You Are Here continues at the Southwark Playhouse until 12 June 2021, with two live-streamed performances on 22 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In You Are Here – Southwark’s first offering in front of a live audience after lockdown – pocket rocket Wendi Peters is Diana, a suburban Chicago housewife who’s inspired by […]
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Extra dates for world premiere of Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks musical
The world premiere run of the major new musical based on the much-loved Disney classic Bedknobs and Broomsticks has been extended in response to high public demand. With performances due to begin at the Newcastle Theatre Royal on 14 August 2021 ahead of a UK tour which includes a five-week Christmas season at the Leeds […]
You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse – full cast announced
Full casting has been announced for the re-scheduled UK premiere of You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse. Rebecca Lock (Curtains, Wyndham’s Theatre, Mamma Mia! Novello Theatre), Phil Adéle (Our Town, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Little Shop of Horrors UK tour) and Jordan Frazier (Nina Simone, Kenny Leon Theatre Company, Bat Out of Hell, UK […]
Dates change for live theatre UK premiere of You Are Here
The UK premiere of You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse has been moved back a few weeks following the unveiling of the Government’s ‘roadmap back to normality’. Originally due to run from 29 April until 22 May 2021, the production will now begin preview performances on 17 May, the earliest date set by Government to […]
Southwark Playhouse announces UK premiere of You Are Here starring Wendi Peters
Wendi Peters will take centre stage in the UK premiere of You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse from 29 April until 22 May 2021. Presented by the newly-launched theatre company The Grey Area, the production will be performed live from The Large to either in-person socially distanced audiences or via live-stream to home audiences for […]
Bedknobs & Broomsticks The Musical to fly into UK theatres
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat producer Michael Harrison will present the world premiere of a major new musical based on the much-loved Disney classic Bedknobs and Broomsticks in the UK next summer. Featuring the original songs by the legendary Sherman Brothers (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins), the 1971 part live action part animation […]
The Adventures of Pinocchio – Ambassadors Theatre
The Adventures of Pinocchio continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 30 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Adventures of Pinocchio allows an incredibly talented cast of under 23 year olds from the British Theatre Academy to showcase their wonderful work. The show is written by Neil Bartram (music and […]
British Theatre Academy to stage musical double at the Ambassadors Theatre
The British Theatre Academy is lining up youth productions of Neil Bartram and Brian Hill’s The Adventures of Pinocchio and Jason Robert Brown’s 13 The Musical to play London’s Ambassadors Theatre this summer. Following on from the success of previous BTA summer shows, The Secret Garden at the Ambassadors last year and Annie Jr at the […]
The Theory of Relativity – Drayton Arms Theatre
The Theory of Relativity continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 13 June. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Eight vibrant young talents give 100 per cent to some excellent ballads, amusing duets and even a wild-eyed monologue by an obsessive germaphobe in this very American chamber musical that first saw the light of day in Toronto two years ago. Written […]
The Story of My Life musical has German-speaking premiere
Moving Stage Productions will present the German-speaking premiere of the Neil Bartram/Brian Hill penned musical The Story of My Life (in German Die Geschichte meines Lebens) at the Theater Center Forum from 22 October 2014. The show, which opened on Broadway in 2009 starring Will Chase and Malcolm Gets, traces the childhood of two friends, Alvin and […]
