Casting has been confirmed for the West End transfer and North American premiere of the hit Live Aid-inspired musical Just For One Day.
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The Big Life – Theatre Royal Stratford East
The Big Life continues at the Theatre Royal Stratford East until 30 March 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Big Life is a cultural document that should not wait two decades between revivals. It is our Guys and Dolls, and it deserves to be recognised as such.
Once on This Island – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Once on This Island continues at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 10 June 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Full cast for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Once On This Island
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed the full cast and creatives for the upcoming production of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical Once On This Island.
Kinky Boots The Musical In Concert – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Kinky Boots The Musical In Concert continues at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London until 9 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The London Musical Theatre Orchestra is back at Drury Lane this week for a two-nights-only bash at Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s Kinky Boots. And with the ceiling-lifting […]
Cynthia Erivo and Danny Sapani to co-host Black British Theatre Awards
Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo and Black Panther, Star Wars and Killing Eve actor Danny Sapani will co-host the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) on 21 November 2021. Commenting on the awards, stage and screen star Erivo said: “I am so proud as a Black British actress to return from Los Angeles to the […]
Nominees for 2021 Black British Theatre Awards
The Color Purple – At Home, The Last Five Years and West End Musical Celebration are in the running for the Best Musical Production Award at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) next month. Following on from last year’s special socially distanced event at London’s Young Vic Theatre which was broadcast on Sky Arts, the winners of the third BBTAs […]
Streaming return for hit A Killer Party
The UK premiere recording of new murder mystery musical A Killer Party returns to Stream.Theatre this week. Adapted for UK audiences, the show which was a lockdown hit in the US, is available as a nine-episode series for home viewing on stream.theatre until 28 November. The cast includes Jason Manford (Curtains, The Producers), Ben Forster […]
Ben Forster joins A Killer Party cast
Ben Forster (Jesus Christ Superstar, Elf The Musical) will complete the cast for the UK premiere of new murder mystery musical A Killer Party. Adapted for UK audiences, the show which was a lockdown hit in the US last summer, will be available as a nine-episode series for home viewing on stream.theatre from 19 April […]
Jason Manford, Rachel Tucker, Cedric Neal, Debbie Kurup & more are cast in the UK premiere of A Killer Party
Casting has been announced for the UK premiere of A Killer Party which will be released as a series of nine episodes to watch on-demand. The dates have now changed from the previous announcement to 26 April to 23 May 2020. The cast includes Oscar Conlon-Morrey (Only Fools and Horses, Nativity The Musical) as Shea […]
UK premiere cast for Cruel Intentions announced
Casting has been unveiled for the UK premiere of immersive jukebox-style show Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Two of the stars of the West End’s premiere production of Heathers: The Musical, Dominic Andersen and Sophie Isaacs will star alongside Rebecca Gilhooley (UK premiere of The Last Ship), Evelyn Hoskins […]
Fun Home at the Young Vic – cast includes Kaisa Hammarlund, Jenna Russell and Cherrelle Skeete
Multi award-winning musical Fun Home, the final production in David Lan’s 18-year tenure as artistic director at the Young Vic, will feature a cast that includes Kaisa Hammarlund (Alison, pictured), Eleanor Kane (Medium Alison), Jenna Russell (Helen), Ashley Samuels (Roy, Mark and Jeremy), Cherrelle Skeete (Joan) and Zubin Varla (Bruce, Alison’s father). Produced in association […]
The World Goes Round – The Best of Kander & Ebb – Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
The World Goes Round – The Best of Kander & Fred Ebb continues at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough until 3 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Staging musicals in-the-round is always a challenge. Just where, for example, should director Lotte Wakeham tell the the cast to focus for voice projection? The most successful at solving this […]
The World Goes Round at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre – casting news
The line-up of performers cast in Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough’s forthcoming 25th anniversary production of The World Goes Round – The Songs of Kander & Ebb has been announced. Part of the venue’s 2016 Summer Festival, the show was conceived by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman and David Thompson, to celebrate the work of the prolific partnership of composer […]
