Pet Shop Boys Musical Closer To Heaven Returns To The Union Theatre
Closer to Heaven, the musical by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys, will return to the Union Theatre following its sell-out run in April 2015, playing from Wednesday 21 October to Saturday 28 November 2015. Set against the backdrop of Soho’s pulsing clubland, Closer to Heaven tells the story of Dave, just off the boat […]
Full Cast Announced For Guys and Dolls at the Savoy Theatre
Full casting is announced for the highly acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls, which will open at the Savoy Theatre for a strictly limited 13 week run from 10 December 2015. Joining Sophie Thompson as Miss Adelaide and Jamie Parker as Sky Masterson, are David Haig as Nathan Detroit and Siubhan Harrison […]
Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games shimmies over to the Playhouse Theatre
Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games has a new West End home and can be seen at the Playhouse Theatre from 10 October until 3 January 2016, following a highly successful six-month limited season at the Dominion Theatre, which finished on 5 September. Flatley said, “I’m delighted that London has once again welcomed […]
Side By Side By Sondheim (Brockley Jack Studio)
Side by Side by Sondheim; conceived and put together by David Kernan, Ned Sherrin and Stuart Pedlar, is by far one of the best Stephen Sondheim revues going. It, unlike some of the other revues such as Putting It Together and Marry Me a Little, features a narrator who introduces the songs with background and […]
Casa Valentina (Southwark Playhouse)
‘Casa Valentina’ is about a group of purportedly straight men, dressing up as women, in a guesthouse in upstate New York. Based on true events, the play by American writer Harvey Fierstein (who’s having a busy week in town after his other show ‘Kinky Boots’ opened last night), explores these men and their compulsion for […]
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 […]