Year: 2015

New Cast Announced for “JERSEY BOYS” UK & Ireland Tour

From Tuesday 18 August 2015, Matt Corner will play the role of Frankie Valli in the ongoing UK and Ireland tour of Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical JERSEY BOYS. Matt previously played the role at certain performances. Sam Ferriday as Bob Gaudio, Lewis Griffiths as Nick Massi and Stephen Webb as Tommy DeVito […]

New Images Released for Hairspray Tour

New images have been released of Tony Maudsley, Claire Sweeney, Peter Duncan, Freya Sutton, Ashley Gilmour, Layton Williams and Vanessa Fisher who will star in the 40-week UK tour of Hairspray this autumn. This big, bold and beautiful musical comedy will begin its UK tour at Leicester’s Curve theatre on 9 September 2015 and will then […]

Lesley Joseph to share the role of Miss Hannigan in Annie

Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to announce further dates and full casting for the brand new production of the musical “ANNIE” starring Craig Revel Horwood and Lesley Joseph as ‘Miss Hannigan’. “ANNIE” will open on Saturday 11 July 2015 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. Tour schedule with full details of ‘Miss Hannigan’ casting […]

Jamie Muscato has Tea With Wilma

For those who may not be familiar with your work, can you give me a little rundown of some of your career highlights so far? I had my first professional stage job at 18 in Spring Awakening. After that I went into the 25th Anniversary tour of Les Mis; getting to be involved in a […]

Rent Boy – Above the Stag

With a title like Rent Boy – the Musical, I didn’t expect an evening of high-brow theatre from Above the Stag’s latest offering at the country’s only full time LGBT theatre venue. And it certainly wasn’t high-brow! The show tells the story of Rent Boy Devon Williams who accidentally falls in love with one of […]

The Tragedy of King Richard II to play in Hampstead

Regime change is a familiar idea to us today. We have got used to seeing legitimate rulers being deposed, even executed, to be replaced by others, supposedly better. It was the same in Shakespeare’s day – which is what makes this politically-charged play so relevant to us. Richard II begins the story, told in Shakespeare’s […]

Twelfth Night – St Paul’s Church

Mistaken identity, silliness and disguises – it must be a Shakespeare play. But not just any Shakespeare play, my favourite: Twelfth Night. Performed in the beautiful and intimate grounds of St Paul’s Church by Iris Theatre. The shipwrecked Lady Viola (Pepter Lunkuse) lands on the island of Illyria and disguises herself as a boy, going […]

James Backway (War Horse) – Tea With Wilma

How does it feel to be making your West End debut in such a hugely popular show as War Horse? For this to be my first West End job out of drama school is such a privilege. This show means so much to so many people and it’s amazing to be a part of the […]

SUNDAY IN THE ARTS WITH…. presents An Evening with Evelyn Hoskins

  SUNDAY IN THE ARTS WITH…. presents An Evening with Evelyn Hoskins Join Evelyn Hoskins, who most recently played the title role in ‘Carrie’ at the Southwark playhouse, for an evening of alternative musical theatre performances. Evelyn will spend the evening reminiscing about her career so far (including Spring Awakening, This is my Family, Cool […]