Anything Goes continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 2 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Anything Goes is frivolous, fun and guaranteed fabulously joyful entertainment.
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High Society – Barbican Theatre and Touring
High Society was reviewed at the Barbican Theatre, London where it continues until 11 July 2026. The tour continues until 14 November 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This production is performed with enough pure unbridled, exuberant joy, to ensure that a swellegant, elegant time is had by all.
Freddie Fox to make genre debut in Barbican’s High Society
Freddie Fox will make his musical theatre debut in the highly anticipated new production of the classic Cole Porter musical High Society at London’s Barbican next month.
Kiss Me, Kate – Cinema preview screening and Q&A
Lovers of Cole Porter’s classic musical Kiss Me, Kate who missed the Barbican revival this summer can play catch-up when the filmed version hits 500 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Sunday (17 November).
Kiss Me, Kate – Barbican Theatre
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Not to be missed at the Barbican until 14 September, after which a West End transfer or a tour would be most welcome.
High Society – The Mill at Sonning
High Society continues at the Mill at Sonning until 20 January 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Thanks Joseph Pitcher for a first-rate production of a still maturing classic not to be missed at any cost at the magical Mill at Sonning until January.
Roman Holiday – Theatre Royal Bath
Roman Holiday continues at the Theatre Royal Bath until 1 July 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Roman Holiday is well worth a trip to the enchanting city of Bath.
Cast for Theatre Royal Bath’s Roman Holiday
Full casting has been announced for the UK premiere of the stage musical adaptation of the classic movie Roman Holiday at the Theatre Royal Bath this summer.
UK premiere for musical Roman Holiday at Theatre Royal Bath in 2023
The stage musical adaptation of the classic movie Roman Holiday will receive its UK premiere at the Theatre Royal Bath next summer.
Extra three weeks added to Anything Goes Barbican encore – Check out the new production images
The Barbican encore season of the hit UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes has been extended in response to exceptional demand for tickets. A box office record breaker at the Barbican last year the critic and crowd-pleasing will now follow tour dates across the […]
Anything Goes – new all-star casting revealed
Kerry Ellis, Denis Lawson, Simon Callow and Bonnie Langford will be aboard the hit UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes when it cruises back into the Barbican this summer. Ellis (Wicked, We Will Rock You) will star as Reno Sweeney alongside Lawson (Mr Cinders, […]
Film Review: Anything Goes
Anything Goes is screened in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 28 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you missed Kathleen Marshall’s phenomenally successful production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Barbican this year, then fear not: the cameras were in over a few nights to capture the […]
Barbican encore season for record-breaking Anything Goes
The hit UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes will cruise back into the Barbican Theatre next summer. A box office record breaker at the prestigious London venue the production which celebrated the highest-grossing week for a musical at the Barbican in its 39-year history […]
Cinema screenings announced for hit production of Anything Goes
The hit production of Anything Goes, due to take its final bow on 6 November, will sail into over 450 cinema screens nationwide for two nights only on 28 November and 1 December in a live recording filmed at London’s Barbican Theatre. Presented by the Barbican and filmed live in London – during the show’s […]
Rachel York and Hadyn Gwynne to join cast of Anything Goes in London
Broadway star Rachel York and Tony and Olivier nominee Haydn Gwynne will join the cast of the critically-acclaimed UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of Anything Goes for its final weeks at the Barbican. York (City of Angels, Victor/Victoria) will reprise her US touring production performance as Reno Sweeney from 12 October with Gwyne […]
Anything Goes – Barbican Theatre
Anything Goes continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 31 October 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If anyone comes out of this remarkable revival of Anything Goes without a broad smile on their face, feeling ten times better than when they arrived and humming a Cole Porter classic, the probability is that […]
Broadway’s Sutton Foster to replace Megan Mullally in Barbican’s Anything Goes
Multi-award-winning Broadway star Sutton Foster will replace injury hit Megan Mullally in the much-anticipated UK re-working of award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes at the Barbican this summer. Foster (The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie) will reprise her Tony Award-winning performance as Reno Sweeney and make her West […]
