A lavish new production of Alan Plater’s Blonde Bombshells of 1943 is one of five ambitious co-productions lined up for the spring/summer 2023 season at the Theatre By The Lake in the heart of the Lake District.
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Full cast for Watermill’s The Wicker Husband
Full casting has been unveiled for the highly-anticipated return of folk-flavoured musical The Wicker Husband to Newbury’s Watermill Theatre next month. Joseph Alessi (The Lorax, Old Vic and Toronto) will take on the role of Cobbler with Gemma Sutton (Sweet Charity, The Watermill) as Ugly Girl, Olivier Award winner George Maguire (Sunny Afternoon, West End) […]
Dates in 2022 announced for Watermill’s The Wicker Husband and Our Man In Havana
Newbury’s Watermill Theatre has confirmed rescheduled dates for the folk-flavoured musical The Wicker Husband as part of its 2022 spring season. The musical which had its world premiere run at the distinctive Berkshire venue in early March 2020 cut short by the pandemic, will now return to complete its run from 11-26 March 2022. Based […]
Indecent Proposal – Southwark Playhouse
Indecent Proposal continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 27 November 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The immortal playwright Tennessee Williams wrote: “In this world, there are only two kinds of people: The buyers and the ones that get bought.” This musical adaptation of Indecent Proposal clearly explores the darker side […]
Lizzy Connolly completes lead cast for Indecent Proposal premiere
Lizzy Connolly will take on the central role of Rebecca when the musical version of the 1980s novel Indecent Proposal receives its world premiere at London’s Southwark Playhouse this autumn. Connolly (Sweet Charity, Donmar Warehouse, On the Town, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will join the previously announced Norman Bowman (42nd Street, Theatre Royal Drury […]
Our Girls, Our Game – British Youth Music Theatre
Our Girls, Our Game was performed by British Youth Music Theatre at The Studio Venue, Bradford Theatres. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ British Youth Music Theatre is coming to the close of its 2021 summer season. As a national performing arts charity that specialises in producing new music theatre, the company […]
Writer Victoria Saxton reveals more about the incredible story of women’s football told in BYMT’s Our Girls, Our Game
Not only does British Youth Music Theatre’s empowering new musical Our Girls, Our Game feature an intrepid all-female cast, but behind the scenes there is plenty of girl power too in the shape of writer Victoria Saxton, director Charlotte Westenra, composer and musical director Vikki Stone and choreographer Jane McMurtrie. This uplifting musical, telling the […]
Eleven musicals feature in British Youth Music Theatre’s Summer Season 2021
British Youth Music Theatre (BYMT), the UK’s leading musical theatre company for young people, has announced its 2021 season of summer performances: live in-person productions of 11 musicals presented across the country from 5-29 August 2021. The line-up includes brand new pieces about the earliest known female football team in England and the baby simulators […]
New dates for premiere of Indecent Proposal at Southwark Playhouse
10 to 4 Productions has announced new dates for the world premiere of the musical version of the 1980s novel Indecent Proposal at Southwark Playhouse. Postponed twice due to the pandemic, the musical version of Jack Engelhard’s original story of a young cash-strapped couple presented with a moral dilemma by a wealthy older man, will […]
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Southwark Playhouse
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Southwark Playhouse is streaming from Stream.Theatre until 14 March 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is not a Harry Potter adaptation. After some time spent on Wikipedia rectifying my misremembering of those book titles, I discovered that this new show by Richard Hough (book/lyrics) and Ben […]
New musical On Hostile Ground to be released as online series
New musical On Hostile Ground will initially be released as a free series of music videos online from 16 February as part of Northampton’s Royal & Derngate Made in Northampton 2021 season of original new musical theatre. Co-created and directed by Charlotte Westenra with lyrics by Darren Clark, a book by Juliet Gilkes Romero and […]
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice world premiere to move online
The world premiere of new British musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice will now take place online following the cancellation of the show’s debut season at the Southwark Playhouse this month. Announcing the decision to move the production onto streaming platform stream.theatre, producer James Seabright said: “We are sorry not to be able to present this wonderful […]
Royal & Derngate announces four new musicals for 2021
Northampton’s Royal & Derngate has unveiled plans to premiere four new musicals as part of its Made in Northampton 2021 season. Three original musicals will debut on stage with a fourth appearing online in the culmination of a three-year development project involving a national consortium of partners in support of 150 artists. Innovative theatre company […]
Premiere for new British musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in 2021
New British musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice will receive its world premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in January 2021. Inspired by the 18th century poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the musical which has been created writer Richard Hough and composer Ben Morales Frost (Our Man In Havana, A Christmas Carol) will make its debut in […]
Jacqui Dankworth and Norman Bowman are cast in Indecent Proposal musical at the Southwark Playhouse
Jacqui Dankworth and Norman Bowman are the first cast members announced for the new musical version of the 1980s novel Indecent Proposal which will play the Southwark Playhouse from 29 May until 27 June. Presented by 10 to 4 Productions, the musical version of Jack Engelhard’s original story of a young cash-strapped couple presented with […]
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change – Chiswick Playhouse
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Chiswick Playhouse, London until 30 November 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I Love You? Yes! You’re Perfect? Not quite (a few dodgy accents and too many of them) but laugh-out-loud funny and lovable. Now Change? Wouldn’t alter a word. In fact, quite a […]
The Return of the Soldier – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
The Return of the Soldier was reviewed at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. The production transfers to the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich from 2-6 October 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★★ ★ Writing in 1918 as the effects of the First World War still raged around her, Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier holds […]
Hope Mill’s last two shows of 2018 are The Return of the Soldier and A Christmas Story
British musical The Return of the Soldier and the UK premiere of Broadway hit A Christmas Story The Musical will be the final two in-house productions in 2018 from the highly successful partnership between Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Charles Miller and Tim Sanders’ musical adaptation of Rebecca West’s novella […]
The Wicker Husband – The Other Palace
A showcase performance of The Wicker Husband took place at The Other Palace, London. The Wicker Husband, with a book by Rhys Jennings and music and lyrics by Darren Clark, is based on a short story of the same name by Ursula Willis-Jones. It tells the story of The Ugly Girl, a hardworking fisher woman […]
The Wicker Husband – the inside story on bringing a new musical to life
The Wicker Husband is a musical theatre work-in-progress being brought to life by actor and book-writer Rhys Jennings and composer-lyricist Darren Clark. This nascent show takes its inspiration from a short story of the same name – a folksy fable in the style of a fairy tale – self-published online by Gloucester writer Ursula Wills-Jones. […]
