Cabaret and Champagne Afternoon Tea at The Londoner Hotel, Leicester Square. London’s newest five-star hotel, The Londoner, served up a five-star musical and gastronomic treat on Sunday in the shape of a three-hour cabaret of young performers, some already working in West End theatre, to accompany as fine an afternoon tea as you could find […]
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I Could Use a Drink – Garrick Theatre
I Could Use a Drink played at the Garrick Theatre, London on 2 August 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Drew Gasparini’s angst-ridden song cycle received its one-night-only live UK premiere at the West End’s Garrick Theatre, and it couldn’t have been more enthusiastically embraced by the young audience. Every musical theatre student […]
Roxanne Couch to replace Hiba Elchikhe in I Could Use A Drink premiere
Roxanne Couch will make her West End debut in the stage premiere of Drew Gasparini’s I Could Use A Drink at the Garrick Theatre on 2 August. The actress who appeared in The Addams Family UK tour will replace the previously announced Hiba Elchikhe following her return to the cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. […]
I Could Use a Drink – Stream.Theatre
I Could Use a Drink is available via Stream.Theatre until 16 May 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Californian composer-lyricist Drew Gasparini’s 2013 concept album exploring the perilous climb out of adolescence into adulthood gets a glossy UK premiere courtesy of an online production starring an impressive line-up of youthful performers. […]
Cast and creatives announced for MTFestUK 2021
Paul Taylor-Mills has confirmed the line-up of award-winning and international performers and creatives assembled for next month’s MTFestUK 2021. Due to open at the Turbine Theatre in London from 17-29 May 2021 before embarking on a digital tour from 31 May until 4 July, the third edition of the annual celebration of new musical theatre […]
UK premiere of Drew Gasparini’s I Could Use A Drink musical will be streamed in May 2021
Drew Gasparini’s I Could Use A Drink, an eclectic mix of poignant, hilarious and progressive contemporary musical theatre, celebrating the chaos and beauty of youth, was created as a US studio album using Broadway’s freshest and most exciting new talents. Now for its UK premiere, producers Liam Gartland and Alex Conder have reimagined its cutting […]
Cast for workshopped new musical Daisy revealed
Jason Manford and Rachel Tucker will feature in the cast of a workshop production of new Irish musical Daisy next month. Manford (Curtains, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Tucker (Come From Away, The Last Ship) will appear with the show’s creator, singer/songwriter and actress Caroline Kay (taking on the title role), with Jessica Cervi (The […]
Dates set for MTFestUK 2021 at the Turbine Theatre followed by a digital regional tour
The highly-celebrated annual festival of new musical theatre, MTFestUK 2021, will run from 17-29 May 2021 at London’s Turbine Theatre before embarking on a ‘digital’ tour from 31 May-4 July. The full list of venues and touring dates are as follows: The Turbine Theatre, Battersea (17-29 May) Norwich Theatre Royal, the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and […]
Roles We’ll Never Play – West End to be streamed to home audiences
A live recording of last month’s West End debut of the popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will be streamed to home audiences next weekend. Featuring a cast of over 25 the performance which was filmed live during the concert’s sold-out run at London’s Apollo Theatre in December will be streamed via stream.theatre at […]
West End debut for Roles We’ll Never Play series
The popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will make its West End debut at London’s Apollo Theatre in December. Following two successful years of sold-out concerts in the capital, Roles We’ll Never Play West End on 7 December 2020 will once again offer a host of West End favourites the chance to perform songs […]
The Space Between – available to stream on YouTube
The Space Between – available to stream on YouTube. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Our ongoing Coronavirus lockdown has proven “the show must go on” to truly be the maxim at the core of the theatre-maker’s soul. Faced with a stage-less world, David Hunter (Kinky Boots, Waitress) and Caroline Kay (Love […]
Barn Theatre launches virtual concert series
Cirencester’s Barn Theatre will launch a new virtual concert series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers on Saturday 9 May 2020. Launching at 7.30pm BST on the venue’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter channels, The Barn Theatre Presents series will begin with a star-studded celebration of the music of the award-winning Welsh songwriters Daniel […]
The Welsh and Irish of the West End perform in new videos
We may be living in a world of social distancing but that isn’t stopping audiences watching online theatre productions together (more than 200,000 for the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors) or creating music via the wonders of technology from their separate living rooms. This week both Welsh and Irish artists have been bringing us […]
Charities to benefit from All The Web’s A Stage event announced
Acting For Others, Help Musicians and The Golsoncott Foundation are the charitable organisations set to benefit from Theatre Together’s upcoming online event All The Web’s A Stage. Over 60 artists and industry professionals are now involved in the project which was set up to find ways to raise money for those in the arts facing […]
