Kiss of the Spider Woman was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it continues until 25 April 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a bold, deeply moving revival.
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Layton Williams and George Blagden join Kiss of the Spider Woman cast
Layton Williams and George Blagden are the latest additions to the cast of next year’s highly anticipated new production of the groundbreaking musical Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Follies – Grand Opera House, Belfast
Follies at the Grand Opera House, Belfast is also performed on 16, 19 and 20 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This revival marks 50 odd years since Follies first beguiled an audience and it’s still here.
Star casting announced for Northern Ireland Opera’s Follies
West End stars Anna-Jane Casey and Annette McLaughlin will lead the cast of Northern Ireland Opera’s upcoming revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway smash Follies.
Star packed line-up for Charlie Kristensen’s There’s No Place Like Home
A host of musical theatre favourites will join inspirational young anti-bullying campaigner Charlie Kristensen at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on 22 October 2023. Celebrating the launch of The Charlie Kristensen Foundation and presented in partnership with New Frame Productions, There’s No Place Like Home will be hosted by Divina De Campo.
An Unnecessarily Hostile Q&A with The Mayor of Musical Theatre (Did we mention the Mayor’s latest interview is with Carrie Hope Fletcher?)
A new study has revealed that there are between three and four million podcasts internationally, but only 720,000 have more than ten episodes. As The Mayor of Musical Theatre releases its eleventh – featuring West End superstar Carrie Hope Fletcher – here is a Q&A with its host and MTR contributor, Ian Bowkett.
Music Review: Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club – 2021 London Cast Recording
CABARET – London 2021 Cast Recording (Decca Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you cannot get to the show itself, the album is the next best thing.
Brand-new podcast The Mayor of Musical Theatre – in association with Musical Theatre Review – releases its first episode
West End Legend and Mother Goose star Anna-Jane Casey shares backstage secrets from the Stephen Sondheim Old Friends memorial concert, reveals the musical score that most often gets stuck in her head and describes what it’s like to return to panto on new podcast, The Mayor of Musical Theatre.
New podcast in association with Musical Theatre Review: The Mayor of Musical Theatre meets Anna-Jane Casey
West End legend Anna-Jane Casey reveals her favourite currently running West End musical in trailer for new podcast, The Mayor of Musical Theatre. The brand-new podcast The Mayor of Musical Theatre has released a teaser trailer for its first ever season. The show is produced in association with Musical Theatre Review – in the website’s […]
More venues added to Mother Goose touring schedule
Ambassador Theatre Group Productions has added three extra venues to the UK and Ireland tour of the hit new production of classic pantomime story Mother Goose.
Mother Goose – Theatre Royal, Brighton
Mother Goose was reviewed at Theatre Royal, Brighton. A season at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London (15 December 2022-29 January 2023) will be followed by a UK and Ireland tour. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Anna-Jane Casey joins Ian McKellen and John Bishop in the UK and Ireland tour of Mother Goose
Ambassador Theatre Group Productions has announced final casting for the UK and Ireland tour of the pantomime Mother Goose. Anna-Jane Casey will join the show as Cilla The Goose with Mairi Barclay, Becca Francis, Shailan Gohil and Laura Tyrer also confirmed to join the company.
