Critically acclaimed THE PRODUCERS comes to the West End
The Menier Chocolate Factory’s critically acclaimed sell-out production of The Producers with book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music & lyrics by Mel Brooks transfers to the West End. The production opens at the Garrick Theatre 30 August 2025 – 21 February 2026, with Andy Nyman (Fiddler on the Roof, Abigail’s Party, Assassins […]
Imelda Staunton to star in Mrs Warren’s Profession in London
“I am my mother’s daughter. I am like you. But my work is not your work, and my way is not your way.” Mrs Warren’s Profession will play at the Garrick Theatre from 10 May – 16 August 2025. Tickets are on sale now. Who is in the cast of Mrs Warren’s Profession? Four-time Olivier […]
Mike Bartlett’s new play Unicorn to debut at the Garrick Theatre
The world premiere of Mike Bartlett’s new play Unicorn, directed by James Macdonald, will debut at the Garrick Theatre in the West End from 4 February for strictly limited run until 26 April 2025. “Nick: Have you two kissed already? Polly: No Kate: Yes” Polly and Nick have it all. Happily married, two children, successful […]
REVIEW: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Garrick Theatre, 2021) ★★★★★
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: BILLIONAIRE BOY (Garrick Theatre, 2021) ★★★★
Following the success of the award-winning ‘Gangsta Granny’ in 2017, Birmingham Stage Company are back in the West End with the stage premiere of David Walliams’ 2010 children’s book, ‘Billionaire Boy‘ at the Garrick Theatre. What do you give your son for his twelfth birthday when you’re a billionaire? Well, last year Joe Spud, son […]
REVIEW: SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL ★★★★★
We all improvise. Whether it’s to keep our children quiet, buy more time at work or reassure ourselves, we all think on our feet. But it’s not easy. Try doing it in rhyme. To music. With an audience… But this is exactly what Showstopper! at the Garrick Theatre does. Each night the team put on […]
REVIEW: DEATH DROP (Garrick Theatre) ★★★★★
Death Drop – a ‘Dragatha Christie’ murder mystery is back in the West End (at the Garrick Theatre) after lockdown, bringing camp comedy to the stage by a whole bunch of well known drag queens. The story is fun. It’s 1991 and to celebrate the 10th wedding anniversary of Charles and Diana, The Lady has […]
REVIEW: ‘Potted Panto’ at the Garrick Theatre ★★★
A Christmas production of ‘Potted Panto‘ comes to the West End this Christmas for a bit of silly fun at the Garrick Theatre. The concept; seven pantomimes told in just seventy minutes. From Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, to Cinderella and Dick Whittington, some of the UK’s most loved festive shows are brought to life. […]
REVIEW: NOISES OFF (Garrick Theatre) ★★★★★
After watching a performance of his 1970 farce ‘The Two of Us’ from backstage at the Garrick Theatre, celebrated playwright Michael Frayn commented “It was funnier from behind than in front and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind.” His “farce from behind” started as the short one-act play ‘Exits’ […]
REVIEW: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (Garrick Theatre) ★★★★
As Hallowe’en approaches, everyone starts feeling ghoulish and as the night’s draw in, curling up with a good horror film seems like the perfect night in. Mel Brooks‘ horror film parody Young Frankenstein came out in 1974 and was one of the highest grossing films of the year, So, for fans of musicals and freaky […]