From 25 May, Jamie Muscato will step into the role of The Emcee with Joy Woods as Sally Bowles in the hit West End production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.
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New Cabaret stars among guests of honour for Musical Con
Just under a month after they make their debut as The Emcee and Sally Bowles, Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada will be among the guests of honour at the fourth Musical Con next month.
Music Review: Marisha Wallace – Live in London
Marisha Wallace – Live in London (Westway Music, Center Stage Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Marisha Wallace’s personable, conversational delivery and vocal quality are sublime as ever.
BBC transmission date for National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals 2025
The recording of the National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals 2025 will be broadcast on BBC One and available on iPlayer on 22 March from 6.50pm.
Starlight Express wins big at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2025
The most awarded show of the evening at the 25th annual WhatsOnStage Award was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express, taking home seven out of its nine nominations and winning Best Musical Revival.
The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals – AO Arena, Manchester
The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals was reviewed at the AO Arena Manchester on 27 January 2025 and will be broadcast in the spring on BBC One, BBC Radio 2, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Billy Porter and Marisha Wallace to join cast of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winner Billy Porter and double Olivier Award-nominee Marisha Wallace will join the cast of the multi award-winning West End production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in January.
New cast for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
The multi-award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club will welcome four new principal cast members early next month.
Cabaret – The Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre, New York
Cabaret continues at The Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is still an innovative, perhaps even defining take on one of the great works of musical theatre. Don’t expect the Cabaret to be over any time soon.
Sunset Boulevard wins big at the WhatsOnStage Awards, Guys and Dolls picks up Best Revival and Operation Mincemeat is top New Musical
The big winner of the night at the 24th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards at the London Palladium was Sunset Boulevard with seven awards from its nine nominations.
Cara Delevingne to make stage debut in Cabaret
Model and actress Cara Delevingne will make her stage debut as Sally Bowles alongside Olivier Award-winner Luke Treadaway as The Emcee in the multi-award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club from 11 March 2023.
Michael Ahomka-Lindsay to join Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Newsies’ Michael Ahomka-Lindsay will step into the role of Clifford Bradshaw in the multi-award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club from 11 March 2023.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2023
A selection of critics have chosen their ‘show of the year’ although some struggled to pick just one. The shows represent just a small percentage of productions staged this year, but we hope these ‘top picks’ bring back some happy memories.
Jake Shears and Self Esteem to join cast of Cabaret
Music stars Jake Shears and Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem will step into the central roles in the multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club this month.
New cast announced for West End’s Cabaret
American actors Maude Apatow and Mason Alexander Park will join the cast of the multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End from 29 May 2023.
Five Questions With: Stewart Clarke
STEWART CLARKE has recently joined the West End cast of Les Miserables at London’s Sondheim Theatre, in the role of Javert.
Music Review: Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club – 2021 London Cast Recording
CABARET – London 2021 Cast Recording (Decca Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you cannot get to the show itself, the album is the next best thing.
Brand-new podcast The Mayor of Musical Theatre – in association with Musical Theatre Review – releases its first episode
West End Legend and Mother Goose star Anna-Jane Casey shares backstage secrets from the Stephen Sondheim Old Friends memorial concert, reveals the musical score that most often gets stuck in her head and describes what it’s like to return to panto on new podcast, The Mayor of Musical Theatre.
New podcast in association with Musical Theatre Review: The Mayor of Musical Theatre meets Anna-Jane Casey
West End legend Anna-Jane Casey reveals her favourite currently running West End musical in trailer for new podcast, The Mayor of Musical Theatre. The brand-new podcast The Mayor of Musical Theatre has released a teaser trailer for its first ever season. The show is produced in association with Musical Theatre Review – in the website’s […]
Musicals Mash Up: January 2023
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports Cory English to return to West End’s Back To The Future West End and Broadway actor Cory English will step back into the […]
Aimee Lou Wood and John McCrea join the West End production of Cabaret
The producers of the multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End have announced that BAFTA Award winner Aimee Lou Wood will play Sally Bowles, Olivier Award nominee John McCrea will play The Emcee and Nathan Ives-Moiba will play Cliff Bradshaw from 13 February to 27 May 2023.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2022
A selection of Musical Theatre Review critics were asked to choose their ‘show of the year’ although, as you can see, some struggled to pick just one.
