TV and theatre performer Sam Attwater is starring as Adam Pontipee in the current UK tour of the critically acclaimed musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. This new production is directed and choreographed by Broadway’s award-winning Patti Colombo, described by The Wall Street Journal as “one of the finest musical comedy choreographers in the business”. The […]
Secret Love – Scunthorpe/Touring
Secret Love was performed at the Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe and continues to tour until 28 November. Doris Day was a phenomenon, and became a legend almost before her time. Born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati in 1924, she was a teen star – by 13 a potential dancer – groomed for the stage and, more […]
Hairspray – new production at Leicester Curve stars David Witts
Curve Theatre, Leicester’s artistic director Paul Kerryson has revealed that a new production of Hairspray, with actor David Witts as Link Larkin, will open at the venue from 5 March 2014 (previews from 28 February) and run until 5 April. Witts trained with the National Youth Music Theatre and the National Youth Theatre of Great […]
Grease 2 has London concert staging in 2014
The cult movie musical Grease 2 will finally make the transition from screen to stage with a one-off concert version on Monday, 27 January 2014 at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. Telling the love story of Pink Lady Stephanie Zinone and English transfer student Michael Carrington, Grease 2 follows their road to romance from bowling alley to burger joint, sing-a-long-a-sex education […]
From Here to Eternity – Shaftesbury Theatre
From Here to Eternity opened at the Shaftesbury, London on 23 October. Based on the novel by James Jones, From Here to Eternity tells the story of the lives and loves of career soldiers in G Company, stationed in Hawaii in the days leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941. Jones’ novel was turned […]
KT Sullivan & Karen Kohler/Barb Jungr – London Festival of Cabaret
KT Sullivan and Karen Kohler – Vienna to Weimar at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 26 October. Barb Jungr – Mad About the Boy and No Regrets at the Soho Theatre, London, until 26 October. Insatiable cabaret buffs, if they’re quick on their feet around London’s West End this week, have the opportunity of seeing […]
Fun Home – The Public Theater, New York
Fun Home continues at The Public Theater, New York, until November 17. Alison Bechdel’s best-selling 2006 graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has been transformed into an unsentimental but deeply moving depiction of the complex connections – and disconnects – between parent and child. It‘s a luminous Off-Broadway offering, beautifully performed and told in compelling […]
Im Weissen Rossl – Oper Graz, Austria
Im Weissen Rössl is being performed in rep at the Oper Graz, Graz, Austria. Following the success of Josef Ernst Köpplinger’s first production as artistic director at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, the tale of the butler Leopold (with Daniel Prohaska reprising his role) and the owner of the famous Das Weisse Rössl (The White […]
Oh What a Lovely War – casting revealed
Caroline Quentin will join the ensemble cast of the 2014 Theatre Royal Stratford East 50th anniversary production of Oh What A Lovely War, Joan Littlewood’s satirical musical about the First World War being revived in 2014, 100 years after the start of the start of the conflict. Directed by Terry Johnson and designed by Lez Brotherston, the […]
The S&S Award – gala celebrates new musical theatre
An evening of new British musical theatre will be unveiled at the inaugural The S&S Award, the prize presented to the best, yet to be produced musical of the year, with West End stars performing material from the winning and highly commended musicals at the St James Theatre, London on Sunday 24 November. The winner […]
Merrily We Roll Along – UK movie premiere
The Merrily We Roll Along movie, premiered at Cineworld, Haymarket, London on 21 October. How does a show that was a total catastrophe when it opened on Broadway in 1981 – and closed after 16 performances – turn into a work of genius? Just watch the Merrily We Roll Along movie, a faithful record of the show which […]
Hannah Waddingham – St James Theatre
Hannah Waddingham and Her Band performed at the St James Theatre, London. Only a few weeks ago, Hannah Waddingham performed at the St James Theatre Studio, where she headlined Sondheim Women but sang just two songs. However, those disappointed by the statuesque West End diva’s all-too-brief appearance, were able to get their fix sated by attending […]
