New Musical Theatre Web Series ‘THE THEATRE CHANNEL’ to launch in September
A brand-new musical theatre-based web series, ‘The Theatre Channel’ – bringing together talents from the theatre world, both on and off stage, will showcase well-known musical theatre classics; performed by some of the industry’s most beloved performers. The pilot episode is set to premiere in September, with a full season of 9 further episodes planned […]
Stars of the West End to perform ‘Tonight at the London Coliseum’ online concert series
‘Tonight at the London Coliseum’, a week-long series of concerts to be performed on stage at the London Coliseum by some of the UK’s most prolific musical theatre stars, will be streamed in September, with dates and streaming information to be announced. The seven intimate acoustic concerts will be streamed over a week with each […]
Star of Waitress and Legally Blonde, Lucie Jones to release ‘Live At The Adelphi’ album
Star of Waitress and Legally Blonde, Lucie Jones performed a one-off concert earlier this year at London’s Adelphi Theatre, where she was accompanied by the 22-piece London Musical Theatre Orchestra (LMTO) alongside special guests John Owen Jones and fellow Waitress performer, Marisha Wallace. INTERVIEW: We chat to Lucie Jones about her upcoming West End concert (January 2020) […]
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 […]