Thriller Live extends booking to April 2015
Thriller Live to Thrill the West End longer! Thriller Live is going to Thrill the West End for at least another year – the hit show is extending its booking period by more than 12 months to Sunday 19 April, 2015. Smashing all records, Thriller Live has now played 2,173 performances at the Lyric Theatre […]
Tonight’s The Night
Tonight’s The Night rocked in to the New Wimbledon Theatre last night, bringing a bit of Rod Stewart to the stage at an affordable price. Jukebox musicals aren’t typically my thing but as a fan of Rod I had to go along and check out the show. The older crowd of the New Wimbledon Theatre […]
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, […]
Tom Conti joins cast of Twelve Angry Men which has extended to 14 June 2014
Olivier Award Winner, Tony Award Winner, Variety Award Winner, and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee TOM CONTI is to star in TWELVE ANGRY MEN at the GARRICK THEATRE in the West End. Following its huge critical acclaim and sold-out performances since opening in November 2013, Bill Kenwright’s production of TWELVE ANGRY MEN has extended […]
Fame Forever, the sequel to Fame, to play at Lyric Theatre 8 September 2014
Fame Forever, the official sequel to the smash hit musical Fame, will receive its professional world première in a fully staged production at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End for one night only on Monday 8th September 2014 ahead of an anticipated 2015 / 2016 UK tour. Conceived and developed by David De Silva, producer of the Academy Award winning […]
Ghost Stories extends West End run to 17 August
After entertaining and scaring audiences on its West End return, the acclaimed GHOST STORIES has announced an extension at London’s Arts Theatre until Sunday 17 August 2014 GHOST STORIES mixes the very best of theatre with the intense buzz of a thrill-ride, restaged and reimagined by writers Jeremy Dyson (THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN) and Andy Nyman (SEVERENCE, DEADSET) along with director Sean Holmes. Full casting includes Dino Fetscher, […]