The World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb continues at the Union Theatre, London until 8 February. You’d have to be seriously allergic to musicals not to enjoy this tuneful retrospective of the work of those Broadway giants John Kander and Fred Ebb, famous, of course, for Cabaret and Chicago as well as […]
Putting It Together – St James Theatre
Putting It Together continues at the St James Theatre, London until 1 February. This is a lesser-known Stephen Sondheim revue that was first performed in 1992 at the Old Fire Station Studio Theatre in Oxford. Subsequent productions took place, notably in New York, Los Angeles and Chichester, each slightly different in song content and ‘story’. […]
Lost Boy – Charing Cross Theatre
Lost Boy continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 15 February. The story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up, continues to be re-interpreted by a number of theatre writers and directors. In the past, productions such as Finding Neverland, Peter and the Starcatcher and Peter and Alice have adapted the […]
Shakespeare 4 Kidz presents musical version of Macbeth
The company Shakespeare 4 Kidz has begun an international tour of a new musical version of Macbeth, aimed at young audiences and families. The adaptation by Julian Chenery (who also directs) and Matt Gimblett tells the story with many of Shakespeare’s original words woven into easy-to-understand modern language. The cast includes: Noel Andrew Harron (Macbeth), Michelle Cornelius […]
Brent Barrett – Crazy Coqs
Brent Barrett performs his show Night Songs at the Crazy Coqs, London until 18 January. Having wowed audiences at the Victoria Palace in 2001 with his performance as Fred Graham in Kiss Me, Kate, for which he received an Olivier nomination, Brent Barrett returns to make his London cabaret debut with Night Songs. The theme […]
Valley of Song – Finborough Theatre
Valley of Song continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 25 January. Valley of Song, Ivor Novello’s last and unfinished musical, receives its professional world premiere at the Finborough Theatre more than 60 years after the composer’s death. Presented as part of the Finborough’s ‘Celebrating British Music Theatre’ and ‘The Great War 100’ series, this […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – New York
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical continues at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, New York, in an open-ended run. According to the programme for Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, the songwriter has had more than 400 of her compositions recorded by more than 1,000 artists, generating 100 hit singles. And many of those tunes, which […]
The World Goes ‘Round at the Union Theatre
Jonathan Vickers writes: London’s Union Theatre is to stage the award-winning Kander & Ebb revue The World Goes ‘Round in a limited run beginning 17 January (previews on the 15 and 16 January) and ending on 8 February. The piece, exclusively featuring the music of admired writing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, parades some of […]
Maria Friedman and Jason Carr – The Pheasantry
Maria Friedman sings Lenny & Steve with Jason Carr (musical director) at The Pheasantry, London, until 19 January. British artists who truly understand the intimate art of cabaret are few and far between, but the wonderful Maria Friedman is one who stands alongside the very best Americans – and above most of them. Seventy minutes […]
Happy Days – A New Musical – a sneak peak
A week ahead of their opening at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, the producers of the UK tour of Happy Days – A New Musical invited selected press in for an exclusive peak at rehearsals in progress. It is difficult not to feel the excitement emanating from the Churchill at the moment. The set designed by Tom […]
Tell Me On a Sunday – St James Theatre
Tell Me On a Sunday continues at the St James Theatre, London until 12 January before transferring to the Duchess Theatre for two weeks from 18 February–1 March. It’s nostalgia time at the St James with Marti Webb bravely re-creating the one-woman Tell Me On a Sunday show of almost 32 years ago that took […]
Carole J Bufford – Crazy Coqs
Carole J Bufford performs her show Body and Soul at the Crazy Coqs, London until Saturday 11 January. Now we know why the New York cabaret world is raving about the new kid on the block. Carole J Bufford is very, very special. A standing ovation for her very first gig outside the USA at […]
