Alice by Heart is performed by two casts of London School of Musical Theatre students at the Bridewell Theatre, London until 2 May 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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Kidults the Musical – Bridewell Theatre
Kidults! The Musical continues at the Bridewell Theatre until 26 October 2024. The show is also playing at the Courtyard Theatre from 29 October to 2 November and at 229 London from 4 to 6 November. Star rating: one star ★
BYMT’s production of Angry Salmon heads to the Bridewell Theatre in August
New British musical Angry Salmon by Jordan Paul Clarke is making its London debut this summer. BYMT’s production is swimming into London’s Bridewell Theatre from 4-6 August 2023 (press night is 4 August).
Ian McKellen adds star quality to am dram society’s Little Shop of Horrors
A London amateur dramatic society’s production of monster musical Little Shop of Horrors has been given a boost of superstar power by Ian McKellen. The multi-award-winning stage and screen actor’s distinctive tones will be heard narrating Geoids Musical Theatre’s version of the hit show at London’s Bridewell Theatre from 26-30 April 2022. McKellen’s guest star contribution […]
British Youth Music Theatre presents comic-book musical Nightshade
British Youth Music Theatre is presenting its epic comic-book musical Nightshade at London’s Bridewell Theatre from 13-14 August 2021, featuring a cast of young people aged 11 to 21 years old. In this epic new musical by Ellis Kerkhoven (book, lyrics and direction) and Adam Gerber (composer and musical director), you can expect strong roles, […]
Cabaret Macabre – Bridewell Theatre
Cabaret Macabre at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Anybody who has seen the musical Six, in which the wives of Henry VIII sing about the hands they were dealt and attempt to reclaim their own narrative, will recognise its genes in British Youth Music Theatre’s Cabaret Macabre. Director and book writer Jessica Walker and composer Joe Atkins set […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Oh My, Nellie Bly
Oh My, Nellie Bly was performed by students from the Musical Theatre Academy at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Nellie Bly was a ground-breaking 19th-century American journalist, hardly known in the UK but better known in the States. She posed as an inmate in order to research a searing exposé, […]
London School of Musical Theatre – Lock Up Your Daughters
Lock Up Your Daughters, performed by London School of Musical Theatre students at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ It was a courageuos move by the LSMT to follow a full-proof show like A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, with Lock Up Your Daughters, for although it had been an instant […]
London School of Musical Theatre – A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, performed by London School of Musical Theatre students at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ Sondheim is notoriously tricky, farce is notoriously tricky. So put them together and the resultant musical in the wrong hands can be an accident waiting to happen. At […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Dangerous Daughters
Dangerous Daughters, performed by student from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA), continues at the Bridewell Theatre until 16 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Premiered in 2010 by the MTA’s inaugural intake, Dangerous Daughters (writer Nick Stimson, composed Annemarie Lewis Thomas) is a show which has matured and developed. And it’s […]
Lanza – Bridewell Theatre
Lanza was performed at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ One sensational entry out of four instalments in the Opera in the City Festival, Lanza tells the incredible journey of the hugely popular singer and actor Mario Lanza who, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, rose to fame […]
Musical Theatre Academy – The Venus Factor
The Venus Factor, presented by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA), continues at the Bridewell Theatre, London until 12 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Venus thinks sex drives the world. Her sparky son Cupid says it’s romance. Thus begins a competition to see who is right. Lust versus love. Meanwhile, in the mortal world, two […]
London School of Musical Theatre – Redhead
Redhead was performed by students from the London School of Musical Theatre at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s a real treat to go to a show not really knowing what to expect and then discovering a wonderful ‘lost musical’ performed by an exciting cast. And so it was at the […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Something Old, Something New
Something Old, Something New 2015 was presented by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA) at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ There is much to enjoy in this vibrant, energetic revue which really shows what MTA’s 19 talented second-year students can do. MTA policy is to showcase its second year at this […]
