Singin’ in the Rain continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 14 May 2022 and tours until 20 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The stage incarnation of Singin’ in the Rain is now such a well-established and much-loved entity in its own right that it’s easy to forget that it has only […]
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Singin’ in the Rain – New Victoria Theatre, Woking and Touring
Singin’ in the Rain continues at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking until 2 April 2022 and tours until 20 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green cobbled together a new film musical from Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed’s back catalogue in the early 1950s, […]
Cast and special guest stars announced for Singin’ in the Rain tour
Sam Lips (Cats, Strictly Ballroom) will step into the iconic role of Don Lockwood when the acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Singin’ in the Rain follows its hit summer 2021 season at Sadler’s Wells by embarking on an extensive UK and Ireland tour. Lips will star opposite Charlotte Gooch (Strictly Ballroom, Piccadilly Theatre, Top […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Sadler’s Wells
Singin’ in the Rain continues at Sadler’s Wells, London until 5 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ What better way to end a theatrical drought than with a show in which it actually rains on stage? Yes, I know, it’s a gimmick, but for a Singin’ in the Rain first-timer […]
Five Questions With: Andrew Wright
The Wright Agency – led by double Olivier Award nominee, double WhatsOnStage and Carl Alan Award-winning choreographer ANDREW WRIGHT – was launched in September 2020 to represent and most importantly celebrate choreographers and associate choreographers in the UK. The agency represents 11 of the UK’s emerging choreographic talent. Its mission is to support those who […]
Somerset’s finest to star in One Enchanted Evening fundraiser
Cameron Mackintosh and the Glastonbury Festival’s founder Michael Eavis have lent their support to special fundraising concert amid the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey later this month. The brainchild of West End choreographer and director Andrew Wright, One Enchanted Evening on 30 August 2020 will feature professional theatre and music talent from across the county of […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Kilworth House Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 7 July 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Oh Joseph, here we are again. You’re no less problematic than before – terrible people are rewarded with fortune and love, women are no more than saints or demons, and […]
Adam Cooper returns to the role of Don Lockwood in Singin’ in the Rain return
Award-winning dancer and choreographer Adam Cooper will re-create his crowd-pleasing performance as Don Lockwood when the acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Singin’ in the Rain plays a five-week season at Sadler’s Wells next summer. Cooper first played the iconic role at Sadler’s Wells in the 2004 revival of the show before playing Lockwood once […]
Nativity! The Musical – Eventim Apollo London
Nativity! The Musical continues at Eventim Apollo London until 29 December 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An excitable buzz outside and inside the venue at the gala performance of this eagerly-awaited celebrity-laden production more than hinted this was going to be something pretty special. Spectacular and hugely entertaining, it’s a […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Kilworth House Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 9 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The canopies of Kilworth House Theatre open once more to the glitz of a night at the theatre, and what could be more glitzy than the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic Joseph? It is – […]
Oklahoma! – Grange Park Opera
Oklahoma! continues at The Theatre in the Woods, West Horsley Place, Surrey until 7 July. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Oklahoma!, granny’s favourite, is a safe choice for Grange Park Opera’s first musical in their wondrous new theatre in the Surrey woods, built by themselves with the help of generous donations after the fallout […]
Nativity! The Musical – Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Touring
Nativity! The Musical continues at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until 12 November and then tours until 6 January 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Scrap the panto. If you see one thing this season, let it be this. Gathering a cult following in 2009, Debbit Isitt’s comic Christmas masterpiece Nativity! hit the […]
Five Guys Marble Arch run extended into 2018
Clarke Peters’ new production of his award-winning Five Guys Named Moe has extended its run at the new pop-up theatre in London’s Marble Arch until Saturday 17 February 2018 due to popular demand. Directed by Peters and featuring the hits of jazz legend Louis Jordan, Underbelly Productions’ revival of the hit show is currently previewing […]
Five Guys Named Moe – casting for new London production
Casting has been revealed for the brand new production of Clarke Peters’ Olivier Award-winning and Tony-Award nominated musical, Five Guys Named Moe. The production will open on 14 September 2017 in a new temporary theatre in Marble Arch, London. Edward Baruwa will play Nomax and the ‘Moes’ will be played by: Ian Carlyle (Four-Eyed Moe), […]