CD Review: Theatre – Joe Stilgoe
THEATRE – Joe Stilgoe (Westway Records – Download and CD) Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stilgoe’s ninth album, now on Westway Records, is a tribute to the theatre or, to be precise, to the great songwriters through the years (plus three new songs written by Stilgoe himself). Simon Callow appears on […]
Tickets for a live screening of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala to be released
Tickets for a live screening at the Prince Edward Theatre of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala are to be released today, 30 March 2022. Priority will be given to the thousands of people who signed up in the hope of securing tickets but couldn’t be accommodated for the performance at the Sondheim Theatre. Booking […]
Cabaret – Kit Kat Club – Playhouse Theatre
Cabaret continues at the Kit Kat Club, London (Playhouse Theatre). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The post-lockdown rebirth of the West End has been centred around escapism and shelter from the political and economic turmoil of the last few years. Kudos to the producers of Cabaret for backing a very different […]
Full cast and more tickets released for London’s new Cabaret
Full casting has been confirmed for the new London production of Cabaret at the newly created Kit Kat Club. As previously announced the innovative production will feature multi-award-winning movie actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Red, West End and Broadway) in his genre debut as The Emcee opposite BAFTA nominee and British Independent Film […]
Fundraising Best of the West End concert at Royal Albert Hall announced
A host of the West End’s brightest stars will take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for a special concert in aid of Acting For Others on 21 July 2021. Presented by Alpha as part of the iconic venue’s 150th anniversary season, the third concert in the popular The Best of the West […]
Kim Criswell to re-stage A Grand Night for Singing at the Edinburgh International Festival
West End and Broadway star Kim Criswell will bring Tony-nominated musical revue A Grand Night for Singing to this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. The actress who was nominated for an Olivier for her performance as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun in the West End and was part of the original Broadway cast of […]
Star studded line-up for UK debut of Well-Behaved Women
Janie Dee, Kerry Ellis, Cassidy Janson and Nicole Raquel Dennis will be among a star-studded cast of West End favourites celebrating famous females across the ages in a one night only concert performance of award-winning composer Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women in September. Presented by Lambert Jackson Productions, the concert on 3 September 2021 at London’s […]
Streaming dates announced for recordings of Live In London concerts
The Live In London series of concerts produced by Fourth Wall Live at The Hippodrome Casino London in December will be available to stream on Stream.Theatre from 26 March 2021. Recorded live at the Leicester Square venue in front of live audiences, the series of 12 concerts feature a range of genres from musical theatre, […]
The Band Plays On – Sheffield Theatres
The Band Plays On was filmed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and has been made available to watch online until 28 March 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The best shows always have a moment, incident or episode which really stick with you and change you. In The Band Plays On it’s […]
All-star line-up for Sheffield’s The Band Plays On
West End, stars Jocasta Almgill and Jodie Prenger will make their Sheffield Crucible debuts alongside a trio of returning stars for the upcoming filmed world premiere production of Sheffield Theatres’ The Band Plays On. Almgill (& Juliet, Manchester Opera House, Shaftesbury Theatre, Rent, Hope Mill Theatre) and Prenger (Oliver! Theatre Royal Drury Lane, A Taste […]
New dates and revised bill for Hippodrome Casino Live in London
Fourth Wall Live and The Hippodrome Casino London have confirmed revised dates and an amended line-up for the new season of live shows at the Leicester Square venue unveiled last month. Due to the current lockdown, Live In London will now run from 3 December until 20 December 2020, with two shows nightly at 7pm […]
Queen’s Brian May joins quartet of West End leading ladies for charity single
Rock superstar Brian May has joined forces with four of the West End’s most distinctive female voices to produce a special fundraising single to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Available for digital download from Friday (23 October 2020), the new version of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s 1962 classic ‘I’m A Woman’ features long-time May […]
Stages: A Video Game Musical – Vault Festival
Stages: A Video Game Musical continues at the Network Theatre at Vault Festival, London until 8 March 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Branching narratives, where the story plays out in different ways according to the consumer’s choice, are perhaps best known from the Choose Your Own Adventure books that were popular in […]
