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Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen and music drama Stereophonic lead Tony Award nominations
The Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen and the music drama Stereophonic, set in the 1970s, came out on top in the recently announced Tony Award nominations, both recognised 13 times.
Some Like It Hot leads Tony Award nominations with & Juliet, New York, New York and Shucked close behind
Leading the way on the musical theatre front in the Tony Awards nominations was Some Like It Hot with 13 nominations, closely followed by & Juliet, New York, New York and Shucked, all with nine nominations.
London Palladium concert date for Ariana DeBose
Multi-award-winning actor, singer and dancer Ariana Debose will take to the stage of the London Palladium next spring.
Ariana DeBose is named Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story at the Oscars
Sixty years ago West Side Story swept the board at the Academy Awards, winning ten Oscars, a record number for a musical that still stands. But Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents-Robbins masterpiece, nominated for seven this year, had to settle for just one on Sunday night. As expected, hot favourite Ariana DeBose took the […]
Oscars Preview: Will West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose walk away a winner?
The red carpet rolls out for Hollywood’s big night on Sunday when all will be revealed at the 94th Oscars and the good news for lovers of musicals is that the fat lady is ready to sing for West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose. She’s the hottest of favourites in the Best Supporting Actress category for […]
West Side Story wins two BAFTAs including Ariana DeBose for Best Supporting Actress
West Side Story – Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the 1961 ten-Oscar winning musical – picked up two BAFTAs at London’s Royal Albert Hall with Ariana DeBose, as expected, taking the Best Supporting Actress gong for her thrillingly exuberant performance as Anita. But she lost out to No Time To Die actress Lashana Lynch for Rising […]
Oscar nominations for West Side Story and tick, tick… Boom!
Seven Oscar nominations for Steven Spielberg’s re-imagining of West Side Story, the show that changed the face of musical theatre in the late 1950s and became a record-breaking movie in 1962. And two for tick, tick… Boom! whose star, Andrew Garfield, is one of the favourites for the Best Actor gong. That was the news […]
Musical theatre lovers are baffled by the BAFTA nominations
Musical theatre lovers are baffled and shocked by the BAFTA nominations just announced – West Side Story (tipped as a close third favourite to win the Oscar) has been ignored in the Best Picture category, while the movie’s director Steven Spielberg and star Rachel Zegler have missed out on Best Director and Best Actress nominations. […]
Trio of Golden Globe Awards for Spielberg’s West Side Story
Stephen Spielberg’s re-working of Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s classic West Side Story was named Best Picture (Comedy or Musical) at the weekend’s Golden Globe Awards. Recently released in cinemas, the musical was one of the big winners at the low-key, not so glittering event winning a trio of awards including a Best Actress award […]
Exclusive! Rita Moreno is in line for an Oscars West Side Story double
Sixty years after winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Anita in West Side Story, 90-year-old Rita Moreno has the chance to pull off a unique Oscars double in Steven Spielberg’s electrifying remake of the 1961 movie classic. With nominations for the Oscars due to be announced on 8 February 2022, Moreno is quoted at […]
Film Review: West Side Story
West Side Story opens nationwide on 10 December 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated – and, in some quarters, much dreaded – movie of West Side Story has finally reached cinemas. It’s the film I’ve been eagerly waiting for since about 1984: a full-blown musical by one of the […]
CD Review: R&H Goes Pop – Various Artists
R&H GOES POP – Various Artists (Downloads) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Funnily enough, I had just read some comments on a musical theatre group on Facebook about this album when I got the email asking me to review it. The comments were certainly not complimentary, so I approached the album […]
The Prom – Netflix
The Prom, out now in cinemas and on Netflix. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Corny, cheesy, schmaltzy, unsubtle, totally predictable… call it all the names you like but the bottom line is that The Prom works and is just the feelgood pick-me-up we need at this gloomy time. The movie, with a glitzy […]
Daily online conversation series Theatre Camp: Live! launched
Stars from across the West End and Broadway are supporting a new online series set up to support LGBTQ and vulnerable young people. Music director Benjamin Rauhala, journalist William J Connolly and Darren Bell for concert promoters Club 11 London have launched Theatre Camp: Live! – a daily online discussion series and charity fundraiser. Launching […]
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical continues at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Donna Summer, who reigned as the “Queen of Disco”, died in 2012 of cancer. And Summer: The Donna Summer Musical makes for a scintillating memorial. Of course, this Broadway outing isn’t your ordinary memorial. […]
