Death has a new face in James Gant who starts performances in DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY tonight!
A soaring story of the preciousness of life and the overwhelming power of love, Death Takes A Holiday continues it limited season to Saturday 4 March. From tonight, James Gant will take over in the central role of Death from Chris Peluso, who is leaving the production as planned for the UK tour of Funny […]
Full cast announced for Terence Rattigan’s LOVE IN IDLENESS at the Menier Chocolate Factory
With She Loves Me currently running at its home base, Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom taking up residence in the West End, and Funny Girl in rehearsals ahead of a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces full casting for their major new revival of Terence Rattigan’s Love in […]
SCHOOL OF ROCK extends West End booking to January 2018
For a third time since its West End premiere Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of School of Rock – The Musical today announces a further booking extension with tickets now available to 14 January 2018. Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, the record breaking West End production of School of Rock – The Musical opened to […]
WICKED celebrates its eight millionth audience member in London
WICKED, the classic West End musical that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, welcomed its 8 millionth theatregoer to London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre on Thursday 9 February 2017. Louise and David McCarter attended the performance and enjoyed a back stage visit with the cast after the performance. Acclaimed as “one of […]
Unreleased recording of the 1963 musical POCAHONTAS to be released next month
Stage Door Records are pleased to announce the release of ‘Songs from Kermit Goell’s ‘Pocahontas’ – The West End Musical’ on March 24th, 2017. The CD release continues Stage Door’s commitment to preserve ‘lost’ British theatre scores of the past 50 years and coincides with the 400th anniversary of Pocahontas’ death. The album presents the […]
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL celebrates one year in the West End and extends booking
The hit West End production of Motown the Musical today (10 February 2017) releases over 200,000 new tickets for sale with the show now booking at the Shaftesbury Theatre to 24 February 2018 as the production celebrates its first birthday in London. With music and lyrics from the Motown catalogue and book by Motown founder […]
Mel Brooks’ musical comedy YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN to open at the Garrick Theatre
Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – the new comedy musical based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit movie – will open in the West End on Thursday 28 September at the Garrick Theatre (Press Night: Tuesday 10 October). Tickets go on-sale tomorrow, Friday 10 February. The production will open for a pre West End season at the […]
Ray Cooney’s new production of OUT OF ORDER set to tour the UK
Ray Cooney, (‘THE MASTER OF FARCE’ – The Telegraph), is celebrating both his eighty-fifth birthday and seventy years in showbiz in 2017. He is working with producer Tom O’Connell to launch a brand new season of Ray’s comedies; the first production will be an updated version of his Olivier-Award-winning Westminster comedy Out of Order, which […]
Broadway Musical HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING comes to Wilton’s Music Hall
A UK revival of the award-winning, critically-acclaimed Broadway musical comedy How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, opening for a limited run from 08 April at Wilton’s Music Hall. The amusing tale, which first debuted on Broadway in 1961, charts the journey of J. Pierrepont Finch as he joins the World Wide Wicket Company, […]
KINKY BOOTS – Understudy Paul Ayres takes on the role of Charlie Price
2017 is the year that I plan to do my best to bring understudies to the forefront of theatre. If I can get to see a show when an understudy is performing, then I intend to write about it because it can be a thankless task, for a performer to take on a leading role […]