Ann Hampton Callaway’s show Sirens of Swing arrives at London’s The Pheasantry this week, from 25-27 October 2024. The Tony-nominated will be performing selections from her highly acclaimed recordings To Ella with Love, From Sassy to Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project and Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration! as well as signature songs from singers Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Etta James and more.
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Nina Kristofferson’s Billie Holiday show to play two dates in London
Multi-award-winning star Nina Kristofferson will bring her hit show celebrating the music of Billie Holiday to London’s Pheasantry next month. The actor, singer and writer of critically acclaimed one-woman shows Nina Kristofferson’s Billie Holiday Story and Nina Kristofferson’s Timeless will return to the capital with Nina Kristofferson Sings Billie Holiday on 12 and 13 August […]
The United States Vs Billie Holiday – Sky Cinema
The United States vs Billie Holiday on Sky Cinema. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As much a movie about a song, ‘Strange Fruit’, and the influence it had on the birth of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s than about the singer, jazz legend Billie Holiday, The United States vs Billie Holiday […]
‘Expect to be immersed in a gorgeous story’: Bernadette Robinson brings Songs For Nobodies to the West End
Written specifically to showcase the extraordinary talents of BERNADETTE ROBINSON, Songs For Nobodies is a 90-minute play featuring songs from five iconic divas: Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, as each of them come into the lives of five ‘nobodies’. Bernadette takes on the divas in her one-woman show as she performs […]
Issy van Randwyck: Songs of the Dazzling Divas – The Pheasantry
Issy van Randwyck: Songs of the Dazzling Divas at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s way back in the last century that I last saw Issy van Randwyck – or Baroness Isabelle of noble Dutch descent, as she was then before becoming Mrs Ed Hall, wife of the artistic director […]
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill – Wyndham’s Theatre
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill continues at the Wyndham’s Theatre, London until 9 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Finally, after a year’s delay while its star produced an unexpected baby, the legendary Audra McDonald’s hypnotic re-creation of jazz singer Billie Holiday’s decline just a few months before her […]
Audra McDonald on Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill in the West End
Following a record-breaking, sold-out Broadway run, six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will make her West End debut at Wyndham’s Theatre this summer, portraying singer Billie Holiday in the one-woman show Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Musical Theatre Review was invited to a special launch event of the production, where McDonald – recently given five stars from […]
Patti Boulaye – Billie and Me – The Pheasantry
Patti Boulaye performed her show Billie and Me at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This is by way of an interim report as during the second half of her show, Billie and Me, Patti Boulaye told us that she had been awake in hospital the previous night with a leg problem, so […]
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill starring Audra McDonald hits the West End in June 2016
Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winner Audra McDonald will make her long-awaited West End debut this summer portraying legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the musical play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. The critically acclaimed production will play a limited engagement at the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre from 25 June to 3 September, having broken box office records at the Circle in […]
Cafe Society Swing – 59E59 Theaters, New York
Cafe Society Swing continues at 59E59 Theaters, New York until 4 January. Those still mourning the demise this past June of After Midnight, the scintillating Broadway revue of music from New York’s legendary Cotton Club, can find some solace in Cafe Society Swing. This new Off-Broadway offering celebrates another ground-breaking Manhattan nightspot, Cafe Society, which […]
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill – Circle in the Square, New York
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill continues at the Circle in the Square theatre, New York, until 1 June. In an arresting note in the programme for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, playwright Lanie Robertson explains ‘Why I Wrote the Play’. “In 1959,” it says, “a boyfriend of mine saw the great Billie […]
Patti Boulaye – Crazy Coqs
Patti Boulaye performs at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 8 March. First of all, I have to declare an interest. Along with thousands of red-blooded males, I was totally smitten by Patti Boulaye when she won the 1978 edition of New Faces, the X Factor of its day, and many a good marriage was put […]
Nina Kristofferson – being Billie Holiday
Musical Theatre Review’s Cameron Smith catches up with actress and singer Nina Kristofferson as she prepares to take her show, the Billie Holiday Story, on tour. As one of the foremost jazz singers of the 20th century, Billie Holiday was a unique talent. Well, it takes one to know one. Nina Kristofferson is not only […]
Natalie Douglas – Crazy Coqs
Natalie Douglas sings Four Women: Nina, Lena, Abbey & Billie at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 15 February. New York jazz and cabaret star Natalie Douglas is one of those performers who fills a room with warmth and sheer loveability just by coming on the stage. Her second residency at the Crazy Coqs, one of […]
