Casting has been announced for the new production of Sister Act The Musical at London’s Eventim Apollo from 19 July to 28 August 2022. Jennifer Saunders will star as Mother Superior alongside Beverley Knight as Deloris Van Cartier, Keala Settle as Sister Mary Patrick, Lesley Joseph as Sister Mary Lazarus, Clive Rowe as Eddie Souther […]
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Full cast and further dates announced for the UK and Ireland tour of The Addams Family
The final ensemble cast members for the UK and Ireland tour of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy have been announced. The tour will open at Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 5 November 2021 with new dates added in 2022. The final members of the ensemble are Jessica Keable, Sario Solomon and Ying Ue Li. They […]
Joanne Clifton to play Morticia in The Addams Family
Former Strictly pro-champ turned musical theatre star Joanne Clifton will replace the previously announced Samantha Womack as Morticia in the new UK and Ireland touring production of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy when it opens at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 5 November 2021. The dancer who won the glitterball trophy in 2016 with […]
Full cast for The Addams Family UK and Ireland tour
Full casting has been confirmed for the new UK and Ireland touring production of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy which is due to open in Woking next month. Scott Paige (Nativity! UK tour, Eugenius! The Other Palace) will take on the role of Uncle Fester and Ahmed Hamad (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, The Boy […]
Second UK and Ireland tour of Addams Family musical to launch in August
The new UK and Ireland touring production of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy will make its delayed return to the road this summer. Originally due to be back on the road in the UK and Ireland last summer, the gothic musical comedy will now launch at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre from 17 August 2021. […]
More Jennifer Saunders for rescheduled Sister Act The Musical
Producers Jamie Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg have announced extra dates for Jennifer Saunders’ eagerly-anticipated musical theatre debut in the rescheduled UK tour of the new version of Sister Act The Musical. As previously announced the British comedy favourite who was due to play Mother Superior opposite Goldberg’s Deloris Van Cartier at London’s Eventim Apollo in […]
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 […]
Sweet Charity – Nottingham Playhouse
Sweet Charity at the Nottingham Playhouse. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Sweet Charity is back in vogue, if it was ever out. The Watermill, Newbury’s wildly popular production has just closed. Over the pond, Marriott Theater in Illinois is mounting an eight-week run through September and October. Long Island’s BroadHollow Theatre will stage it throughout January […]
Me and My Girl – Chichester Festival Theatre
Me and My Girl continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 25 August 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This season’s productions at Chichester have not met with the usual acclaim from other critics, although they have been well received by audiences and by this reviewer. Not surprisingly there has been speculation over […]
Musical highlights of Chichester Festival Theatre 2018 season are Flowers For Mrs Harris and Me and My Girl
Productions of the Noel Gay classic Me and My Girl and new musical Flowers For Mrs Harris will be the musical highlights of artistic director Daniel Evans and executive director Rachel Tackley’s star-studded second season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Following on from a record-breaking 2017, the new season will feature a mix of major revivals […]
Rebecca Trehearn to play title role Sweet Charity at Nottingham Playhouse
Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn will take on the title role in the Nottingham Playhouse’s production of Broadway hit Sweet Charity. The Show Boat star will take on the central role of Charity Hope Valentine, the unlucky in love taxi dancer, in the major new production which will play the Nottingham venue from 31 August until […]
Oklahoma! – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Few titles deserve their exclamation mark more than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The score sounds as fresh as it did when it was written in 1943 and at this semi-staged performance there might have been folk […]
Fiddler On the Roof – Chichester Festival Theatre
Fiddler On the Roof continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 2 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Who would have thought that a musical set in an Ukrainian Shtetl, that tells of the persecution and eviction of Jews from their homeland, would prove to be such a durable success. Such […]
Annie Get Your Gun – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Annie Get Your Gun continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 21 January 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Most prestige venues now opt for Christmas shows that, while they may be ‘family entertainment’, avoid Santas, sleighs or slapstick. This year’s Crucible Theatre offering transports us instead to the Wild West […]
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers – Regents Park’s Open Air Theatre
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre until 29 August. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The story of the seven Pontipee brothers’ search for wives in rural 19th century Oregon worked in the iconic 1954 MGM film and it works extremely well here too because it contains so many basic […]
Show Boat is Sheffield Theatres’ Christmas musical
This Christmas Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans will direct Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s timeless masterpiece Show Boat on the Crucible stage. The musical will run from 10 December 2015–16 January 2016 (press night is 16 December). Evans said: “I’m thrilled to announce our autumn season. I’m looking forward to directing a seminal work of American musical theatre, Show Boat, our most ambitious Christmas production to […]
Anything Goes tours the UK from January 2015, directed by Daniel Evans
Stage Entertainment, in association with Sheffield Theatres, will present the UK and Ireland tour of Cole Porter’s classic musical comedy Anything Goes. Following its run at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield (28 November 2014–17 January 2015), the tour will open at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 29 January 2015. The new production will be directed by Daniel Evans and […]
