Vote now for the winners of The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2018
Nominees have been announced for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2018. Once again, three categories (each with six nominees) are open to the public vote. Voting closes at 5.00pm GMT on Wednesday 9 January 2019, and winners will be announced live on Resonance FM at 4.00pm GMT on Friday 11 January 2018. […]
REVIEW: BILLIONAIRE BOY (Nuffield Southampton Theatres) ★★★
David Walliams books have undoubted appeal with a young audience, having sold over 26 million copies and therefore is a natural choice for a Christmas Show alternative to pantomime for young families. NST City continues its opening season with another premiere designed to widen its audience reach by adapting Billionaire Boy for the stage as […]
REVIEW: CILLA (Wycombe Swan) ★★★
As the curtain goes up at the start of the show, we hear the dulcet tones of Bill Kenwright reminding us that mobile phones were not around in the 1960s. Kenwright is a theatre producer extraordinaire and professional Liverpudlian: a die-hard Everton fan – he is chairman of the football club. One can only assume […]
Rob Budd’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA comes to the Barbican
In the summer of 1993 renowned composer and jazz pianist Roy Budd’s score for Rupert Julian’s classic 1920s silent film The Phantom of the Opera was to set be performed in London. Then he had a brain haemorrhage. Nearly a quarter of a century later his widow, Sylvia, fulfilled his dream and Budd’s masterpiece score […]
REVIEW: An Honourable Man (White Bear Theatre) ★★★
The recent vogue for plays set in the political world sees no sign of abating and here political consultant Michael McManus has used his inside knowledge of campaigning, to create a funny and interesting look into the near political future. McManus tries to examine how the current divisions in our politics might lead to a […]
Cast announced for the UK Tour of AVENUE Q
Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be coming to a venue near you as comedy musical Avenue Q returns next year to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends, opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre 25 January 2019. Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and smash […]
WANNABE – The Spice Girls Show to tour the UK
WANNABE is a spectacular concert created to celebrate the career of the World’s biggest girl band, the Spice Girls. Featuring the greatest Spice Girls hits, this musical celebration recreates the era of Girl Power! From the chart stomping ‘Spice Up Your Life’ through to the hip shaking ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, WANNABE takes […]
Tickets now on sale for BETRAYAL starring Tom Hiddleston
Booking is now open for Harold Pinter’s Betrayal starring Golden Globe, Olivier and Evening Standard Award winner Tom Hiddleston. This new production, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will run at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 5 March 2019 (press night 13 March) for a strictly limited season ending on 1 June. As part of The Jamie […]
Full cast (including Bonnie Langford) announced for 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL
Dolly Parton is delighted to announce full casting for 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL at the Savoy Theatre, London for a strictly limited season from 28 January – 31 August 2019. Bonnie Langford will play ‘Roz Keith’, joining the previously announced Louise Redknapp as ‘Violet Newstead’, Amber Davies as ‘Judy Bernly’, Natalie McQueen as ‘Doralee […]
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT returns to the London stage
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the first major musical collaboration by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, is to be re-imagined in a brand new production at the iconic London Palladium next summer. Opening on Wednesday 26 June, the new production will have an entirely new creative team to be announced soon. Joseph and […]