Winnie the Pooh was reviewed at the Riverside Studios, London (playing until 21 May 2023). The tour continues until 2 September 2023. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩
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The Osmonds A New Musical – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
The Osmonds continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 27 August 2022 and tours until 3 December 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The matrons of Wimbledon were out in force revisiting their youth for this unashamedly jukebox musical about that 1970s phenomenon, the wholesome, squeaky-clean Osmond family. It’s predictable, […]
Cast and creatives announced for MTFestUK 2021
Paul Taylor-Mills has confirmed the line-up of award-winning and international performers and creatives assembled for next month’s MTFestUK 2021. Due to open at the Turbine Theatre in London from 17-29 May 2021 before embarking on a digital tour from 31 May until 4 July, the third edition of the annual celebration of new musical theatre […]
Thirty West End voices unite for new The Show Must Go On charity single
Thirty West End performers have lent their voices to a new original song created to bring a little Christmas cheer with all profits going to Acting For Others, The Fleabag Support Fund and NHS Covid-19 Urgent Appeal through the Theatre Support Fund+. Written by director and performer Anna Hale, producer and director Joe McNeice and […]
The Season – A New Musical – Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton
The Season – A New Musical continues at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton until 30 November 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ From the moment Dougal bounds onto the stage in The Season, our attention is piqued. Played by Alex Cardall, in a role he was born to play, this […]
What ever happened to Taron Egerton? It’s the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year roll of honour
From little acorns do mighty oaks grow and from 2007 when an entry of just ten students meant they ALL qualified for the final, the Stephen Sondheim Society’s Student Performer of the Year competition has become a very special date on the musical theatre calendar, writes Jeremy Chapman. This year’s 13th edition, for the first […]
Putting It Together – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Putting It Together continues at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 24 November 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ ‘Having just a vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution: putting it together, that’s what counts’ – if ever there was a song to encapsulate the ethos behind the creation and development […]
Sweet Charity – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
Sweet Charity continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 15 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ First performed in 1966, Bob Fosse’s microcosmic study of naivety in the search for love retains its nostalgic qualities 50 years later in this production at the Watermill. Why, in the opening lines, we are told that […]
Arts Ed’s Alex Cardall wins the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award – Savoy Theatre
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Best New Song competitions at the Savoy Theatre, London. After four years of female domination, Alex Cardall struck back for the fellas by winning the 12th annual Stephen Sondheim Student Performer of the Year competition at its new venue, the Savoy Theatre. The ArtsEd student who comes […]
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize 2018 – meet the winners
The winners of the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize have been announced at the 12th anniversary West End Gala at the Savoy Theatre which was hosted Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett. Alex Cardall (who is about to graduate from the Arts Educational Schools, London) won the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year award after performing ‘Buddy’s […]
