The winners of the 2020 Olivier Awards with Mastercard will be revealed on 25 October 2020 during a special programme broadcast from the London Palladium on ITV at 10.20pm. Originally due to be held in April this year, the replacement for the usual Red Carpet event will be hosted as planned by Jason Manford and […]
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Star-studded Pantoland to play London Palladium
Julian Clary will head an all-star cast in an extra-special celebration of pantomime at the London Palladium this Christmas. Presented by the world’s leading pantomime specialist Qdos Entertainment and LW Theatres, Pantoland at The Palladium will play a strictly limited three-week season at the world-famous theatre. The feast for panto-starved theatregoers which will run from […]
Lloyd Webber promises London Phantom will return in response to Mackintosh’s headline grabbing article
Just hours after Cameron Mackintosh announced the Covid-curtain had fallen on the record-breaking West End and UK and Ireland touring productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber took to Twitter to insist that “as far he was concerned the original London production would be reopening as soon as possible”. The composer’s comment […]
Double-casting for leads in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar
The lead roles in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar have been double cast to allow for changes necessary to adhere to Government safety guidelines for outdoor live performances. The production’s original Jesus, singer-songwriter Declan Bennett, will share the title role with the star […]
Stars from the world of stage and screen donate treasured items to charity for the Theatre Super Auction
The auction specialists Bid-In Group is showing its support to the theatre and performing arts industry with the launch of the Theatre Super Auction, raising much-needed funds for the Theatres Trust, Acting for Others and Theatre Artists Fund. Funds raised from this event will be donated directly to the charities and organisations involved whose businesses […]
Concert staging of Jesus Christ Superstar is centrepiece of Regent’s Park Open Air live comeback shows
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will be among the first major theatres to welcome back audiences by staging 70 live performances in August and September 2020 including a special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Running for six weeks from 14 August until 27 September, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert […]
Joseph and the Amazing All Star Concert – YouTube
Joseph and the Amazing All Star Concert premiered on 10 July 2020. More than 32 performers from across the world, who collectively span the show’s lifetime, appeared in a star-studded online charity concert to celebrate 50 years of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The re-imagined, digital version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s […]
Outdoor theatre and music returns in England as safe reopening guidance is published
A limited number of theatregoers and music-lovers in England will get their first taste of live entertainment in months from this weekend (from 11 July 2020) when the country enters stage three of the Government’s five-point phased return for professional arts performances. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden yesterday announced the limited return of outdoor theatre and […]
World premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella will now open in April 2021
Producers The Really Useful Group announced today that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Cinderella will now have its world premiere at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre on 7 April 2021, with previews from 19 March. Andrew Lloyd Webber said: “Whilst I continue to impress on the government that theatres can reopen safely based on the London Palladium model, […]
Theatre industry welcomes Government’s £1.57 billion support package
Arts venues, organisations and high-profile industry figures have welcomed the Government’s announcement of a £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts, culture and heritage industries in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Commenting on the package which includes emergency loans and investments in infrastructure, Andrew Lloyd Webber said: “This news is truly welcome at a […]
Hit production of Joseph is rescheduled to summer 2021
Due to the current global situation and the uncertainty around the resumption of West End shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will defer its dates exactly 12 months, and Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow are both confirmed to star again in the acclaimed show next year. Performances at the London Palladium will now begin […]
Online auditions will be held for children to be cast in the School of Rock forthcoming tour
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning West End show, School of Rock – The Musical, opens its first UK tour at the Birmingham Alexandra Theatre on 13 February 2021 and is launching an online search for talented young musicians. With mini-rockers across the country currently being taught at the school of ‘mom and dad’, the team would […]
Cats – The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel
Cats – The Shows Must Go On YouTube Channel. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The seven-week trawl through the Andrew Lloyd Webber back catalogue on the noble lord’s free The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel came to an end at the weekend with his big 1981 hit which ran for 21 […]
By Jeeves – The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves – The Shows Must Go On YouTube Channel. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The chequered history of one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s less successful musicals turned out to be more entertaining than the show itself although, to be fair, it did pick up and there were one […]
Cats is this week’s Shows Must Go On offering
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats will be the next show available free of charge on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel. Starring Elaine Paige as Grizabella and John Mills as Gus, the 1998 Universal Studios film was recorded at London’s Adelphi Theatre. Directed by David Mallet, the film also features Ken Page as Old Deuteronomy, […]
Lloyd Webber and Ayckbourn’s By Jeeves is next on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn’s By Jeeves will be the next show available free of charge on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel. The show will be available for 48 hours from 7pm (BST) on Friday 8 May 2020. Described by Lloyd Webber as “the musical that I privately look forward most to […]
Lloyd Webber Albert Hall concert is the next offering on The Shows Must Go On channel
