Hairspray continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 6 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hairspray is pure joy from start to finish, a powerful shot of theatrical dopamine for the soul, and this summer is going to be a really special one for Kilworth House.
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Osmonds musical – first casting news
Ryan Anderson, Jamie Chatterton, Alex Lodge, Danny Nattrass and Joseph Peacock will play the famous singing siblings in The Osmonds: A New Musical when the bio-show receives its world premiere at Leicester Curve on 3 February 2022 at the start of a UK and Ireland tour which will run through to 3 December 2022. Recently […]
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 […]
tick, tick… BOOM! – Bridge House Theatre
tick, tick… BOOM! continues at the Bridge House Theatre, London until 27 October 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s unusual for a single musical to cement a composer into the musical theatre canon, but that’s exactly what Rent did for Jonathan Larson. Famously, Larson passed away on the eve of his show’s first Off-Broadway […]
Bridge House Theatre’s tick, tick…Boom! – cast announced
Casting has been unveiled for the Bridge House Theatre SE20’s production tick, tick…BOOM!, the autobiographical rock musical that traces Jonathan Larson’s creation of his multi-award-winning Rent. Running from 30 September until 27 October 2019 and directed by the artistic director Guy Retallack, tick, tick…BOOM! will be the first musical produced by the Bridge House outside […]
Romance Romance – Above the Stag Theatre
Romance Romance continues at Above the Stag Theatre, London until 6 April 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Premiered Off-Broadway in 1987, Romance Romance then had an eight-month run on Broadway, and has been seen in London in various incarnations. This production at Above the Stag, a venue dedicated to LGBT+ work, […]
Closer to Heaven at the Union Theatre – full cast details
The full cast for the Union Theatre’s revival of Closer to Heaven, the musical by Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys which opens later this month has been announced. Alex Lodge (Titanic, Saturday Night Fever) will play the central role of Straight Dave, with Molly McGuire (Carrie –The Musical) as Shell, Jonathan David Dudley (Joseph, […]
Jonathan D Ellis cast in Damn Yankees at Landor Theatre
Jonathan D Ellis (Les Misérables, Blood Brothers) will star in the Landor Theatre’s revival of Adler and Ross’ Damn Yankees as the Mephistophelean Applegate, the role popularised by Jerry Lewis in the 1990s Broadway and West End productions. The production runs from 1 October to 8 November (press night is 7 October). He will be […]
