Lovers of Cole Porter’s classic musical Kiss Me, Kate who missed the Barbican revival this summer can play catch-up when the filmed version hits 500 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Sunday (17 November).
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Kiss Me, Kate – Barbican Theatre
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Not to be missed at the Barbican until 14 September, after which a West End transfer or a tour would be most welcome.
Charlie Stemp and Georgina Onuorah join cast of Barbican’s Kiss Me, Kate
Olivier Award nominee Charlie Stemp and rising star Georgina Onuorah are the latest additions to the cast of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican this summer.
Crazy For You – Gillian Lynne Theatre
Crazy For You continues at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, London until 20 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Crazy For You West End transfer – full cast
Full casting has been confirmed for the West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre acclaimed new production of the classic George and Ira Gershwin musical comedy Crazy For You.
WhatsOnStage Awards 2023 – the nominees
Daniel Fish’s innovative 2019 Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s much-loved Oklahoma! leads the musical theatre nominees for the 23rd WhatsOnStage Awards.
London transfer for Chichester Festival Theatre’s Crazy For You
Susan Stroman’s acclaimed new production of the classic George and Ira Gershwin musical comedy Crazy For You will follow its sold-out Chichester Festival Theatre summer season by playing a strictly limited six-week run in the West End.
UK Theatre Awards 2022 – The nominees
Leicester Curve’s Billy Elliot, Storyhouse Chester’s Now Is Good, and the Watermill Theatre’s production of Whistle Down the Wind will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards 2022. Returning after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the three hit shows are of among the 2022 nominees […]
Crazy For You – Chichester Festival Theatre
Crazy For You continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 4 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ It’s rare for a show to get a standing ovation at the interval but a full house on press night quickly fell in love with this heatwave-hot revival of the wonderfully silly Crazy For You, sensationally directed and […]
West End’s Mary Poppins to take final bow in January 2023
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s multi-award-winning Mary Poppins will take its final bow at the Prince Edward Theatre on 8 January 2023. Announcing the last extension in the magical musical’s West End run, Mackintosh said: “When the new revised production of Mary Poppins opened at the end of 2019 with a tremendous cast headed by Zizi […]
Full company for Chichester’s Crazy For You
Carly Anderson will star opposite Charlie Stemp in Susan Stroman’s new production of the classic George and Ira Gershwin musical comedy Crazy For You at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer. As previously announced, Stemp (Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre) will return to Chichester for the first time since his career-launching performance in the hit revival […]
Louis Gaunt will be Mary Poppins’ new Bert in West End
Louis Gaunt will step into the role of Bert in Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s multi-award-winning Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre from 22 June 2022. Winner of a Stage Debut Award in 2018 for his performance in Grange Park Opera’s Oklahoma!, Gaunt (Sweet Charity, Nottingham Playhouse, Gypsy, Royal Exchange Theatre) will take over from […]
Three musicals feature in Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2022 season – Susan Stroman makes her debut at the venue
Chichester Festival Theatre’s 60th anniversary season will feature three musicals: Susan Stroman makes her Chichester debut directing and choreographing the Gershwins’ musical comedy Crazy For You, Charlie Stemp returns to Chichester to lead the cast. Local Hero, book by David Greig and music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler, based on the Bill Forsyth film, directed […]
Extension announced for West End’s Mary Poppins
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh have announced an extension to performances of the multi-award-winning Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre. Starring Zizi Strallen (Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Piccadilly Theatre, Mary Poppins tour UK, Ireland and Dubai) as the magical nanny alongside Charlie Stemp (Half A Sixpence, West End, Hello, Dolly!, Broadway) as Bert, the musical […]
Mary Poppins to fly back into the West End from August 2021
Rehearsals have begun for the August return of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s multi-award-winning Mary Poppins to its West End home, the Prince Edward Theatre. As previously announced Zizi Strallen (Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Piccadilly Theatre, Mary Poppins tour UK, Ireland and Dubai) will continue to take on the starring role as the magical nanny alongside […]
Summer return for West End’s Mary Poppins
Zizi Strallen and Charlie Stemp will fly back into the Prince Edward Theatre this summer when Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s multi-award-winning Mary Poppins makes its eagerly-awaited return to its West End home. Announcing that rehearsals will begin soon ahead of a 7 August 2021 reopening date, Mackintosh said: “The last year has been unbelievably hard […]
CD Review: Mary Poppins – 2019 Live Cast Recording
MARY POPPINS – 2019 Live Cast Recording (First Night Records – 093624888659) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ We had the cast recording when the production opened in 2004 and here we are, 16 years later, with a live recording of the show from the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End. […]
Elaine Paige and Bernadette Peters will host first West End Woofs animal adoption event
Musical theatre royalty from both sides of the Atlantic will unite to host the UK’s first virtual dog and cat adoption event this month. Co-hosted by the West End’s Elaine Paige and Broadway’s Bernadette Peters, West End Woofs will be a UK-based version of Broadway Barks, the annual star-studded animal adoption event benefiting New York […]
Olivier Awards 2020 – A video refresher of the musical nominees
