The Curious Case of Benjamin Button continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 15 February 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A boisterous and cheerful production that’s undeniably good fun.
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Clare Foster joins the cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clare Foster will play Elowen Keene opposite the previously announced John Dagleish as Benjamin Button in the West End production of the award-winning musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! – Ambassadors Theatre
Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! continues at the Ambassadors Theatre until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bringing undeniable joy and murder-themed escapism to London audiences, this is surely set to be a “killer” London run.
John Dagleish to star in West End’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Olivier Award-winner John Dagleish will take on the title role in the award-winning musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Ambassadors Theatre from 10 October.
Cast for West End run of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The full cast has been announced for the West End transfer season of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! at the Ambassadors Theatre. The show was the winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022.
West End date set for Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
Award-winning musical comedy Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! is heading for London’s West End to play a limited season at the Ambassadors Theatre.
My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) – Ambassadors Theatre
My Son’s A Queer (But what can you do?) continues at The Ambassadors Theatre, London until 18 March. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Second West End run for My Son’s a Queer
Award-winning show My Son’s a Queer, (But what can you do) will follow its Garrick Theatre debut West End transfer run with a strictly limited season at the Ambassadors Theatre in January.
Last few weeks in West End for Adrian Mole
Leicester Curve and Menier Chocolate Factory’s hit production of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ – The Musical at London’s Ambassadors Theatre will close two weeks earlier than planned. Following the musical’s critically-acclaimed debut in Leicester in 2015 and the equally successful Menier Chocolate Factory production in Adrian’s 50th birthday […]
Child cast for West End’s Adrian Mole revealed
The producers of next month’s London transfer run of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ – The Musical have unveiled the young cast who will take on the pivotal roles of Adrian, Pandora, Barry and Nigel. With all child cast members aged between 12-14 years old, the title role will […]
Songs For Nobodies – Ambassadors Theatre
Songs For Nobodies continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 23 February 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Premiered in 2018 at Wilton’s Music Hall, I was bowled over by the virtuosity and writing of this one-woman play with music. My fear that its impact might be dulled on a second viewing was […]
‘Expect to be immersed in a gorgeous story’: Bernadette Robinson brings Songs For Nobodies to the West End
Written specifically to showcase the extraordinary talents of BERNADETTE ROBINSON, Songs For Nobodies is a 90-minute play featuring songs from five iconic divas: Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, as each of them come into the lives of five ‘nobodies’. Bernadette takes on the divas in her one-woman show as she performs […]
Eugenius! celebrates West End transfer
The Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! will follow its second critically-acclaimed run at The Other Palace with a West End transfer for a strictly limited winter season. After playing to packed houses for its extended season at The Other Palace until 21 October 2018, the show will move to the Ambassadors […]
Acclaimed Songs For Nobodies to follow UK premiere with West End run
Australian singer and actor Bernadette Robinson’s critically-acclaimed one-woman show Songs For Nobodies will transfer into the West End in early 2019. Written by Joanna Murray-Smith specifically to showcase Robinson’s extraordinary vocal ability, the new play with songs had its well-received European premiere at London’s Wilton Music Hall earlier this year. The limited seven-week West End […]
Early closing date for All Or Nothing West End run
The Small Faces themed All Or Nothing – The Mod Musical’s West End transfer run is to end three weeks earlier than planned. Originally due to play a ten-week season at the Ambassadors Theatre, the Mod-themed musical will now close on 12 May 2018. Written by former EastEnders actress Carol Harrison, who also directed and […]
All Or Nothing – Ambassadors Theatre
All Or Nothing continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 2 June 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Britain in the 1960s was a significant time for both music and youth culture, and All Or Nothing – The Mod Musical tells the story of one of the era’s most influential bands, […]
Mod musical All Or Nothing to transfer to the Ambassadors
The critically-acclaimed Small Faces-themed All Or Nothing – The Mod Musical will follow its sold-out five-week season at London’s Arts Theatre with a transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre late next month. In response to high public demand and following on from last year’s successful third UK tour, the Mod-themed musical will now follow its run […]
