Ushers (Arts Theatre)
This is the fourth outing for “Ushers: The Front of House Musical”. Starting life in the final four of @westendproducers ‘Search for a twitter composer competition’ in 2013, composer and lyricist Yiannis Koutsakos (taking a drastic career change after completing a Physics with Medical Physics degree at UCL) teamed up with lyricist James Oban and […]
Photograph 51 (Noel Coward Theatre)
It’s the 21st Century and yet women are still underpaid and undervalued. We have come some way to becoming equal with men, but we’re not quite there. However, if we go back in time to the decade after World War II, women were struggling to succeed in jobs traditionally seen as male only. Like science […]
Four Minutes Twelve Seconds / The Wasp Transfer To The West End
The two most successful productions in the last twelve months from Hampstead Downstairs are transferring to Trafalgar Studios for a back-to-back run. Following on from its Olivier Award nomination in April, James Fritz’s debut play Four Minutes Twelve Seconds will open the season, followed by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s sell-out The Wasp. Edward Hall, Artistic Director […]
Dogfight – In Concert to be staged with original cast
Jamie Muscato and Laura Jane Matthewson and the rest of the original London cast and band reunited for a special concert version of the acclaimed musical Dogfight. Exactly a year after Dogfight’s acclaimed European premiere season ended at Southwark Playhouse, the original cast and creative team are to reunite for a special concert version of the musical in the […]
Jersey Boys (UK Tour)
It’s not every show where you are treated to a performance that warrants not one but three separate standing ovations, but Jersey Boys delivers just that. Telling the story of the Four Seasons, each band member gets a season to tell his tale. But as they say in the show “take four different men and […]
See What I Wanna See (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Three short stories penned by Japanese author Ryu Akutagawa, See What I Wanna See is an interestingly brilliant and complex musical. The first short story, set in Medieval Japan, features two lovers who wish to escape a doomed relationship with a dangerous passionate act. The second story in 1951 sees a body discovered in Central […]
Future Conditional (Old Vic)
If you’ve been on the tube recently then you will probably have seen a poster for Future Conditional, a new play by Tamsin Oglesby starring Rob Brydon at The Old Vic. A play about education starting in September, the beginning of the new school year, this play seems especially timely. One of the strands follows […]
The Play Continues To Go Wrong and Peter Pan Flys In For Christmas
The Play That Goes Wrong, the Olivier Award-winning box office hit, celebrates its first, triumphant year in the West End, and as a new booking period opens with tickets going on sale until 11 September 2016, the show’s phenomenal popularity with audiences looks set to continue. For a limited run over the festive season at […]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cast Announced
Casting has been announced for the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Music & Lyrics Limited production of the much-loved Sherman Brothers musical CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, opening at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds on 2 December, with a national press night on Thursday 10 December, for a nine-week season finishing on 30 January 2016. Jon Robyns (Memphis, […]
Mr Tom Says Goodnight Once More In the West End
Following a hugely successful West End season in 2012/13, this critically acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre adaptation of Michelle Magorian’s classic novel returns to London for a limited 10 week season. The story is brought beautifully to life in David Wood’s Olivier Award winning stage version. The production will play this Christmas at the Duke of York’s […]