Stellar Theatre in the Press

NOMINEE! Faro International Film Festival nominates Virtually Single starring Lorien Haynes and Travis Leete for Best New Media, June 2024.

WINNER! Touchstone Independent Film Festival awards Virtually Single starring Lorien Haynes and Travis Leete Best Comedy Short, August 2023.

Stellar Theatre Productions

Two Shot by Paul Greenwood - at the Army and Navy Club, London, November 2024

Starring Peter Wight and Lorien Haynes, Directed by Paul Greenwood

This sold-out Stellar show, written and performed especially for members of the Rag (Army and Navy Club) in St. James’s Square, was a riotous evocation of the wranglings with technology that all twenty-first century actors go through, staged in an exquisitely furnished and catered pocket of history: the Coffee Room at the club. After the show, Stellar’s cast and crew joined the starstruck audience for a lively conversation and dinner - a perfect showcase of our one-of-a-kind offering, which the Rag called ‘the start of what could well be a long run’!

Write up by the Rag:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DDeS2HFI-5_/?igsh=ZzNydmtodW5memJj

Two Shot
Tom and his wife Annie are professional actors. Tom has been asked by his agent to do a self-tape for a part in a new ten-episode Netflix series. Annie helps him with the recording. They are both of an age where self-tapes were not how they used to audition and are hopeless with the new technology. Eventually, after many near disasters, they complete the task, but the outcome is not what they expected.

“Stellar Theatre brings ‘one night only magic’ into people’s homes”.

Bridget Galton, Features Editor, Ham&High

“Stellar is for theatre-lovers who are in search of an intimate, next-level experience which brings them into the heart of the creative process.”

Kathryn Martin-Chambers interviewing Stellar co-founder, Karen Paul, in Trinity Hall TogeTHer

“As fellow Cambridge graduates, lovers of theatre, and with Peggy’s family history of innovative ways of bringing theatre to audiences, they made the perfect team to develop their business, Stellar Theatre.”

Catherine Twilley, Christ’s Pieces

“What’s next for Stellar? The answer is whatever you want, whenever and and wherever you want it! Short plays on engaging, provocative, entertaining subjects, beautifully acted and eloquently discussed. It certainly makes for one starry, starry night.”

In the Square magazine

“Stellar Theatre is all about creating a different experience of theatre … ”

Fabric magazine

Watch a show

Virtually Single - streamed

Created by Amy Gardner and Lorien Haynes. Staring Lorien Haynes and Travis Leete

This Stellar Theatre play was screened on paus.tv, and is now available to watch here in its entirety, together with the pre-show introduction and post-show conversation with the creators. 

It’s lockdown. Emboldened by red wine, a fortysomething woman braves her first Zoom date with a guy in snowy Montana. A live performance piece devised through improvisation, Virtually Single explores the tragicomic challenges of dating during the pandemic.

Virtually Single has won numerous accolades including Best Comedy Short, awarded by Touchstone Independent Film Festival in August 2023, and awards at London Independent Film Festival 2021, Cannes Independent Film Festival 2021, Berlin International Film Festival 2022, LA Independent Woman Film Awards to name but a few. Lorien was also awarded Best Actress for her performance in Virtually Single at the New York International Film Awards.

What our audience says:

“I just re-watched and it's GORGEOUS. Loved it. How funny and touching.”

“How lovely and exciting to be part of something with such energy and joie de vivre. Superbly entertaining.”

“My goodness the actors are so talented!”

“Super intro to Stellar and such a great play. Brilliantly captured lockdown, the awkwardness of online everything - and so was believable and natural.”