Entertaining Murder continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 10 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The score is superb, the cast is wickedly talented, and Upstairs at the Gatehouse remains the best pub theatre in London.
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Supersonic Man – Southwark Playhouse Borough
Supersonic Man continues at Southwark Playhouse Borough until 3 May 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ There are points at which Supersonic Man leans into those moments, and promises to lay bear the tumult of emotions on both sides.
Grindr: The Opera – Union Theatre
Grindr: The Opera continues at the Union Theatre London until 8 July 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
London return for Soho Boy and debut for musical comedy Tickle
New one-man musical Soho Boy will play an encore season at London’s Drayton Arms Theatre following the show’s upcoming performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. Written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly, the musical which charts the joys and perils of moving to London will return to the Old Brompton Road venue from […]
Soho Boy: A New Musical – Drayton Arms Theatre
Soho Boy continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 4 June 2022, then heads to theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Venue 43) as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 5 to 27 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If the name didn’t make it obvious enough, it’s crystal clear from the […]
London return for Tim McArthur’s Sondheim’s Divas
Actor, presenter and cabaret performer Tim McArthur will take his celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s leading ladies to London’s Hippodrome for one night only later this month. The Sondheim aficionado, known for hosting the popular Sondheim Society’s monthly Cabaret Nights for three years, will step into the spotlight once again with his Sondheim’s Divas show on […]
Actor makes his professional debut in new one-man musical Soho Boy
Owen Dennis will make his professional debut in Soho Boy when the new one-man musical opens at the Drayton Arms Theatre in London next month before heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. Written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly, the musical which charts the joys and perils of moving to London will play […]
UK tour dates for Tim McArthur Sings Sondheim’s Divas
Actor, presenter and cabaret performer Tim McArthur will take his celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s leading ladies on the road for later this month. The Sondheim aficionado, known for hosting the popular Sondheim Society’s monthly Cabaret Nights, will step into the spotlight once again with his Sondheim’s Divas show from 22 October until 28 November 2021. […]
Second season for Cabaret Lounge at London’s Above The Stag
West End stars, cabaret favourites and a celebration of Eurovision feature among the attractions in the second season of socially distanced entertainment in the new Cabaret Lounge at London’s Above The Stag Theatre. Featuring an eclectic mix of cabaret, musical theatre, poetry, comedy and drag assembled by programmer radio presenter and cabaret star Tim McArthur, […]
Next Thing You Know – Garden Theatre
Next Thing You Know continues at the Garden Theatre, London until 31 October 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ More than ever, we need escapism. We need the theatre that has managed to survive this international shutdown to transport us, to whisk us away into fantasy. After waiting half an hour in Vauxhall’s […]
Naked Boys Singing! – Garden Theatre
Naked Boys Singing! continues at the Garden Theatre, London until 25 October 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ You’ve got to hand it to the guys at the Garden Theatre in Vauxhall. This is the team that brought the live musical back to London with Glen Chandler’s Fanny & Stella, followed […]
Fanny and Stella – The Eagle Garden Theatre
Fanny and Stella continues at The Eagle Garden Theatre, London until 28 August 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As the few dozen attendees took their seats at The Eagle last night there was an unusual tension in the air. Was the theatrical experience always like this? It has been so long. Somebody […]
Final casting is announced for Fanny and Stella, the first London Fringe show since lockdown
Final casting has been announced for the first London Fringe production since lockdown, a brand new socially distanced open-air production of Fanny and Stella, a musical with book and lyrics by Glenn Chandler, the creator of Taggart, and music by Charles Miller. Fanny And Stella is the premiere production at The Garden Theatre in the […]
Socially distanced open-air production of Fanny And Stella is premiere production at new Fringe venue
A brand new socially distanced open-air production of Fanny And Stella, a musical with book and lyrics by Glenn Chandler, the creator of Taggart, and music by Charles Miller, is to be staged as the premiere production at The Garden Theatre in the newly refurbished beer garden of The Eagle in Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London […]
The Stephen Sondheim Society presents… – Phoenix Artist Club
The Stephen Sondheim Society presents… at Phoenix Artist Club, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★★ ✩ The Sondheim Society’s first show after the summer break got this monthly series of Monday cabarets off to a flying start with the delightful Gemma Sutton topping the bill, superbly supported by two exciting new talents, Rebecca […]
Into the Woods – Cockpit Theatre
Into the Woods continues at the Cockpit Theatre, London until 24 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods opened on Broadway in 1987 and won three Tony Awards. Seen some years later in London in an award-winning production at the Phoenix Theatre with a […]
Cast revealed for Into the Woods at the Cockpit Theatre
Casting has been announced for All Star Productions and Trilby Productions’ fresh new version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods which is due to play at London’s The Cockpit from 23 May to Sunday 24 June 2018 (press night is 25 May). Following on from a sold-out run in 2014 at All Star’s […]
All Star Productions’ Into the Woods to return to London
