REVIEW: DREAMGIRLS ORIGINAL LONDON CAST RECORDING
And I am telling you that tomorrow (Friday 12 May 2017), the Original London Cast Recording of the musical Dreamgirls is released and you’d better all be goin’ downtown in your cadillac car to get a copy to listen to! Recorded live at London’s Savoy Theatre over four performances, backed by a 14 piece band, […]
Joe Orton’s classic farce LOOT to play at PARK Theatre
Joe Orton’s classic farce LOOT will run at London’s Park Theatre from Thursday 17 August – Sunday 24 September. It will then transfer to the Watermill Theatre from 28 September – 21 October. The production marks the 50th anniversary of Joe Orton’s death on 9 August 1967, and just months after LOOT’s award-winning West End […]
REVIEW: GANGSTA GRANNY (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★★
David Walliams’ best selling children’s book has been brought to life on stage by The Birmingham Stage Company. The story is told through the eyes of 11 year old Ben (Ashley Cousins) who every Friday night is sent to his ‘boring’ granny’s house (Gilly Tompkins) for the night while his selfish parents go ballroom dancing. […]
LUCIE JONES joins the cast of THE WEDDING SINGER tour
Welsh musical theatre star and Eurovision hopeful Lucie Jones is to join the cast of The Wedding Singer, (the hilarious musical based on the hit film Adam Sandler film), after she performs in Kiev this weekend where she will represent the UK in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Lucie joins the show in Aberdeen and […]
Julia Donaldson’s WHAT THE LADYBIRD HEARD makes its West End debut
Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’ bestselling picture book What the Ladybird Heard makes its West End debut this summer. This glittering tale of two crafty robbers, one tiny ladybird and a whole farmyard of fun will open at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on 5 July, running until 10 September, prior to a major UK […]
DECLAN BENNETT and TYRONE HUNTLEY reprise their roles in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Declan Bennett will return to the role of Jesus in the Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar this summer. Also returning this summer are Tyrone Huntley with his award-winning performance as Judas, and David Thaxton and Peter Caulfield as Pilate and Herod. With direction by Timothy Sheader, design by Tom Scutt, choreography by […]
Cast announced for THE QUENTIN DENTIN SHOW at the TRISTAN BATES THEATRE
Luke Lane (The Quentin Dentin Show, Above The Arts; King John, Shakespeare’s Globe; A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Henry V, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Shauna Riley (The Quentin Dentin Show, Above The Arts/Edinburgh Fringe; Bas, Prague Fringe; Sasha, Seventh Dream Ventures), Max Panks (Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Park Theatre; Lost Boy The Musical, Charing Cross Theatre and Finborough […]