Cast announced for the UK Tour of Matthew Bourne’s NUTCRACKER!
Full casting and tour dates for the 30th Anniversary of a newly designed and reimagined production of Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! have been announced. The tour opens at Theatre Royal Plymouth on Monday 15 November 2021 ahead of a Christmas Season at Sadler’s Wells, London from Tuesday 7 December 2021 to Sunday 30 January 2022. The […]
REVIEW: GHOSTLIGHT: THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER (Above The Stag Theatre)
Written during the lockdown, Ghostlight: The Unknown Soldier is the first of a trio of one-act plays, set in London theatres. It’s a tale of forbidden romance, love and loss set against the backdrop of war. Set in the present day, our unknown soldier (played by Harvey Ebbage) is a theatre ghost, who has spent […]
REVIEW: THE PLEASURE GARDENS (Above The Stag Theatre)
Glenn Chandler and Charles Miller (Fanny & Stella: The Shocking True Story and The Sins of Jack Saul) return to Above The Stag Theatre in Vauxhall with their new musical ‘The Pleasure Gardens’. The show begins in the present day, on a construction site, where the pleasure gardens in Vauxhall once thrived. We are then […]
REVIEW: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Garrick Theatre)
Jason Robert Brown’s musical, The Last Five Years, is one of his best works. So I am delighted to see this new production in the West End at the Garrick Theatre for a four-week run, especially because I didn’t get a chance to see it at the Southwark Playhouse last year. Molly Lynch and Oli […]
REVIEW: BLITHE SPIRIT (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Noel Coward‘s 1941 play Blithe Spirit has been revived many times and is one of his most popular works. First performed during World War II, the comedy served as a well-needed tonic and distraction from the world at that time. The show is now back in the West End and it couldn’t be a better […]
MATILDA THE MUSICAL at London’s Cambridge Theatre
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS TO MATILDA THE MUSICAL Playing at the Cambridge Theatre until 15 December 2024 Children’s author Roald Dahl has had many of his books brought to life on screen and stage over the years. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The BFG, The Witches, and of course Matilda. The book was turned […]
New cast announced for final weeks of ANYTHING GOES at the Barbican Theatre
One of the all-time greatest musicals ANYTHING GOES, is playing at London’s Barbican Theatre until 6 November 2021. Due to phenomenal public demand for tickets, two extra matinee performances have been added on Wednesday 27 October and Wednesday 3 November. Broadway star Rachel York will replace Sutton Foster on 12 October and will complete the […]
The four casts of the recent West End run of CONSTELLATIONS to be streamed online
After breaking box-office records at the Vaudeville Theatre, the critically acclaimed revival of Nick Payne’s Constellations will be streamed online. All four productions – starring Sheila Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah, Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker, Omari Douglas and Russell Tovey, and Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O’Dowd, have been filmed, so audiences worldwide can enjoy […]
Amy Adams to star in Tennessee Williams’s THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Duke Of York’s Theatre
Six time Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams will make her West End debut in a new production of Tennessee Williams’s celebrated memory play, The Glass Menagerie for 14 weeks at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 23 May until 28 August 2022. Award-winning director Jeremy Herrin’s bold new staging explores the fragility and fallibility […]
OPERATION MINCEMEAT returns to Southwark Playhouse January 2022
Following sold-out runs at the New Diorama Theatre in 2019 and Southwark Playhouse in 2020 and September 2021, Operation Mincemeat is back. Having spent lockdown rewriting the show, weeping and eating biscuits, SpitLip are pleased to announce they are extending the run of this newer, bigger and (somehow) even better version from 14 January through […]