If you’re looking for a quick burst of bonkers, crazily camp musical theatre (packed with songs associated with one of pop music’s most beloved divas) to blow the winter blues away you could do worse than book a ticket for Titanique at London’s Criterion Theatre.
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The Great British Bake Off Musical – Noel Coward Theatre
The Great British Bake Off Musical continues at the Noël Coward Theatre, London until 13 May 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This new British musical is theatre escapism at its heart-warming best.
Semi-staged concert performance of Gatsby musical to be streamed online
Olivier Award nominee Charlotte Wakefield will star opposite former Spandau Ballet singer Ross William Wild in a special concert version of Gatsby A Musical which will be made available online next month. Wakefield (Spring Awakening, The Sound of Music) will play Daisy Buchanan alongside Wild’s (Million Dollar Quartet, American Idiot) Jay Gatsby in the socially-distanced […]
RSC’s The Boy in the Dress – full cast unveiled
Full casting has been announced for the eagerly-anticipated Royal Shakespeare Company’s musical version of David Walliams’ best-selling The Boy in the Dress which will debut in Stratford-upon-Avon this Christmas season.
New British musical The Dreamers to debut at Abbey Road Studios
The world famous Abbey Road Studios will be the setting for four premiere performances of new British musical The Dreamers next month. Marking the first time the iconic recording studios have hosted a musical, the performances on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 December will be co-produced by Stars Foundation for Cerebral Palsy, with all profits […]
Star line-up for Crazy Coqs Presents: The New Musical Theatre Showcase
Stage stars Oliver Savile, Christina Bennington, Koko Basigara, Charlotte Wakefield and Nadim Naaman will take to the stage this Sunday (16 September) in The New Musical Theatre Showcase. The fourth concert in the popular Crazy Coqs Presents series of shows puts the spotlight on new music from composers including Anderson and Petty, Kansley and Lidert, […]
Plans to launch UK’s first Theatre Convention – StageCon – in November 2018
Some of the West End’s biggest names are lined up to attend the UK’s first ever theatre convention in London in November. Inspired by BroadwayCon, the annual theatre convention in New York which offers theatre fans the chance to get closer than ever to the stars and shows they love, StageCon will be held over […]
Crazy For You – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Crazy For You at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 24 March 2018, before continuing its tour until 9 June 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This musical story, full of Gershwin classics and set in the 1930s, follows the troubles of aspiring dancer Bobby Child and Polly Baker, a young ‘cowgirl’ from Nevada. The […]
Claire Sweeney cast in Crazy For You tour from January 2018
Claire Sweeney will take over the role of Irene in the national tour of the Watermill Theatre’s acclaimed production of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Crazy For You. Sweeney joins Tom Chambers who plays Bobby and Charlotte Wakefield who plays Polly from 16 January 2018 at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. The actress has a television […]
Crazy For You tour – Charlotte Wakefield to play Polly
Charlotte Wakefield will play Polly in the national tour of the Watermill Theatre’s acclaimed production of classic George and Ira Gershwin musical Crazy For You. Wakefield joins the previously announced Tom Chambers as Bobby and Caroline Flack as Irene. From the producers of Sister Act and Nativity! The Musical, the national tour of Crazy For […]
Scott Evan Davis – The Pheasantry
Scott Evan Davis at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ New York-based composer Scott Evan Davis has been compared to the likes of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk, Georgia Stitt and Lance Horne. As evidenced by his debut show at London’s Pheasantry – the first such show produced by Woking-based internet radio show […]
Artists line up to join Scott Evan Davis at The Pheasantry
The line-up for New York-based composer/lyricist Scott Evan Davis’ show at The Pheasantry in London’s Kings Road on Sunday has been revealed. Presented by the UK’s Sunday Show Tunes in collaboration with executive producer Maureen Rejali, the show will feature Davis on piano alongside UK artists Rosemary Ashe, Luke Bayer, Ailsa Davidson, Willy Falk, Ilan […]
Charlotte Wakefield and Jos Vantyler join cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Charlotte Wakefield and Jos Vantyler will join the the UK and Ireland touring production of classic Sherman Brothers musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang this October. Wakefield, who previously starred as Laurey in last year’s tour of Oklahoma!, will take over the role of Truly Scrumptious in the Music & Lyrics and West Yorkshire Playhouse production […]
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Menken – St James Theatre Studio
