Another Way continues at the Cockpit Theatre, London until 5 October. If you were lucky enough to catch Streets last year, either at the Cockpit or at its brief transfer to the Hackney Empire, then you will realise that Interval Productions is making some interesting moves in the musical theatre genre. Not without its flaws, Streets […]
Fiddler On the Roof – Southampton and on tour
Fiddler On the Roof continues at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton before touring the UK until 26 April 2014. Who would have thought that a musical set in an Ukrainian shtetl telling of the persecution and eviction of Jews from their homeland would prove to not only be a success, but also a durable one. Frequent revivals of […]
Liza, Liza, Liza – Tabard Theatre
Liza, Liza, Liza continues at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick until 29 September. Way out west (London) there’s Liza, Liza, Liza, a hugely enjoyable new musical play by Richard Harris (of Outside Edge and Stepping Out fame) at the lively 80-seater fringe theatre above the buzzy Tabard hostelry next to Turnham Green station in Chiswick. Using the […]
Singular Sensations – Charing Cross Theatre
Edward Seckerson – formerly the presenter of BBC Radio 3’s long-running musical theatre show Stage & Screen – is to host Singular Sensations, a series of in-depth encounters with stars of musical theatre at London’s Charing Cross Theatre. This winter’s inaugural season of intimate sessions will become a regular Sunday afternoon fixture for musical theatre enthusiasts. […]
Sutton Foster – Cafe Carlyle, New York
Sutton Foster is performing at the Café Carlyle, New York until 28 September. There aren’t many performers these days who merit the old-time appellation ‘a toast of Broadway’, but Sutton Foster is certainly one of them. Foster toiled away in four Broadway shows before her career-making Tony-winning lead performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002. […]
Dave Willetts – Crazy Coqs
An Evening With Dave Willetts was performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. Singer and actor Dave Willetts presented his cabaret evening at the Crazy Coqs to a sell-out audience. The performer’s career in musical theatre spans 25 years, during which he has starred in a host of major shows. He also holds the distinction of being the first […]
Menier Chocolate Factory presents Candide
Fra Fee, Cassidy Janson, Ben Lewis, Scarlett Strallen and David Thaxton have been cast in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Christmas musical Candide with music by Leonard Bernstein, book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Richard Wilbur and additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Park and Bernstein. From Westphalia to […]
London Festival of Cabaret is launched
The London Festival of Cabaret launch took place at the Hospital Club’s Oak Room, London. If the party to launch the London Festival of Cabaret is anything to go by, the festival itself which runs from 13 October to 17 November at a variety of great venues throughout the capital, is going to be a […]
Lost Musicals – Holly Golightly
Bob Merrill’s Holly Golightly, part of Ian Marshall Fisher’s Lost Musicals season at the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells continues on September 15, 22 and 29. In his time, some 20 years, Ian Marshall Fisher has excavated many real collectors’ items from the repertoire of Broadway shows for his Lost Musicals series. He has surveyed […]
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever – Union
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever continues at the Union Theatre, London until 28 September. In the pantheon of musical theatre, there are shows that make you think. And then there are those that, while outwardly encouraging you to contemplate philosophical ideas, are all the while crossing their fingers, hoping that the song […]
The Prodigals – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
The Prodigals continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until 14 September. For a production presented in conjunction with Ray Goudie’s company Inspire Arts Trust, and one with press material that maintains it is ‘a musical whose time has come’, I did find myself anything but inspired by The Prodigals. The writers offer a perfectly good justification for ‘updating’ the New […]
Love, Loss and Passion – Chelsea Town Hall
Love, Loss and Passion was performed at the Chelsea Town Hall, London. Marketed as ‘The Singing Dentist’ Andrew Bain’s career is varied to say the least. Alongside practicing at the King’s Road Dental Clinic, Dr Bain has been a professional singer in the West End, had a record deal with SonyBMG and performed live on GMTV […]