‘We’ll always have Paris’: Cabaret – Lido2 / 42nd Street – Theatre du Chatelet
They might (just) be able to beat us at football but British-based casts sure as hell get their own back with Kander and Ebb’s stupendous Cabaret at the sparkling new Lido2 on the Champs-Elysees and a long-delayed revival of tap-tap-tap triumphant 42nd Street at the regal Theatre du Chatelet down by the Seine.
‘Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!’: Paris prepares for the Kander and Ebb classic Cabaret
The French, who didn’t use to favour Broadway musicals, now turn out in droves to see them and with Cabaret playing at the new Lido2 Theatre on the Champs-Elysees and 42nd Street paying an eagerly-awaited return visit to the Theatre du Chatelet down by the Seine, they have two Broadway musicals to choose from over the festive period. And you don’t have to pay London Kit Kat Club prices for a ticket!
66th Evening Standard Awards – the nominees
Anything Goes, Cabaret, Get Up Stand Up!, Oklahoma! and Spring Awakening will battle it out for the title of Best Musical at the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Cabaret – new prologue company members
The multi award-winning, critically acclaimed Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End will welcome new additions to the prologue company latest this month.
Elijah Ferreira, Julia Cheng and John Patrick Elliott win Stage Debut Awards
Elijah Ferreira, Julia Cheng and John Patrick Elliott were among the winners of The Stage Debut Awards at the weekend. Ferreira took home the Best Performer in a Musical award for the Leeds Playhouse’s production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch while Cheng’s choreography for the Playhouse Theatre production of Cabaret earned her the award […]
Double Stage Debut nominations for Hugh Coles and Ben Joyce
Back to the Future’s Hugh Coles and Jersey Boys’ Ben Joyce will battle it out in two categories at The Stage Debut Awards. The two actors have received nominations in both the Best Performer in a Musical and Best West End Debut categories. In the musical category they will be up against Elijah Ferreira for […]
Five Questions With: Richard Katz
RICHARD KATZ has joined the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End, playing the role of Herr Schultz. Richard is an associate artist with Shakespeare’s Globe Ensemble and an associate at Complicitè. His many theatre credits include Love and Other Acts of Violence at the Donmar […]
Hit production of Cabaret to welcome new Emcee and Sally Bowles
BAFTA nominee Callum Scott Howells and Emmy Award nominee Madeline Brewer will join the cast of the multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London’s West End this autumn. A double BAFTA nominee for his performance in the Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin, Howells (She Loves Me, Menier Chocolate Factory) will […]
Watch Musical Theatre Review’s exclusive video from the Olivier Awards Green Carpet
In this exciting video Musical Theatre Review’s Green Carpet host Andy Oliver chats to nominees and guests at the Olivier Awards on Sunday 10 April 2022 at London’s Royal Albert Hall (with huge thanks to Marc Jason Ali from The Fan Carpet). This was the first time the Olivier Awards had been held as a […]
Cabaret triumphs with seven awards at Olivier Awards 2022 while Back To The Future wins Best New Musical
The winners have been unveiled for this year’s Olivier Awards with Mastercard, British theatre’s biggest night, which took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Jason Manford. The biggest winner of the night was Cabaret, a revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical which has transformed the West End’s Playhouse Theatre […]
Performances and presenter line-up announced for Olivier Awards 2022
With under a week to go until the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard, details have been revealed for British theatre’s most prestigious and glamorous night, including the star-studded list of award presenters and performances. The Olivier Awards take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall – returning after a two-year pandemic hiatus […]
Three wins for Cabaret at Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards but Spring Awakening nabs Best Musical prize
Rebecca Frecknall’s hit revival of Cabaret led the list of winners at the 31st annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, taking home three major awards at the Ham Yard Hotel ceremony. Frecknall’s acclaimed new staging of the 1966 musical won her the Best Director award, while Jessie Buckley was named Best Actress for her performance as […]
Cabaret leads nominations for Olivier Awards 2022
Musicals are once again making their presence felt in the nominations for the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard with the innovative West End revival of Cabaret topping the list with 11 nominations. In the running for the Magic Radio Best Musical Revival, the production which has transformed the Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club […]
Fra Fee and Amy Lennox will lead the West End Cabaret cast change
Fra Fee and Amy Lennox will take on the starring roles in the critically-acclaimed new London production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre) from 21 March until 25 June 2022. Fee (The Ferryman, Royal Court/Gielgud Theatre, London/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York, Candide, Menier Chocolate Factory) will take on the role of […]
Frozen and Back to the Future the Musical win big at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2022
