Entries now open for the seventh year of WICKED YOUNG WRITER AWARDS
THE WICKED YOUNG WRITER AWARDS, created and sponsored by the award- winning musical Wicked in association with the National Literacy Trust (www.literacytrust.org.uk), is pleased to announce that the acclaimed author and illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon books, Cressida Cowell, will return as Head Judge for the awards for the third consecutive year. […]
Cast announced for the twisted fairytale PRINCESS at LOST Theatre
Stuart Saint’s ground-breaking interdisciplinary Princess, which opens at the LOST Theatre in November, is proud to announce their cast. This new piece is inspired by our twisted relationship with the “princess” – shattering the illusion of happily-ever-afters, banishing the storybook fairytale and finding the feminism in Disney. The cast includes Jennie Dickie (London Olympics Opening […]
Martin Kemp to star in MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET this Christmas at Royal Festival Hall
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET – the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and West End hit today reveals casting for the red-hot rock ‘n’ roll extravaganza which appears at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall as part of Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival supported by NatWest. Million Dollar Quartet plays a limited season starring Martin Kemp from Saturday 17th December […]
CURIOUS INCIDENT stages Maths Lectures at Gielgud Theatre
Maths is being brought to life for teenagers in a series of lecture shows on 25, 29 and 30 November 2016 at London’s Gielgud Theatre, using the set of The National Theatre’s award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s best-selling book. The shows […]
REVIEW: CATS (Sunderland Empire, 2016) ★★★★
Sunderland Empire has been creatively transformed into a great big, beautiful rubbish heap for this faithfully resurrected extravaganza. Based on “Old Possum’s Book of Cats”, the poems of TS Eliot, Cats the Musical is told entirely in song and dance to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Webber has smartly mined the natural music in […]
Sheridan Smith to continue the role of Fanny Brice on the UK Tour of FUNNY GIRL
Following critically acclaimed and record-breaking sold-out runs at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Savoy Theatre, Sheridan Smith will reprise her highly praised performance of Fanny Brice at selected venues for the UK tour of Funny Girl – she is set to perform in Manchester, Milton Keynes, Liverpool, Bristol, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Newcastle, Southampton, Bradford, Southend, Cardiff […]
Check out this video of the cast of SCHOOL OF ROCK in action
The seven-part webisode series follows the West End cast of School of Rock – The Musical as they get ready to begin performances at the New London Theatre on 24 October 2016. In episode one, join Jo Whiley as she hosts the West End launch for School of Rock – The Musical. This episode sees […]
First picture released from RAGTIME – opening at Charing Cross Theatre 8 October
Ako Mitchell stars as Harlem musician Coalhouse Walker Jr., one of the central characters in the musical “Ragtime”. “Ragtime” led the 1998 Tony Awards with 12 nominations, winning 4 including Best Book by Terrence McNally and Best Original Score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. This stunning new actor-musician version, with a cast led by […]
EastEnders star RILEY CARTER MILLINGTON to head the cast of SAFE
SAFE, a powerful new verbatim theatre piece featuring Riley Carter Millington, who as Kyle Slater in EastEnders was the first transgender actor to play a long-running trans role in a British soap, will be the first production at London Theatre Workshop in its new home in Leadenhall Market. A recent study found that 25% of […]
See POTTED PANTO in the West End this Christmas
Potted Panto, the spectacularly funny Olivier-nominated show, that crams seven pantomimes into just 80 minutes, is to return to the West End for a fourth festive season of silliness. Starring former CBBC TV presenters Dan and Jeff – hot on the heels of their world tour of Potted Potter – Potted Panto will open at […]