West End star Linzi Hateley will revisit Carrie, the musical which launched her career, as part of an extended Halloween themed episode in the new pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. The Mamma Mia! actress who starred in the title role in the RSC’s musical version of Stephen King’s classic novel in […]
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Gypsy and Kinky Boots are big winners at WhatsOnStage Awards
Every industry has its formal awards ceremony of choice. And then there is the less informal one, the young pretender that likes to be a little more carefree and wild. The WhatsOnStage Awards tend to fit into the latter category, although as they are now in their 16th year and have got successively glitzier on each […]
Linzi Hateley – Crazy Coqs
Linzi Hateley continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 21 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Linzi Hateley opens and closes her cabaret with ‘True Colours’, perhaps a metaphor for her act which looks back on her life and her 28 years on the stage. Inevitably her starting point was playing, at 17, […]
Musical Theatre 2015 – a reflection – what was your favourite?
Musical Theatre Review reflects on an incredibly busy year of theatre – in the West End, on the London Fringe, across the UK and in New York – and pick four shows from each month that topped the FOUR and FIVE star ratings with our contributors. The results may surprise you… JANUARY Whistle Down the Wind continues […]
Carrie – Southwark Playhouse
Carrie continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 30 May. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There are parallels between Carrie, the musical adaptation of the 1976 screen version of the Stephen King horror story, and the story of its eponymous anti-heroine, Carrie White. Both started out as ostracised, belittled and laughed at: in the world […]
Carrie: The Musical – Evelyn Hoskins and Kim Criswell cast in lead roles
Evelyn Hoskins will take on the role of Carrie White and Kim Criswell will play her mother Margaret in the London premiere of Carrie: The Musical in The Large at Southwark Playhouse from Friday 1 to Saturday 30 May 2015, with a press night on Wednesday 6 May. Preview performances are now sold out, following the best on-sale week of any show in the venue’s […]
Carrie: The Musical has London premiere at Southwark Playhouse
Carrie: The Musical will receive its long awaited London premiere in The Large at Southwark Playhouse from 1–30 May (press night is Wednesday 6 May). Twenty-seven years after first wreaking havoc, one of the world’s most talked about Broadway musicals is coming to London. Academy Award-winning Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore (Fame), and original screenplay writer […]
