A Mirrored Monet continues until 9 May 2026 at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There is much to admire about this colourful and charming show.
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Fly More Than You Fall – Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Fly More Than You Fall continues at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London until 23 November 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This production immediately sets an energetic pace, one that hardly flags throughout, driven by a mostly very young cast
Making A Murderer: The Musical to debut at the Edinburgh Fringe
The full cast has today been announced for BAFTA-winning comedy writer Phil Mealey’s new musical Making A Murderer: The Musical which will make its world premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Based on the story of Steven Avery which also inspired the award-winning Netflix true crime documentary series Making A Murderer, Mealey’s musical comedy/drama […]
Zorro – Charing Cross Theatre
Zorro continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 28 May 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Johnston McCulley’s pulp hero Zorro, the masked alias of Don Diego de la Vega who fights for justice in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in early 19th century Alta California, made his first appearance in […]
Full cast for reimagined Zorro The Musical at Charing Cross Theatre
Benjamin Purkiss will reprise his performance in the title role of Christian Durham’s production of Zorro The Musical when the innovative production makes its eagerly-anticipated debut at London’s Charing Cross Theatre next month. The alternate Strat in the original Manchester Opera House and Dominion Theatre production of Bat Out of Hell, Purkiss (Allegro, Southwark Playhouse) […]
New dates for Zorro The Musical at Charing Cross Theatre
Christian Durham’s innovative new production of Zorro The Musical will begin previews at Charing Cross Theatre on 2 April 2022 ahead of an opening night on 12 April. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and John Gertz, the immersive actor-musician production which had played just two previews at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre before the […]
Re-imagined Zorro The Musical to play the Charing Cross Theatre in early 2022
Christian Durham’s innovative new production of Zorro The Musical will begin previews at Charing Cross Theatre in March 2022, two years after its debut run was cut short by the pandemic. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and John Gertz, the immersive actor/musician production which had played just two previews at Manchester’s Hope Mill […]
Café Society Swing – Theatre Royal Stratford East, London
Café Society Swing continues at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London until 16 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The stories of so many of America’s greatest black cabaret and jazz stars are dominated by Café Society, the club in New York’s Greenwich Village which ran for ten years from 1938 to 1948. When […]
Jazz-flavoured Cafe Society Swing to play Stratford East
Actor Peter Gerald will join the accomplished international cast taking to the stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East next month in Café Society Swing, a celebration of the first racially-desegregated jazz club in New York. Directed by Christian Durham, and packed with jazz, blues, gospel and bebop, Café Society Swing will see Gerald (Little Shop of […]
Musical Theatre Academy – Animus
Animus, performed by the Musical Theatre Academy’s first-year students, continues at the Bridewell Theatre, London until 10 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ We’re in 18th century London. In a quasi revenge tragedy, heiress Charlotte Donne (Jenna Innes) seeks vengeance, but her judgement is not sound and she makes several (literally) fatal mistakes. It’s […]
Children of Eden at the Union Theatre – full casting
Full casting has been revealed for Children of Eden, which returns to London 25 years after its original West End production, playing at the Union Theatre from Wednesday 10 August, with a press night on Friday 12 August 2016. The cast features Natasha O‘Brien (A Christmas Carol, Rose Theatre) as Eve/Mama, Stephen Barry (The Beautiful Game, Union Theatre) as Adam/Noah, Joey […]
New production of Children of Eden heads to Union Theatre
Twenty-five years after its original West End production, Children of Eden will return to London in a new production at the Union Theatre, opening on Friday 12 August with previews from Wednesday 10 August 2016. Children of Eden will be the second production in the Union Theatre’s brand new state-of-the-art space in Southwark, where Ruthie […]
Spend Spend Spend – Union Theatre
Spend Spend Spend continues at the Union Theatre, London until 18 April. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ After presenting Whistle Down the Wind and Loserville, the Union Theatre conclude its season of British musicals with Steve Brown and Justin Greene’s Spend Spend Spend (music by Brown and book and lyrics by Brown and Greene). Based on the book […]
Union Theatre presents Spend, Spend, Spend in British musical theatre season
As the third show in its season of celebrating British musical theatre (the previous ones being Whistle Down the Wind and Loserville), the Union Theatre presents Spend, Spend, Spend, running at the venue from 25 March to 18 April 2015 (press night is 28 March). With music by Steve Brown and book and lyrics by […]
Just So – Musical Theatre Academy
Just So was performed by students from the Musical Theatre Academy (MTA) at the Bridewell Theatre, London. When selecting a musical for performance by a class of students who are coming to the end of their time at college, there are few that provide a sufficiently wide range of characters for most, if not all, […]
