Love Never Dies In Concert was reviewed at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Love Never Dies, long mocked as ‘Paint Never Dries’, has found in the concert format the rebirth its original staging never gave it.
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Further cast for Love Never Dies concert
Further casting has been announced for the autumn return of the WhatsOnStage Award-winning concert presentation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies.
Love Never Dies concert to play five London performances
The WhatsOnStage Award-winning concert presentation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies will return to London this autumn as part of the celebrations marking the 40th anniversary The Phantom of the Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre.
Guys & Dolls – Bridge Theatre
Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If ever a show was in safe hands it’s this one. If you haven’t seen it yet, where have you been? If you have, then go again – the new team won’t disappoint.
Love Never Dies concert – full cast confirmed
The full cast has been confirmed for the special concert presentation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies this summer.
Hit production of Guys & Dolls extended into February 2024
Booking for Nicholas Hytner’s critically acclaimed immersive production of the classic musical Guys & Dolls at the Bridge Theatre has been extended up to 24 February 2024.
Guys & Dolls – Bridge Theatre
Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre, London until 2 September 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The perfect musical done to perfection. To steal yet another line from elsewhere ‘Who could ask for anything more?’
Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre – cast announced
Casting has been revealed for Nicholas Hytner’s highly anticipated immersive production of the classic musical Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre next spring.
Cast for Doctor Zhivago concert at the London Palladium
Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker will reprise their performances as Yurii Zhivago and Lara Guishar when Doctor Zhivago In Concert plays the London Palladium on 7 May 2023.
Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Shoenmaker will star in Doctor Zhivago In Concert
Following the success of the 2019 UK concert premiere of Doctor Zhivago, its stars Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker will reprise their roles in Doctor Zhivago In Concert at the London Palladium for one-night-only on 7 May 2023. Full casting will be announced at a later date. Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, […]
John Owen-Jones joins cast of gala concert performance of Mimma
West End and Broadway performer John Owen-Jones and renowned opera singers Ashley Riches and Elena Xanthoudakis are the latest additions to the all-star cast assembled for the gala concert performance of new musical Mimma at London’s Cadogan Hall next month. The youngest actor to play the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and a […]
David Suchet to headline charity concert performance of new musical Mimma
Stage and screen star David Suchet will join West End leading ladies Louise Dearman and Celinde Schoenmaker for a gala concert performance of new musical Mimma at London’s Cadogan Hall early next year. The multi-award-winning actor who will be forever associated with his long-running role as Hercule Poirot will return to the stage to play […]
Guest stars revealed for Shoshana Bean’s Cadogan Hall date
A trio of West End stars will be among the special guest stars to take to the stage when Broadway and recording artist Shoshana Bean returns to London’s Cadogan Hall early next month. Presented by Fourth Wall Live, Bean’s London edition of her popular seasonal show, Sing Your Hallelujah on 4 December will feature Richard […]
Hit revival of Marry Me a Little to be streamed by the Barn Theatre
The Barn Theatre’s recent critically acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little will be streamed digitally later this month. Forced to end its run four days earlier than planned on 4 November 2020 due to the second lockdown, a recording filmed during the production’s final performances will be available for home viewing from […]
Marry Me A Little – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Marry Me A Little continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 8 November 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s always an immense pleasure to visit The Barn Theatre in Cirencester. The quality of productions they have produced and collaborated on in the few years since they opened has been astonishing […]
INTERVIEW: Rob Houchen, Celinde Schoenmaker & MD Arlene McNaught discuss Marry Me A Little at the Barn Theatre Cirencester
Fresh from storming the barricades of Britain’s Got Talent, ROB HOUCHEN (Les Misérables, Light in the Piazza, Candide) joins his cast mate, CELINDE SCHOENMAKER (The Phantom of the Opera, Rocketman, Light in the Piazza) and musical director ARLENE MCNAUGHT (Six, Little Miss Sunshine) to talk about a new revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A […]
Cast for Barn Theatre’s Recovery productions of Marry Me A Little and Peter Pan
Rob Houchen (Les Misérables) and Celinde Schoenmaker (The Phantom of the Opera) will take to the stage in the Barn Theatre’s new revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little. Directed by Kirk Jameson, the production will reunite the stars who previously appeared together in the 2019 London premiere of the Adam Guettel musical The […]
Star-packed live-streamed charity shows planned
Leading choreographer Anthony Van Laast will present a star-packed series of concerts in September, aimed at raising funds for those in the industry hardest hit by the ongoing Covid-crisis. The four 45-minute charity concerts – West End Unplugged (Live from L-Acoustics Creations) – will feature some of musical theatre’s biggest stars alongside leading theatre musicians […]
Star-studded online concert Kings Of Broadway 2020 will celebrate the work of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman & Stephen Sondheim
Kings Of Broadway 2020, an online concert celebrating the music of the legendary Broadway composers Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim (the latter two whose lyrics will also be celebrated), will premiere at 7pm on Sunday 31 May 2020 via the ‘Quick Fantastic’ channel on YouTube. The evening will feature a cross section of […]
Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker star in UK concert premiere of Doctor Zhivago
Ramin Karimloo and Celinde Schoenmaker will take the central roles in the UK concert premiere of Doctor Zhivago on London this September. Presented by Lambert Jackson Productions, the performance at Cadogan Hall on 1 September 2019 will feature Karimloo (The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, Miss Saigon) in the title role with Schoenmaker […]
The Light in the Piazza – Royal Festival Hall
The Light in the Piazza continues at the Royal Festival Hall, London until 5 July 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The Light in the Piazza is based on a novel by the American author Elizabeth Spencer who travelled to Italy on a scholarship and stayed there so long that she […]