The Adventures of Pinocchio – Ambassadors Theatre
The Adventures of Pinocchio continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 30 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Adventures of Pinocchio allows an incredibly talented cast of under 23 year olds from the British Theatre Academy to showcase their wonderful work. The show is written by Neil Bartram (music and […]
British Theatre Academy to stage musical double at the Ambassadors Theatre
The British Theatre Academy is lining up youth productions of Neil Bartram and Brian Hill’s The Adventures of Pinocchio and Jason Robert Brown’s 13 The Musical to play London’s Ambassadors Theatre this summer. Following on from the success of previous BTA summer shows, The Secret Garden at the Ambassadors last year and Annie Jr at the […]
CAT – (The Play!!!) – Ambassadors Theatre
CAT – (The Play!!!) at the Ambassadors Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Apart from having one of the silliest titles ever to hit the West End, CAT is a little theatrical treasure, a hilarious tribute to musical theatre, which had a full house laughing from start to finish. Hollyoaks […]
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Ambassadors Theatre
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice at the Ambassadors Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, based on a poem by Goethe which also inspired Disney’s groundbreaking Fantasia, wielded its magic at the Ambassadors Theatre in a one-night-only concert presentation. In the story an old sorcerer goes out, leaving his apprentice behind […]
Sneak preview of Ferris & Milnes’ West End debut
Popular musical comedy partnership Dominic Ferris and Martin Milnes have released a YouTube preview of their medley ‘The Entire Score of West Side Story’ ahead of their West End debut next week with Ferris & Milnes – Christmas Cracker. Featuring classic numbers including ‘Maria’ and ‘Tonight’ with Ferris and Milnes taking on the characters of Maria, Tony, […]
Ferris & Milnes to debut West End Christmas show
Popular musical comedy partnership Dominic Ferris and Martin Milnes will bring their distinctive style to the West End this December in Ferris & Milnes – Christmas Cracker. Featuring a mix of seasonal comedy, music and vocals, the festive family-friendly show will play London’s Ambassadors Theatre on Tuesday 13 December. Produced by The Cahoots Theatre Company Ltd, Ferris […]
The Secret Garden – Ambassadors Theatre
The Secret Garden continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 31 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ If you want charm and highly moral, traditional clean entertainment you can’t go far wrong with The Secret Garden. Marsha Norman’s version (based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel), pared down here to 75 mins […]
The Secret Garden at the Ambassadors Theatre – exclusive new images
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden has returned to the West End for a special summer season aimed at family audiences. Here, Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan offers our readers access to an exclusive selection of images from the production. Directed by Rupert Hands, the production is running until 31 August at London’s Ambassadors Theatre. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s […]
The Secret Garden has West End summer run
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden is heading back to the West End for a special summer season aimed at family audiences. Directed by Rupert Hands, the production will run for six weeks at London’s Ambassadors Theatre from 27 July until 31 August. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved 1911 novel, the show has […]
Adam Kay’s The Remains of Tom Lehrer plays the Ambassadors Theatre
Comedian Adam Kay will take his hit show The Remains of Tom Lehrer into the West End later this month. The versatile writer and performer who fronted award winning musical comedy act The Amateur Transplants, previewed his version of American satirist Lehrer’s controversial songbook last year at the St James Studio. The Remains of Tom […]
Willemijn Verkaik in Concert – Ambassadors Theatre
Willemijn Verkaik in Concert was presented at the Ambassadors Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Willemijn Verkaik’s debut West End concert brought a sold-out audience of doting theatregoers to the Ambassadors Theatre to share an evening of music and chat. There was a polite undercurrent of excited buzz – and the sense that this debut was something many […]
Willemijn Verkaik to play one-off solo London concert in August
Dutch vocal powerhouse Willemijn Verkaik will play a one-off solo concert at the Ambassadors Theatre on Tuesday 25 August 2015. Accompanied by a live band and joined by some to-be-announced special guests, Verkaik will take a journey through some of the greatest classic and contemporary musicals of all time, as well as celebrating some of the […]
Interview – Be Bop a Lula! star Gavin Stanley plays Eddie Cochran and Billy Fury
GAVIN STANLEY speaks to Derek Smith about playing Eddie Cochran and Billy Fury in the rock‘n’roll show Be Bop a Lula!, something of a labour of love for the actor, singer and producer. The production is regularly playing at London’s Ambassadors Theatre and throughout the UK in the months to come. Fans of rock‘n’roll who like their music stripped back to basics, played […]
