Rescheduled dates announced for Waitress UK and Ireland tour
The hit musical Waitress, has rescheduled its first ever UK and Ireland tour and will now open at The Alhambra Theatre, Bradford, on 1 May 2021. Waitress is based on the 2007 movie written by Adrienne Shelley. Music and lyrics are written by GRAMMY award-winning, singer-songwriter sensation Sara Bareilles. The London production swept the boards […]
Casting announced for Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert
Casting has been announced for the concert staging of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar, which sold more than a third of all available seats in the first 48 hours. As capacity for the 1,256 seat venue has been reduced to 390 to meet government […]
Moulin Rouge! The Musical delays West End opening
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, which was due to have its UK premiere at the Piccadilly Theatre in London in March 2021, has announced that it has pushed back the opening date and will now open in the Autumn of next year. Carmen Pavlovic, CEO of Global Creatures and producer of Moulin Rouge! The Musical said […]
Grease the Musical announce rescheduled UK and Ireland tour dates for 2021
Grease the Musical announce UK and Ireland tour dates for 2021. The musical was due to tour in 2020 but had to be postponed due to COVID-19. Following his success starring in the UK and Ireland tour in 2019, Peter Andre will star in the 2021 tour at certain venues. As well as reprising the […]
Superstars from the world of stage & screen donate treasured items to charity for the Theatre Super Auction
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dame Judi Dench, Joan Collins, Michael Ball, Whoopi Goldberg, Alexandra Burke & Martin McDonagh, are among dozens of celebrities offering up their treasured personal possessions and ‘money can’t buy’ experiences to raise money for theatres and the performing arts industry. This one-off event will provide crucial funding for an industry which has […]
John Owen-Jones, Layton Williams, Shan Ako & more join ‘West End Musical Drive In’ line up
The UK’s biggest musical theatre concert continues as West End Musical Drive-In announce four new socially distant celebrations across August and September. Following huge demand for their launch event in July with West End stars Kerry Ellis, Alice Fearn and Jon Robyns, the team have assembled even more theatrical talent to take over The Drive […]
And the understudies are … still not being mentioned
A whole new world is about to begin. After four months of no live theatre performances on stage, the UK Government are slowly allowing theatre to reopen. It will be a while until things are anywhere near ‘normal’ (if ever) but at least there is hope at the end of the tunnel as new shows […]
Open-air production of Glenn Chandler’s ‘Fanny and Stella’ to play in London this August
London Fringe theatre will burst back to life after Lockdown on Monday 3 August with a new socially distanced version of the acclaimed musical ‘Fanny and Stella’ (until 23 August). A brand new socially distanced open-air production, with Book and Lyrics by Glenn Chandler, the creator of ‘Taggart’, and Music by Charles Miller, will be staged as […]
UK Government announce indoor performances can resume from 1 August – so long as they are Covid-secure
Boris Johnson has today announced the next phase of lockdown easing, coming in to play from 1 August 2020. This includes allowing indoor live performances, provided they are ‘Covid-secure’. Part of the government guidelines on keeping businesses Covid-secure is “where possible you should keep people 2m apart. If this is not viable, keeping 1m apart […]
Stephen Tompkinson to star in Educating Rita at the outdoor Minack Theatre, Cornwall
A 40th anniversary production of Willy Russell’s EDUCATING RITA will play the Minack Theatre, Cornwall this August. The production was on a UK Tour when the Government closed theatres, but is now able to open at this beautiful outdoor theatre with social distancing. Performances will begin on Tuesday 18 August and the season will run […]