4 Future Theatre launch online charity auction – get your hands on some great money-can’t-buy theatre stuff!
London theatre companies Border Crossings, Boundless Theatre, CASA Festival, ice&fire and Tamasha are joining forces to raise funds for theatre projects that celebrate diverse talent and champion human rights, cultural cohesion and equality. Hamilton Star Jamael Westman said “I’m supporting this campaign because I believe we must strive to give a platform to every voice, […]
Musical Comedy Awards celebrate 10 years with a special show at the Underbelly Festival
Now in its tenth year, the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards has provided a launch pad to superstar acts like Frisky and Mannish, Abandoman, Mae Martin, Rachel Parris and Jay Foreman and created a thriving independent platform to celebrate the artform that is musical comedy. On 12 May 2018, they celebrate 10 years of the WeGotTickets […]
SPAMILTON – An American Parody comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory
Following the 2014 production of Forbidden Broadway, which went on to transfer to the West End, the Menier Chocolate Factory will host the UK première of Gerard Alessandrini’s Spamilton from 12 July, bringing his singular wit to the all-conquering musical Hamilton, which not only takes target at Broadway’s biggest export, but a host of the theatre world’s biggest […]
New musical writing competition FROM PAGE TO STAGE announced
Aria Entertainment’s new musical theatre festival, From Page To Stage is set to return for its 6th year, this time at the Southwark Playhouse. The hugely successful 2017 festival received over 300 submissions from across the UK and internationally. From Page To Stage 2018 will showcase each step of how an original musical is developed, from […]
ALL OR NOTHING set to close in the West End
ALL OR NOTHING – THE MOD MUSICAL, has announced this morning that it will close at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on Saturday 12 May 2018 (three weeks earlier than planned. After two successful UK tours and a run at London’s Arts Theatre, the Musical (based on the music of the band the Small Faces) […]
Christina Bennington take us on a backstage tour at BAT OUT OF HELL
Jim Steinman’s smash-hit musical Bat Out of Hell returns to London at the historic Dominion Theatre starring Andrew Polec and Christina Bennington as Strat and Raven! This exhilarating tale of star-crossed lovers “changed the way musicals are staged forever” (North West End) with its boundary pushing spectacle, thrilling performances and reimagining of Jim Steinman and […]
I AM OF IRELAND – a new play about Northern/Southern Irish sectarianism comes to London
I AM OF IRELAND, an exciting new play by one of Ireland’s most perceptive writers, Seamus Finnegan comes to the Old Red Lion Theatre, 5 – 30 June 2018. Directed by Ken McClymont, the play examines the state of a divided nation and Ireland’s increasingly important role in Europe. ‘A hundred thousand welcomes!’ But is the […]
Star cast announced for this year’s big London panto SNOW WHITE
Snow White is coming to London this Christmas at the London Palladium for a strictly limited 5 week run 8 December – 13 January 2019. Snow White will be directed by Michael Harrison and stars Dawn French as The Wicked Queen and sees the return of Julian Clary as The Man in The Mirror, Paul […]
More star casting is announced for Andrew Lippa’s musical A LITTLE PRINCESS
Arlene Phillips directs a one-off semi-staged concert performance of Andrew Lippa‘s musical A Little Princess, which also features the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Bank Holiday, Monday 28 May at 7.30pm. Joining the previously announced Amanda Abbington in her musical debut as Miss Minchin and Danny Mac as Captain […]
Cast announced for MACHINAL at the Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre today announces the full cast for its revival of Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. It will play Monday 4 June – Saturday 21 July 2018. “Your skin oughtn’t to curl – ought it – when he just comes near you – ought it? That’s wrong, ain’t it? You don’t get over that, do you […]