Lucie Jones to star as Elle Woods in LEGALLY BLONDE at Curve Leicester
Nikolai Foster, Artistic Director at Curve, today announces Lucie Jones as Elle Woods in the award-winning West End and Broadway smash hit musical comedy, Legally Blonde. Lucie rose to prominence on the X Factor in 2009 and has since starred as Victoria in American Psycho (Almeida Theatre) and as Molly in Ghost (Asia Tour). The […]
Curtain Up: Celebrating 40 Years of Theatre in London and New York comes to the V&A 9 February – 31 August 2016
The V&A will this February celebrate the rich creative theatre talent in the West End of London and New York’s Broadway, two world class centres of theatrical excellence. Curtain Up: Celebrating 40 Years of Theatre in London and New York will explore the extraordinary range of craft and collaboration that goes into creating award-winning plays, […]
THE CURTAIN UP SHOW to announce Best Solo Album and Best Cast Recordings of 2015
This Friday, The Curtain Up Show announces the Best Solo Album and Best Cast Recording of 2015, as chosen by the team at Resonance FM. Tim McArthur and Nathan Matthews will be playing a track from each of the nominated albums, and revealing the winners in both categories. Tim and Nathan said “Every week on […]
ASHLEIGH GRAY talks about new musical project MUTED
Ashleigh Gray, best known for playing Elphaba in the UK tour of Wicked, and more recently for her appearance on the iconic programme Friday Night Is Music Night for BBC Radio 2, took five minutes out of her busy schedule to chat to director Jamie Jackson about new musical theatre and particularly her role in […]
Catherine Tate, Dean John-Wilson, Florence Andrews, Simon Lipkin and Daniel Boys to star in MISS ATOMIC BOMB at St James Theatre
Award winning star of TV and theatre, Catherine Tate (Assassins, The Catherine Tate Show, The Vote, Doctor Who) and Dean John-Wilson (Aladdin, Here Lies Love), who takes lead role in Disney’s Aladdin this summer, will lead the cast in the new musical comedy Miss Atomic Bomb, alongside musical theatre stars Florence Andrews (A Little Night Music, Annie Get Your Gun), Simon Lipkin (The Lorax, Assassins, Rock […]
REVIEW: The Long Road South (King’s Head Theatre)
Set in Indiana in 1965 during the summer of the civil rights marches in the South, Paul Minx’s Offie-nominated drama takes us to the home of a white middle-class family and their two black domestic workers. Grace and Andre are planning to head South the next day to support the voting rights movement as soon […]
Mango Tree
Mango Tree, situated in the heart of Belgravia, close to Buckingham Palace and Victoria Station is a wonderful choice for a special night out. If you are heading to see shows like Billy Elliot or Wicked and want to have a meal that is that extra bit special, Mango Tree is definitely the place to […]
REVIEW: THIS WILL END BADLY (Southwark Playhouse)
This Will End Badly is breathtakingly ambitious in scope and expertly executed. Clive Judd’s gripping one-man play had a critically acclaimed run at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to the Southwark Playhouse. It begins with actor Ben Whybrow alone on a sparse stage; vulnerable and isolated from the audience. He plays three men, […]
REVIEW: Big Brother Blitzkrieg (King’s Head Theatre)
Germany, 1908. A naïve young man receives a letter rejecting his application to study life drawing – again. Distraught, he reaches for his revolver and places it to his head…and so begins a bizarre piece of theatre following Adolf Hitler’s rise from outsider to charismatic demagogue. The Adolf in Big Brother Blitzkrieg wakes up in […]
Full cast announced for UK Tour of CHICAGO
Full casting has been announced for the international award-winning musical CHICAGO, which opens a national tour at the New Theatre Oxford on Friday 12 February 2016. Joining the previously announced John Partridge as Billy Flynn, Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart and Sam Bailey as Mama Morton will be Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Neil Ditt […]