Carrie the Musical to play at Southwark Playhouse
I am so excited to hear this morning that Carrie: The Musical will receive its long awaited London Premiere in The Large at Southwark Playhouse from Friday 1 to Saturday 30 May. Twenty seven years after first wreaking havoc, the world’s most talked about Broadway musical is coming to London. Academy Award winning Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore (Fame), […]
First pictures of Kerry Ellis as Grizabella in Cats the Musical
Kerry Ellis has joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical Cats playing the role of Grizabella. Based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Cats returned to the West End last month with the original creative team – Director Trevor Nunn, Associate Director and Choreographer Gillian Lynne, Designer John Napier and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber – reunited for the Palladium run. On just one special […]
Birdsong UK tour – cast and extension announced
Peter Duncan, Edmund Wiseman and Emily Bowker head the cast of the 2015 national tour of Rachel Wagstaff’s stage play BIRDSONG, adapted from the novel by Sebastian Faulks, which will open on 4 February 2015 at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon. The tour has been extended by a week, and will now play Richmond Theatre […]
Full cast announced for UK tour of Oklahoma
The full cast has been announced for the new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical OKLAHOMA! presented by Music & Lyrics Limited and Royal & Derngate Northampton. From the award-winning producers of the highly successful tours of The King and I and Fiddler on the Roof, this new production of one of the […]
Grimm Tales – An Immersive Fairytale – Oxo Tower Warf
Two years ago Phillip Pullman published a simplified ‘clear as water’ re-telling of his favourite Grimm stories. Today, adaptor-director Philip Wilson has turned six of those stories into a stunning and immersive fairytale experience set at the mystical old Bargehouse in Oxo Tower Wharf. Yes, the £45 price tag for this show is steep, but […]
Last chance to see Taken at Midnight – ends 14 March
Jonathan Church’s world premiere production of Taken At Midnight by Mark Hayhurst, which ends on 14th March 2015, enters the last four weeks of its run next week. Returning to the West End after a five-year absence, Penelope Wilton has received critical and public acclaim in the role of Irmgard, the mother of celebrated lawyer Hans Litten who puts Hitler […]
Frances Ruffelle to play Crazy Coqs in April
FRI 10TH AND SAT 11TH APRIL, 8PM Tony award winning actress and singer Frances Ruffelle performs BENEATH THE DRESS, her five star Edinburgh Festival show voted one of the most memorable experiences of 2013 by Playbill magazine and recipient of numerous five star reviews, this April at Crazy Coqs in London. Ruffelle performs songs by artists who have inspired […]
She Loves Me – Landor Theatre
She loves me is the 1963 Broadway musical and the third adaptation of the film Parfumerie by the Hungrian Playwright Miklos Laszio. The Shop Around The Corner, In The Good Old Summertime (starring Judy Garland) and the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail (starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks). The show tells the story of perfume […]
Kieran Brown has tea with Wilma
Kieran Brown is London’s newest Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, having started understudying the role last year. I sat down for a cuppa and a chocolate finger with him to talk about what’s been happening lately and what he has coming up in the near future. Can you tell me about […]
Gods and Monsters – Southwark Playhouse
Russell Labey’s biographical fantasy is an adaptation of Christopher Bram’s book Father of Frankenstein, the same source material as the 1998 film. So with the movie picking up an Oscar nomination for Ian McKellen and Bill Condon taking home the statuette for best adapted screenplay, it was a tough act to follow and intriguing to […]