Unsung Heroes featured in this week's Radio Times.
The Dr Who Society at Exeter University invited me to a screening of Paradise Towers Part One and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Part One, followed by a Q&A. More information.
Very excited to have been invited as a guest to the London Film and Comic Con at Olympia in early July.
Recording Unsung Heroes, my talks for The Essay about the importance of librettists to opera and musicals. They'll be broadcast on Radio 3 in the week beginning 16th June. They were recorded in my own library under the skilled and supportive guidance of producer Torquil Macloud.
Me and Him and Who is featured in the latest issue of Dr Who Magazine.
Delighted to have been commissioned by Radio 3 to write five talks for The Essay slot on one of my favourite topics - the way in which librettists are consistently underrated in the world of opera. The title is Unsung Heroes and it's transmitting in mid June.
A photo with my very talented cast Gary Downie played by Paul Antony and John Nathan Turner played by Richard Unwin at the end of a very well-received run of Me and Him and Who. The photo was taken by our brilliant director Sean Mason. Thanks also to our indefatigable producer Gareth Kavanag...
My original stage play Me and Him and Who will be performed at JNT Day at Burgess Institute Manchester.
First official announcement of the upcoming production in Manchester:
Producer Gareth Kavanagh writes: Very excited for this brand new piece of theatre, coming to Manchester late January. Fantastic writing by Stephen Wyatt Richard Unwin is going to be so so good as JN-T himself.
The official release of this box set is on October 28th but some are out there already. Very much looking forward to the arrival of my copy.
Exciting news from 5064 Productions in Manchester. They're planning a stage production of ME AND HIM AND WHO my play about Who producer John Nathan-Turner and his partner Gary Downie in Manchester for January 2025. I'm going up in November for a pre-production planning meeting.
Holding forth about Brian Desmond Hurst and working with him on his memoirs after a showing of his hugely successful DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT (which gave us the Warsaw Concerto) at the Irish Cultural Institute in Hammersmith. Thanks to Professors Michelle Paulle and Lance Pettitt for organising this eve...
On Sunday 6th October I'm talking about working with the Irish-born film director Brian Desmond Hurst on his memoirs. This follows a showing of his hugely successful Dangerous Moonlight at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.
Details here.