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Piaf – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
Piaf continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 17 May 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is, without a doubt, a pleasure to hear the songs that made Edith Piaf’s legacy live on 60 years after her death.
Audrey Brisson to star in Vera Brittain musical
Olivier Award nominee Audrey Brisson will lead the cast of The Land Of Might-Have-Been, the new musical inspired by the early life of Buxton’s Vera Brittain due to premiere at this summer’s Buxton International Festival.
Into the Woods – Theatre Royal Bath
Into the Woods continues at Theatre Royal Bath until 10 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The eagerly anticipated – and long-delayed – production of Sondheim and Lapine’s Into the Woods co-directed by Terry Gilliam and Leah Hausman finally opened this August, not at its originally intended home of the Old Vic […]
West End stars feature in cast of Into The Woods at Theatre Royal Bath
A high-powered cast has been assembled for director Terry Gilliam and choreographer Leah Hausman’s highly-anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into The Woods at the Theatre Royal Bath this summer. The co-creator of the Olivier Award winning Shockhead Peter, Julian Bleach (The Grinning Man) will play Mysterious Man with Olivier nominees […]
The cast of Amélie the Musical on finally opening their ‘bonkers’ West End show after the Covid-19 lockdown
Amélie the Musical has had a remarkable journey: from a Broadway under-performer; to an exciting British reinterpretation at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre, on tour, and at London’s Other Palace Theatre; to an acclaimed run reopening the West End’s historic Criterion Theatre after the Covid-19 shutdown. Musical Theatre Review’s Ian Bowkett spoke to four of its […]
Amélie the Musical – Criterion Theatre
Amélie the Musical continues at the Criterion Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It has become the hot take du jour to be cynical about Amélie, the 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film that so delighted us all those years ago. In real life, wouldn’t such a person – quirky nearly to […]
Amelie The Musical transfers to the West End’s Criterion Theatre in May 2021
Following its opening at the Watermill Theatre, a critically-acclaimed sell-out tour in 2019, a highly successful Christmas season at The Other Palace in 2019, a Grammy nomination and three Olivier Award nominations, Amélie The Musical arrives in the West End this summer. Following the government roadmap announcement, tickets are on sale now for a socially […]
Old Vic plans live-stream performances of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax
The Old Vic will celebrate Earth Day next month with six live-streamed performances of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax. Part of the popular Old Vic: In Camera initiative launched last year as a means of bringing live performances back to the prestigious venue, the production will feature Hamilton’s Jamael Westman as the Once-ler with Audrey Brisson […]
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Bristol Old Vic
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is available on demand from the Bristol Old Vic website from 11-18 December 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The plan for this show being re-created at the Bristol Old Vic was to have both a live and a virtual audience. Sadly, Bristol is in Tier 3 at […]
‘It’s a joy to perform every time’: Marc Antolin stars in Wise Children’s live-stream of Kneehigh’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
Musical Theatre Review’s Clare Walters spoke to actor MARC ANTOLIN in his home of Port Talbot in Wales where he had been isolating prior to travelling to Bristol to start rehearsing for Wise Children’s broadcast of Kneehigh’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk at the Old Vic. The show is being live-streamed until 5 December 2020 […]
Amélie’s Audrey Brisson and Chris Jared release new music videos
Amélie stars Audrey Brisson and Chris Jared have recorded three new videos featuring songs from the hit show in advance of the 2020 Olivier Awards. Recorded in their home with their newborn daughter as an audience of one, the couple perform ‘Stay’, ’Halfway’ and ‘Half Asleep’ from the hit show which has been nominated for […]
Olivier Awards 2020 – A video refresher of the musical nominees
It feels like forever ago that we could simply hop down to the West End and – perhaps after a spot of bank robbery to afford a ticket – bask in the brilliance of some of the most spectacular musicals London has ever seen. Presumably, all the nominees at this year’s delayed Olivier Awards deserve […]
London cast recording of Amélie to be released
Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals will release the Original London Cast Recording of Amélie in digital form on Friday (5 June 2020). Now available for pre-order, the recording features the cast of 13 actor-musicians who took to the stage at The Other Palace for the successful London transfer run of the Watermill Theatre’s hit production […]
& Juliet leads the Olivier Awards 2020 nominations followed by Fiddler, Dear Evan Hansen and Mary Poppins
New British musical & Juliet topped the list of Olivier Awards 2020 nominations with recognition in nine categories. Once again illustrating the range and diversity of musical theatre currently playing in the West End, the three shows to attract the most Olivier nominations are all genre favourites with Trevor Nunn’s revival of the classic Fiddler […]
Amélie The Musical – The Other Palace
Amélie The Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 1 February 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Enchantingly bizarre, charming throughout and sumptuously produced, Amélie The Musical, is the perfect ‘alternative’ festive offering this year at The Other Palace, a venue that since its relatively recent inception has always at […]
Nominees for UK Theatre Awards 2019
Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s The Color Purple, Sheffield Theatres’ Standing At The Sky’s Edge and the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester’s West Side Story will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards next month. The three hit shows were among the list of nominees for the 2019 awards […]
London season at The Other Palace for Amelie The Musical
The Watermill Theatre’s sold-out production of the critically-acclaimed musical version of hit French film Amélie will follow its current UK tour with a Christmas season in London. Starring French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson (The Grinning Man, Bristol Old Vic) in the title role, the hit production will play a limited season at The […]
Danny Mac to join tour of Amelie
British actor Danny Mac will star opposite French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson in the UK tour of the critically-acclaimed musical version of hit French film Amélie. The former Hollyoaks star whose theatre credits include On the Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and an award-winning performance in the UK touring production of […]
Pinocchio at the National Theatre – first look at cast and creatives in rehearsal
The National Theatre has released the first images of the cast and creative team in rehearsals for the eagerly-anticipated world premiere of Pinocchio. Directed by John Tiffany, the director of the award-winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Pinocchio has been written by Dennis Kelly, the co-writer of the smash hit Matilda the Musical. Joe […]
La Strada – The Other Palace
La Strada continues at The Other Palace, London until 8 July. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Federico Fellini’s 1954 film La Strada (‘The Road’) chronicles the story of Gelsomina, a plaintive young girl who is sold by her poverty-stricken mother into servitude to the brutal strongman Zampanò. Their journey across the […]
La Strada – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Touring
La Strada continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until 18 February before embarking on a national tour (the show receives its London premiere in July as part of the newly announced season at The Other Palace). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Possibly it would be apt treat La Strada, based on one […]
