Nicholas Parsons & Simon Callow celebrate The Great British Musical!
Following the critically acclaimed sold-out concert, Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical, award-winning Musical Director Ross Leadbeater returns to the St. James Theatre with The Great British Musicals – in Concert. Celebrating the very best of British musicals, including works by Gilbert and Sullivan, Lionel Monckton, Vivien Ellis, Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, Lionel Bart, […]
Billy Elliot The Musical Live
IN CINEMAS FOR ONE DAY ONLY 28 SEPTEMBER 2014 On Sunday 28 September 2014, Billy Elliot the Musical is set to bring cinema goers to their feet when the global stage phenomenon is broadcast live from the West End to cinemas across the UK and around the world. Based on the Academy Award® nominated film, […]
Things We Do For Love
Love is a funny old thing. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you angry and it gives you butterflies in your stomach all at the same time. Apparently it also makes you lock each other in cupboards and punch each other in the face. At least according to Alan Ayckbourn’s plays […]
Keith Jack
Keith Jack entered the Hippodrome Casino stage on Friday night singing a Scottish medley and wearing a kilt. He then announced that the evening would be of traditional Scottish songs which received some worried looks from people in the audience. Luckily, this was a joke and Keith went on to perform some classic musical theatre […]
An interview with Gaddafi
Can we believe all that we are told? Is telling the truth about a situation people should be aware of considered a hinderance? How far are we prepared to go to PROVE ones self? These are a few of the questions you ask yourself throughout and after this thought provoking piece of theatre. The story […]
Zanna, Don’t!
Entourage Productions present Zanna, Don’t! at the Landor Theatre in Clapham North. A camp-tastic musical fairytale about a world where being gay is normal and being straight is taboo. Zanna is the adorable fairy and the school matchmaker who waves his magic wand at couples-in-need at Heartsville High. The cool kids are those in the […]
The Confessions of Gordon Brown
Let’s be honest, it’s not the most tantalising of titles is it? Whether your political allegiance means you dress to the left or the right, an evening spent in the company of someone pretending to be the charisma-free zone that is the former Prime Minister is hardly something to get the juices flowing. A Scot […]
London Theatre Bloggers unite
Monday night saw the first ever OfficialTheatre.com bloggers networking event, bringing together over 30 West End Theatre bloggers in one room to eat cheese, talk theatre and learn a few things about Gin! Congregating in the basement of trendy wine bar Central and Co, we were treated to a Gin tasting masterclass with Martin Millers […]
Jill Winternitz has Tea with Wilma
Jill Winternitz doesn’t seem to like playing characters with names. She recently finished playing the role of ‘Baby’ in Dirty Dancing at the Piccadilly Theatre and is now playing ‘Girl’ in Once The Musical at the Phoneix Theatre. I sat down with Jill for a cup of tea and a natter… For those who […]
The Great British Musicals- In concert
Following the sell out concert of Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical, comes a production performed in the heart of London’s West End at the Hippodrome Casino. The Great British Musicals in Concert takes the audience through a journey of British Musical Theatre. Host (Theatre/TV Veteran) Nicholas Parsons CBE was a wonder to watch […]