I Can Die Too continues at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre until 2 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A show that lives on long after the curtain – virtuoso performances all round.
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Productions of Once and My Fair Lady to feature in Alan Cumming’s first Pitlochry Festival Theatre season
A revival of Once and a major new production of My Fair Lady will feature in Alan Cumming’s inaugural season as artistic director of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
UK premiere of Tony-nominated If/Then to star Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis will star in the long-awaited UK premiere of the Tony-nominated If/Then early next year.
101 Dalmatians – Leicester Curve and Touring
101 Dalmatians was reviewed at Leicester Curve where it continues until 27 July 2024. The tour continues until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s apparent how much work has gone into tightening 101 Dalmatians since the Regent’s Park run, and it’s all the better for it. A colourful and fun musical, with plenty of bark and bite to make it a great watch for all the family.
Sister Act – Dominion Theatre
Sister Act continues at the Dominion Theatre, London until 31 August 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Shining brightly on that Dominion stage, Sister Act is really is heaven-sent, and watching it should become a ‘habit’ that never needs to be broken. A joyful noise, indeed.
The Time Traveller’s Wife: A New Musical – Apollo Theatre
The Time Traveller’s Wife: A New Musical is booking at the Apollo Theatre, London until 2 March 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Go for the gorgeous story you may already love, be wowed by the impeccable stagecraft, and remember the remarkable lead performances for the rest of your life.
Sister Act – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Touring
Sister Act continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until 14 October 2023, before continuing on its UK tour until 5 October 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical original cast album to be released
Sony Masterworks Broadway will release the original cast recording of The Time Traveller’s Wife later this month.
More cast confirmed for The Time Traveller’s Wife’s West End debut
Producer Colin Ingram has unveiled further casting for the West End debut of the world premiere production of the stage musical adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveller’s Wife at the Apollo Theatre in the autumn.
Sister Act West End encore for Beverley Knight and Alexandra Burke
Olivier Award-winner Beverley Knight will reprise her performance as Deloris Van Cartier when Sister Act The Musical returns to the West End to play the Dominion Theatre early next year.
West End home announced for The Time Traveller’s Wife
The world premiere production of the stage musical adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveller’s Wife will make its West End debut at the Apollo Theatre in the autumn.
Sister Act – Curve Leicester and Touring
Sister Act continues at Curve Leicester until 29 October 2022, then tours until 27 January 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Five Questions With: Jeremy Secomb
JEREMY SECOMB is playing the villainous Curtis Jackson in the UK and Ireland tour of Sister Act The Musical, following the show’s hit run at London’s Eventim Apollo. He appears alongside Sandra Marvin as Deloris Van Cartier, Lesley Joseph as Mother Superior, Clive Rowe as Eddie Souther and Lizzie Bea as Sister Mary Robert. Jeremy’s […]
David Hunter and Joanna Woodward to star in The Time Traveller’s Wife
David Hunter and Joanna Woodward will take on the central roles in the much-anticipated stage musical adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveller’s Wife. Hunter, whose extensive musical theatre credits include Waitress in the West End and on tour, Kinky Boots at the Adelphi and Once at the Phoenix Theatre, will play the time […]
Auditions planned for The Time Traveller’s Wife
The much-anticipated stage musical adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveller’s Wife is holding auditions to find three local children to play the role of Young Clare. Due to premiere at Storyhouse in Chester ahead of a West End transfer, the production will hold the auditions on 25 July at 12 noon. Applicants should […]
Jennifer Saunders, Beverley Knight, Keala Settle, Lesley Joseph, Clive Rowe and Lizzie Bea announced for Sister Act The Musical
Casting has been announced for the new production of Sister Act The Musical at London’s Eventim Apollo from 19 July to 28 August 2022. Jennifer Saunders will star as Mother Superior alongside Beverley Knight as Deloris Van Cartier, Keala Settle as Sister Mary Patrick, Lesley Joseph as Sister Mary Lazarus, Clive Rowe as Eddie Souther […]
The Time Traveller’s Wife musical to debut at Chester Storyhouse
The much-anticipated stage musical adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveller’s Wife will premiere at Storyhouse in Chester later this year ahead of a West End transfer. Based on Audrey Niffenegger’s acclaimed debut novel and the New Line Cinema film screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin, the musical will play a two-week season in Chester […]
Song For Nature concert to be streamed on Stream.Theatre before COP26 gathering
The star-packed concert Song For Nature concert will be made available on Stream.Theatre for two nights only as a curtain raiser for the COP26 Climate Change Conference. Aimed at raising awareness of climate change, the show which was first shown on Sky Arts to mark Earth Day on 22 April this year was filmed over […]
More Jennifer Saunders for rescheduled Sister Act The Musical
Producers Jamie Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg have announced extra dates for Jennifer Saunders’ eagerly-anticipated musical theatre debut in the rescheduled UK tour of the new version of Sister Act The Musical. As previously announced the British comedy favourite who was due to play Mother Superior opposite Goldberg’s Deloris Van Cartier at London’s Eventim Apollo in […]
Assassins – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
Assassins continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 26 October 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every time I see Assassins, I like it more and more and this darkly comic Watermill revival of the controversial Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman take on the American dream that “every now and then goes a […]
Sweet Charity – Nottingham Playhouse
Sweet Charity at the Nottingham Playhouse. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Sweet Charity is back in vogue, if it was ever out. The Watermill, Newbury’s wildly popular production has just closed. Over the pond, Marriott Theater in Illinois is mounting an eight-week run through September and October. Long Island’s BroadHollow Theatre will stage it throughout January […]
Rebecca Trehearn to play title role Sweet Charity at Nottingham Playhouse
Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn will take on the title role in the Nottingham Playhouse’s production of Broadway hit Sweet Charity. The Show Boat star will take on the central role of Charity Hope Valentine, the unlucky in love taxi dancer, in the major new production which will play the Nottingham venue from 31 August until […]
Sweeney Todd – Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue
Sweeney Todd continues at Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop, Shaftesbury Avenue, London until 30 May. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s cramped, it’s hot and it’s airless, but this new production of Sweeney Todd might just be the best version you’ll ever experience. And ‘experience’ is definitely the word, as this teeny-tiny Todd has its actors […]
Tooting Arts Club Sweeney Todd staged in pop-up pie shop on Shaftesbury Avenue
By special arrangement with Cameron Mackintosh, Tooting Arts Club’s acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd is to move to a new home on Shaftesbury Avenue this spring whilst Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop undergoes refurbishment. The pop-up pie shop success story started last October when Tooting Arts offered up lovelorn Mrs Lovett’s infamous pies in a grisly, site-specific […]
Sweeney Todd – Harrington’s pie-and-mash shop, Tooting
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street continues at Harrington’s pie-and-mash shop in Tooting, London, until 29 November. What a remarkable evening – Stephen’s Sondheim’s masterpiece Sweeney Todd in a pie shop in Tooting. Something to tell the grandchildren, a one-off never to be forgotten. Totally brilliant too. Not only a brilliant piece of PR by the Tooting […]
Tooting Arts Club stages Sweeney Todd in London’s oldest pie shop
Tooting Arts Club is planning an intimate staging of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd in London’s oldest pie and mash shop from 21 October to 29 November (press night is 27 October). Audiences will be invited to congregate at Anton’s barber shop across the road before being shown through to Harrington’s Pie and Mash Shop (originally opened […]
