Stars line up for A MERRY CHRISTMAS CABARET supporting Cancer Research UK
Feeling festive!? A whole host of West End Musical theatre performers will belt out festive tunes for charity. This year A Merry Christmas Cabaret will be supporting The Louise Plowright Bursary and also Cancer Research UK. Our aim is to raise £250,000 for The Louise Plowright Bursary for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School to […]
Cast announced for EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE at the Crucible Theatre
Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres Robert Hastie today announces the cast for the world première of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s new musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Jonathan Butterell directs Daniel Anthony (Levi), Mina Anwar (Leigh), Luke Baker (Dean), Courtney Bowman (Fatimah), Tamsin Carroll (Miss Hedge), Charles Dale (Hugo), Raj Ghatak (Sandra Bollock), Barney […]
Cast announced for the Young Vic production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Joe Hill-Gibbins returns to the Young Vic’s Main House stage with a bold new production featuring Michael Gould as Oberon, Anastasia Hille as Titania and Leo Bill as Bottom. Lovers Lysander and Hermia are played by John Dagleish and Jemima Rooper; Demetrius and Helena by Oliver Alvin-Wilson and Anna Madeley. Matthew Steer plays Peter Quince. […]
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 […]
REVIEW: A GIRL AND A GUN (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” – Jean-Luc Godard; and all you need to attend this show is an open mind and nerves of steel. Louise Orwin, a performance artist who uses theatre to portray messages relevant to modern society, follows the huge success of ‘Prettyugly’ (a show […]
REVIEW: CANDIDE (Bridewell Theatre) ★★★★
Based on Voltaire’s novella of 1759, this story concerns the naive young man Candide and his adventures on both sides of the Atlantic (and a few mishaps along the way). Candide is an innocent who, at the outset, lives in Baron of Thunder-Den-Tronk’s castle in the Westphalia region of Germany, and wants nothing more than […]
REVIEW: TESTOSTERONE (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★★★
TESTOSTERONE is a new collaboration between acclaimed transgender actor and writer Kit Redstone and award-winning company Rhum and Clay at the New Diorama Theatre, mixing the visual theatre skills of Rhum and Clay with Redstone’s direct storytelling. This is the true story of Redstone’s first experience of a male gym changing room at the age of […]
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, […]