13 was performed by the British Theatre Academy at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ This show is initially a bit wooden, probably because of youthful nervousness and inexperience. But it warms up so that 90 minutes later the post curtain call, full cast dance is exuberantly, infectiously […]
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The Color Purple music video released to raise funds for BTA
Five West End stars have reunited with the British Theatre Academy ensemble from the BTA’s critically-acclaimed production The Color Purple in Concert to record a fundraising single. Featuring Marisha Wallace (Waitress, Dreamgirls), Wendy Mae Brown (Ghost, The Lorax), Cavin Cornwall (Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors), Tyrone Huntley (Dreamgirls, Jesus Christ Superstar), and Hugh Maynard (Miss […]
Stiles and Drewe and BTA launch Musical Theatre Young Singer Award
Award-winning composers Stiles and Drewe have joined forces with the British Theatre Academy to launch a search for the next generation of West End talent. Youngsters aged six to 18 from across the four nations of the UK are being invited to submit video entries for the annual Musical Theatre Young Singer Award. The videos […]
Dogfight – Southwark Playhouse
Dogfight continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 31 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The last London professional staging of Dogfight, at the same venue five years ago, occurred at a very different time for its composers. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s follow-up, Dear Evan Hansen, had yet to hit Broadway, and the […]
My Son Pinocchio Jr. – Southwark Playhouse
My Son Pinocchio Jr. continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 14 August 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Stars to join British Theatre Academy performers for special performance of Godspell
West End favourites Laura Baldwin, Luke Bayer, Max Bowden, Rachel John and Ramin Karimloo will appear alongside students from the British Theatre Academy in a semi-staged production of Godspell at London’s Cadogan Hall on 29 June 2019. Announcing the line-up of guest performers, BTA artistic director Matthew Chandler said: “I am so excited about this […]
Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards ceremony set for 29 January 2019
The Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2018 will be presented on Tuesday 29 January 2019 at the Prince of Wales Theatre. With regular guest speaker Arthur Smith as presenter, the informal event will mark host Mark Shenton’s final appearance as Critics’ Circle Drama Section chairman. The respected arts journalist and theatre critic will follow his nine […]
Spring Awakening – Stockwell Playhouse
Spring Awakening at Stockwell Playhouse, London. Star rating: three stars ★★★✩✩ Spring Awakening The Musical is not easy. Adapted from Frank Wedekind’s scandalous 1891 original play, it’s a coming of age story with themes charting sexual frustration to eponymous awakening, societal pressures from school to home life, the conservation of innocence by the older generation, parental abuse and teen […]
Bring It On: The Musical – Southwark Playhouse
Bring It On: The Musical continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 1 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musical adaptations of moderately successful films are nothing new. Adaptations which proceed to throw out all the existing characters and plot lines, leaving only the barest resemblance to the original, are rarer. […]
British Theatre Academy brings In The Heights back to London
The British Theatre Academy will present two special performances of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning In The Heights later this month, featuring a cast of 35 of the academy’s most accomplished performers. The rehearsed staging of the Hamilton creator’s first Broadway hit will take place at The Stockwell Playhouse on 27 and 28 October. Directed by Dean Johnson, the […]
13 The Musical – Ambassadors Theatre
13 The Musical continues at the Ambassadors Theatre until 23 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In Jason Robert Brown’s 13, young New Yorker Evan Goldman finds himself uprooted from home just weeks before his bar mitzvah, and after his parents’ divorce moves with his mother to a sleepy Indiana town. […]
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 […]
