REVIEW: SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★★★
Take six classically-trained actors, ensure they learn a cut-down version of Shakespeare‘s ‘Much Ado About Nothing‘, and perform it with one of the members brilliantly intoxicated – there is simply no better way to liven up the Bard! As beloved as Shakespearean works are, no one can deny that the modern spoken word has travelled […]
Magical tale KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE returns to SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
Kiki is back! Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out festive run at Southwark Playhouse, Kiki’s Delivery Service returns to The Large for a limited summer season. Kiki is a 13 year old witch and, as tradition dictates, it is time for her to leave home and family to make a new life for herself. Equipped with […]
Listen up! DREAMGIRLS Original London Cast Recording to be released 12 May 2017
Dreamgirls Original London Cast Recording will be released on Friday 12 May 2017 via Amazon, iTunes, and all usual channels. For all digital pre-orders on Amazon, one track -‘And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going’ – will be made available as an exclusive early digital download on Friday 21 April, three weeks ahead of […]
REVIEW: AUDRA MCDONALD (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★★
It’s one thing to be able to sing like an angel, but to possess the ability to completely captivate an audience is an extraordinary skill. Six times Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is a rare talent who exudes an exultant eminence and in a series of intimate shows at the Leicester Square Theatre this week, […]
Further casting announced for MISS SAIGON UK Tour
Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce principal casting and further dates for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of his acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical MISS SAIGON, opening at Curve Leicester where it will play from Saturday 1 July – Saturday 22 July 2017. Red Concepcion will play ‘The Engineer’, Sooha […]
REVIEW: GHOST (Liverpool Empire) ★★★
It’s impossible to hear Unchained Melody without envisaging Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore at the pottery wheel in the 1990 movie of Ghost. The musical adaptation first took to the stage not far down the road from its current home at the Liverpool Empire, when it opened in 2011 in Manchester, before storming into the […]
REVIEW: HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (Wilton’s Music Hall) ★★
There’s a song in Act Two when the protagonist, J. Pierrepoint Finch (Marc Pickering), sings out to the audience, motivating himself by proclaiming, ‘I Believe In You’. Sadly, it was hard to believe in him or this production of the nine-time Tony Award winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. With music and […]
Star studded cast announced for WORKING at the SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE
Gillian Bevan, Dean Chisnall, Krysten Cummings, Siubhan Harrison, Peter Polycarpou and Liam Tamne will lead the cast of the European Premiere of WORKING, directed by Luke Sheppard, with choreography by Fabian Aloise. Further casting to be announced. WORKING is the extraordinary genre-defining musical from Grammy and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell) based on Studs […]
West End stars join forces for THE MUSICAL MARATHON at THE OTHER PALACE
26 miles, 26 Songs and a Marathon of West End Stars The Other Palace will host The Musical Marathon on Sunday 16th April 2017, a one-off charity concert bringing together a variety of West End stars in aid of male cancer charity Orchid. All Tickets are £26; £26 for 26 miles, 26 songs and an […]
Saucy burlesque boys BRIEFS return to the UNDERBELLY FESTIVAL
This summer, the Briefs mother ship crash-lands into The Southbank for an alien invasion of the third kind. They boys are back in town with a dazzling new show, Close Encounters. Featuring their trademark heart-stopping blend of cabaret burlesque, comic capery Australian machismo and punkish swagger, these extra-terrestrial invaders are taking no prisoners. Following four […]