It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman
Hovering above Ye Olde Rose and Crown pub is the whacky, zany musical: “It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman” Hats off to All Star Productions for producing the UK premiere of a type of show we wouldn’t typically see in London’s fringe theatres. With it’s comic book set and it’s block colour scheme, […]
A stunning all-star cast is announced for Chekov’s Three Sisters
Holliday Grainger, Olivia Hallinan, Emily Taaffe and Paul McGann will head the cast at Southwark Playhouse from April 3. Three Sisters reunites producers Jagged Fence Productions and director Russell Bolam – the team behind 2012’s critically acclaimed, sell-out hit, The Seagull (“fresh, colloquial, sexy and downright perceptive”, The Daily Telegraph) – and is co-produced […]
West End star Marti Webb to reunite with David Essex and other original stars as legendary rock musical GODSPELL returns to the West End 42 years after its premiere
Marti Webb, who recently returned to the West End in triumph in her seminal musical, Tell Me on a Sunday, has confirmed she will reunite with David Essex and other original members of the rock musical Godspell at the Lyric Theatre on Monday 19 May. Godspell, the heart-lifting feel-good Broadway musical from Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), […]
Do I Hear A Waltz
This not often seen musical based on the 1952 play The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents was originally put forward as a project for Rodgers and Hammerstein, but it never got off the ground. So a few years after Hammerstein’s death in 1960, Rodgers turned to his old partner’s protégé Stephen Sondheim as […]
The Man Inside
Most people know the dark tale of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which was perhaps the initial story that inspired so many dual personality characters. Respectable scientist Dr Jekyll takes his experiments one step too far and turns himself into his immoral counterpart Mr Hyde. As Hyde grows stronger, […]