It feels like forever ago that we could simply hop down to the West End and – perhaps after a spot of bank robbery to afford a ticket – bask in the brilliance of some of the most spectacular musicals London has ever seen. Presumably, all the nominees at this year’s delayed Olivier Awards deserve […]
Live cast recordings of Mary Poppins and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert to be released
Cameron Mackintosh, First Night Records and Warner Music have announced the upcoming release of the new live cast recordings of the producer’s hit West End productions announced of Mary Poppins and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert next month. Now available to pre-order, the Mary Poppins album will be released on 6 November with the […]
Elaine Paige to join star-studded Pantoland at The Palladium
Elaine Paige is the latest addition to the all-star cast heading for Pantoland at The Palladium for three weeks this Christmas. The veteran leading lady who previously played Queen Rat in Dick Whittington at the iconic London venue in 2017 will revisit the villainous role as part of the festive celebration of pantomime at the […]
Star-studded Pantoland to play London Palladium
Julian Clary will head an all-star cast in an extra-special celebration of pantomime at the London Palladium this Christmas. Presented by the world’s leading pantomime specialist Qdos Entertainment and LW Theatres, Pantoland at The Palladium will play a strictly limited three-week season at the world-famous theatre. The feast for panto-starved theatregoers which will run from […]
Les Misérables, Phantom and Mary Poppins feature in BGT Final West End celebration
Sixty performers from some of the West End’s biggest shows will come together for a special star-studded performance presented by Cameron Mackintosh during this weekend’s Britain’s Got Talent final. Celebrating the 35th birthday of Les Misérables and the 34th birthday of The Phantom of the Opera, the star-studded piece will feature the companies of Les […]
& Juliet leads the Olivier Awards 2020 nominations followed by Fiddler, Dear Evan Hansen and Mary Poppins
New British musical & Juliet topped the list of Olivier Awards 2020 nominations with recognition in nine categories. Once again illustrating the range and diversity of musical theatre currently playing in the West End, the three shows to attract the most Olivier nominations are all genre favourites with Trevor Nunn’s revival of the classic Fiddler […]
WhatsOnStage Awards nominations revealed
New British musical & Juliet leads the nominations for the 20th annual WhatsOnStage Awards.
Mary Poppins – Prince Edward Theatre
Mary Poppins continues at the Prince Edward Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If you accept this techni-colorful, tuneful show on its own terms – rather than wanting it to be something it isn’t – it’s jolly enjoyable. If you don’t, then you’ll be disappointed because the “magic” is pretty […]
Mary Poppins West End casting update
Further casting has been unveiled for the eagerly-awaited West End return of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s multi-award-winning Mary Poppins this autumn. With rehearsals due to begin in September, Amy Griffiths, Claire Moore, Claire Machin, Jack North and Barry James will join the previously announced Zizzi Strallen, Charlie Stemp, Joseph Millson and Petula Clark in the […]
Petula Clark and Joseph Millson join the cast of West End’s Mary Poppins
Veteran singing star Petula Clark will return to the West End stage for the first time in decades when she joins the cast of the eagerly-awaited West End return of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins. A multi award-winning recording artist, Clark who famously starred as Maria in The Sound Of Music in the West […]
Star-packed music video accompanies Dan and Laura Curtis song which raises funds for Help For Heroes
Judi Dench, Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin are among a glittering group of stars who have joined a host of West End favourites in a very special musical video tribute to servicemen and women around the world. Aimed at raising funds for UK charity Help The Heroes, The Hero – A West End […]
Charlie Stemp and Danielle Hope will star in London Palladium panto Snow White
Charlie Stemp will return to the London Palladium to star as the Prince opposite Danielle Hope’s Snow White in this year’s eagerly-anticipated Christmas pantomime. Following his successful Broadway debut in Hello, Dolly!, the Half a Sixpence star will return to the Palladium to join four other favourites from last year’s Dick Whittington, Julian Clary, Nigel […]
Mary Poppins flies home to the West End in 2019 starring Zizi Strallen & Charlie Stemp
Zizi Strallen will take flight once again in the title role of Mary Poppins in 2017 when Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s multi award-winning musical returns to its original West End home next autumn. Fifteen years after the production’s stage premiere, Mary Poppins will return to the Prince Edward Theatre following the departure of Disney’s Aladdin […]
Hello, Dolly! – Shubert Theatre, New York
Hello, Dolly! continues at the Shubert Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s another lovefest. Bernadette Peters has stepped gingerly into the shoes of matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, recently vacated by Bette Midler in Broadway’s smash revival of Hello, Dolly! And Peters bring to the role all the authority, magnetism […]
Dick Whittington – London Palladium
Dick Whittington continues at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You do get an awful lot of Dick for your money at the London Palladium. Dick Whittington, Qdos Entertainment’s second pantomime in the venue after last year’s Cinderella, is a love letter to London, to pantomime’s malleable ability to […]
Interview – Emma Williams is enjoying the magic of panto in Dick Whittington at the London Palladium
EMMA WILLIAMS is playing Alice Fitzwarren in this year’s star-studded pantomime Dick Whittington at the London Palladium. She will be reunited with her Half a Sixpence co-star, Charlie Stemp, who will play the title role. Also featured in the star-billing are Julian Clary, Elaine Paige, Diversity, Paul Zerdin, Gary Wilmot and Nigel Havers. Emma returns […]
Fourth annual West End Wilma Awards revealed
Half a Sixpence was a double award winner at the West End Wilma Awards (presented in association with Free@Last TV ) ceremony in London on Friday (3 November). Leading man Charlie Stemp collected the Rising Star award while his leading lady Emma Williams was named the Best Performer in a West End Show at the […]
Charlie Stemp to make Broadway debut in Hello, Dolly!
