TOM. A STORY OF TOM JONES. THE MUSICAL (Richmond Theatre)
They say that in Tom Jones’s home town of Pontypridd, everyone knows someone who knows Tom. One of Wales’s most famous exports, his stint as a judge on The Voice with his tales of hanging out with Elvis has brought him to the attention of a younger generation. The son of a miner who became […]
Cast announced for MAD ON HER UK fringe tour
Mad On Her will tour 4 fringe UK venues including Upstairs at the gatehouse, Highgate in London on Sunday 17th of July 2016 at 7.30pm and the brand new Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, on Saturday 16th of July 2016 at 7.30pm. Mad On Her is a brand new musical wrapped in all your favourite […]
Final 100 Seats Released for BERNADETTE PETERS London Concert
As previously announced, the triple Tony, triple Drama Desk and Golden Globe Award winning Broadway star Bernadette Peters will perform her first UK solo concerts in over 15 years at the beginning of June 2016. The show’s producers have today released the final 100 seats for the Royal Festival Hall date in London, commenting: “Recently […]
WICKED holds its first Relaxed Performance and I was there to share the experience
“A relaxed performance is about welcoming children with special needs (including Autistic Spectrum Conditions and/or learning disabilities) and, crucially, their families to the theatre to a performance where those needs are accounted for with a more relaxed atmosphere and some changes to the production itself if necessary eg: lowering of lights or sound at certain […]
REVIEW: THE SINS OF JACK SAUL (Above The Stag)
Glenn Chandler’s new musical THE SINS OF JACK SAUL has just opened at the UK’s only full time LGBT theatre, Above The Stag, telling the true story of Dublin Jack, the Victorian gay prostitute. Following on from last years success show FANNY AND STELLA (other Victorian prostitutes whom were rumoured to have relations with Jack […]
REVIEW: STRAWBERRY STARBURST (Blue Elephant Theatre)
A poisonous concoction of body image, self-perception and warped modern ideals of beauty bubbles threateningly in the latest work from Bram Davidovich, Strawberry Starburst. Taking a swipe at the continually propagated idea that being thin is the same as being healthy, this play shows the truly damaging, and often irreversible result of how we compare […]
REVIEW: LAST OF THE BOYS (Southwark Playhouse)
About a year ago, director John Haidar wrote to various regional theatres in the U.S. asking for recommended works that they had staged but which had not yet made their way across the pond. The Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, one of the regional powerhouses of new American writing, included Last of the Boys by […]
New Cast Announced for Third West End Run of 1984
An entirely new cast has started rehearsals for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of 1984. The cast for the hit West End production of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece will be: Rosie Ede, Andrew Gower, Joshua Higgott, Richard Katz, Anthony O’Donnell, Daniel Rabin, Catrin Stewart and Angus Wright alongside Eve Benioff Salama, Cleopatra Dickens, Amber […]
REVIEW: The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the year
This was the 10th Anniversary of the annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Competition, (SSSSPOTY for short) and the 9th year for the annual Stiles + Drewe (SAD) Prize for best new song, as well as the first year for their new MTI Membership Award supported by Music Theatre International. It’s a […]
Nigel Lindsay joins the West End production of GUYS AND DOLLS
Guys and Dolls today announces Nigel Lindsay will be joining the West End cast for a limited time at the Phoenix Theatre to play the part of Nathan Detroit from Thursday 26 May until Sunday 26 June 2016. Nigel will be taking over from Richard Kind who will play his final performance of Nathan Detroit […]