Million Dollar Quartet continues at The Arts at Marble Arch, London until 6 December 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There is a whole lot of shaking going on in the auditorium and audiences are sent home on an invigorated high.
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Million Dollar Quartet London season cast confirmed
The full cast has been revealed for the upcoming London transfer of the Barn Theatre’s hit production of the Tony Award-winning rock ‘n’ roll musical Million Dollar Quartet.
Mercury Theatre and the Barn Theatre to co-produce English premiere of Midsummer
Colchester’s Mercury Theatre and Cirencester’s the Barn Theatre are partnering for the first time to produce the English premiere production of David Greig and Gordon McIntyre’s play with songs Midsummer.
Fundraising anniversary stream for acclaimed Now or Never
The Barn Theatre’s acclaimed recording of its ambitious live stream concert performance of song cycle Now or Never will receive a one-night-only anniversary stream next month to raise money for The Suzie Mackie Fellowship. Originally performed at the Barn Theatre in 2021, the digital song cycle which marked Matthew Harvey’s first collaboration with the Barn […]
Cast for Barn Theatre’s re-imagined Murder For Two
Actor-musician graduate in 2020 Lee O’ Reilly will make his professional debut in The Barn Theatre’s new production of musical comedy Murder For Two next month. O’Reilly will play Officer Marcus Moscowicz alongside Sam Denia (Anton Chekhov’s Sketches and Vaudevilles) as the Suspects in the opening production of the 2022 Built By Barn season at […]
Cinderella’s Ivano Turco & Caleb Roberts are among the winners at the Black British Theatre Awards 2021
There was a double win for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Cinderella at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards with two members of the cast – Ivano Turco and Caleb Roberts – winning acting prizes. Decided entirely by public vote, the awards took place at the illustrious Old Finsbury Town Hall, London, hosted by Grammy, […]
Barn Theatre to premiere new song cycle Now or Never with live digital concert
Casting has been confirmed for the Barn Theatre’s most ambitious live-stream to date, the premiere of new song cycle Now or Never next month. Marking Matthew Harvey’s first collaboration with the Barn since the composer, lyricist and performer took up the post of associate artist at the popular Cirencester venue, the live ‘one-shot’ digital concert […]
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Hit revival of Marry Me a Little to be streamed by the Barn Theatre
The Barn Theatre’s recent critically acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little will be streamed digitally later this month. Forced to end its run four days earlier than planned on 4 November 2020 due to the second lockdown, a recording filmed during the production’s final performances will be available for home viewing from […]
Cast for Barn Theatre’s Recovery productions of Marry Me A Little and Peter Pan
Rob Houchen (Les Misérables) and Celinde Schoenmaker (The Phantom of the Opera) will take to the stage in the Barn Theatre’s new revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little. Directed by Kirk Jameson, the production will reunite the stars who previously appeared together in the 2019 London premiere of the Adam Guettel musical The […]
Casting for BarnFest’s The World Goes ’Round
Casting has been announced for the new co-production of Kander and Ebb’s musical revue The World Goes ’Round at The Barn Theatre’s first summer outdoor festival later this month. Co-produced by The Barn Theatre and Piers Cottee-Jones, the cast consists of George Arvidson (The Outpost, Les Misérables), Jenny Fitzpatrick (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Ghost), […]
Line-up for Barn Theatre’s Dominic Powell online concert
The Barn Theatre has announced the line-up of performers for the sixth virtual concert in the venue’s popular on-line series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers. Celebrating the work of actor, writer and composer Dominic Powell, the concert this Saturday (8 August 2020) will include performances from Andrew Patrick-Waller (Brooklyn, Bat Out of […]
Cast for Amies and Clements virtual concert
Six’s Jodie Steele, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s Hiba Elchikhe and Shrek’s Marcus Ayton will be among the West End stars featured in this weekend’s Barn Theatre’s instalment in the popular online series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers. Released on 27 June 2020 at 7.30pm BST on the Cirencester venue’s Facebook, YouTube and […]
Line-up for Barn Theatre’s celebration of the work of Finn Anderson
Cirencester’s Barn Theatre has unveiled another star-studded line-up for the second concert in the venue’s new virtual series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers. Celebrating the work of Scottish musical theatre composer and singer/songwriter Finn Anderson, the concert will be released on 23 May 2020 at 7.30pm BST on the venue’s Facebook, YouTube […]
Daddy Long Legs – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Daddy Long Legs continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 2 November 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ When Fred Astaire played the romantic lead opposite a gamine-like Leslie Caron in the 1955 film of Jean Webster’s novel Daddy Long Legs – all about an unknown benefactor falling for the feisty […]
Just So – The Musical – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Just So – The Musical continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 13 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is 33 years now since composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe, then students at Exeter University, won the first-ever Vivian Ellis Prize with the musical Just So, currently settling in as the […]
New production of Stiles and Drewe’s Just So to play The Barn in Cirencester
Stiles and Drewe’s musical re-working of Rudyard Kipling’s classic Just So Stories will be the final production in The Barn Theatre’s autumn/winter season. Following on from the Cirencester venue’s hit launch production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, the family-orientated new production of Just So will feature a cast of actor/musicians directed by […]
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 4 August 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The striking inaugural season at Cirencester’s new £4.5 million Barn Theatre is ending with a gruelling, but at times also tender revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1992 work The Rise and Fall […]
Barn Theatre’s first season to close with The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
The Barn Theatre’s critically-acclaimed and audience pleasing inaugural season will conclude with a new production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. Following on from the Cirencester venue’s hit launch production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, director Michael Strassen will take the helm of The Barn’s version of Jim Cartwright’s much-loved […]
The Barn’s Secret Garden run is extended
Following on from a critically-acclaimed and audience pleasing opening last month, the Barn Theatre’s launch production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden will continue its run until 28 April 2018. Director Dominic Shaw’s folk inspired, actor-musician interpretation of the classic Broadway musical has proved to be the perfect inaugural production for the Cirencester […]
The Secret Garden – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
The Secret Garden continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 15 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musicals are often the fall-back option for opening productions at new theatres, but artistic director Iwan Lewis has made an imaginative choice in reworking Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s Tony-winning The Secret Garden to launch […]
The Barn Theatre’s inaugural production The Secret Garden opens this week
The Tony award-winning musical The Secret Garden is the inaugural production at The Barn Theatre in Cirencester. Opening on 16 March and due to run until 15 April, the first production at the 200-seat venue follows three years of planning, rebuilding and technical development. Directed by Dominic Shaw whose West End credentials include Beautiful – The Carole […]
Cirencester’s Barn Theatre to open with The Secret Garden
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden will be the inaugural production at distinctive new space, the Barn Theatre in Cirencester. Opening on 16 March and due to run until 15 April, the first production at the 200-seat venue follows three years of planning, rebuilding and technical development. The ambitious project to create a major […]