Award-winning All Star Productions has teamed up with Trilby Productions and London’s The Cockpit to stage a fresh new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods next month. Following on from a sold-out run in 2014 at All Star’s home base, Walthamstow’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown, the new production of Sondheim […]
Cast for Welsh premiere of My Land’s Shore
Full casting has been announced for the homecoming premiere of historical Welsh musical of My Land’s Shore at Theatr Soar in Merthyr Tydfil next month. Based on the true story of the tragic hero of the Merthyr Rising of 1831 when iron workers and coal miners were involved in bloody clashes with soldiers drafted in to […]
Stephen Sondheim Society Presents… Alex Young and Friends – Phoenix Artist Club
Stephen Sondheim Society Presents… Alex Young and Friends at the Phoenix Artist Club, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There wasn’t room to swing a cat at the Phoenix for the appearance of Alex Young, fresh from her triumph as Young Sally, Imelda Staunton’s ghost, in Follies. This first of the Stephen […]
Fresh from Follies at the National, Alex Young to host Sondheim Society cabaret
Former Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and West End rising star Alex Young will host the society’s next cabaret at London’s Phoenix Artist Club on Monday 5 February (7.30-9.30pm). Recently seen in the role of Young Sally in the National Theatre’s hit production of Follies, the artist (awarded the prestigious student prize […]
Metropolis – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Metropolis continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 29 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The musical version of Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis famously tanked at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1989. The 1980s was an era of overblown, epic rock musicals, often with a sci-fi […]
Welsh premiere of My Land’s Shore – concert to raise funds
Casting has been announced for a special fundraising concert to support the eagerly-anticipated homecoming of historical Welsh musical My Land’s Shore. Featuring songs by British composers and hosted by Tim McArthur, the concert on Sunday 3 September will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, the venue where the show received its world premiere […]
My Land’s Shore to debut in Wales
Historical Welsh musical My Land’s Shore is heading home for its Welsh premiere at Theatr Soar in Merthyr Tydfil early next year. Following on from the well-received world premiere run at London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in February, the show’s Welsh premiere run will begin on 20 February 2018. Based on the true […]
Metropolis – All Star Productions to stage first London revival
The first London revival of the musical version of the Fritz Lang movie Metropolis will be the closing production in All Star Productions’ 2017 season. With music by Joe Brooks and a book and lyrics by Brooks and Dusty Hughes, Metropolis will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre from 10-29 October. Continuing All […]
Cream – Canal Cafe Theatre
Cream continues at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London every Sunday at 7pm until 23 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ So what makes a good musical? Whatever it is, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Matador and Lord of the Rings didn’t have it. This ingeniously engaging revue picks songs, some of them […]
My Land’s Shore – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
My Land’s Shore continues at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 26 February. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ This new musical by Christopher J Orton (music and lyrics) and Robert Gould (book and lyrics), based on a true story, is well-worth a visit. From the powerful opening number, ‘Burning’, […]
Wonderful Town – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Wonderful Town continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 30 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Director Tim McArthur and MD Aaron Clingham reunite for an exuberant, action-packed revival (indeed, a miraculous resuscitation) in Walthamstow of Leonard Bernstein and Comden and Green’s 1953 musical Wonderful Town. Not quite a lost […]
Wonderful Town – cast and creatives revealed for All Star production
Full casting and creatives have been announced for All Star Productions’ new chamber production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town. Based on the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, which was in turn inspired by the short stories by Ruth McKenney, Wonderful Town features a score by Bernstein with lyrics by Betty […]
Bernstein’s Wonderful Town is final show in All Star Productions’ 2016 season
A new chamber production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town will be the final presentation in All Star Productions’ 2016 season. Following on from the company’s recent critically acclaimed Babes in Arms, Wonderful Town will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre from 12-30 October. Based on the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields […]
Babes in Arms – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Babes in Arms continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 7 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ All Star Productions once again digs deep into the bowels of musical theatre to find a lost show that – as you watch it – you realise isn’t actually all that lost. […]
Babes in Arms at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre – more details
Cast and creative details have been revealed for All Star Productions’ Babes in Arms which opens at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre next month. The rarely performed Rodgers and Hart musical, which will play the Walthamstow venue from 20 July until 7 August, will feature Jack McCann (as Valentine LaMar), Ruth Betteridge (as […]
Babes in Arms at Ye Olde Rose and Crown – first staging in 15 years
Rodgers and Hart’s original version of Babes in Arms will be given its first UK staging in nearly 15 years in London in July. Continuing All Star Productions’ commitment to producing revivals of rarely produced musicals, Babes in Arms will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre from 20 July until 7 August. The 1930s show […]
