Gemma Sutton and Tamsin Carroll to star in STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL
The full cast has been announced for STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL, with an international company coming together ahead of the first UK staging of the musical, which is to premiere on Wednesday 30 November at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. (PressNight: Tuesday 6 December at 7.30pm). Gemma Sutton, who starred in the hugely-acclaimed production of Gypsy […]
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD at London’s Palace Theatre
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Playing at the Palace Theatre until 3 March 2024 ★★★★ The hugely anticipated stage show of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD is harder to get a ticket to than Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Almost twelve months worth of tickets, sold out in a […]
REVIEW: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★★
Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s has seen many incarnations including plays, an un-aired television series and a short lived 1966 musical. Capote’s endearing characters and the beautiful film adaption, starring a young Audrey Hepburn, has inspired generations. Based on Capote’s masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning Finalist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, […]
INTERVIEW: Wicked star Steph Parry talks ‘A Night of Rewrites and Delights’
Tell me about your upcoming cabaret show ‘A Night of Rewrites and Delights’ at the Battersea Barge. What can people expect from the evening if they come along? As you can expect, a fair few rewrites…I love taking original songs and rewriting the lyrics to make them more relevant to me, and then hopefully others […]
AMERICAN IDIOT to hold a special ‘Rock-A-Long’ performance
The critically acclaimed production of Green Day’s hit musical, American Idiot, will be performing a special ‘Rock-A-Long’ performance for one night only on Thursday 8 September 2016. Following the huge success of last year’s event, audience members are encouraged to ‘ROCK OUT’ with the cast, following the musical’s return to its London home at the […]
Check out these images of THE SECRET GARDEN at the Ambassadors Theatre
The Tony award-winning musical The Secret Garden, based on the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett with script and lyrics by Pulitzer prize and Tony award-winner Marsha Norman and music by Grammy award-winner Lucy Simon, is coming back to the West End for a summer season.Directed by Rupert Hands, the show will run for 6 […]
INTERVIEW: Chris Jenkins talks about THE BURNT PART BOYS
Chris Jenkins was most recently see in The War Of The Worlds at the Dominion Theatre; Billy Elliot: The Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre and Spamalot at the Playhouse. He is now joining the cast of THE BURNT PART BOYS and I sat down with him to chat about the show. You are about […]
REVIEW: Ladies in Waiting (Drayton Arms Theatre) ★★★★
Ladies In Waiting had a one night London preview at the Drayton Arms Theatre before its transfer to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play has been written, workshopped, directed, and performed by graduates of East 15 Acting School. This play takes the idea of Henry VIII having to face each of his six wives, not […]
REVIEW: Coriolanus and Du Liniang (Peacock Theatre) ★★★★
400 years ago, William Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu died. Zheijiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera, an all-female company from Hongzhou City, presents two masterpieces of these two playwrights adapted by Shen Lin and Hu Xiaohai – Coriolanus and The Peony Pavilion – to create the new opera Coriolanus and Du Liniang, performed in London for the very […]
Cast announced for the regional premiere of MADE IN DAGENHAM
This autumn, Artistic Director Douglas Rintoul launches his first season at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch with the first ever revival of the hit musical Made in Dagenham. Bringing the West End hit back to its roots just a stone’s throw from The Ford Factory Dagenham in which it is set, the co-production with New Wolsey […]