About
Founded in 2012 by award-winning producer Katy Lipson, Aria Entertainment has staged over 80 productions in the West End, Off-West End, and on UK tours.
West End credits include: Brokeback Mountain (World Premiere, @sohoplace); Cruise (Olivier-nominated for Best New Play, Duchess Theatre & Apollo Theatre) and the critically acclaimed transfer of The Last Five Years (Garrick Theatre).
UK tours include: The Osmonds, The Cher Show, Hair, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Here and Now: The Steps Musical and two national tours of The Addams Family.
Recent London productions include: Zorro, From Here to Eternity, Broken Wings, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Little Women, and Rags, with international productions of The Addams Family (Singapore); Hair (Germany); The Last Five Years (China & Taiwan); Zorro (South Korea); and Cruise (International). Several productions (The Toxic Avenger, The Last Five Years, Little Women & Pippin) are available on Broadway HD.
From 2016 to 2019, Lipson served as Producing Artistic Director at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, where she led European and Northern premieres of Pippin, Parade, Little Women, Yank!, and the first UK production in over 50 years of Jerry Herman’s Mame. She also worked with Stephen Schwartz to reimagine Rags.
Lipson has been recognized with the Off-West End Award for Best Producer (2017) and a nomination for International Producer of the Year by the League of Professional Theatre Women (2019). She is a recipient of the Stage One Bursary and Start-Up Award and mentors on Stage One’s Bursary and Bridge the Gap programmes. She has appeared on The Stage 100 list multiple times for her contributions to UK theatre. Her productions of Hair, Spring Awakening, and Flowers for Mrs Harris have all won WhatsOnStage Awards.
Katy is proud to be the vice president of new theatrical production and development company TRW Production which a portfolio of over 10 projects currently in development: www.trwproduction.com
Recent projects included: The Addams Family in Concert (London Palladium, starring Michelle Visage & Ramin Karimloo), Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, starring Tony Award-winner Alex Newell), and KENREX (Sheffield Theatres and Southwark Playhouse).
Company Director: Katy Lipson
General Manager: Kristie Winsen
Assistant Producer: Ylan Assefy-Waterdrinker
Literary Manager: Tom Ramsey
www.aria-entertainment.com | @AriaEnts
Theatre News – TRW Production
Stage adaptations of Music & Lyrics, and Joyful Noise, in development by new company TRW Production.
Interview – Katy Lipson
Enter Stage Right: The new wave of musicals taking on the West End adaptations
Interview – Katy Lipson
‘Cruise: The first show to reopen in the West End proves the door hasn’t closed to young creatives’
Interview – Katy Lipson
‘Back with a bang: UK theatre bets on bold reopening’
Interview – Katy Lipson
‘I want to create shows with a legacy and I want to make money’
Feature – From Page to Stage 2018
From Page to Stage Festival at Southwark Playhouse: The place to see new musicals before anyone else
Interview – Katy Lipson
‘We’re running out of shows to revive, new musicals are the future’ – We caught up with one of the busiest producers in the UK to get her views on the country’s new musicals scene.
Interview – From Page to Stage 2017
Katy Lipson speaks to BBC London News about the From Page to Stage 2017 Season including the premiere of Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater’s new musical ‘Some Lovers’.
Interview – From Page to Stage 2017
Katy Lipson talks to Jenni Murray for the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour about the 2017 From Page to Stage Season.
Interview – Katy Lipson
Is Katy Lipson the future of musicals? John Nathan talks to a rising star in the theatre world.