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Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! – Ambassadors Theatre
Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! continues at the Ambassadors Theatre until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bringing undeniable joy and murder-themed escapism to London audiences, this is surely set to be a “killer” London run.
Cast for West End run of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The full cast has been announced for the West End transfer season of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! at the Ambassadors Theatre. The show was the winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022.
West End date set for Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
Award-winning musical comedy Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! is heading for London’s West End to play a limited season at the Ambassadors Theatre.
London workshop debut for Maid Marian and her merry men A New Musical* (*sort of)
Benji Sperring will direct a workshop presentation of a new musical based on Tony Robinson’s hit TV show Maid Marian and her Merry Men later this month. Developed by Sperring and featuring a book, music and lyrics by Olivier Award-winning writer Vikki Stone, the first look performance of Maid Marian and her merry men A New Musical* (*sort of) will take place at London’s Soho Theatre on 25 January.
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Underbelly, George Square – Udderbelly until 27 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Cast and creatives for new-look Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The producers of the new expanded version of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! have confirmed the full cast and creative team for the hit show’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe encore and Bristol and Manchester dates.
Edinburgh encore plus Bristol and Manchester dates for MTR Award-winner Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
A new expanded version of Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! will return to Edinburgh this summer before playing dates in Bristol and Manchester.
New booking period for UK premiere production of Disney’s Newsies
The producers of the UK premiere of Tony Award-winning musical Newsies at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre have announced a new booking period with tickets now on sale for performances through to 30 July 2023.
Newsies the Musical – Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
Newsies the Musical continues at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre until 16 April 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The show really belongs to the spectacular dancers.
Newsies premiere – cast revealed
Michael Ahomka-Lindsay and Bronté Barbé will lead the cast for the long-awaited UK premiere of Tony Award-winning musical Newsies at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre this festive season. Black British Theatre Award 2022 nominee Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Legally Blonde, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will play Jack Kelly opposite Bronté Barbé (Oklahoma!, Chichester Festival Theatre, Beautiful […]
Writers celebrate second Musical Theatre Review Award as Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder wins Best Musical at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder at Roundabout @ Summerhall has won Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022. It is the second time writers Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones have won the accolade, they also took away MTR’s inaugural prize for A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super […]
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I was promised that I would laugh – and that’s a safe promise in this runaway hit show. A packed audience laughed practically the whole way through. Playing Kathy and Stella […]
What’s New Pussycat? – Birmingham Rep
What’s New Pussycat? continues at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until 14 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Surely it was only a matter of time until a ‘jukebox’ musical featuring the back catalogue of Welsh singing superstar Tom Jones came along. And now it has, in the shape of the highly impressive What’s […]
Gemma Sutton & Bronté Barbé to feature in London performances of new musical Ride
West End stars Gemma Sutton and Bronté Barbé will take the lead in two special semi-staged workshop performances of award-winning new musical RIDE. With music and lyrics by Jack Williams and a book and lyrics by Freya Catrin Smith who will co-direct with Adam Lenson, the musical will play two performances at the Garrick Theatre […]
Casts announced for MTFestUK at the Turbine Theatre
A number of West End stars have been lined up to appear in each of the new musicals chosen to feature in the programme for Paul Taylor-Mills’ MTFestUK at the Turbine Theatre next month. Running from 3-15 February 2020 at the newly opened venue on the banks of the Thames in Battersea, the second MTFestUK […]
Oklahoma! – Chichester Festival Theatre
Oklahoma! continues at the Festival Theatre, Chichester until 7 September 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Chichester’s reputation in its choice of musicals has been extremely high with the audience being treated to brand new shows or forgotten treasures unearthed. Therefore many people may have been disappointed when it was announced that the […]
Striking 12 – Union Theatre
Striking 12 continues at the Union Theatre, London until 23 December 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ On the face of it, Hans Christian Andersen’s short story The Little Match Girl is far from the ideal basis for an uplifting Christmas musical (spoiler: an abused girl tries to keep herself warm by burning the matches […]
‘We’ve really been part of the creative process’: Bronté Barbé stars in the brand new UK production of Striking 12 at the Union Theatre
After her role in the UK tour of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, as the legendary singer-songwriter, BRONTÉ BARBÉ is starring in the UK production of GrooveLily’s hit Off-Broadway musical Striking 12. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl, Striking 12 tells the story of Brendan (played by Declan Bennett, recently praised for […]
Bronté Barbé and Declan Bennett head cast of Striking 12
Casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway musical Striking 12 at London’s Union Theatre this Christmas. Bronté Barbé (The Wild Party, The Other Palace) and Declan Bennett (Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will lead a cast that also includes Danielle Kassaraté (Dusty, Charing Cross Theatre), Kate Robson-Stuart (Once, New Wolsey Theatre/Queen’s Theatre) […]
Girlfriends in Concert – Bishopsgate Institute
Girlfriends in Concert continues at the Bishopsgate Institute, London until 3 November 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With a five star cast led by Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels this performance is unmissable. If you by some chance you can’t get along, then it’s being recorded live for release on […]
Video released of Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels singing a track from LMTO’s Girlfriends
Video has been released of Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels performing the song ‘Seize the Moment’ from Howard Goodall’s Girlfriends as a preview of the upcoming London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s version of the show at the Bishopsgate Institute early next month. Due to play a total of three shows at the Bishopsgate Institute on the […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff and Touring
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical continues at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff until 4 November and then tours until 23 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Now two months into its UK tour, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical tells an unusual, although not unique, story, for the singer/songwriter […]
Bronté Barbé to play title role in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical tour
Bronté Barbé will play Carole King in the UK and Ireland tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Bronté will be joined by Kane Oliver Parry as King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, Amy Ellen Richardson as Cynthia Weil, Matthew Gonsalves as Barry Mann, Carol Royle as […]
Jest End – Waterloo East Theatre
Jest End continues at Waterloo East Theatre, London until 18 December. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Musical parody revue Jest End likes to think of itself as London’s answer to Forbidden Broadway, the perennial New York comedy show which has had several successful excursions over here. And there’s an element of […]
Full cast for Jest End at the Waterloo East Theatre
Casting has been announced for satirical musical Jest End ahead of its return to Waterloo East Theatre on 29 November for a limited run. The 2016 cast includes Jemma Alexander (Bat Out of Hell, Manchester Opera House and London Coliseum, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Waterloo East Theatre); Bronte Barbe (Shrek the Musical, UK and […]
Summer At the Musicals to raise funds for Royal Variety charity
A host of female singers are lining up to play a special charity concert in London’s West End on Sunday 28 August. Produced by Paul Burton and Paul Burton Productions and directed by Carole Todd, Summer At the Musicals at the Phoenix Artist Club will raise funds for the Royal Variety Charity (formerly the Entertainment […]
Shrek the Musical – casting update for second year on tour
Full casting has been revealed for the UK and Ireland tour of Shrek the Musical as it enters its second year on the road. The 2015 company will star Dean Chisnall who will continue his role as beloved swamp-dwelling ogre Shrek, the role he previously played in the West End. Bronté Barbé will also star as damsel in distress Princess Fiona, […]
