The UK producers of Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning musical Curtains have announced a live stream of the show on 14 April 2020 at 7.15pm with all profits going to Funds For Freelancers. In response to the current situation Paul Taylor-Mills (artistic director of The Turbine Theatre), Helen Clarkson, Sasha Regan and Sita McIntosh have […]
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Curtains – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Curtains continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 18 January, then on tour until 11 April 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musical murder mystery Curtains resumed its UK tour in Wimbledon after an unexpected five-week West End run at the Wyndham’s Theatre, rushed in because of the premature closing […]
Curtains – Wyndham’s Theatre
Curtains continues at the Wyndham’s Theatre, London until 11 January 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Instead of a holiday break for its extensive UK tour, the news of a limited engagement for the first big British production of Curtains at the Wyndham’s Theatre was indeed an exciting prospect. Thirteen years after its […]
London season for new touring production of Curtains
Just a few weeks after the launch of the new touring production of Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning Curtains, the show’s producers have announced plans for a London premiere run this festive season. The production which launched at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre in October will take up residence at the Wyndham’s Theatre from 13 December 2019 […]
Ore Oduba and Carley Stenson join Jason Manford in Curtains tour
Former Strictly champion Ore Oduba will follow his theatrical debut in Grease by joining comedian Jason Manford for the new touring production of Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning Curtains. Appearing at selected venues during the tour which launches this autumn, the BBC TV presenter will play composer Aaron Fox alongside the previously announced Manford (Chitty […]
Star-packed music video accompanies Dan and Laura Curtis song which raises funds for Help For Heroes
Judi Dench, Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin are among a glittering group of stars who have joined a host of West End favourites in a very special musical video tribute to servicemen and women around the world. Aimed at raising funds for UK charity Help The Heroes, The Hero – A West End […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Grand Theatre, Leeds and Touring
Kiss Me, Kate at the Grand Theatre, Leeds. The Opera North production plays four performances at the Alighieri Theatre in Ravenna, Italy before returning to the UK to play the London Coliseum from 20-30 June 2018. The show will then head for the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh from 4-7 July. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Reviewing Opera […]
Cast for Opera North’s Kiss Me, Kate return
Casting has been announced for the return of Opera North’s award-winning production of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate, which is due to open at Leeds Grand Theatre in May ahead of UK touring dates. Opera North’s production of Porter’s Golden Age musical version of the Bard’s The Taming of the Shrew, will once again […]
The Golden Age of Dance – Strictly’s Anton Du Beke and Joanne Clifton guest star
Strictly Come Dancing favourites Anton du Beke and Joanne Clifton will be the special guests at The Golden Age of Dance at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Sunday (13 November). Best known as professional dancers on the much-loved BBC Saturday night show, the pair will join a cast of accomplished West End dancers and […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff and Touring
Kiss Me, Kate continues at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff until 7 October, then plays dates in Liverpool, Llandudno, Birmingham, Oxford and Southampton. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Strictly speaking, it isn’t at all necessary to ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ to enjoy the infectiously foot-tapping music and lyrics of Cole Porter’s musical […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 12 February. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Parisians are being given just ten chances to catch the only Cole Porter musical that ran more than a thousand performances on Broadway (and won a 1949 Tony) and now that’s down to […]
Let’s Dance Again! – Royal Festival Hall
Let’s Dance Again! was performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ There is no doubt that there is something about the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, 40s and 50s that allows them to be seen as something of a Golden Age of the genre. Maybe it […]
Interview – Let’s Dance Again! choreographer Nick Winston celebrates Hollywood hoofers
Let’s Dance Again!, celebrating the golden years of Hollywood dance films, comes to the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 13 November. Choreographer NICK WINSTON sets the scene for the evening’s tribute to those iconic hoofers up on the screen… Although musical films are still being made, emphasis now is less on the dance element. Do you […]
Let’s Dance Again! at Royal Festival Hall – cast news
It was a golden period in Hollywood, the great movie musicals brought to life by the likes of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly who created some of our most iconic dance scenes of all time. For one special evening (Friday 13 November), the Royal Festival Hall plays homage to the glitz and […]
Top Hat – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Top Hat plays at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 23 August, before continuing its tour until July 2015. Triple Olivier Award-winner Top Hat is old hat in the nicest possible way – thrilling dancing, glitz and glamour, designer frocks, corny jokes, all ‘Cheek to Cheek’ with Irving Berlin’s ageless words and music in a nostalgic, easy-watching piece of nonsense that’s the […]
Top Hat UK tour – Alan Burkitt and Charlotte Gooch cast
Casting has been revealed for the UK tour of the Olivier Award-winning production of Top Hat, beginning its 47-week stint on the road (visiting 24 theatres nationwide) at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 August 2014. The production tours until 25 July 2015. Stepping into the shoes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in the […]
