WESTWAY MUSIC sign musical theatre acts Kerry Ellis, Ramin Karimloo, Samantha Barks, Lee Mead, Joe Stilgoe and Cassidy Janson
Westway Music is a new music and film platform dedicated to the music of theatre, from London’s West End through to New York’s Broadway and beyond. Formed by Neil O’Brien, the label has so far signed musical theatre stars Kerry Ellis, Ramin Karimloo, Samantha Barks, Lee Mead, Joe Stilgoe and Cassidy Janson, and will launch […]
ABIGAIL’S PARTY returns to the London stage
Mike Leigh’s iconic comedy drama, Abigail’s Party, returns to the London stage at Park Theatre 10 November to 4 December 2021,with former EastEnders star Kellie Shirley playing Beverly, and Ryan Early (Lee Bryce in The Archers) playing her angst-driven husband Laurence. The 1970s comedy of manners, full of new-found suburban pretensions and social aspirations, was […]
FRANK & FRIENDS – The Music of Frank Wildhorn to play at Cadogan Hall
FRANK & FRIENDS – The Music of Frank Wildhorn, starring Frank Wildhorn himself at the piano alongside special guests, will take place at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 16 January 2022 at 6.30pm. Tickets on sale now www.fw-live.com/frank Ahead of the sell-out performances of Bonnie and Clyde in Concert, Frank Wildhorn is delighted to be performing […]
Jodie Comer to make her West End debut in PRIMA FACIE at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Jodie Comer, the star of BBC’s Killing Eve is to make her stage debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play, Prima Facie. Jodie will play Tessa in this gripping, one-person play which takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game. Prima Facie, directed […]
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 […]
MATILDA THE MUSICAL at London’s Cambridge Theatre ★★★★★ 2021
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 into a well-loved film in the mid-nineties and this year will mark the tenth anniversary of Matilda […]
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 […]