Rebecca continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 18 November 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
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The Third Man – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Third Man continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 9 September 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Norma Desmond role for Nicole Scherzinger in new Sunset Boulevard
Nicole Scherzinger will play faded movie star Norma Desmond in a major new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard later this year.
The Third Man musical – full cast
Full casting has been unveiled for the highly anticipated world premiere of the musical version of Graham Greene’s classic story The Third Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory this summer.
Menier announces three major musical productions for 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory is returning to its musical theatre roots with a 2023 season that will feature two world premiere musicals and a revival of a Stephen Sondheim classic.
English language debut for Rebecca musical
London’s Charing Cross Theatre will be the setting for the English language premiere of an acclaimed musical inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s classic novel Rebecca.
Sunset Boulevard in Concert – Curve Leicester
Sunset Boulevard in Concert at Home is streaming from Curve Leicester until 9 January 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Talk about making the very best of a bad job, Leicester Curve has dazzlingly turned the body-blow of having its planned Sunset Boulevard in Concert live-audience season scuppered by the new […]
Sam Mendes, Giles Terera and Stephen Mear feature in New Year Honours list
Oscar-winning directors Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen, choreographer and director David Bintley, playwright Christopher Hampton, Olivia Newton-John and Elton John are among the famous names from the entertainment world celebrating their inclusion in this New Year Honours list. Mendes, McQueen, Bintley and Hampton all receive knighthoods while Newton-John becomes a Dame in recognition of her […]
Sunset Boulevard – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Sunset Boulevard continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre until 14 April, then tours until 28 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Sunset Boulevard tour has been on the go since September so it came as a surprise when Wimbledon threw a press night with only two more ports of […]
Sunset Boulevard – London Coliseum
Sunset Boulevard continues at the London Coliseum until 7 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The golden age of Hollywood, when silent pictures gave way to ‘talkies’, has been a fertile ground for storytelling in the past. Singin’ in the Rain gave us a comedic take on the screen starlet who […]
Sunset Boulevard – Glenn Close on making her West End debut at ENO
In April 2016, the London Coliseum will play host to a semi-staged production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard, with Glenn Close reprising the role of former silent movie star Norma Desmond, which she played in Los Angeles and on Broadway. In front of an invited press audience, she spoke of her previous involvement […]
Glenn Close to star in semi-staged ENO production of Sunset Boulevard
Glenn Close will star as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s Sunset Boulevard, the second production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. In March 2015 ENO and the GradeLinnit Company presented the critically acclaimed sell-out run of Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in the inaugural production of their partnership. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of […]
Stephen Ward the Musical – Aldwych Theatre
Stephen Ward the Musical opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London on 19 December. Set in the swinging 1960s, Stephen Ward the Musical is a biographical piece describing the rise and fall of the society playboy who fell foul of the ruling classes. Known eternally as the lynchpin to the Profumo affair –a sexual scandal that precipitated […]
Eyre stages Lloyd Webber Stephen Ward musical
Richard Eyre will direct the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and Don Black’s new musical Stephen Ward, previewing at London’s Aldwych Theatre from 3rd December 2013, with opening night on 19th December. Stephen Ward has music by Lloyd Webber, with book and lyrics by playwright Hampton and lyricist Black (with whom Lloyd Webber previously […]
