Lions, Spiders, Steps and Shakespeare make up the 2019 season for The Barn Theatre
Winner of Best Fringe Theatre in the 2019 Stage Awards, The Barn Theatre has announced it’s 2019 Season, including one of Michael Morpurgo’s finest works, The Butterfly Lion, William Shakespeare’s classic history, Henry V, a brand new production of the comic thriller, The 39 Steps, the award-winning musical Daddy Long Legs and a reimagining of […]
REVIEW: KOMPROMAT (The Vaults) ★★★★
Kompromat is a new play written by David Thame and directed by award-winning Peter Darney at Vault Festival. Kompromat is a Russian word meaning compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating someone, typically for political purposes. The play is inspired by the death of Gareth Williams in 2010. The GCHQ agent was […]
REVIEW: AMERICAN IDIOT (Mayflower Theatre) ★★★★
Disaffected youth struggling to come to terms with life in a post 9/11 America may not at first seem like the usual fare for a musical but add in the music from Green Day’s 2004 concept album and it definitely works. The audience is welcomed into the auditorium by video screens showing the catastrophic events […]
REVIEW: DOCTOR DOLITTLE (New Theatre Oxford) ★★★
Hugh Lofting’s 1920 children’s book, Doctor Doolittle is on permanent re-order in Waterstones’ across the country and remains up there in popularity alongside the classics of Lewis Carroll and A A Milne. The good-natured and zany Doctor Doolittle character has extended to many films over the years as well as musical productions. This particular revival, […]
REVIEW: A Modest Little Man (Bread and Roses Theatre) ★★★
Journalist Francis Beckett has adapted his biography of the post-war Labour Prime Minister, Clement Atlee, into a short play that offers a humorous take on Atlee’s unique and understated leadership style. Told mainly from the perspective of Atlee’s wife, Violet, the play focuses on the events following the Second World War when Atlee’s Labour Party […]
REVIEW: Notre Dame de Paris (London Coliseum) ★★★★★
Based upon the acclaimed 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris originally premiered at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, 1998. With music composed by Richard Cocciante and lyrics by Luc Plamondon, the production was praised in the millennium edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for its record […]
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF transfers to the West End’s Playhouse Theatre
Trevor Nunn’s critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof with Andy Nyman and Judy Kuhn transfers to the reconfigured Playhouse Theatre from 21 March for a limited run – with over 25,000 tickets at £20 or less across the run. The production, which opens on 27 March, with previews from 21 March, and is […]
Pop anthem jukebox musical to explore what life Juliet might have had after Romeo
& Juliet is the joyous, new West End musical that asks: what if Juliet’s famous ending was really just her beginning? What if she decided to choose her own fate? Soaring with the music of Max Martin, the acclaimed song-writer of some of the biggest pop anthems of the last 30 years, & Juliet is […]
Mischief Theatre announce year long residency at Vaudeville Theatre showcasing three new shows
Mischief Theatre, the Olivier award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, today an- nounces it will take over the Vaudeville theatre with a season of new work from September 2019. Opening with comedy Groan Ups, the original Mischief company reunite to bring their unique in- ventive hilarity to the West End. Mischief Theatre will […]
Original BAD GIRLS star Nicole Faraday talks about starring in the Musical stage adaption
Bad Girls The Musical is based on the extremely popular ITV1 prison drama series, Bad Girls by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus, with music and lyrics by Kath Gotts. Bad Girls the Musical draws you into the life of ITV1’s Bad Girls’ characters and what happens to the women behind bars at Larkhall. This gritty, witty musical has a great cast, including […]