REVIEW: Betrayal (Pinter at the Pinter) ★★★
Pinter’s forensic study of betrayal is a fitting 90-minute coda to Jamie Lloyd Company’s season Pinter At The Pinter, which looked back over the Nobel Prize winning playwright’s shorter works a decade after his death. The play is strongly autobiographical and based on a seven-year extramarital affair Pinter had with Joan Bakewell from 1962 to […]
Disney’s FROZEN the Musical to open next year in London’s West End
As Frozen celebrates its first year on Broadway, Disney Theatrical Productions today announces the opening of a new production of the musical in London’s West End in Autumn 2020. With music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, Michael Grandage’s production, with set and costume designs by Christopher Oram, […]
REVIEW: DRAG – Live in Soho! (Jack Solomon’s Club) ★★★★
Saturday night I went to see performances from HERR, Ophelia Love, Cheryl Hole, Kitty Scott Claus, Tayce and Ashley Foxx At the ‘Live In Soho’ show at Jack Solomon’s, produced by Tuckshop. I’ve seen these queens perform before, but I felt they had found the next level this time. If you’re looking for a bar […]
REVIEW: Romance Romance (Above the Stag Theatre) ★★★★
Romance Romance is split into two parts, connected only by the common theme of – you guessed it – love. Barry Harman‘s script is an amalgamation of two existing stories that he found whilst browsing in a bookstore. Along with a team of talented creatives, he decided to reimagine the characters as homosexuals and bring […]
Danny Mac joins the UK Touring cast of Amélie The Musical
West End performer, Strictly Come Dancing favourite and television actor Danny Mac has been confirmed to join the UK tour of Amélie The Musical, based on the much-loved, five-time Oscar®-nominated film. Joining previously announced French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson as Amélie Poulain, Danny Mac will play the sweet daydreamer Nino Quincampoix from 22 […]
REVIEW: Billy Bishop Goes To War (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
First produced in 1978, John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson’s Billy Bishop Goes to War is the most widely staged musical play in Canadian theatre. The two-man play dramatizes the life of Billy Bishop who transforms from failing Canadian military college student to the fighter pilot of his generation and a somewhat reluctant war hero. […]
THE COLOR PURPLE actress says “I do not believe homosexuality is right” despite being cast in LGBTQ role
It was announced today that actress Oluwaseyi Omooba will play the lead role of Celie in the upcoming Curve Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome production of The Color Purple. Her theatre credits include Hadestown (National Theatre); Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park); Martha in Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre) and Tilly in Junkyard (Bristol […]
Petula Clark swaps ‘Downtown’ for the West End and joins cast of MARY POPPINS
Petula Clark and Joseph Millson will join the cast of Mary Poppins to play the Bird Woman and George Banks in the new production, which returns to its original West End home at the Prince Edward Theatre from 23 October 2019. They join the previously announced Zizi Strallen in the title role and Charlie Stemp […]
Dolly Parton’s 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL set to shine like the sun around the UK
Following the huge success of 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL at the Savoy Theatre in London’s West End, a second production of the hit musical will play 11 cities throughout the UK and Ireland, opening at the Alexandra Theatre Birmingham on 6 September 2019, before visiting Manchester, Milton Keynes, Liverpool, Glasgow, Woking, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Sunderland, […]
Peter Polycarpou joins the London cast of MAN OF LA MANCHA
Peter Polycarpou will play Don Quixote’s squire, Sancho Panza in Man of la Mancha at the London Coliseum; the first West End production of this multi-Tony award-winning Broadway musical for 50 years. Polycarpou joins the already announced cast of Kelsey Grammer, Danielle de Niese, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Cassidy Janson in the acclaimed musical which opens […]