COME FROM AWAY extends London run to May 2020
As hit musical Come From Away celebrates its 300th performance and 300,000th visitor in the UK, the Olivier Award-winning “Best New Musical” announces that it will further extend its hugely successful run in the West End until 23 May 2020. Come From Away is nominated for four awards at the 2019 West End Wilma Awards, […]
Sandra Marvin to take over from Marisha Wallace as Becky in WAITRESS
Waitress is delighted to welcome Sandra Marvin (Emmerdale, Committee) to the company of the hit West End musical as waitress Becky with her first performance taking place on 17 October. She takes on the role from Marisha Wallace who has starred with the original London cast. Sandra Marvin will join lead cast members Lucie Jones […]
Drag Race’s BAGA CHIPZ and Britain’s Got Talent’s SHEILA SIMMONDS to star in all-drag production of CINDERELLA
Drag stars BAGA CHIPZ – currently on screen as one of the contestants in BBC Three’s RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – and SHEILA SIMMONDS – best known from her outrageous performance that wowed the judges in Britain’s Got Talent 2019 – will star in a fierce and funny drag makeover of classic pantomime CINDERELLA this […]
Audience member gives boyfriends a “hand” during BIG THE MUSICAL performance
Back in 2015 I wrote a blog about a very strange experience I had, sitting in the front of of the show Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. It was more a case of ‘woman on the verge of an orgasm’ for me as the very drunk man and woman sitting next to […]
Casting call for Whitney – Queen Of The Night and What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Auditions have been announced to find the next stars for two international touring productions. What’s Love Got To Do With It?, a celebration of the music of Tina Turner, and Whitney – Queen of the Night, celebrating Whitney Houston, is casting for the leading role in both productions. The casting follows the phenomenal success of […]
MAMMA MIA! announce a collaboration to raise awareness for Ovarian Cancer
MAMMA MIA! is delighted to announce a collaboration with Target Ovarian Cancer to raise much-needed funds to transform the future for women with ovarian cancer. 11 women die every day in the UK from this disease and ovarian cancer faces chronic underfunding compared with other cancers. MAMMA MIA! was created by three women, is all […]
REVIEW: ANNIE (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★
It was seeing Annie in the early 80’s that instilled in me a lifelong love of theatre, so I was very excited to be seeing the show at Sunderland Empire this week. It’s 1933, America is in the midst of a depression and little orphan Annie (Kiana Dumbuya, Mia Lakha and Ava Smith sharing […]
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’ […]
Actress Seyi Omooba breaks silence on alleged homophobia saying “I don’t see why what I said was offensive”
In March 2019, it was announced that actress Seyi Omooba would play the lead role of Celie in the Curve Leicester and Birmingham Hippodrome production of The Color Purple. Seyi’s theatre credits include Hadestown (National Theatre); Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park); Martha in Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre) and Tilly in Junkyard […]
HEATHERS THE MUSICAL announces UK Tour
Following two record-breaking seasons at London’s The Other Palace and West End transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2018, Heathers the Musical will embark on a highly anticipated UK tour from 2020. Produced by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, this high octane, black comedy, rock musical based on one of the greatest cult teen […]