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s star packed 50th birthday celebration concert will be the next show to be made available free of charge as part of the newly launched The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on 7 April 1998, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Royal Albert Hall Celebration features a […]
Love Never Dies is the next show to stream via The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel
The next show to be broadcast via YouTube channel The Shows Must Go On will be the 2012 production of Love Never Dies starring Ben Lewis and Anna O’Byrne. Love Never Dies will launch at 7pm on 24 April 2020 and be available for 48 hours, free of charge. The Shows Must Go On features […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rallying call for Lockdown Britain and beyond
As the country faces its darkest days since the Second World War, one of our industry’s leading figures Andrew Lloyd Webber is on a one-man mission to offer some brightness and hope to the nation. Using the hashtag #ComposerInIsolation Lloyd Webber has been putting his time at home to good use by rallying fans and […]
Curve launches its own Rainbows Of Hope campaign
Leicester’s Curve theatre has taken inspiration from the current Rainbows Of Hope campaign to offer youngsters the chance to make a contribution to the set for its eagerly-anticipated regional premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of The Wizard of Oz. Following on from the ongoing #RainbowsOfHope initiative which invites children across the country to create […]
Barbican transfer of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Evita cancelled
With London’s Barbican Theatre currently closed until the end of June due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the summer transfer run of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s hit production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita has been cancelled. All ticket holders will be contacted with reference to refunds, but the venue has asked […]
Selected Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals to be streamed on new free channel The Shows Must Go On
Things will get a little bit brighter for musical theatre fans from 7pm on Friday (3 April 2020) when the 2000 adaptation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will be made available free of charge on YouTube. Starring Donny Osmond, Maria Friedman, Richard Attenborough and Joan Collins, the production will be the first in […]
Cinderella to arrive late due to ‘current global circumstances’
Andrew Lloyd Webber has delayed the world premiere of his eagerly-anticipated Cinderella in response to the coronavirus crisis.
Carrie Hope Fletcher is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella
Carrie Hope Fletcher will step into the title role in the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly-anticipated Cinderella at the newly-refurbished London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre later this year. Based on an original idea by Killing Eve screenwriter and actress Emerald Fennell (currently playing Camilla Parker Bowles in the high-profile Netflix series The Crown), the […]
Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella to follow School of Rock into the Gillian Lynne Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eagerly-anticipated Cinderella will debut at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre this year following the departure of the venue’s current show School of Rock. Based on an original idea by Killing Eve screenwriter and actress Emerald Fennell (currently playing Camilla Parker Bowles in the high-profile Netflix series The Crown), the new version of the […]
Evita – New York City Center
Evita continues at New York City Center until 24 November 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Killian Donnelly will take title role in The Phantom of the Opera tour
Killian Donnelly will play the man in the famous mask when the eagerly-anticipated UK and Ireland tour of the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera launches early next year. Currently starring as Jean Valjean in the international tour of Les Misérables, the actor who originated the role of Charlie Price […]
Donovan & Yarrow will return to the Palladium for Joseph 2020
Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow will be back in action at the London Palladium next summer when Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group’s crowd and critic pleasing new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns for a second season at the world-famous venue. Donovan will once again take on the role of […]
Barbican transfer for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Evita
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s hit production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita will follow its sell-out success earlier this year with a limited run at London’s Barbican Theatre next summer. Following in the footsteps of this summer’s Barbican Theatre transfer season of the multi-award-winning Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita will play the prestigious […]
A tribute to Harold Prince – King of Broadway
The American theatre director and producer Harold Prince, celebrated for some of the most successful musical productions on Broadway and in the West End, recently died at the age of 91. For over 60 years he produced or directed many of the most original musicals in theatre history. Michael Darvell looks back at the life […]
Second summer season for London Palladium’s Joseph
Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group have confirmed a summer 2020 return for their crowd and critic-pleasing new London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Just weeks after the final performance in the sold-out debut season of the revised version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s first major musical, the […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London Palladium
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at the London Palladium until 8 September 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It’s large scale, spectacular, energetic and impressive. In other ways, however, this eagerly anticipated revival of the first real success the youthful Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (both in the audience […]
Noel Sullivan is the new Dewey in West End’s School of Rock
Former pop star Noel Sullivan will step into the central role of Dewey Finn in the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Olivier Award-winning School of Rock – The Musical in August. Sullivan, who first found fame as a member of Hear’Say (the pop group created by ITV talent show Popstars nearly two decades […]
Jason Donovan’s back for London Palladium’s new Joseph
