in May 2013.

In the first of an occasional series on radical art, Christine Lindey evaluates the continuing impact of the ideas and practice of William Morris East Asian playwright DAVID HENRY HWANG talks to Anna Chen about issues of cultural assimilation and equality of opportunity just about equality of opportunity When Beautiful Thing premiered in London in ... (more)

Former Hollyoaks heartthrob Oliver Farnworth grew up in Hebden Bridge and is back on home turf in a revival of hit play Beautiful Thing at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.

IT OPENS with the sighting of a rainbow, the universal symbol of gay rights, yet there is nothing of the heavy-handed campaigner about Jonathan Harvey's writing in Beautiful Thing.

IN 1993 when Jonathan Harvey's urban fairytale Beautiful Thing was premiered, gay rights seemed to be stuck in a rut.