Stephen Sondheim’s INTO THE WOODS returns to the London stage
After a successful run at Ye Olde Rose and Crown in Walthamstow in 2014, All Star Productions bring their version of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods to The Cockpit Theatre. Performed in the round, this darkly comic production has been given a 21st century twist with an ensemble of seventeen larger-than-life characters drawn from modern day […]
New cast announced for the West End production of KINKY BOOTS
Kinky Boots, the winner of the Best Musical award at the Wilma Awards 2016 has extended it booking period until 5 January 2019. Click here for tickets. Current cast members David Hunter and Verity Rushworth will be leaving the show on 2 June 2018 with it being announced today that Oliver Tompsett and Natalie McQueen […]
Sam Graham chats about starring in THE COUNTRY WIFE at Southwark Playhouse
Sam Graham has just finished playing Sir Jasper Fidget in The Country Wife at London’s Southwark Playhouse. His theatre credits include Our Country’s Good (Out of Joint), The Winter’s Tale (Sheffield Crucible), A Christmas Carol (Royal & Derngate), Love The Sinner (National Theatre), Gagarin Way (Theatre Royal, Bath), O Go My Man (Out of Joint, […]
Killian Donnelly set to take Jean Valjean around the UK&I in the LES MISERABLES musical tour
It has been announced that Killian Donnelly will play Jean Valjean in the upcoming UK & Ireland tour of the hit musical Les Miserables. The show opens at Curve Lesicester on 3 November 2018 and then heads to Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester and more venues around the UK&I. For full tour dates see below. Killian is […]
REVIEW: The Significant Other Festival (The Vaults) ★★
As a concept, this festival celebrating the works of ten different writers under the umbrella of a unanimous theme and location to create one fluid piece of theatre is an interesting one- but unfortunately not entirely successful in it’s actualisation. I applaud new ideas and new approaches to theatre, however, for me the disjointed vignettes […]
140,000 new tickets on sale for TINA – The Tina Turner Musical
TINA, a new musical based on the life of legendary artist Tina Turner, have released 140,000 new tickets on sale taking the booking period up to 16 February 2019. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Katori Hall with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, choreography is by Anthony van Laast, with set and costume designs […]
REVIEW: AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (Curve Leicester) ★★★★★
It was the world premiere of a brand-new musical, An Officer and a Gentleman, at Curve Leicester last night, and what a triumph it was. Based on the hit 80’s film starring Richard Gere, we follow the story of Zack Mayo (Jonny Fines) as he enters training to become a US Navy Pilot. A little […]
REVIEW: BAT OUT OF HELL (Dominion Theatre) ★★★★★
Jim Steinman doesn’t do anything by halves. He’s worked with legends Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, Air Supply, Barbra Streisand, Cher and Def Leppard so when he penned Bat Out Of Hell the musical it should be no surprise he created a larger than life sceptical. Using many of the songs he wrote for from Meat […]
James Byng talks about starring in The Woman In Black
Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaptation. Now celebrating 29 terrifying years in the West End, Robin Herford’s gripping production is a brilliantly successful study in atmosphere, illusion and controlled horror. A lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family […]
REVIEW: CHICAGO (Phoenix Theatre) ★★★
Kander & Ebb’s Chicago is a theatrical institution. One of the heavy-weight champions of American musical theatre, the shows accolades are many including holding the records for the longest running musical revival and second longest running musical on Broadway and the longest running American musical in both America and The West End. Having been seen […]