RSC’s My Neighbour Totoro triumphs with six awards including the Noël Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play and the Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director Best Actress was awarded to Jodie Comer and Paul Mescal took home the Best Actor award Standing At The Sky’s Edge won Mastercard Best New Musical Rodgers […]
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Oklahoma! – Wyndham’s Theatre
Oklahoma! continues at Wyndham’s Theatre, London until 2 September 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What it does do is return the musical to what Rodgers and Hammerstein did 80 years ago: a proof that musical theatre can tell thrilling, involving stories of human struggle in captivating, breathtaking ways.
Standing At The Sky’s Edge and Oklahoma! top musical theatre nominations at Olivier Awards 2023
Nominations have been announced for the Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard which will take place on 2 April 2023 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Standing At The Sky’s Edge at the National Theatre received eight nominations, the most for a musical. Garnering seven nominations – including Best Musical Revival – was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
First casting news for West End transfer of Young Vic’s Oklahoma!
Arthur Darvill and Evening Standard Award-nominee Patrick Vaill are among a number of returning cast members who will feature in the eagerly anticipated West End transfer of the Young Vic’s recent sold-out production of Oklahoma!
EP and music video released for Metta’s new musical The Minotaur
Award-winning theatre company Metta Theatre is offering theatre-lovers a first look and listen to the company’s newest environmental musical The Minotaur.
Oklahoma! – Young Vic Theatre
Oklahoma! continues at the Young Vic Theatre, London until 25 June 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It says something about the unconventionality of Bard Summerscape’s ground-breaking production of Oklahoma! that it is as memorably unsettling on a second viewing as it was the first time around. Back in 2019, witnessing Daniel Fish and […]
Complete cast announced for Oklahoma! at the Young Vic
The Young Vic has announced the complete cast for the UK premiere of Oklahoma!, Daniel Fish’s striking, Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical. Transferring direct from an acclaimed run on Broadway and a US tour, the production runs from 26 April to 25 June 2022 (press night is 5 May). Arthur Darvill […]
Line-up for second Monday Night at the Apollo show
Casting has been announced for the second concert in the rescheduled live and live-streamed fundraising series of Monday Night at the Apollo. West End stars Shan Ako (Les Miserables, The X Factor), Arthur Darvill (Once, Sweet Charity), Sophie Evans (Wicked, Wizard of Oz), Sandra Marvin (Waitress, Emmerdale) and Oliver Tompsett (& Juliet, Wicked) will take […]
Monday Night At The Apollo – new dates announced
Revised dates have been announced for the new live and live-streamed fundraising concert series Monday Night At The Apollo. Originally due to play two shows in front of a socially distanced audience at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury this month with a third concert in early February, the shows will now take place on 12 […]
New West End concert series Monday Night at the Apollo announced
Tickets have gone on sale for Monday Night at the Apollo – a brand new concert series taking place in front of a socially distanced audience at London’s Apollo Theatre. The concerts will take place at 7pm on 11 January 2021, 25 January and 8 February, and will also be live-streamed to audiences at home. […]
‘Funny & resonant, definitely adult, very human’: Vikki Stone chats about new digital musical #ZoologicalSociety
Clare Walters writes: #ZoologicalSociety the concept album is released online today. Recorded by 13 musicians, eight chorus singers and a host of musical theatre stars, it’s a series of funny and resonant, definitely adult, very human stories of animals in a zoo. Writer, composer, actor and comedian VIKKI STONE, who wrote the album, explained to […]
Concept album for new digital musical #ZoologicalSociety
Northampton’s Royal & Derngate is releasing a star-packed concept album for new digital musical #ZoologicalSociety on Friday 27 March 2020 (the release was originally planned to coincide with a live concert performance at BEAM 2020). Written by multi award-winners Vikki Stone and Katie Mulgrew, #ZoologicalSociety is the first in a series of original music commissions […]
Fantastic Mr Fox heads back to Lyric Hammersmith
The hit touring production of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox will return to London’s Lyric Hammersmith next month seven months after its launch at the venue. Following on from its world premiere last Christmas at Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, the Nuffield and Leicester Curve’s new musical adaptation of the classic story has been touring the UK […]
Honeymoon in Vegas The Musical in Concert – London Palladium
Honeymoon in Vegas was performed at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The London Musical Theatre Orchestra (LMTO) once again proved itself to the most exciting new force on the London theatre scene with a spectacular concert staging of Jason Robert Brown’s playful Honeymoon in Vegas at the Palladium. The event – […]
Honeymoon in Vegas – Samantha Barks and Arthur Darvill cast in LMTO concert
After the success of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair at the Cadogan Hall in November last year and the concert of Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens’ A Christmas Carol (Lyceum Theatre, December 2016), initial casting has been announced for The London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s first concert of the 2017 season, the hit Broadway musical Honeymoon […]
Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox – Lyric Hammersmith
Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox continues at the Lyric Hammersmith, London until 19 February and then tours until 9 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Most adaptations of Roald Dahl’s spikey, often subversively uplifting, children’s stories are plays with songs. This entertaining, energy-packed version (a co-production between Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre and Curve Leicester in […]
Musical version of Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox to tour UK
Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox will take to the road next year in a major new musical adaptation due to receive its world premiere this Christmas. Amidst different events celebrating the much-loved author’s 100th birthday, producing partners Nuffield and Curve have revealed plans for the tour which will begin at the Lyric Hammersmith in January, following […]
I Want My Hat Back at the National – writer Joel Horwood on hats, children, and why he is secretly a rabbit
JOEL HORWOOD made his mark as a writer back in 2005 with a madcap musical, Mikey the Pikey. Now an associate artist at the Lyric Hammersmith, his portfolio spans the Royal Court, Bristol Old Vic, the BBC, the Almeida, the Old Vic, and, most recently, the National Theatre. It is for the National that Horwood […]
I Want My Hat Back – Temporary Theatre, National Theatre
I Want My Hat Back continues at the Temporary Theatre at the National Theatre, London until 2 January, 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Spoiler Alert – just in case you don’t want to know what happens at the end of the book!! Children are a tricky crowd to delight. Underwhelmed, they’re the hecklers from hell. Overwhelm them and […]
Once the Musical – even twice is probably not enough
Scott Matthewman writes… As fans of musical theatre, we’ve all been there. We’ve been to see a show, loved it, raved about it – and then someone we know goes to see it on our recommendation. And suddenly, that sense of fear hits. What if they don’t like it as much as we did? As a reviewer, it […]
Once the Musical – Phoenix Theatre
Once the Musical continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London and is booking until 4 July 2015. I just happened to catch the new cast of Once on the same night that the UK premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opened in the West End. The two productions are the antithesis of one another. The latter is characteristic of a […]
Once the Musical secret gig showcases new cast
Musical Theatre Review’s Emily Hardy sees the new London cast of Once the Musical in action at a special secret performance at the Phoenix Theatre and suggests that one year after opening, the show is looking better than ever. There was never any guarantee that Once the Musical would make it as far as this. […]