West End return for Girl From The North Country
The Old Vic’s critically acclaimed world premiere production of Girl From The North Country will return to the West End for an eight-week run beginning in December. Written and directed by multi award winning playwright Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) and featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, the production will play the Gielgud Theatre […]
The touring Calendar Girls meet the original Girls
Footage has been released of the new cast of The Calendar Girls on a trip to the Yorkshire Dales to meet the women who inspired the hit show as part of their preparations for the upcoming UK and Ireland tour. Already breaking box office records, the new production of the award-winning musical is due to […]
Calendar Girls The Musical tour – cast includes Fern Britton, Anna-Jane Casey and Denise Welch
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s musical comedy, Calendar Girls The Musical, is returning home to Yorkshire this year opening at the Leeds Grand Theatre on 16 August ahead of a new UK and Ireland tour. The new touring production of the award winning musical version of the story of the ladies who disrobed in the […]
Ruffelle, Huntley and Kemp to play new Pizza Express live venue
Frances Ruffelle, Tyrone Huntley and Martin Kemp are among the latest additions to the star-studded launch season line-up at restaurant chain Pizza Express’ latest London entertainment venue. Tickets are already on sale for An Audience With Martin Kemp on 31 August, West End favourite Ruffelle’s solo show I Say Yeh-Yeh on 3 September and Evening […]
Pizza Express to open new entertainment venue in London
Restaurant chain Pizza Express will open a new live entertainment venue at its newly designed restaurant in London’s High Holborn at the end of August. The intimate space in the basement will feature a wide range of music, cabaret, comedy, and ‘audience with’ Q&A sessions. Designed to allow the audience to get close to some […]
Billy Elliot the Musical – Milton Keynes Theatre
Billy Elliot the Musical continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 17 June. The show’s next dates are at the Theater am Grossmarkt, Hamburg, Germany from 29 June to 23 July. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Milton Keynes Theatre is made for Billy Elliot. With its huge width and deep recesses, […]
Stars line up to record composer Alexander S Bermange’s comic catalogue
Musical comedy composer Alexander S. Bermange has assembled a star-studded line-up of stage and screen favourites to record a double album of his songs. Whit & Whimsy features special performances of some of Bermange’s most popular comic creations by stars including Miriam Margolyes, Nigel Planer, Tracie Bennett and Ian Bartholomew. Produced by Mike Dixon, the […]
Something for everybody at Live at Zédel
To launch its spring programme, Piccadilly cabaret room Live at Zédel gave us a taster of seven very different acts, drolly introduced by French comic/compere Marcel Lucont, who is very funny indeed, rather naughty, and will be well worth seeing during Zedel’s French Fest in March. From a musical theatre point of view the highlight […]
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 […]
Annie Get Your Gun at Sheffield Crucible extends run
Sheffield Theatres has announced that its major new revival of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun has extended its run for one week due to public demand, now closing on 21 January. The show opens on 14 December, with previews from 8 December. Paul Foster directs Anna-Jane Casey as Annie Oakley and Ben Lewis as Frank Butler, with Nicolas Colicos (Buffalo […]
Anna-Jane Casey – A Life in the Day – Live at Zedel
Anna-Jane Casey: A Life in the Day at Live At Zedel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From Annie as a young child in Manchester to Annie Get Your Gun in two months’ time in Sheffield, with plenty of West End shows and national tours in between, the awesomely versatile and […]
Annie Get Your Gun at Sheffield Crucible – Anna-Jane Casey and Ben Lewis lead cast
Sheffield Theatres has revealed the cast for its major new revival of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, playing from 14 December, with previews from 8 December, and running until 14 January. Paul Foster directs Anna-Jane Casey as Annie Oakley and Ben Lewis as Frank Butler, with Nicolas Colicos (Buffalo Bill), Mike Denman (Pawnee Bill), Lauren Hall (Winnie […]
More musical theatre stars lined up for new Live At Zédel
Further details have been announced of the musical theatre stars lined up to launch London’s new entertainment concept Live At Zédel. Artistic director in residence, American singer-songwriter Scott Alan, has added a number of acts to the autumn line-up alongside previously announced stars including Rachel Tucker, Shoshana Bean, Matt Cardle and Maria Friedman. Actress Evelyn Hoskins (Carrie), actress-turned-singer […]
Interview – Clare Burt on Flowers for Mrs Harris and creating new work
