Tina: The Tina Turner Musical leads the way in the nominations for the Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs). The hit West End show which is currently in its fifth year at the Aldwych Theatre tops the list of nominees for the fifth annual awards with five nominations. Tina’s closest musical theatre rival on the shortlist is Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre with a total of three nominations.
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& Juliet extension announced and new nurse confirmed
The producers of multi-award-winning musical & Juliet have announced an extension to the feel-good show’s Shaftesbury Theatre run with tickets now on sale up to 25 March 2023. The extension announcement was accompanied by the news that Malinda Parris (Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre, Footloose, UK tour) will join the cast to play Angelique the […]
One-off concert of The Secret Garden The Musical at the London Palladium
Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, based on the 1911 novel of the same name, returns to the West End for a one-night-only concert celebration at the London Palladium on 28 August 2022. In a lonely manor house on the Yorkshire Moors, Archibald Craven (Hadley Fraser) is stifled by his manipulative brother (Mark Feehily) and […]
& Juliet singalong performance announced
The producers of multi-award-winning musical & Juliet have announced the first singalong performance of the feel-good show at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 6 June 2022. Announcing the special performance which will feature screens displaying the lyrics to every song, director Luke Sheppard said: “During our hugely successful run at the Shaftesbury Theatre, we’ve been reminded […]
& Juliet – Shaftesbury Theatre
& Juliet continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, booking until 24 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ & Juliet opened in London’s Shaftesbury Theatre in 2019, and its exuberant bubblegum brilliance immediately made fans of even the most sceptical and joyless of theatregoers, myself very much included. Whether or not […]
New cast members for West End’s & Juliet
Tom Francis and Julius D’Silva will join the previously announced Keala Settle in the cast of multi-award-winning musical & Juliet at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 29 March 2022. Francis (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre) will step into the role of Romeo following the departure of Jordan Luke Gage with D’Silva (What’s New Pussycat? Birmingham Rep) taking […]
Rent – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Rent continues at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 19 September 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Rent has always been a show about triumphing over adversity. From the tragedy that marked its early development – with creator Jonathan Larson passing away just before the show’s Off-Broadway premiere in 1996 – to its […]
Award-winning stars head returning cast of & Juliet
Olivier Award-winners Miriam-Teak Lee, Cassidy Janson and David Bedella will be among a largely unchanged cast when & Juliet makes its eagerly-anticipated return to the Shaftesbury Theatre from 24 September 2021. Best Actress Lee (Hamilton, On the Town) will return in the title role alongside Janson (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Chess) who collected the […]
WhatsOnStage Awards – Turbine Theatre – Stream.Theatre
WhatsOnStage Awards, streamed by Stream.Theatre from the Turbine Theatre, London. The 21st WOS Awards can surely claim to be unique as the first awards show to have no awards! They have been rolled over to next year because of you-know-what. No awards is not strictly true because 21 Angels who went beyond the call of […]
Line-up for 21st WhatsOnStage Awards revealed
Details of the star-studded line-up for this year’s special WhatsOnStage Awards ceremony have been unveiled. Reflecting current times as the industry awaits the return to live theatre following the Covid crisis, the event will feature performances from shows that were cut short in 2020 and selections from productions planned for 2021. Jodie Prenger and Tom […]
Thespie announces star-studded concerts celebrating Black and LGBT+ theatre artists
West End stars will feature in two fundraising online concert premieres as part of theatre discovery platform Thespie’s month-long celebration of Black and LGBT+ theatre artists. With proceeds going to LGBT+ charity Stonewall, Break Free will feature LGBT+ theatre artists sharing their personal stories and performing the musical theatre and pop songs that have inspired […]
Rent – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Rent at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester continues to be streamed online on 4, 5 and 6 December 2020; 11, 12 and 13 December 2020; and 18, 19 and 20 December 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ My colleague Nigel Smith reviewed this show when it opened in person at Manchester’s Hope Mill […]
Rent – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Rent at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester (Although Rent has been closed by the national Covid lockdown, it was recorded live and is available as an online streamed performance from 27 November to 20 December 2020). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The creator of Rent, Jonathan Larson, saw parallels between Puccini’s […]
Cast announced for Hope Mill Theatre’s rescheduled Rent
West End favourites and 2020 graduates will feature in the 12-strong cast for Hope Mill Theatre’s highly-anticipated new production of Jonathan Larson’s Rent. Jocasta Almgill (& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre, Dreamgirls, Savoy Theatre) will play Joanne with Blake Patrick Anderson (Be More Chill, The Other Palace, Closer to Heaven, Above The Stag) as Mark, Ahmed Hamad […]
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize 2020 – a virtual concert streamed online via YouTube. While the annual Sondheim Student Performer of the Year contest fell victim to Covid-19, the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize which has run alongside it since 2008 was happily saved with the bonus of top musical theatre […]
All-star line-up for Stiles and Drewe Prize online concert
A host of West End stars have been enlisted to perform the shortlist of 15 compositions in the running for the 2020 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize in a virtual concert to be streamed online next Sunday (5 July 2020). With musical direction by Steve Ridley, the songs will be performed by: Allyson […]
West End stars feature in online launch of new British musical Halls
A group of West End stars have joined forces (virtually) with a recent drama school graduate to perform ‘Flat 15B’, the opening song from new British musical Halls. Written by George Stroud and Jennifer Harrison, the pop/rock-flavoured musical which follows the fortunes of eight first year university students, is due to make its London debut […]
Daily online conversation series Theatre Camp: Live! launched
Stars from across the West End and Broadway are supporting a new online series set up to support LGBTQ and vulnerable young people. Music director Benjamin Rauhala, journalist William J Connolly and Darren Bell for concert promoters Club 11 London have launched Theatre Camp: Live! – a daily online discussion series and charity fundraiser. Launching […]
Full cast for Dear Evan Hansen’s London debut
Newcomer Sam Tutty has won the coveted title role in the eagerly-waited West End debut of Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre late next month. The actor who recently made his professional stage debut in Once On This Island at the Southwark Playhouse is one of a number of fresh faces making their […]
