LIVEWIRE Festival announces ‘From Movies To Musicals’ Featuring Ben Forster, John Owen-Jones, Kerry Ellis and Ruthie Henshall
Livewire Festival has announced that the Sunday evening slot will be a musical extravaganza, titled ‘From Movies To Musicals’ bringing some of the UK’s most beloved musical stars to the famous seaside resort for the August bank holiday in 2019. Ben Forster, John Owen-Jones, Kerry Ellis, Ruthie Henshall, and more yet to be announced will […]
Theatre shows announced to compete in West End Eurovision 2019!
The West End casts of Aladdin, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Follies, Mamma Mia, Only Fools and Horses, The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked will compete in West End Eurovision 2019! Special guest star – Eurovision winner Dana International Ahead of the 64th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, the casts of seven West […]
Watch the 20th anniversary finale performance of MAMMA MIA!
On Saturday 6 April, MAMMA MIA! celebrated its 20th birthday in London. The current cast were joined on stage for the Finale of Dancing Queen by 13 former ‘Dynamos’, including the original ‘Donna’, Siobhan McCarthy, and the original ‘Rosie’, Jenny Galloway. Producer Judy Craymer paid tribute to the original ‘Tanya’, Louise Plowright, who sadly passed […]
Love is an open door – the UK’s largest theatre fan club MTAS launch a safe place to chat
MTAS opens its doors for a chat MTAS launches it’s new safe space in the form of an anonymously handled email account [email protected]. The Musical Theatre Appreciation Society (MTAS) is the UKs largest fan hub. With over 46,000 musical fans on their Facebook page alone, the creative team saw an increase in members contacting simply […]
REVIEW: VICTORIA (Curve) ★★★★★
Northern Ballet’s Victoria pirouetted its way into Curve last week. The subject matter needs no explanation as it is centred around our second-longest reigning monarch. When Queen Victoria is portrayed in modern day culture, the story often follows her journey from princess to the ascension to the throne, to the death of her beloved Prince Albert. […]
REVIEW: MOUTHPIECE (Soho Theatre) ★★★★
Kieran Hurley’s Mouthpiece comes to Soho Theatre following a sold out, critically-acclaimed run at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre in 2018. The production is directed by the former Artistic Director of Traverse Theatre, Orla O’Loughlin and has Neve McIntosh and Lorn Macdonald reprising their roles. Mouthpiece is set in Edinburgh and takes a look at an unlikely […]
REVIEW: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre) ★★★★★
We find ourselves in 1950’s Minneapolis, at what appears to be the worst-run bank in the U.S. of A. For some reason, a Hungarian prince has decided to entrust bank manager Robin Freeboys (Leonard Cook) with looking after his precious diamond, worth half a million dollars, and recent jailbird Mitch (Gareth Tempest) is planning a […]
REVIEW: SCARY BIKERS (Trafalgar Studios) ★★★★
When former teacher Carol (Jane Thornton) suffers the loss of her husband, Rob, she’s in pieces. Finding it hard to move on from the pain that his brain tumour caused, and crying every day, months after his death, she crosses paths with retired miner Don (John Godber OBE). Don’s recently said goodbye to his wife, […]
REVIEW: MICHAEL STARRING BEN (London Palladium) ★★★★
The King of Pop was kept well and truly alive at the London Palladium on Saturday. Ben Bowman, the UK’s leading Michael Jackson tribute act, lit up the West End stage with his powerful and accurate renditions of MJ’s classics. Bowman grew up in the Isle of Sheppey, and was first drawn to Jackson aged […]
THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13¾ to open in the West End this June
Following two highly acclaimed runs at Leicester’s Curve theatre in 2015 and the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2017, Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ – The Musical, will open at the Ambassadors Theatre for a limited season from 15 June until 12 October 2019, with a Gala Night on Tuesday 2 […]