At a ceremony at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre hosted by Jodie Prenger and Tom Read Wilson, the winners of the 22nd annual WhatsOnStage Awards were announced – the only major theatre awards decided entirely by the theatregoers themselves. The big winner of the night was Frozen with seven awards from its 13 nominations, receiving […]
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2021
At the end of each year Musical Theatre Review news editor Angela Thomas normally puts together a round-up of all the shows that have received four and five star reviews during the last 12 months, but this year we thought a different approach might be more appropriate. For a start, MTR wants to congratulate all […]
Cabaret – Kit Kat Club – Playhouse Theatre
Cabaret continues at the Kit Kat Club, London (Playhouse Theatre). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The post-lockdown rebirth of the West End has been centred around escapism and shelter from the political and economic turmoil of the last few years. Kudos to the producers of Cabaret for backing a very different […]
Frozen leads nominees for 22nd annual WhatsOnStage Awards
The hit West End production of Frozen has skated ahead of its rivals by picking up an impressive 13 nominations for the 22nd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards. The lavish stage musical version of the highest-grossing animated film of all time which made its delayed debut at the newly-renovated Theatre Royal Drury Lane this summer, has been […]
Further cast for Cabaret at London’s Kit Kat Club
The final piece of casting news for the eagerly-awaited new London production of Cabaret has been unveiled with the announcement of the company of nine actors, dancers and musicians who will welcome visitors into the newly created Kit Kat Club ahead of the main performance. Featuring an original score composed by Angus MacRae, ticket-holders will […]
Full cast and more tickets released for London’s new Cabaret
Full casting has been confirmed for the new London production of Cabaret at the newly created Kit Kat Club. As previously announced the innovative production will feature multi-award-winning movie actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Red, West End and Broadway) in his genre debut as The Emcee opposite BAFTA nominee and British Independent Film […]
Playhouse Theatre to be transformed for innovative production of Cabaret
London’s Playhouse Theatre is being transformed into the infamous Kit Kat Club in preparation for Cabaret starring Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne and rising star Jessie Buckley this November. As previously announced, the innovative production will feature multi-award-winning movie actor Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Red, West End and Broadway) in his genre debut as The Emcee […]
Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley to star in new production of Cabaret
Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley will star in an innovative new production of Cabaret in the heart of the West End later this year. Multi-award-winning movie star Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Red, West End and Broadway) will play The Emcee opposite BAFTA nominee and British Independent Film Award-winner Buckley (A Little Night Music, West […]
One singular sensation – Remembering Ann Reinking
ANN REINKING, who has died aged 71, will be remembered not only for being an exceptional actress, dancer and choreographer but also as a protégée of the director-choreographer Bob Fosse, responsible for furthering his work following his death, and keeping his name and his talent before the public eye. Michael Darvell recalls the life and […]
Musical Theatre Review critics offer their Top 5 theatre picks from 2020
As each year draws to a close, Musical Theatre Review usually pulls together a round-up of all the productions covered that have received four and five star reviews. After such an extraordinary year, during which any production staged has been a triumph over adversity, such an approach seemed inappropriate. Instead, I asked a small group […]
Cabaret – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Cabaret was reviewed at New Wimbledon Theatre, London, then tours until 25 April 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Kander and Ebb masterpiece Cabaret, set in the anything-goes, promiscuous last days of the Weimar Republic just as Hitler was starting to change Germany and the world, is a musical I […]
A tribute to Harold Prince – King of Broadway
The American theatre director and producer Harold Prince, celebrated for some of the most successful musical productions on Broadway and in the West End, recently died at the age of 91. For over 60 years he produced or directed many of the most original musicals in theatre history. Michael Darvell looks back at the life […]
Broadway marks the passing of the legendary Hal Prince
The lights on Broadway were dimmed last night in memory of Harold Prince, the multi award-winning director and producer who died at the age of 91 yesterday (31 July 2019) A true Broadway legend, Harold Prince wove his magic on the Great White Way for decades, working with many of the greats and winning 21 […]
John Partridge will star as the Emcee in UK tour of Cabaret
Stage and screen favourite John Partridge will star as the Emcee when Rufus Norris’ multi-award-winning Cabaret hits the road again this summer. The former EastEnder whose vast array of West End credits include A Chorus Line, Chicago and Cats, will be holding court from 28 August 2019 when the extensive tour launches at Bromley’s Churchill […]
