Sally Dexter to star as the first ever female Scrooge in CHRISTMAS CAROL
Christmas Carol – a fairy tale, the magical new production running at Wilton’s Music Hall this festive season today announces its stellar cast, with Olivier Award-winning Sally Dexter starring as the first ever female Scrooge to appear on a London stage. Musical theatre legend and soap opera superstar Sally Dexter takes on the role of […]
A night of West End Stars comes to Proud Cabaret Embankment in aid of performer Audrey Jones
Live at Proud Cabaret Embankment – A night of West End Stars and is on Sunday 20th October at Proud Cabaret, Embankment. Doors open at 6pm and the show begins at 7.30pm. The Cabaret is in memory of musical theatre performer Daisy Steere’s late Grandmother, Audrey Jones, who sadly recently passed away after suffering for […]
Cast announced for Sandy Wilson’s THE BOY FRIEND at Menier Chocolate Factory
Menier Chocolate Factory has announced initial casting for their major revival of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend running at the theatre over Christmas. Matthew White directs a cast including Jack Butterworth (Bobby van Husen), Janie Dee (Mme Dubonnet), Adrian Edmondson (Lord Brockhurst), Tiffany Graves (Hortense), Dylan Mason (Tony), Amara Okereke (Polly) and Issy van Randwyck […]
Smash hit Broadway musical BE MORE CHILL heads to London
Be More Chill, the mind-bendingly fun, smash hit Broadway musical, is to transfer to London to make its UK premiere at The Other Palace on Wednesday 12 February 2020. Be More Chill is based on the groundbreaking novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini. With original music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and a […]
Cast announced for SOHO CINDERS at Charing Cross Theatre
West End stars Luke Bayer and Millie O’Connell have been announced to head the cast of Soho Cinders at Charing Cross Theatre. Soho Cinders will run nine weeks from Thursday 24 October to Saturday 21 December. Luke was alternate Jamie in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo theatre and Millie ends her Olivier Award-nominated reign as […]
REVIEW: The Elixir of Love (Kings Head Theatre) ★★★★★
Brilliant, beautiful and bloody funny – the King’s Head theatre have delivered a fantastic production, which rates as one of the best things I have seen this year. Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir D’Amore is transported from 18th century northern Spain to 1980s Barry Island and is delivered here as the Elixir of Love. I am […]
REVIEW: Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre) ★★★
A stark production of the Scottish Play that will please aficionados but could leave Shakespeare novices scratching their heads. Director Paul Miller has teamed up with John Simm, ten years on from their production of Hamlet at the Sheffield Crucible. Simm has said that they have a three-play-plan and will team up again in the […]
REVIEW: MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE (Curve) ★★★★
The curtains have opened on Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette at Curve. Originally an 80s cult classic film, Kureishi has worked with Curve to repurpose his masterpiece for the stage. Set in the heart of the big smoke during Thatcher’s reign, two old school friends – Johnny and Omar – reconnect and find themselves on […]
REVIEW: WEST END MUSICAL BRUNCH ★★★★
As hybrid concepts go, I expect that a West End sing-along combined with the now ubiquitous ‘bottomless brunch’ is already stoking the internal fires of most avid Wilma readers. On paper, it’s a winning idea: lock a bunch of musical fans inside a slice of prime West End real estate (in our case, the shabby-glam […]