West End Wilma Awards – Thank You

After six months of planning and sleepless nights for the last week, the third annual West End Wilma awards took place on Friday afternoon, once again at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square. Twelve categories were shortlisted by me and my team of reviewers and back in September was put out to the public vote […]

Michelle Collins to star in the UK Tour of THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

Award winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is set to tour the UK in 2017 opening at New Wimbledon Theatre on Tuesday 17 January. Michelle Collins will join the cast of Thoroughly Modern Millie until Saturday 4 March as Mrs Meers. She has worked extensively in television and theatre for the last 30 years and is […]

Kerry Ellis set to return to the Hippodrome Casino for a special Christmas Concert

Kerry Ellis, who picked up the award for Best Cabaret/Solo Performance at Friday’s 2016 Wilma Awards, for her show earlier this year at the Hippodrome Casino has announced she will return to the venue on 20th December 2016 for a special christmas concert. Kerry Ellis has fast become recognised as the First Lady of West […]

Full cast announced for BAT OUT OF HELL – THE MUSICAL at the London Coliseum

The world premiere of the long-awaited Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical will take place in London’s West End at the London Coliseum, opening on Tuesday 20 June 2017, following previews from 5 June, for a limited season until 22 July 2017. This follows previews at Manchester Opera House from 17 February […]

STAGETEXT to host its second Captioning Awareness Week

Stagetext, the leading captioning charity for the arts and cultural sectors, will host its second Captioning Awareness Week from 14 to 19 November 2016. The week aims to raise awareness of captioning and live subtitling in cultural venues, which give deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences equal access to arts events such as theatre […]

2016 West End Wilma Award winner Kerry Ellis joins ENCORE RADIO!

2016 West End Wilma Award winner Kerry Ellis joins ENCORE RADIO! The award-winning star of Wicked, Rent and Les Miserables will host her own 3-hour show every Saturday afternoon. She has conquered the West End and Broadway, winning awards on both sides of the Atlantic as Elphaba the green-faced star of Wicked. Now Kerry Ellis, who […]

REVIEW: LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS (N16 Theatre) ★★★★

LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS is a comedy review played out by five gloriously energetic, crazy, young performers. It contains (as they say on television) scenes of a sexual nature and mild’ish bad language and is all the better for it. Georgia Wilkinson’s impression of a cupboard should be a part of the curriculum of every […]