Actress Hayley Gallivan plays Nancy in Sheffield Crucible’s production of Lionel Bart’s musical Oliver! which opens this week. The musical is directed by the theatre’s award-winning artistic director Daniel Evans, who also staged the Crucible’s critically acclaimed productions of My Fair Lady and Tim Firth’s This is My Family (the latter won two UK Theatre Awards). […]
Chichester Pajama Game hits West End in May 2014
Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of The Pajama Game, directed by Richard Eyre, transfers to the West End on 1 May (press night is 13 May), playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre until 13 September 2014. The musical will move in when the current show residing there – From Here to Eternity – closes. In 1950s America, […]
Guildford School of Acting – Rent
Rent was performed by the Guildford School of Acting Third Year Musical Theatre graduates at the the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. The list of Guildford School of Acting success stories is longer than your arm, from Bill Nighy to Brenda Blethyn, Michael Ball to Celia Imrie, Tom Chambers to Caroline Sheen and far beyond, and there’s […]
Once Upon a Mattress – Theater der Jugend, Vienna
Winnifred oder die Prinzessin auf der Erbse (Once Upon a Mattress) continues at the Theater der Jugend, Vienna until 25 January, 2014. Even though the Theater der Jugend, Vienna’s number one when it comes to theatre for children and teenagers, is known for mostly presenting plays, the venue has surprised audiences this season with a […]
My Fair Lady – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
My Fair Lady continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, until 1 January, 2014. Here’s the ultimate Christmas treat for lovers of musicals – a trip on Eurostar and a couple of best seats at the Chatelet, surely one of the world’s most beautiful theatres, to see perhaps the most iconic of them all, Lerner and […]
Love, Linda – York Theatre Company, New York
Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter continues at York Theatre Company, New York, until 5 January. Life wasn’t always wunderbar for Mr. and Mrs. Cole Porter. But most of the time it was pretty damn good, as related by Linda Porter in the sumptuous Off-Broadway musical Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole […]
John Barrowman – one day musical theatre will call again
Paul F Cockburn recently caught up with the multi-talented John Barrowman in Glasgow. Having just been recording 25 episodes of Pressure Pad, his new entertainment quiz show for the BBC, Barrowman was – technically – promoting his pantomine, Dick McWhittington (opening at the SECC Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow on 14 December), but the conversation strangely enough […]
The New Musical Project – finalists revealed
A new musical theatre initiative will take place next year, which sees six new musicals produced to a workshop performance, with the winner being taken on to a full production. The New Musical Project, based at the Leicester Square Theatre, has invited would-be writers and composers to submit new, unpublished or never previously performed one-act […]
Christmas in New York – Palace Theatre
Christmas in New York at the Palace Theatre, London. Making its return to London after a three-year hiatus, Christmas in New York is a selection box of festive favourites – pop songs, show tunes, carols and hymns – presented by some of the leading lights of the West End. At the top of this year’s Christmas […]
Singular Sensations – John Wilson – Charing Cross Theatre
Singular Sensations: John Wilson, with Edward Seckerson, at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. The John Wilson Orchestra is responsible for reviving the original orchestrations of famous Hollywood musicals from such studios as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century-Fox and composers including Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Lerner & Loewe and Rodgers & Hammerstein. John Wilson […]
Little Shop of Horrors – King’s Arms, Salford
Little Shop of Horrors continues at the King’s Arms, Salford until 22 December. Much like the insatiable, intergallactic flora at its centre, Little Shop of Horrors has grown from its humble beginnings as an Off-Broadway breakout hit in 1982 into a world-straddling stage behemoth. In those years, the endearing appeal of Alan Menken and Howard […]
White Christmas the Musical – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the Musical at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh continues until 4 January, 2014. The wonderful thing about the best musical theatre is how it can so completely transport audiences into another world, despite its obvious artifice. Closely following the plot of the film, albeit with a few additional Berlin songs added in to […]
