Michael Matus & George Rae to star in Stephen Sondheim’s THE FROGS
Michael Matus & George Rae to star in Stephen Sondheim’s THE FROGS at Jermyn Street Theatre. They will play Dionysos and Xanthias in the UK premiere of the latest Broadway version of the rarely performed musical, an hilarious send up of Greek comedy and satire, with a book revised and expanded by Nathan Lane. The […]
Award-winning KINKY BOOTS extends booking to 30 September 2017
Ahead of its 600th West End performance on Monday, Kinky Boots, the huge-hearted, high-heeled hit, announces the opening of a new booking period until Saturday 30 September 2017. Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre has become a favourite with UK theatregoers having won every major Best Musical award. Kinky Boots has won three Olivier Awards […]
First casting announced for the London premiered of HAMILTON
Cameron Mackintosh and Jeffrey Seller are thrilled and delighted to announce the initial casting for their West End production of HAMILTON. Christine Allado (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rachelle Ann Go (Eliza Hamilton), Tarinn Callender (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Rachel John (Angelica Schuyler), West End Wilma Award nominee Jason Pennycooke (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Cleve September (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), […]
Trevor Nunn returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory to direct LOVE IN IDLENESS and LETTICE AND LOVAGE
With She Loves Me currently running at its home base, Travesties and David Baddiel: My Family Not the Sitcom to open shortly in the West End, and Funny Girl in rehearsals ahead of a major national tour, the Menier Chocolate Factory announces today that Trevor Nunn returns to direct major works from the two of […]
Rachel Tucker flies out of Wicked and into Live At Zedel
After two sell-out one-woman shows, Rachel Tucker is back with her first intimate solo show for three shows only in March. Following a triumphant run as Elphaba in Wicked the Musical on Broadway, for which she was the recipient of the Best Female Replacement Award at the 2016 Broadway.com Audience Awards, Rachel is currently reprising […]
Billie Piper returns to her award winning role in YERMA at the Young Vic
Billie Piper returns in Simon Stone’s highly-acclaimed production for a strictly limited run. Billie Piper plays a woman whose inability to have a child tears her life apart. Simon Stone’s contemporary version of Lorca’s tragedy of yearning and loss won plaudits from audiences and critics alike when it premiered in the Young Vic’s Main House […]
Gender swapping at ALADDIN
Based on the 1992 Disney film and featuring a mixture of new music and classic songs, Aladdin tells the story of a down on his luck boy called Aladdin who lives on the streets. When he bumps into a beautiful girl called Jasmine he falls immediately for her, unaware that she is a Princess who […]
REVIEW: The Albatross 3rd and Main (Park Theatre) ★★★★
After a successful run at the Emporium Theatre in Brighton, Simon David Eden brings his dark comedy to the Park Theatre. Inspired by Sam Shepard’s work, Eden’s play is quintessentially American, taking place in a run-down convenience store in small-town Massachusetts that has not seen any customers in a long time. Debt-ridden store owner Gene […]
REVIEW: Lord of Thrones – The 10th Annual London 50 hour Improvathon (Wilton’s Music Hall) ★★★★
The 10th annual London 50 hour Improvathon is an improvised story in twenty five, two hour long sections. Performed by a delicious group of young talented actors. It is hilarious, warm hearted and a laugh a second. The two, two hour sections that I witnessed were hilarious. Even the hardcore blanket wrapped sections of the […]
Compelling and thought-provoking BUNNY comes to the White Bear Theatre
I think life can be basically divided into two things: suspense and surprise. I prefer surprise to suspense. But that’s basically because I feel suspense all the time. A summer of love. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When Katie’s boyfriend is attacked on the streets of Luton, she is propelled outside her borders […]
