Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 continues at the Donmar Warehouse, London until 8 February 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A truly dazzling achievement of contemporary musical theatre performed by a superb cast.
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Dianne Pilkington to lead cast of Saving Grace
Dianne Pilkington will take on the title role in the stage musical version of cult British film Saving Grace when it plays an intimate first run at London’s Riverside Studios later this year.
Come From Away concert cancelled – ATG theatres to remain closed until April
The special staged concert production of the Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, Come From Away has become the latest casualty of the current lockdown. Originally due to play the hit show’s West End home, the Phoenix Theatre from 10-27 February 2021, performances of Come From Away: The Concert have now been cancelled with performances of […]
Concert version of Come From Away is coming back to the West End
Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, Come From Away is heading back to the West End with a special staged concert version at the Phoenix Theatre in February 2021. Running from 10-27 February, Come From Away: The Concert will reunite the London cast, band and company for a specially adapted staging of the hit show created […]
Come From Away – Cast changes and first year anniversary
Come From Away continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London and this week celebrates its first year in London’s West End. Is there a show in the West End that has a bigger heart or that delivers a more affecting, emotional punch than Come From Away? I seriously doubt it. Sure, there are musicals with grander […]
Rachel Tucker leads cast of European premiere of Come From Away
Thirteen actors will take on both lead and supporting roles in the Tony Award-winning new musical Come From Away which is due to land on this side of the Atlantic in December with a premiere run in Ireland ahead of its West End debut in early 2019. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the […]
Son of Rambow – work-in-progress workshop – The Other Palace
Son of Rambow was presented in a work-in-progress workshop at The Other Palace, London. When the St James Theatre was purchased by Andrew Lloyd Webber and rebranded as The Other Palace, it was also touted as a venue for the development of new British musicals. And to be honest, some of its headlining musicals haven’t […]
Oliver! – Curve Leicester
Oliver! continues at Curve Leicester until 23 January 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s a zany quality to Paul Kerryson’s production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! at Curve, especially visible in the dark opening scenes in the workhouse. The angular, regimented choreography of the orphans and servants has a touch of madness and […]
Oliver! at Leicester Curve – Peter Polycarpou, Cat Simmons and Laura Pitt-Pulford cast
Curve today announced casting for the theatre’s production of Lionel Bart’s classic musical, Oliver! Marking the first Christmas under Curve’s new leadership team of chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster, the news comes at the end of Curve’s most successful year to date, which saw the theatre’s turnover reach £7.8 million, their […]