Jason Donovan will take on the role of the Pharaoh when he returns to the London Palladium for the eagerly-anticipated new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this summer. The star who famously gave a career-changing performance as Joseph at the Palladium in the 1990s, will take to the stage opposite the new, […]
Marti Webb – The Pheasantry
Marti Webb at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ British singers who have shows written specifically for them, particularly when those writers are as famous as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, are few but their brilliant song cycle Tell Me On a Sunday transformed Marti Webb from singers’ […]
Aspects of Love – Southwark Playhouse
Aspects of Love continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 9 February 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Ably directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, this bijoux revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Charles Hart’s 1989 show sits rather well in the intimacy of the Southwark Playhouse space configured in the round, […]
David Thaxton to be the new West End Phantom of the Opera
Olivier Award winner David Thaxton will step into the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre for a limited run from Monday 10 December 2018. Fresh from playing Javert in Les Misérables at the Queens Theatre, the star who previously played Raoul in Phantom sequel Love Never Dies […]
New Joseph for London Palladium summer season
Leading theatre producer Michael Harrison has been enlisted by Andrew Lloyd Webber to oversee a major new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which will open at the London Palladium next summer. The managing director of Qdos Entertainment, the company behind the popular Palladium Pantomime, Harrison’s numerous hit productions include The Bodyguard at […]
New production of Evita to close Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2019 season
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will return to the works of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber for the prestigious venue’s 2019 season with a major new production of Evita. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, Evita’s summer run will overlap with the eagerly-anticipated Barbican Theatre transfer season of Regent’s Park’s multi-award-winning production of Rice and Lloyd […]
Madalena Alberto and Eleanor Jackson join cast of Aspects of Love London run
Madalena Alberto and Eleanor Jackson will complete the cast for the London transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s hit version of Aspects of Love early next year. One of the Southwark Playhouse’s final productions at its current Newington Causeway site, the London run of Aspects of Love will star most of those who appeared in the […]
‘It’s all very emotional’ – We revisit our interview with Heathers The Musical stars Carrie Hope Fletcher & Jamie Muscato
The record-breaking Heathers – The Musical is coming to the end of its strictly limited run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket this week, so we thought it was a good time to revisit Tal Fox’s interview with the show’s stars CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER (Veronica Sawyer) and JAMIE MUSCATO (Jason JD Dean). Based on the cult classic 1980s film Heathers which […]
Southwark Playhouse run for Hope Mill’s Aspects of Love plus new musicals Stay Awake, Jake & Benjamin Button feature in 2019 season
Hope Mill Theatre’s hit version of Aspects of Love, and the world premiere of a musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will be among the Southwark Playhouse’s final productions to play the Playhouse’s current London site. Due to take up residence in two purpose-built new theatre spaces in late […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and John Legend join the EGOT elite
US broadcaster NBC’s live production of Jesus Christ Superstar has helped Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and leading man John Legend join a select group of multi-award winners. The threesome added an Emmy to their Tony, Grammy and Oscar haul when the critically-acclaimed broadcast was named as the best live variety special at Sunday’s glittering Emmy […]
Waitress will arrive in the West End in February 2019
Hit Broadway show Waitress will make its eagerly-anticipated UK debut at London’s Adelphi Theatre next February. Now in its third year on Broadway, the musical tale of love friendship and perfect pies, based on the cult classic 2007 film of the same name, was expected to arrive on this side of the Atlantic last year, […]
The Beautiful Game – National Youth Music Theatre – The Other Palace
The Beautiful Game continues at The Other Palace, London until 18 August 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When it comes to exploring the Northern Ireland Troubles of the 1960s and 1970s, neither Ben Elton nor Andrew Lloyd Webber were names that would immediately spring to mind. Perhaps unsurprisingly, their 2000 […]
NYMT announces three-week London season
The National Youth Music Theatre a three-week summer residency at The Other Palace will include a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s award winning Beautiful Game. Running from 15-18 August 2018, the musical set during ‘The Troubles’ in Belfast in 1969 will feature Jasper Britton, the NYMT alumnus who spoke the first lines […]
Year three cast for School of Rock London
Craig Gallivan will step into the leading role of Dewey Finn in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Olivier Award-winning School of Rock – The Musical next month. Details of the year three cast for the hit show were released on the same day as a further 350,000 tickets were made available for the show which is now […]
Tributes pour in for legendary choreographer and director Gillian Lynne
Andrew Lloyd Webber has led the tributes to the much-loved choreographer and director Gillian Lynne who has died at the age of 92. Writing on Twitter, the composer and impresario marked the passing of his long-time colleague and friend, writing: “Farewell dearest Gillie, three generations of the British musical owe so much to you. With Love, Andrew.” […]
The Band’s Visit tops the Tony Awards
The Band’s Visit, the anti-razzmatazz musical, was warmly welcomed at the 2018 Tony Awards, taking home 10 of the trophies, including Best Musical, and far outstripping its competition. The tender tale of a group of Egyptian musicians who by happenstance spend a night in a small Israeli desert town, a night in which they make […]
Plays to feature in Other Palace repertoire alongside musicals as Paul Taylor-Mills steps down as artistic director
Leading independent producer Paul Taylor-Mills has taken on the new role of affiliate producer at The Other Palace following his two-year tenure as artistic director of the former St. James Theatre. The producer whose credits include the London premieres of In The Heights and Carrie: The Musical will mark his debut as The Other Palace’s […]
