New Play JESS AND JOE FOREVER to hold ‘Relaxed Performance’ at Orange Tree Theatre
Zoe Cooper’s layered and thoughtful new play about finding your place in the world. Following its run at the Orange Tree it will also tour to 11 venues: Live Theatre Newcastle, Watford Palace, and with house, a project managed by Farnham Maltings, to venues in Havant, Canterbury, Norwich, Sheringham, Colchester, Harlow, Didcot, Petersfield and to […]
A TALE OF TWO CITIES To Tour The UK This Autumn
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darknesss… It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair – we had everything before us! We […]
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Announce Winners Of The Imagination Awards
The award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl’s CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY have announced the winners of The Imagination Awards, a national competition to encourage and inspire young people to embrace their creativity and the power of the imagination. Hundreds of budding inventors, aged 5-15, from across the UK, submitted their inventions for a […]
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: A ROCK MUSICAL by Toyah Wilcox To Play In London
London’s Free Open-Air Theatre Season is back as part of the London Bridge City Summer Festival, offering 40,000 free tickets for great theatre within the heart of London. Running since 2003, this is still London’s only ‘free to all’ annual festival of theatre. There’s no need to book so just turn up and take a seat! […]
REVIEW: THE SCARECROW’S WEDDING (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★★★
The Scarecrows’ Wedding is the latest children’s book by long term collaborators Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo and many other favourites. The tale has been adapted by Scamp Theatre, best known for their stage adaptation of Stick Man, and makes its West End debut at the Leicester Square Theatre in time […]
2016 West End Wilma Awards to be held on Friday 4 November 2016 at the Hippodrome Casino
West End Wilma is delighted to announce that the third annual West End Wilma Awards will be held, once again, in association with the Hippodrome Casino. This years ceremony will be held on Friday 4th November 2016 at the Hippodrome Casino at 2pm. Tickets are now on sale! The Wilma Awards launched in 2014 with […]
REVIEW: AMERICAN IDIOT (Arts Theatre) ★★★★★
As a musical theatre fan growing up in New Zealand, I was fairly limited in what I could actually see on stage. Amateur theatre groups were doing shows such as Oliver!, The King and I and the ever popular… Guys and Dolls. Professionally, we were treated to the big Lloyd Webber shows such as Cats […]
REVIEW: Rebel Wilson in GUYS AND DOLLS (Phoenix Theatre) ★★★★★
The 1950, Tony Award winning Musical, GUYS AND DOLLS, is back in London for the fourth time (1953, 1982, 2005) and recently re-opened at the Phoenix Theatre after a successful run at the Savoy Theatre. Known for it’s classic musical theatre songs ‘A Bushel and a Peck’, ‘Take Back Your Mink’, ‘Sit Down You’re Rockin’ […]
REVIEW: CHRISTINE PEDI – GREAT DAMES (Crazy Coqs) ★★★★
If you’ve ever felt disheartened by the notion of never being able to see the most notable and celebrated divas of stage and screen in one place, then worry no more. Christine Pedi whirls into London this summer with her newest show Great Dames, presenting a fabulous repertoire of cabaret, caricature and commemoration to remind […]
REVIEW: The Kreutzer Sonata (Arcola Theatre) ★★★★
Banned in Russia and the United States right after its publication, The Kreutzer Sonata is a late work by Leo Tolstoy dissecting the roles of sex and marriage in society on a personal and universal level. A man on a train shares his memories and confesses to a shocking crime, which he blames on Ludwig […]