Barnum was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury where it continues until 28 March 2026. The tour continues until 31 October 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A very enjoyable show with incredibly skilled performers.
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Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2024
A selection of Musical Theatre Review critics were asked to choose their ‘show of the year’ from all the productions they had seen in 2024. As you can see below, some struggled to pick just one!
Barnum – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
Barnum continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 8 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Don’t be a sucker, get tickets while you can and enjoy this exuberant revival at the Watermill.
Newbury’s Watermill to stage Barnum revival
A revival of the classic American musical Barnum will be the centrepiece of the 2024 season at the Watermill Theatre this summer.
Five Questions With: Andrew Wright
The Wright Agency – led by double Olivier Award nominee, double WhatsOnStage and Carl Alan Award-winning choreographer ANDREW WRIGHT – was launched in September 2020 to represent and most importantly celebrate choreographers and associate choreographers in the UK. The agency represents 11 of the UK’s emerging choreographic talent. Its mission is to support those who […]
Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory – exclusive new production images
Comedian and writer Marcus Brigstocke is currently take on the title role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Barnum which opened last week. Here our official photographer Roy Tan offered a brand new collection of production images. This first major London revival of the show since the classic American musical first played the West End 36 years […]
Barnum – Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Barnum continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 3 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Barnum – “The Greatest Show on Earth” – has, like some double-jointed contortionist worthy of the titular showman, managed to flex, twist and squeeze its way into one of London’s smallest theatres. And the […]
Interview – Celinde Schoenmaker on playing the real-life Jenny Lind in Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory
CELINDE SCHOENMAKER is best known for playing big roles in big West End shows – notably and most famously Fantine in Les Misérables (2013, her West End debut, and again in 2014) and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (2015-17). But she’s about to open in one of London’s smaller houses, the Menier Chocolate […]
Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory – Marcus Brigstocke and Laura Pitt-Pulford lead casting
Comedian and writer Marcus Brigstocke (Spamalot) will take on the title role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Barnum which begins previewing on 25 November ahead of an opening night on 5 December. The first major London revival of the show since the classic American musical first played the West End 36 years ago, […]
Barnum to be revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory has unveiled plans for the first major London revival of Barnum 36 years after the classic American musical played the West End. Opening on 5 December, with previews from 25 November, the production is due to run until 3 March 2018. The story of P.T. Barnum, the 19th century travelling circus […]
Linzi Hateley – Crazy Coqs
Linzi Hateley continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 21 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Linzi Hateley opens and closes her cabaret with ‘True Colours’, perhaps a metaphor for her act which looks back on her life and her 28 years on the stage. Inevitably her starting point was playing, at 17, […]
Just Jim Dale – Still Carrying On – Vaudeville Theatre
Just Jim Dale – Still Carrying On continues at the Vaudeville Theatre, London until 20 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ “What are you off to see at the theatre?” asks my 18-year-old babysitter. “It’s a one-man show,” I reply, “performed by Jim Dale. He’s best known in this country for appearing in 11 Carry On movies. […]
Chichester season – A Damsel in Distress joins Mack and Mabel
Chichester marks its first full season following its major redevelopment with two major musicals in the Festival Theatre, the previously announced Michael Ball in Mack and Mabel, directed by Jonathan Church with choreography by Stephen Mear, and a new stage version of A Damsel in Distress, directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford. A Damsel in Distress (30 May–27 June) has music and lyrics […]
Jim Dale brings his Off-Broadway one-man show to the West End
Following his Off-Broadway success in New York, Tony Award winner, two-time Grammy Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Jim Dale will bring his critically acclaimed show, Just Jim Dale, to London’s West End in May this year. Previewing from 26 May (press night is 28 May) at the Vaudeville Theatre, where Dale made his West End musical debut […]
Barnum – Bristol Hippodrome and touring
Barnum continues at the Bristol Hippodrome until 27 September and then on national tour until August 2015. When Cameron Mackintosh’s revival of the circus musical Barnum played at the Chichester Festival Theatre last year (appropriately enough in a grand marquee as the main house was being refurbished), it was greeted with a clutch of unfavourable reviews. […]
Just Jim Dale – Roundabout Theatre Company
Just Jim Dale continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, New York, until 10 August. The spirit of English music hall informs almost every moment of the new Off-Broadway solo offering simply but aptly entitled, Just Jim Dale. And together with Dale’s more-than-triple threat talents as singer, dancer, physical comic, actor and raconteur, it […]
Hairspray first of musical-packed Curve season
New productions of Hairspray, Water Babies, The Sound of Music and Barnum are all heading to the Leicester Curve in 2014. Not long now until the venue’s new production of Olivier Award-winning musical Hairspray opens (28 February–5 April, press night is 5 March), staged by the venue’s artistic director Paul Kerryson. Leading the cast are: David […]
