Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins to star in CAROUSEL at the English National Opera
Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins will star for the first time together in the West End as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of 41 performances at ENO’s […]
West End celebrates Black Friday with a black out
Whilst many people spent Friday milling around the shops, hoping to bag some bargains in the Black Friday sales, London’s West End was plunged into darkness when a power cut saw Soho, China Town and Piccadilly Circus plunged into darkness between 5-9pm, causing several West End theatre shows to close their doors as the shows […]
London Musical Theatre Orchestra announce cast for A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Lyceum Theatre
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra is delighted to announce the cast for its much anticipated Christmas concert; the hit Broadway musical, A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Robert Lindsay is to take the lead role of Scrooge joined by an illustrious supporting cast, that includes musical theatre star Carrie Hope Fletcher performing for the first time alongside her […]
You can have your cake but don’t eat it at the theatre or Imelda Staunton will be after you
Not a week goes by in this business we call show without someone writing an article about the topic of how to behave at the theatre. This week it has been the turn of West End legend Imelda Staunton who told the Radio Times she doesn’t understand why people “can’t engage in just one thing, […]
A blog a day keeps the blogger blogging
So here’s the thing. I’m classed as a blogger. I’m not even sure if I agree with that but apparently that’s the box I fit into when being categorised by other people. But the funny thing is, I don’t tend to write blogs that much (insert laughing emoji). So I have decided to commit myself […]
Cast announced for the West End premiere of THE KITE RUNNER
Final casting is announced for the West End premiere of The Kite Runner, a thrilling stage production of Khaled Hosseini’s award-winning tale of friendship, betrayal and redemption. The international bestselling novel and film, is a powerful story of friendship spanning cultures and continents, following one man’s journey to find redemption. Adapted into a stunning stage […]
New cast announced for The Woman in Black from 29 November
Stuart Fox (Woman in Mind, Vaudeville; The Normal Heart, Royal Court and Albery; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fortune Theatre) and Joseph Chance (Jeeves & Wooster, UK and Far East Tour; Wallander) have been cast in the unanimously acclaimed stage production of The Woman in Black. Fox returns to play the Arthur Kipps having […]
Sheena Easton changes her life and heads to London for 42nd Street
Sheena Easton – the Grammy Award winning artist who has sold over 20 million records around the world – is to make her West End debut in the forthcoming production of 42nd Street. Easton, who remains the only artist in history to have top five records on five major Billboard charts, will perform the iconic […]
BLUES IN THE NIGHT comes to the Hippodrome Casino
Chicago 1939: In a shabby, down-at-heel hotel in the wrong part of town, three women share one thing in common – their relationship with a no-good, dirty, cheating rat of a man. In Blues in the Night, their tales of heartbreak, poverty, passion, lust and redemption are told through the raw, heady soul of blues, […]
The WEST END SINGS for Childline and release charity single
On December 9th 2016 the stars of the West End will release the single “If We Only Have Love” to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Childline. The aim is to raise money for the NSPCC helpline and to be in the Christmas Top 40. The idea for the single came five years ago when former […]