Thriller Live was performed at Royal & Derngate, Northampton and continues touring until 8 March, 2014. It’s seven years since Thriller Live, the biographical survey of Michael Jackson’s musical career, had its London preview, and six since it made its first UK tour. It’s still as fresh as a daisy, thanks to a wonderful current […]
Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical is West End bound
Following two sell-out performances at London’s St James Theatre earlier this year and a mini-tour of the UK, Ivor Novello – The Great British Musical now transfers to play the London Hippodrome for one night only on Saturday 16 November at 8pm. This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the the most successful British musical theatre composer […]
Stiles and Drewe’s Wind in the Willows musical – a chance to invest
Producer Jamie Hendry has announced plans to give theatregoers and fans the chance to participate in the financing of West End musical The Wind in the Willows. The platform aims to give budding entrepreneurs the opportunity to take part in bringing this new musical theatre adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic novel to the West End […]
Sondheim: Inside Out – QEH
Sondheim: Inside Out at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. When this Sondheim: Inside Out concert goes out on BBC Radio 3 on 20 December, it’s a fair bet it will do so minus Maria Friedman’s expletive at missing a word in that extremely complicated and impossibly fast anthem to wedding day panic, ‘Getting Married Today’ from Company. […]
Ruth Leon – From There to Here – St James Theatre Studio
Ruth Leon: From There To Here at the St James Theatre Studio, London. The first London Festival of Cabaret is proving not just a vehicle for the best performers from either side of the Atlantic to serenade us, but an instrument for education as well. First came masterclasses from Maria Friedman and Barb Jungr, and on […]
Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Scheme – three new winners
Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network have announced the winners of the next three placements for the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Scheme. The Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Scheme is supported by the Mackintosh Foundation. It provides six-month placements in major theatres throughout the UK for emerging professional theatre composers. One hundred and seventy nine applications were received for […]
In conversation with Janie Dee
Barrie Jerram catches up with Olivier Award-winning actress and singer Janie Dee. This weekend versatile actress Janie Dee is the latest guest of Edward Seckerson in his Singular Sensations series at London’s Charing Cross Theatre. These shows have an ‘in conversation with…’ format as the writer and presenter encourages his guests to talk about their […]
The Threepenny Opera leads New Wolsey Theatre season
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich’s season for spring 2014, which goes on general sale on Saturday 16 November, features four musicals. The Threepenny Opera is a New Wolsey’s co-production of Brecht and Weill’s musical masterpiece with Nottingham Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Graeae Theatre Company (12–22 March). Familiar faces from Our House and Reasons […]
Stiles and Drewe’s Betty Blue Eyes set to tour
Betty Blue Eyes, the George Stiles and Anthony Drewe musical based on the Alan Bennett film A Private Function is set to tour theatres across England next year in a new co-production between Mercury Theatre Colchester, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse (the official press night will take place at Mercury […]
The A-Z of Mrs P – new British musical opens in February 2014
The brand new musical The A-Z of Mrs P tells the true journey of the eccentric Phyllis Pearsall, who got lost on the way to a party and spent the next five years of her life walking the streets of London creating the A-Z. It opens at Southwark Playhouse on Thursday 20 February 2014 and runs until […]
The Bodyguard celebrates first birthday
This week the hit West End musical The Bodyguard celebrated its first birthday at the Adelphi Theatre. At the end of the performance, Debbie Kurup, who has played Nicki Marron in the production since its world premiere in December 2012, asked the audience to join in celebrating the milestone as a specially commissioned birthday cake […]
Cool Rider – aka Grease 2 in Concert – adds new date
Cool Rider (formerly entitled Grease 2 in Concert) has added a second performance at 11pm on Monday 27 January 2014 at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue – the earlier performance has sold out. It has also been announced that Reece Shearsmith will appear as biology teacher Mr Stuart. Shearsmith is best known for his television work in […]