Five winners announced for Lambert Jackson’s West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals
New musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson has announced the five winners of its competition to find a future female musical star to feature in their next show, West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals. Open to women of all ages, the company’s second search for a singer to appear alongside a […]
INTERVIEW: Eliza Jackson on Lambert Jackson’s show West End Women and how to win a place in the cast
When ELIZA JACKSON and Jamie Lambert met six years ago, it was a catalystic moment. “We were both a long way from home when we arrived at Associated Studios in London to do a postgrad course so we had a lot in common,” says Jackson who had trained in musical theatre at the National Institute […]
Lambert Jackson launches new search for musical theatre star
New musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson has announced a second competition to find a future female musical star to feature in their next show, West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals. Open to women of all ages, the prize for the winning entrant will be a co-starring role alongside a trio […]
Lambert Jackson’s West End Women to play London’s Cadogan Hall
New musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson will follow its successful launch production There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame with another one-night celebration of the genre’s female characters at London’s Cadogan Hall early next year West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals will once again feature a group of popular West End leading […]
Camelot – London Palladium
Camelot at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This concert version of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot from London Musical Theatre Orchestra was staged to mark the centenary of Alan Jay Lerner’s birth in October 1918, though it seems like yesterday that he was with us, having settled in London in later […]
David Thaxton and Savannah Stevenson star in LMTO’s Camelot
Olivier Award winner David Thaxton and Follies star Savannah Stevenson will head the cast of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert version of Camelot at the London Palladium next month. Thaxton, who won an Olivier Award in 2011 for his performance in the Donmar Warehouse’s Passion and has played multiple roles in the Les Misérables […]
On the Town – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
On the Town at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There was a buzz in the air at the Royal Albert Hall because the audience attending a John Wilson concert know what’s in store and they were not disappointed. It was a celebratory […]
Live At Zédel reveals details of summer season
Alexander S. Bermange’s musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical will make a return visit to Live At Zédel this summer just a few months after its critically-acclaimed world premiere. Announced as part of the summer season line-up at London entertainment hub, the latest work from musical comedy composer Bermange will return […]
Barnum – Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Barnum continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 3 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Barnum – “The Greatest Show on Earth” – has, like some double-jointed contortionist worthy of the titular showman, managed to flex, twist and squeeze its way into one of London’s smallest theatres. And the […]
Interview – Celinde Schoenmaker on playing the real-life Jenny Lind in Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory
CELINDE SCHOENMAKER is best known for playing big roles in big West End shows – notably and most famously Fantine in Les Misérables (2013, her West End debut, and again in 2014) and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (2015-17). But she’s about to open in one of London’s smaller houses, the Menier Chocolate […]
Graham Norton returns to co-host West End Bares alongside Adam Garcia, Summer Strallen and more
Graham Norton will return to host of this year’s West End Bares, the burlesque-flavoured fundraiser which plays London’s Novello Theatre on Sunday 29 October. The popular comedian and chat show host will return for a third stint to host this year’s Wizard of Oz-inspired West End Bares 2017: Ruby Strippers alongside co-hosts Adam Garcia, Summer […]
Tyrone Huntley joins guest stars at Willemijn Verkaik’s London concert
Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award winner Tyrone Huntley will be one of several guest performers at international musical theatre star Willemijn Verkaik’s West End concert in July. The Dreamgirls star who is soon to reprise his acclaimed performance as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar is one of a number of guest stars who will join […]
The Phantom of the Opera – Ben Forster to continue in title role until September
Ben Forster will extend his run as The Phantom until Saturday 2 September in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera. Now in its 31st year at Her Majesty’s Theatre in the West End, the show also stars Celinde Schoenmaker as Christine Daae and Nadim Naaman as Raoul. They are joined by […]
State Fair – London Musical Theatre Orchestra – Cadogan Hall
State Fair at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A pre-concert announcement often signals something unfortunate but not in this instance! Conductor Freddie Tapner of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra (making its debut) told us that what we were about to hear was a concert version of the much-loved film State […]
The Phantom of the Opera – images from 30th anniversary celebrations
On Monday 10 October the West End production of the iconic musical The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special charity gala performance in aid of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust. To celebrate this milestone, the current cast including Ben Forster as The Phantom, Celinde Schoenmaker as Christine Daae and Nadim Naaman as Raoul were […]
The Phantom of the Opera celebrates 30th West End anniversary with charity gala
On Monday 10 October, the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical The Phantom of the Opera, at the Her Majesty’s Theatre, celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special charity gala performance in aid of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust. Tickets are on sale now. To celebrate this milestone, the current cast including Ben Forster as The […]
The Phantom of the Opera – new additions to West End cast
Cast changes have been announced for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera ahead of the show’s 30th birthday at Her Majesty’s Theatre in October. From Monday 5 September current stars Ben Forster, Celinde Schoenmaker and Nadim Naaman will be joined by Siôn Lloyd (Monsieur Firmin), Mark Oxtoby (Monsieur Andre), Paul Ettore Tabone (Piangi), […]
John Owen-Jones and Ben Forster to star in The Phantom of the Opera
From Monday 7 September 2015, there will be major cast changes in the West End production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, with John Owen-Jones initially playing The Phantom, followed by Ben Forster (from Monday 1 February 2016). Owen-Jones has most recently played the part in the new production of […]
