Norvil & Josephine: Rabbits Out of the Hat continues at King Dome at Pleasance Dome until 24 August 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Overall, the show is charming and enjoyable.
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Made in Dagenham – Pimlico Opera – HMP Bronzefield
Made in Dagenham by Pimlico Opera and the prisoners of HMP Bronzefield at Bronzefield Prison, Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ They stood up for their rights and we stood up for their amazing performances. I’d love to see it again.
Jodie Jacobs will lead the cast of Pimlico Opera’s prison production of Made in Dagenham
Award-winning Jodie Jacobs (Rock of Ages) is to lead the cast as strike leader Rita O’Grady in Pimlico Opera’s prison production of the musical Made in Dagenham which runs from 5-9 March 2025 at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 5 March 2023 and then tours until 26 November 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Full company confirmed for Leeds Playhouse’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Leeds Playhouse has announced the full company for the venue’s new production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical. As previously announced, the touring production will star Gareth Snook (The Phantom of the Opera, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Les Misérables, Palace Theatre, Sunset Boulevard /Made in Dagenham, Adelphi Theatre) as the charismatic confectioner, Willy […]
Yeast Nation: The Triumph of Life – Southwark Playhouse
Yeast Nation continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 27 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Yeast Nation is a musical with a title every bit as intriguing as its equally audacious Tony-winning forerunner, Urinetown. Written by Mark Hollman (music and lyrics) and Greg Kotis (book and lyrics), the show […]
Anderson and Petty announce virtual concert A Christmas Wish in aid of Acting For Others
Songwriters Anderson and Petty have announced A Christmas Wish, a virtual concert with West End stars from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Six: The Musical, Wicked and more, available to stream at select times from 17-20 December 2020. The concert is hosted by Ben Stock and Hilary O’Neil and is in aid of theatrical charity Acting For Others who provide emotional and financial support to […]
Hairspray The Musical – HMP Bronzefield, Surrey
Hairspray The Musical at HMP Bronzefield, Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Once again Pimlico Opera has worked a near-miracle in training up the “residents” of Europe’s biggest all-women prison in five short weeks to sing, dance and act to undreamed-of heights. This is the fourth time Pimlico and HMP Bronzefield […]
Chloe Hart revisits the role of Tracy Turnblad in Pimlico Opera’s Hairspray at HMP Bronzefield
Chloe Hart revisits the role of Tracy Turnblad in March 2020, the part which put her on a West End stage even before she had graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2009. And she’s going to prison to do it. Hart stars with Christopher Howell in Hairspray when Pimlico Opera returns to HMP […]
Ria Jones heads up the Guys and Dolls cast at Paris’ Theatre Marigny
Paris will be seeing Guys and Dolls for the first time when Frank Loesser’s iconic 1950 musical lands in the Theatre Marigny, just off the Champs-Elysees, for a four-and-a-half-month run from 13 March to 27 July. Ria Jones, so brilliant in Sunset Boulevard, heads the cast which also features Clare Halse, Christopher Howell and Matthew […]
Performance Preparation Academy – Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham was performed by Performance Preparation Academy at Eve Lyons Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In a week of total political chaos in Britain, the story of the strike by 187 female Ford Dagenham machinists 50 years ago that paved the way for the Equal Pay Act […]
Performance Preparation Academy – Flashdance The Musical
Flashdance The Musical was performed by third-year students from the Performance Preparation Academy at the Electric Theatre, Guildford. This review refers to the performance on 26 February by the ‘Skin’ cast. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Flashdance The Musical, Tom Hedley, Robbie Roth and Robert Cary’s musical theatre adaptation of Adrian […]
Performance Preparation Academy – Bring It On: The Musical
Bring It On: The Musical was performed by Performance Preparation Academy third-year graduates at the Electric Theatre, Guildford. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Nobody is claiming the musical version of the Kirsten Dunst-starring Bring It On movie is great theatre nor is the subject matter, a high-school cheerleading competition in California, particularly attractive to British audiences. But […]
Bring It On: The Musical – PPA presents drama school premiere
Performance Preparation Academy’s third year Musical Theatre Diploma graduates are presenting the critically acclaimed Tony-Award-nominated high-flying drama school premiere of Bring It On: The Musical at The Electric Theatre, Guildford this week, from 5–7 March. Telling the story of a rival high school cheer squad, the musical first burst onto the Off-Broadway stage in 2011, later […]
