The Last Five Years was reviewed at Reading Rep Theatre where it continues until 11 October 2025. The production then visits the Barn Theatre, Cirencester (17 October to 15 November) and Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio (25 November to 3 January). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
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Special Feature: The Last Five Years at Reading Rep Theatre
The Barn Theatre, Reading Rep Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath co-production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years runs in Reading until 12 October.
Midsummer – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Midsummer continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 22 June 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It’s a cute show with some poignant moments combining raw emotion and entertaining humour.
Cast and creatives for Barn Theatre’s Million Dollar Quartet
The Barn Theatre has unveiled the cast and creative team for the venue’s upcoming revival of rock ‘n’ roll musical Million Dollar Quartet. Due to play the distinctive 200-seat Cirencester venue from 6 June until 16 July 2022, the new production of the Tony Award-winning show will star Joe Bence (Lord Dismiss Us) as Jerry […]
John Owen-Jones, Jessica Daley, Ben Miller & more to take part in live-streamed Ukraine fundraiser
The Barn Theatre and the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham have teamed up to host Stand Up For Ukraine, a night that will benefit refugees fleeing the Ukraine conflict. The show can be live streamed worldwide at 7.30pm BST on Saturday 2 April 2022. The night will consist of a variety line-up including classical music, opera, comedy, […]
Murder For Two – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Murder For Two – A Killer Musical Comedy continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 5 March 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Yet again another very enjoyable evening at the Barn Theatre Cirencester. The first production in the 2022 Built By Barn season is a new revival production of Kellen […]
The Brothers Grimm Present: Cinderella – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
The Brothers Grimm Present: Cinderella continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 2 January 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The Barn in Cirencester brings a darker side to festive shows this Christmas with its offering of The Brothers Grimm Present: Cinderella. Glass slippers have been swapped for sequinned Converse shoes […]
Now or Never – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Now or Never was streamed from the Barn Theatre, Cirencester. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Since the start of the first lockdown over a year ago, Cirencester’s Barn Theatre has led the way in finding avenues for live theatre in a socially distanced world. Be that live circus shows, YouTube reimaginings […]
First track release from new Barn Theatre associate artist Matthew Harvey
The Barn Theatre has released the first recording of a new song by Matthew Harvey to coincide with the announcement of the appointment of the composer, lyricist and performer as associate artist. Featuring Harvey (Jesus Christ Superstar, Violet) along with fellow West End stars Eloise Davies (Be More Chill, Grease), Tyrone Huntley (Jesus Christ Superstar, […]
The Secret Society of Leading Ladies – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
The Secret Society of Leading Ladies is streaming via the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 7 March 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ How do you solve a problem like our lockdown-induced short attention spans? We have grown impatient after the last year of bingeing on-demand entertainment. We need the serotonin hit […]
Barn Theatre announces interactive musical theatre-themed concert
The Barn Theatre has unveiled plans for an innovative new digital event which will put homebound musical theatre fans in control of the content. Running from 22 February until 7 March 2021, The Secret Society of Leading Ladies puts the spotlight on musical theatre’s most famous females and features performances from some of the West […]
Valentine’s Day date for Built By Barn’s hit production of Daddy Long Legs online
An archive recording of the Barn Theatre’s well-received 2019 version of the award-winning musical Daddy Long Legs will be made available online for a limited number of dates later this month. Directed by Kirstie Davies and starring Ryan Bennett (Jersey Boys) and Rebecca Jayne-Davies (Half A Sixpence), the Built By Barn production played the distinctive […]
Musical Theatre Review critics offer their Top 5 theatre picks from 2020
As each year draws to a close, Musical Theatre Review usually pulls together a round-up of all the productions covered that have received four and five star reviews. After such an extraordinary year, during which any production staged has been a triumph over adversity, such an approach seemed inappropriate. Instead, I asked a small group […]
Marry Me A Little – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Marry Me A Little continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 8 November 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s always an immense pleasure to visit The Barn Theatre in Cirencester. The quality of productions they have produced and collaborated on in the few years since they opened has been astonishing […]
West End stars and Beirut musicians unite for fundraising video
Over 40 artists have united to record a music video of ‘All I Longed To See’ from musical Broken Wings to raise funds for the Red Cross’ Beirut Emergency Appeal set up in the wake of the devastation caused by the explosion on 4 August 2020. The video features West End stars and former cast […]
Claude-Michel Schönberg to make a special guest appearance in The Barn’s Annabel Mutale Reed concert
Tony Award-winning composer, librettist and record producer Claude-Michel Schönberg will be making a special guest appearance in concert The Barn Presents: The Music of Annabel Mutale Reed, celebrating the work of musical theatre playwright, lyricist and director Annabel Mutale Reed. The concert will debut on the Cirencester venue’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter channels on 11 […]
Loserville team to reunite for Barn Theatre’s virtual Elliot Davis concert
Busted’s James Bourne will re-unite (virtually) with his Loserville co-writer Elliot Davis this weekend for the third concert in the Barn Theatre’s new online series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers. Bourne will join an all-star line-up of West End favourites for the musical celebration of the work of the award-winning British composer […]
Barn Theatre launches virtual concert series
Cirencester’s Barn Theatre will launch a new virtual concert series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers on Saturday 9 May 2020. Launching at 7.30pm BST on the venue’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter channels, The Barn Theatre Presents series will begin with a star-studded celebration of the music of the award-winning Welsh songwriters Daniel […]
A Christmas Carol – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
A Christmas Carol continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 11 January 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Scottish singer-songwriter Finn Anderson is on a roll. Straight from a London production of Islander, for which he won the Musical Theatre Review award for Best Musical at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he […]