Actress CLARE BURT (This is My Family, London Road) has returned to Sheffield Theatres to take on the title role in the world premiere of Flowers for Mrs Harris, Daniel Evans’ final production as artistic director at the venue (opening tonight, 23 May). The new musical by Richard Taylor (The Go-Between, Tom’s Midnight Garden) and Rachel Wagstaff (Birdsong, Moonshadow), based […]
Mack & Mabel – Chichester Festival Theatre
Mack & Mabel continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 5 September, and then tours the UK and Ireland from 1 October–6 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart’s musical, telling of the early days of silent film-making and the relationship between film director Mack Sennett and his greatest star Mabel Normand, has […]
Mack & Mabel at Chichester Festival Theatre – a gallery of new images
Chichester’s summer musical, Mack & Mabel, with Michael Ball and Rebecca LaChance in the title roles, opens tonight (playing until 5 September), before touring across the UK and Ireland. Here are a brand new set of production images from our official photographer Roy Tan. Based on the true romance between Hollywood legends Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, musical comedy Mack & Mabel, with music […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Royal Festival Hall
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Frank Loesser’s musical satire of self-help books and office politics enjoyed a one-night concert performance on London’s South Bank, courtesy of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and a truly stellar cast. The 1961 show – […]
Mack and Mabel at Chichester Festival Theatre – full cast revealed
The full cast has been confirmed for Chichester’s forthcoming summer musical, Mack and Mabel, which will be led by Michael Ball and Rebecca LaChance in the title roles. Following the Chichester run (13 July to 5 September), this major new production will tour across the UK and Ireland. Based on the true romance between Hollywood legends Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, […]
Rebecca LaChance cast opposite Michael Ball in Mack and Mabel at Chichester
After an extensive search, American actress Rebecca LaChance has been confirmed to star as Mabel alongside Michael Ball in Chichester’s forthcoming summer musical, Mack and Mabel, at the Festival Theatre from 13 July to 5 September, and then touring across the UK and Ireland in the production. Based on the true romance between Hollywood legends Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, this […]
Jerry’s Girls – St James Studio
Jerry’s Girls continues at St James Studio, London until 15 March. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is only when you hear 28 of his show songs paraded one after the other in a sparkling revue staged so winningly by a hectically-involved cast of five under Kate Golledge’s imaginative direction that you realise the full extent of Broadway legend Jerry […]
The Follow Spot cabaret – Proud Cabaret City
The first in a season of Follow Spot cabaret evenings took place at London’s Proud Cabaret City (featuring Jess Robinson, Tim Newman, Laurence Owen and Anna-Jane Casey). The season continues until 26 April. Star rating: 4 stars **** Have you ever wondered what it would sound like if Marilyn Monroe sang Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’? Or if Shirley Bassey sang ‘Rapper’s Delight’? […]
Follow Spot cabaret season kicks off with Anna-Jane Casey
A spring season of The Follow Spot cabaret evenings, presented by West End On Sea Productions at London’s Proud Cabaret City, begins this Sunday (8 February) when actress and singer Anna-Jane Casey (who will soon be seen in Jerry’s Girls at the St James Theatre) will be appearing. Future nights also feature big names from the musical theatre world, up […]
Jerry’s Girls London revival – meet the Girls
Full casting has been announced for musical revue Jerry’s Girls which, 30 years after it opened on Broadway, will be revived in a limited two-week run (3 to 15 March) at the St James Studio, London. Jerry’s Girls are Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young. Anna-Jane Casey was recently seen starring in Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Vaudeville Theatre. West End credits […]
Interview – Anna-Jane Casey on Forbidden Broadway, Family Guy and girl power
Actress ANNA-JANE CASEY is currently starring in the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Forbidden Broadway at London’s Vaudeville Theatre. She also appeared in the 2009 production of the long-running satirical reuve at the Menier. Having performed as a child in theatre, television and radio, Casey made her West End debut in the role of Rumpleteazer in Cats […]
Forbidden Broadway – Vaudeville Theatre
Forbidden Broadway continues at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, until 24 November. Musical theatre fans who missed this hilarious mickey-take on their favourite and not-so-favourite shows in its sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory now have 11 weeks to catch it on The Strand and it is well worthy of its transfer to the West End. […]