Out of this World – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Out of this World continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 30 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The consistently reliable Rose and Crown in Walthamstow works its magic again, turning its attention to a little-known Cole Porter show and covering it with almost enough glitter and glitz to […]
Out of This World at Ye Olde Rose and Crown – cast details
All Star Productions has revealed full details of the cast and creative team for the upcoming London stage premiere of Cole Porter’s Out of This World. The show, which opens at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre on 12 April, will star Cameron Bernard Jones, Rhiannon Moushall, Hugo Joss Catton, Ruth Betteridge, Megan Gilmartin, Adam Hepworth, […]
Out of This World London stage premiere from All Star Productions
All Star Productions is continuing its commitment to producing revivals of rarely produced musicals with the London stage premiere of Cole Porter’s Out of This World. The musical comedy, loosely based on a comedy by Roman playwright Plautus, with music and lyrics by the legendary Porter and a book by Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence, […]
The Kissing Dance at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre – casting details
Casting has been announced for All Star Productions’ version of The Kissing Dance due to open at London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre next month. Based on Oliver Goldsmith’s play She Stoops to Conquer, the show continues All Star’s commitment to reviving rarely produced musicals and is also the venue’s fourth show featuring music by Howard […]
A Little Night Music – Ye Olde Rose and Crown
A Little Night Music continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 31 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every so often, a production of a classic show comes along that makes you think – why have I never seen it like this before? I’m a Sondheim [A Little Night Music’s […]
A Little Night Music at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown – cast revealed
The cast has been revealed for All Star Productions’ A Little Night Music at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in Walthamstow, London from 6 to 31 October (press night is 9 October). The show reunites the creative team behind last year’s critically acclaimed staging of Into the Woods. The line-up is as follows: Sarah Waddell (Desiree Armfeldt), Alexander McMorran (Fredrik Egerman), Jamie […]
All Star Productions brings A Little Night Music to Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
The creative team behind last year’s critically acclaimed All Star Productions of Into the Woods are reuniting to bring Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music to Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in Walthamstow, London from 6 to 31 October (press night is 9 October). Based on Ingmar Bergman’s comedy of manners, Smiles of a Summer Night, […]
Face the Music – interviews with Samuel Haughton and Joanne Clifton
All Star Productions is presenting the first UK stage production of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart’s musical comedy Face the Music at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, Walthamstow until 3 July. In the cast are JOANNE CLIFTON (World and European Professional Ballroom Dancing Champion, Strictly Come Dancing pro dancer 2014) as the Street Walker and actor/singer SAMUEL HAUGHTON (Wind in the Willows, […]
Irving Berlin’s Face the Music at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre – Strictly star cast
All Star Productions is presenting the first UK stage production of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart’s musical comedy Face the Music at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, Walthamstow from 9 June to 3 July (press night is 12 June). In the cast will be Joanne Clifton (World and European Professional Ballroom Dancing Champion, Strictly Come Dancing pro […]
It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman – Leicester Square Theatre
It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman continues at the Leicester Square Theatre, London until 21 February. Star rating: 4 stars **** Superman, the hero of the comic strip begun in 1939, has entertained adults and children in many guises for decades. In between that first appearance and the release of the Superman film starring Christopher […]
Mark Turnbull Sings Sondheim – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
I’m Still Here: Mark Turnbull Sings Sondheim was performed at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London. As a member of The Stephen Sondheim Society, I can’t think of a much better way to spend a dreary Sunday afternoon than listening to a cabaret of Sondheim songs, performed by a veteran of the West End, staged […]
It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman – line-up revealed for transfer to Leicester Square Theatre
Casting has been revealed for the transfer of All Star Productions’ acclaimed production of It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman. The company presented the UK premiere of the show in March 2014 at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre on the London Fringe, and its success has meant the production will take up residence from 10-21 February 2015 at the Leicester Square […]
Into the Woods – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Into the Woods continues at continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 31 October. All Star Productions – housed above Ye Olde Rose & Crown pub in Walthamstow, London – proves that fairytales are timeless by re-locating Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods to modern day Britain, complete with a cocaine-snorting […]
The Apple Tree – Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre
The Apple Tree continues at Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre, London until 30 August. Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock bestrode the 1960s musical scene. Original productions of She Loves Me (302 Broadway performances) and Fiddler On the Roof (3,242 Broadway performances) broke box office records. A couple of years later came The Apple Tree, […]