New production of Five Guys Named Moe to play Marble Arch pop-up theatre
Clarke Peters’ exuberant award-winning Five Guys Named Moe will be the launch production at a new pop-up theatre in London’s Marble Arch in September. Underbelly Productions has confirmed details of the revival of the hit show which will be directed by Peters himself and will have an initial booking period from 28 August until 25 November […]
WhatsOnStage Awards 2017 – Half a Sixpence celebrates triple win
The winners have been announced at the Prince of Wales Theatre for the 17th annual WhatsOnStage Awards, presented by Simon Lipkin and Vikki Stone, celebrating the best of the UK’s theatre over the past year. The awards are the only major theatre prizes to be voted for entirely by the audience. Half a Sixpence was […]
Musical stage version of Nativity! to open in October 2017
The world premiere of Nativity! The Musical will open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Friday 20 October 2017, prior to a short tour visiting Southend Cliffs Pavilion, Sheffield Lyceum, Manchester Palace, Plymouth Theatre Royal, a London season at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo and a Christmas season at Leeds Grand Theatre. Casting to be announced soon. Nativity! The Musical will be written and directed by the creator and director of […]
Half a Sixpence – Chichester Festival Theatre
Half a Sixpence continues at Chichester Festival Theatre until 3 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The revival of this 1960s hit musical has not just been given a facelift, but major surgery. Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes has gone back to HG Wells’ original novel and radically reconstructed the show’s book, while George Stiles […]
Guys and Dolls – Phoenix Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Damon Runyon’s stories of 1950s New York, which form the basis of Frank Loesser’s musical Guys and Dolls, show a side of Broadway vastly at odds with the backstage antics and tap dancing mayhem of the usual […]
Moby Dick! The Musical sails into the new Union Theatre
Moby Dick! The Musical is to be revived at London’s new Union Theatre this autumn. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh in 1992, Moby Dick! The Musical has a book by Robert Longden with music and lyrics by Longden and Hereward Kaye. The new production, which will be directed and choreographed by double Olivier Award nominee Andrew […]
Guys and Dolls – Empire Theatre, Liverpool and Touring
Guys and Dolls continues at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool until 19 March and then tours until 30 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Chichester Festival Theatre has become the theatre to watch, with West End transfers and regional touring of at least one production per season coming out of the regional […]
Oliver! is Curve Theatre Leicester’s Christmas musical, directed by Paul Kerryson
Curve Theatre, Leicester has announced its Christmas musical for 2015 will be a new production of Lionel Bart’s masterpiece Oliver! Opening on 2 December 2015, with previews from 27 November, the production also sees Paul Kerryson return as director. Based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Bart’s award-winning musical opened in the West End in 1960, ahead of its Broadway […]
Follies concert will feature Christine Baranski and Ruthie Henshall
SilverBlue Entertainment, in association with Elliot Davis are presenting Follies in Concert, with The City of London Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Royal Albert Hall in celebration of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s 85th birthday year. The show will be playing on Tuesday 28 April for one matinee (at 3pm) and one evening performance (at 7.30pm) only. The all-star cast includes Christine Baranski (Into the Woods, The Good Wife, Mamma Mia!), Anita Dobson (EastEnders, Chicago), Anita Harris (Carry On Doctor and Follow That Camel, Cats), Ruthie Henshall (original Roxy in Chicago, Les Misérables), […]
Barnum – Bristol Hippodrome and touring
Barnum continues at the Bristol Hippodrome until 27 September and then on national tour until August 2015. When Cameron Mackintosh’s revival of the circus musical Barnum played at the Chichester Festival Theatre last year (appropriately enough in a grand marquee as the main house was being refurbished), it was greeted with a clutch of unfavourable reviews. […]
Saturday Night Fever production to tour UK
A brand new production of Saturday Night Fever is being staged by Theatre Royal Bath Productions in association with the Robert Stigwood Organisation this autumn. Playing at the venue from 12–22 November, the musical – featuring a large cast of actor/musicians – then embarks on a nationwide UK tour. Ryan McBryde directs. His production of […]
Happy Days – A New Musical – a sneak peak
A week ahead of their opening at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, the producers of the UK tour of Happy Days – A New Musical invited selected press in for an exclusive peak at rehearsals in progress. It is difficult not to feel the excitement emanating from the Churchill at the moment. The set designed by Tom […]
Happy Days – A New Musical opens this week
This Tuesday (7 January), Musical Theatre Review has been invited to an exclusive cast performance of three tracks from Happy Days – A New Musical (‘Run’, ‘Message in the Music’, and the feel-good title song ‘Happy Days’) at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. Happy Days – A New Musical, written by Garry Marshall with music by Paul […]
