Pigs Might Fly was reviewed at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking on 30 May 2023. The UK tour continues until 16 July 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
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Royal Academy of Music – The Light in the Piazza
The Light in the Piazza at the Royal Academy of Music’s Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Between Adam Guettel’s sumptuous, demanding score, Craig Lucas’ Italian language-heavy book, and a tradition of extravagantly beautiful scenic design, The Light in the Piazza is not an obvious choice for a […]
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical – King’s Head Theatre / Plays On Film
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical, streaming via King’s Head Theatre’s Plays On Film. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Although it might have one of the most convoluted titles in recent musical theatre history, I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical follows a fairly simple premise. Four performers […]
Full cast announced for the online version of I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical
The full cast has been announced for the online version of I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical, the award-winning musical revue charting the highs and lows of life as a musical theatre performer. Stars of the sell-out 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, Charlotte O’Rourke (Mamma Mia!) and Charlotte Anne Steen (Bat Out of […]
West End Bares – Top Off the Pops – Shaftesbury Theatre
West End Bares – Top Off The Pops at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After six years at the Café de Paris and two memorable years at the Novello Theatre, West End Bares moved to a yet bigger house, the Shaftesbury Theatre, home of the Broadway musical Motown for the past three years, so definitely a fitting venue for this year’s production, aptly titled Top Off The Pops. After […]
Southwark Playhouse’s Seussical The Musical cast announced
Marc Pickering’s mischievous Cat in the Hat will lead the line-up of fantastical characters taking over the Southwark Playhouse in a major new production of Seussical The Musical this Christmas season. One of the stars of the popular HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire, Pickering who previously appeared in the Southwark Playhouse’s The Toxic Avenger will […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Oh My, Nellie Bly
Oh My, Nellie Bly was performed by students from the Musical Theatre Academy at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Nellie Bly was a ground-breaking 19th-century American journalist, hardly known in the UK but better known in the States. She posed as an inmate in order to research a searing exposé, […]
Give My Regards to Broadway – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Give My Regards to Broadway continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 5 August 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Give My Regards to Broadwayis an unabashed love letter to the musicals of yesteryear, spanning hits from Cole Porter and Irving Berlin to Richard Rodgers and the Gershwin brothers, and takes its […]
Immersion Theatre’s Seussical The Musical set for festive run in London
The mischievous Cat in the Hat will lead the line-up of fantastical characters taking over the Southwark Playhouse in a major new production of Seussical The Musical this Christmas season. Presented by the inventive Immersion Theatre, the larger-than-life creations of Dr Seuss will be brought to life in a production which will run from 22 […]
Musical Give My Regards to Broadway to premiere in London
Four decades of classic show tunes celebrating the city of New York will form the basis of new musical Give My Regards to Broadway which will receive its world premiere in London this summer. Featuring Great American Songbook songs written between 1902 and 1942, the revue style show will play Upstairs at the Gatehouse in […]
Top Hat – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Top Hat continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 28 January 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★. Featuring songs from the Irving Berlin catalogue (like White Christmas and Holiday Inn), this Fringe premiere of Top Hat is following in the footsteps of successful in-house-productions of the Gershwins’ Crazy For You […]
Anything Goes – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Anything Goes continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 29 January 2017. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It can be more than a little frustrating for the musical theatre lover that because of commercial imperatives, such as a title having to be familiar at all costs, the list of frequently revived […]
