Sense and Sensibility The Musical was reviewed at the Arcola Theatre, London. The tour continues until 14 September 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It is worth catching this 2012 melodious musical, which is full of great songs.
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Cry-Baby, The Musical – Arcola Theatre
Cry-Baby, The Musical continues at the Arcola Theatre, London until 12 April 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Director Mehmet Ergen ensures that Cry-Baby, The Musical is arguably a closer rendition of Waters’ naughtiness and eclecticism than its more famous, more successful and more polished predecessor.
What (is) a Woman – Arcola Theatre
What (is) a Woman continues at the Arcola Theatre, London until 4 May 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ An absorbing play which is part contemporary dance, part musical, it has echoes of the work of Pina Bausch who never shied away from mixing movement and speech.
Five Questions With: Andrée Bernard
TV and stage star Andrée Bernard’s first play, What (is) a Woman, with nine original songs, will run at London’s Arcola Theatre from 23 April to 11 May 2024. Here actress-writer-composer-singer Andrée tells Jeremy Chapman what it’s about and who she has written it for.
Public join campaign for Government help for the arts
Members of the public have added their voices to the increasingly desperate pleas from the performing arts industries for Government help to survive and rebuild as the country tries to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis. The recently formed, volunteer-led Public Campaign for the Arts is showcasing a series of short videos featuring members of the […]
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with Marlene – Arcola Theatre
Ute Lemper: Rendezvous with Marlene continues at the Arcola Theatre, London until 19 May 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In the late 1980s, German actress Ute Lemper was playing the role of Sally Bowles in a Parisian production of Cabaret, for which the French press dubbed her “la nouvelle Marlene”. Lemper […]
European premiere for Little Miss Sunshine musical
Off-beat musical Little Miss Sunshine will receive its European premiere next spring with a new production at London’s Arcola Theatre ahead of a UK tour launching at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Presented by Selladoor Worldwide and Arcola Theatre, the Off-Broadway hit will open with a seven-week season in London beginning on 21 March […]
The Boatswain’s Mate – Arcola Theatre
The Boatswain’s Mate was presented at the Arcola Theatre, London as part of the Grimeborn Festival. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Arcola Theatre’s month-long Grimeborn Festival centres on operas, including fresh interpretations of classic works as well as new and neglected ones. But it has also been known to extend its remit to […]
The Marriage of Kim K – Arcola Theatre and Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Marriage of Kim K continues at the Arcola Theatre, London until 29 July, and at C Venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 2 August until 28 August. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Marrying classical opera buffo to 21st century pop culture will always be a risky task. The Marriage […]
Interview – Andy Barnes on why Perfect Pitch is dedicated to new British musical theatre
When new British chamber musical The House of Mirrors and Hearts had its official opening at the Arcola Theatre this week, it was partly due to the backing of Perfect Pitch, the UK company dedicated to the creation and development of new British musicals. Perfect Pitch executive producer ANDY BARNES took time out to give Musical Theatre […]
The House of Mirrors and Hearts – Gillian Kirkpatrick and Graham Bickley cast
Casting has been revealed for the world premiere of The House of Mirrors and Hearts, a new British chamber musical by Eamonn O’Dwyer and Robert Gilbert which will open the summer/autumn season at Arcola Theatre from Thursday 2 July to Saturday 1 August, with a press night on Tuesday 7 July. The cast features Gillian Kirkpatrick […]
New musical The House of Mirrors and Hearts opens at Arcola Theatre in July
A new British chamber musical The House of Mirrors and Hearts will play in Studio 1 at Arcola Theatre from Thursday 2 July to Saturday 1 August, with a press night on Tuesday 7 July. When Anna’s husband is killed in a tragic accident at their home, her family’s life is changed forever. Seven years […]
Happy Ending – Arcola Theatre
Happy Ending continues at the Arcola Theatre, London until 7 March. Star rating: 4 stars **** Famous theatre star Carrie Evans has cancer. Upon arriving at the oncology clinic, she meets other patients who all teach her their ways of coping and help her find her own way of dealing with her illness. At first, Carrie […]
Arcola Theatre to stage new musical Happy Ending
Based on her personal experiences of living with and succumbing to cancer, Anat Gov’s musical play Happy Ending tackles difficult life choices, presenting with sincerity and matter-of-fact humour the treatment of illness in all its highs, lows, dignities and absurdities. Translated from Hebrew, adapted by Hilla Bar and with music by composers Shlomi Shaban and Michal […]
Morphic Graffiti – A new kind of Carousel
Theatre company Morphic Graffiti, founded by Stewart Charlesworth and Luke Fredericks, is behind a bold new interpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, which officially opens tonight at the London fringe Arcola Theatre. Cameron Smith catches up with Stewart Charlesworth… It started with a typo. In 2011 Stewart Charlesworth, along with co-founder Luke Fredericks, created a new production company […]
Carousel is presented by Morphic Graffiti at the Arcola
A ‘bold new interpretation’ of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel is being staged by the company Morphic Graffiti at the Arcola Theatre, London from 18 June (press night is 23 June) to 19 July 2014. Carousel will feature a brand new acoustic orchestration by Mark Cumberland with musical supervision from renowned orchestrator Larry Blank, who has […]