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Menken was performed at the St James Theatre Studio, London, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following his Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Schwartz concerts at the St James Studio, the irrepressible Stuart Matthew Price gave us a fun […]
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Schwartz – St James Theatre Studio
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Schwartz at St James Theatre Studio, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The talented Stuart Matthew Price treated us to the second opus of his own songbook series at St James Studio, this time celebrating the work of Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz after paying tribute to […]
The S&S Award Gala 2015 – St James Theatre
The S&S Award Gala was held at the St James Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Where is the home of new musical theatre writing in the UK? The West End houses 33 musicals currently – putting aside adaptations, jukebox musicals and classic works, only two of these could be considered new standalone original works. The National Theatre allows […]
Nigel Harman and Janie Dee lined up for S&S Awards Gala
Olivier Award winner Nigel Harman will host this year’s S&S Awards Gala at the St James Theatre, London on Sunday 15 November. The glittering celebration of new musical theatre will culminate in the announcement and presentation of the prestigious S&S Award 2015 by another Olivier Award winner, Janie Dee. Awarded to the work judged to […]
Oklahoma! – Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Touring
Oklahoma! continues at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton until 28 February and then tours until 8 August, 2015. Star rating: 4 stars **** There is a traditional charm that pervades the Royal & Derngate’s Oklahoma! This show, the first collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein, is at once dark and glorious, but above all crammed with some of […]
Book and CD reviews – Paradise Lost, West End Goes Mad, Michael Ball and more…
NICK WAKEHAM casts an eye over some of the latest CD releases– perhaps a few belated Christmas presents? PARADISE LOST – Various Artists (SimG Records – SimGR-CD023) Inspired by the epic poem by John Milton, this new version of Paradise Lost is an intimate love story set against an impressive war taking place in Heaven. Built around […]
Noel Coward’s Christmas Spirits – St James Studio
Noel Coward’s Christmas Spirits continues at the St James Studio, London until 23 December. It’s probably almost cultural heresy to say so, but any time the name Noel Coward crops up, the first image that pops into my mind is of the great man playing master criminal and prison inmate Mister Bridger in the classic […]
Oklahoma! UK and Irish tour – full cast announced
The full cast has been announced for the new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Oklahoma! presented by Music & Lyrics Limited and Royal & Derngate Northampton. From the award-winning producers of the highly successful tours of The King and I and Fiddler On the Roof, this new production will feature Lucy May Barker […]
Oklahoma! to tour in 2015 – Belinda Lang, Gary Wilmot, Charlotte Wakefield cast
Music & Lyrics Limited and Royal & Derngate Northampton are presenting a new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Oklahoma!, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and with new choreography by Drew McOnie, which will tour the UK and Ireland next year, opening at the Derngate Theatre on 19 February 2015. From the award-winning producers […]
Picture Perfect: A New Musical premieres this weekend
Picture Perfect: A New Musical, a contemporary song-cycle musical that explores love and relationships using the songs of award-winning American composer Scott Evan Davis, conceived and directed by Simon Greiff, gets its London premiere at the St James Studio Theatre, London this weekend with four performances on 31 May and 1 June. Josh is graduating […]
A Spoonful of Sherman – St James Theatre Studio
A Spoonful of Sherman continues at St James Theatre Studio, London, until 22 April. This polished, classy and very well-sung revue is an action-replay of the pilot show that ran for two Mondays in January at the St James Studio and has returned to Victoria for nine more outings principally to celebrate the Oscar-winning music of […]
A Spoonful of Sherman will return to St James Theatre
A Spoonful of Sherman, a cabaret celebrating the work of the late, great Hollywood songwriter Robert B Sherman (and of course his brother Richard) – the most successful songwriting partnership in the history of Hollywood – sold out all its perfomances at London’s St James Theatre in January. Now the show returns to the venue for a […]
A Spoonful of Sherman – St James Studio Theatre
A Spoonful of Sherman – A Celebration of the Life, Times and Songs of Robert B Sherman was performed at the St James Studio Theatre, London. For two performances only we had the exquisite pleasure of witnessing the birth of a new musical revue based on the well-known catalogue of the late, great Hollywood songwriter Robert […]
