Come From Away was reviewed at Milton Keynes Theatre where it continues until 30 November 2024. The tour continues until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A joyful, emotional and deeply human musical that is impossible to watch without being moved.
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Come From Away – Leicester Curve and Touring
Come From Away was reviewed at Leicester Curve where it runs until 9 March 2024. The tour continues until 5 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you’ve seen it before, you already know how good it is. And if you haven’t, “Welcome To The Rock” indeed. You won’t want to leave.
Come From Away to tour the UK and Ireland from February 2024
The multi-award-winning musical Come From Away, which celebrated its 1,000th performance in the West End this week (28 November 2022), will launch its first ever tour of the UK and Ireland, opening in Leicester in February 2024. Further information on tour venues and dates will be announced soon.
Come From Away welcomes new and returning cast to its London production
The multi-award-winning London production of hit musical Come From Away welcomes new and returning cast members to the Phoenix Theatre from June 2022. Kirsty Malpass has returned to the London Come From Away family in the role of Bonnie and others, Olivier Award-nominated Robert Hands returns to the role of Nick/Doug and others, Lejaun Sheppard […]
Diana The Musical – Netflix
Diana The Musical – Netflix (and reopening on Broadway on 17 November 2021). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s amazing how reading one-star reviews of a show can influence one’s approach to seeing it and I tuned into Netflix expecting to loathe this Broadway musical take on the iconic Diana. Would […]
Film of Broadway’s Come From Away to debut on Apple TV Plus in September
The eagerly-awaited filmed performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Come From Away will be streamed worldwide from 10 September 2021 via Apple TV Plus. Directed by the show’s Tony Award-winning director Christopher Ashley, the film features original cast members Petrina Bromley, Jenn Colella, Joel Hatch, Caesar Samayoa, Q Smith, Astrid Van Wieren and […]
Two newcomers join Come From Away cast ahead of reopening
Multi-award-winning Best New Musical Come From Away will welcome two new cast members when the West End production makes its long-awaited return to London’s Phoenix Theatre later this month. Gemma Knight Jones (Falsettos, The Other Palace, Sister Act UK tour, Hairspray UK tour) will join the Come From Away London family to play Hannah and […]
Come From Away set for summer return to West End
Olivier award-winning Best New Musical Come From Away will make its long-awaited return to London’s Phoenix Theatre in July. The curtain will rise on 22 July for the first time since the Covid-closedown halted performances just a few weeks after the critically-acclaimed production celebrated its first birthday in the West End. Announcing the production’s West […]
Broadway opening night and Netflix date for Diana: The Musical
The controversial Princess Diana musical will now premiere on Netflix on 1 October 2021 just over two months before the show celebrates its delayed Broadway opening night on 16 November. As previously announced a performance of Diana: The Musical was filmed for Netflix at the Longacre Theatre without an audience in attendance last year. The […]
Film of Broadway’s Come From Away announced
British Canadian company Entertainment One (eOne) has announced plans to film a special performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Come From Away in May for release in September 2021. The live filming of the show at the hit production’s New York home, the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, will offer employment to over 222 people […]
Concert version of Come From Away is coming back to the West End
Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, Come From Away is heading back to the West End with a special staged concert version at the Phoenix Theatre in February 2021. Running from 10-27 February, Come From Away: The Concert will reunite the London cast, band and company for a specially adapted staging of the hit show created […]
Broadway’s Diana musical to premiere on Netflix
The controversial new musical based on the life of Princess Diana will now premiere on Netflix ahead of its delayed Broadway opening in May next year. Producers Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams), Frank Marshall and The Araca Group have announced that the show which had begin preview performances at the Longacre Theatre before the Covid-closedown, will […]
Rachel Tucker leads cast of European premiere of Come From Away
Thirteen actors will take on both lead and supporting roles in the Tony Award-winning new musical Come From Away which is due to land on this side of the Atlantic in December with a premiere run in Ireland ahead of its West End debut in early 2019. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the […]
Acclaimed musical Come From Away to debut in Dublin and London
Tony Award-winning new musical Come From Away is due to land on this side of the Atlantic in December with a premiere run in Ireland ahead of its West End debut in January 2019. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the 7,000 stranded air passengers who found refuge in a small Canadian town in […]
Escape to Margaritaville – Marquis Theatre, New York
Escape to Margaritaville continues at the Marquis Theatre, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ From the eponymous cocktails offered for sale in the lobby to the beach balls that come cascading into the audience at the finish, Escape to Margaritaville is a Broadway musical that works hard – really hard […]
Movie musical review – Lucky Stiff
Lucky Stiff, a musical farce by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Once on This Island, Ragtime), has been around since 1988 when it won the Richard Rodgers Award for an Off-Broadway production by the Playwrights Horizons theatre company. Since then, it has had moderate success over here in the UK but is a well-loved staple […]
Memphis the Musical – Shaftesbury Theatre
Memphis the Musical continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. If you happen to be pining for the Great White Way, then a trip to the Shaftesbury Theatre may be in order, for while Memphis the Musical isn’t perfect, it boasts many of the qualities that make Broadway shows so special. Set in 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, […]
