REVIEW: Eugenius! (London Palladium)
The new writing to have emerged over the last few years in the musical theatre world has often left much to be desired. Only the occasional piece has managed to make its mark among the long celebrated classics currently in the West End. While the endeavour to create an entirely original concept is of course […]
Amanda Holden to play The Fairy Godmother in CINDERELLA at the London Palladium
Amanda Holden will play The Fairy Godmother in Qdos Entertainment’s London Palladium production of Cinderella. Cinderella will run at the London Palladium for five weeks only over the Festive season from Friday 9 December 2016 to Sunday 15 January 2017, with press night on Wednesday 14 December 2016. Holden joins the previously announced cast of […]
REVIEW: Sam Bailey slays Southend as Mamma Morton in CHICAGO
Chicago is the 1920’s inspired musical based on the stories of female murderes in a Chicago prison. Velma Kelly is the talk of the town after killing her sister and her boyfriend after finding them in bed together. But as with any hot news topic, the newspapers are always on the look out for a […]
Richard O’Brien musical THE STRIPPER opens at the St James Studio next week
Hannah Grover (Annabelle/ Sherry Mendez/ Sarah Arkwright), Gloria Onitiri (Deadpan Dolores/ Patty Keller), Marc Pickering (Doc Murphy/ Miles Rovak/ Harvey Stern), Michael Steedon (Sheriff Lavers / Jacob Arkwright/ Steve Loomas) and Sebastien Torkia (Al Wheeler) start rehearsals today, 13 June, for The Stripper, playing at the St. James Studio from 7 July to 13 August […]
WEST END BARES goes on a medieval adventure this September
Bigger and barer for its 7th year as the hottest night out at the theatre, West End Bares 2016 will this year take its audience on an epic medieval adventure on Sunday 25 September at the Novello Theatre. West End Bares: EXCALIBARE will feature over 100 of the hottest and most exciting performers from the […]
John Hurt withdraws from starring in THE ENTERTAINER on medical advice
It is announced today that on the advice of his doctors, John Hurt has had to withdraw from the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer. John Hurt was due to play Billy Rice in Rob Ashford’s production, which begins preview performances at the Garrick Theatre on 20 August. Kenneth Branagh will […]
Selena Cadell and Harriet Thorpe join the cast of THE DRESSER at Duke of York’s Theatre
The first images of Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith in a new production of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser were released today, along with two new cast members: Selena Cadell and Harriet Thorpe. Selina Cadell most recently starred as Miss Froy in the BBC television film The Lady Vanishes. She is well known for her role […]
REVIEW: SCREWED (Theatre 503)
Screwed is the debut play from Kathryn O’Reilly, directed by Sarah Meadows , making its world premiere at Theatre503 in Battersea. “Live for the day – that’s us”. Luce and Charlene are the stars of this show. In their thirties, they drink, play, and party hard in between shifts at the metal factory where they […]
REVIEW: BUGSY MALONE (Lyric Hammersmith)
After closing at the Lyric in August 2015, Alan Parker’s classic Bugsy Malone returns with a huge bang to London! The colourful show sets new heights and standards for the future West End stars in this dazzling production. The story is brought to life from the 1976 film that starred Jodie Foster and Bonnie Langford. […]
REVIEW: UGLY LOVELY (Old Red Lion Theatre)
“All we’ve got is Swansea. You haven’t got nowhere else.” Dylan Thomas described his home town of Swansea as “an ugly, lovely town, crawling, sprawling, by the side of a long and splendid curving shore”. Taking Thomas’s words for the title, Ffion Jones’s play shows us a darker side of life by the seaside, closer […]