Charlie Stemp, the much-acclaimed star of Half a Sixpence (which transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre to the West End) is due to make his Broadway debut in the role of Barnaby Tucker in Hello, Dolly! from January 2018. Stemp will join Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber, who be taking over the roles of Dolly Levi […]
Palladium’s Dick Whittington – principal cast completed
Emma Williams and Lukus Alexander will complete the star-studded principal cast for this year’s London Palladium pantomime Dick Whittington. Playing Alice Fitzwarrren and reuniting with her Half a Sixpence leading man Charlie Stemp who takes on the title role, Williams will be returning to the theatre where she made her West End debut in Chitty […]
Half a Sixpence – West End production closes in September
First presented at Chichester’s Festival Theatre, Half a Sixpence will play its final performance in London on Saturday 2 September, having extended its limited season twice. This popular reinvention of the musical has now well and truly launched the career of newcomer Charlie Stemp with his award-winning performance in the lead role of role of […]
WhatsOnStage Awards 2017 – Half a Sixpence celebrates triple win
The winners have been announced at the Prince of Wales Theatre for the 17th annual WhatsOnStage Awards, presented by Simon Lipkin and Vikki Stone, celebrating the best of the UK’s theatre over the past year. The awards are the only major theatre prizes to be voted for entirely by the audience. Half a Sixpence was […]
Half a Sixpence – booking extended into September
For the second time booking has been extended for the critically acclaimed West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh production of Half a Sixpence. Tickets for show at the Noel Coward Theatre are now available until 2 September. An extra midweek matinee performance on Thursdays at 2.30pm will also be added from […]
Half a Sixpence extends run to April 2017
Following rave reviews for both the show and its leading man Charlie Stemp, it was announced today that booking for the Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre production of Half a Sixpence at the Noël Coward Theatre has been extended to 22 April 2017. The entire Chichester cast transferred to the West End, including newcomers Charlie Stemp as Arthur […]
UK Theatre Awards 2016 – nominees revealed
Flowers For Mrs Harris, Half a Sixpence and Show Boat will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards next month. The three hit shows were among the list of nominees for the 2016 awards which will be presented at a ceremony at London’s Guildhall on Sunday 9 […]
Chichester Half a Sixpence transfers to Noel Coward Theatre in October
Following a record-breaking run in Chichester, Half a Sixpence – which Cameron Mackintosh co-produced with Chichester Festival Theatre – will transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre from 29 October 2016, with press night on 17 November 2016. The first booking period is on sale until 11 February 2017. The entire Chichester cast will transfer to […]
Half a Sixpence – Chichester Festival Theatre
Half a Sixpence continues at Chichester Festival Theatre until 3 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The revival of this 1960s hit musical has not just been given a facelift, but major surgery. Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes has gone back to HG Wells’ original novel and radically reconstructed the show’s book, while George Stiles […]
Half a Sixpence at Chichester – full casting
Full casting has been announced for Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Half a Sixpence. Relative newcomers Charlie Stemp and Devon-Elise Johnson will play the central roles of Arthur Kipps and his childhood friend Ann Pornick, alongside actor Ian Bartholomew as Chitterlow, actress Emma Williams as Helen Walsingham and Vivien Parry as Mrs […]
Half a Sixpence at Chichester – two young actors introduced as leads
Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Half a Sixpence will introduce two young actors – Charlie Stemp as Arthur Kipps* and Devon-Elise Johnson as Ann Pornick – alongside actor Ian Bartholomew as Chitterlow, actress Emma Williams as Helen Walsingham and Vivien Parry as Mrs Walsingham. Playing in the Festival Theatre from 14 July […]