Anything Goes Barbican dates announced plus more casting news
The producers of the much-anticipated UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes have announced new dates and further casting for the show which will play a season at the Barbican before embarking on a UK tour. Starring Emmy and Screen Actors’ Guild winner Megan Mullally […]
Felicity Kendal and Gary Wilmot join the cast of Anything Goes
Felicity Kendal and Gary Wilmot are the latest star additions to the cast of the much-anticipated UK re-working of director Kathleen Marshall’s award-winning 2011 Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes. Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Kendal (Much Ado About Nothing, Lettice and Lovage) will make her West End musical […]
Will & Grace’s Megan Mullally makes her West End musical debut in Anything Goes opposite Robert Lindsay
Classic musical Anything Goes is making a return to the London stage in spring and summer 2021 for a strictly limited 15-week engagement at the Barbican Theatre, starring Emmy & SAG Award winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) who is making her West End musical debut as Reno Sweeney, and Tony, Olivier and BAFTA Award […]
Curve to stage UK debut of Roman Holiday musical
The UK premiere of the stage musical version of the Academy Award-winning movie Roman Holiday is one of a trio of new Made at Curve productions lined up for 2020 at the prestigious Leicester Curve venue. Featuring the timeless music of Cole Porter and with a libretto by Kirsten Guenther and the book writer for […]
Rebecca Trehearn and David Ricardo-Pearce to star in Watermill’s Kiss Me, Kate
Rebecca Trehearn and David Ricardo-Pearce will play the warring couple at the heart of the Watermill Theatre’s version of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate this summer. Olivier Award-winner Trehearn (Show Boat, New London Theatre, Sweet Charity, Nottingham Playhouse) will take on the role Lilli Vanessi (Katherine) opposite Ricardo-Pearce who returns to the Newbury venue […]
‘Another Op’nin’, Another Show’: Cindy Belliot plays Hattie in Kiss Me, Kate at Sheffield Crucible
Sheffield Theatres’ Christmas musical is a major revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate at the Crucible Theatre, directed by Paul Foster. The production continues until 12 January 2019. CINDY BELLIOT plays Hattie. Her theatre credits include Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse), Aladdin (Prince Edward Theatre), Motown (Shaftesbury Theatre), Fela (Broadway, National Theatre London and USA tour), The Hurly Burly Show […]
Anything Goes – Arena Stage, Washington DC
Anything Goes continues at the Arena Stage, Washington DC until 23 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Times have changed! Molly Smith, artistic director of the Arena Stage, reinvents, re-evaluates and re-creates another Golden Age musical following the process she applied to South Pacific, Carousel, Camelot, and last year The Pajama Game. Cross-cultural casting is not new to the Mead Center of American Theater, starting with Oklahoma!, when a […]
Crucible’s Christmas Kiss Me Kate – cast announced
Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director Robert Hastie has announced full casting details for Paul Foster’s major revival of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate, which is due to begin previewing at the Crucible from 7 December 2018. Due to run until 12 January 2019, with an opening night on 12 December, the new production of Porter’s […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Grand Theatre, Leeds and Touring
Kiss Me, Kate at the Grand Theatre, Leeds. The Opera North production plays four performances at the Alighieri Theatre in Ravenna, Italy before returning to the UK to play the London Coliseum from 20-30 June 2018. The show will then head for the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh from 4-7 July. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Reviewing Opera […]
Cast for Opera North’s Kiss Me, Kate return
Casting has been announced for the return of Opera North’s award-winning production of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate, which is due to open at Leeds Grand Theatre in May ahead of UK touring dates. Opera North’s production of Porter’s Golden Age musical version of the Bard’s The Taming of the Shrew, will once again […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Kilworth House Theatre
Kiss Me, Kate continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 16 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Once again, amongst the trees, under the canopy of the Kilworth House Theatre, another gem of a production delights in the form of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. You know the story – amongst the […]
Opera North’s Kiss Me, Kate to play London Coliseum in 2018
Opera North’s award-winning production of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate will make its debut in the capital at the London Coliseum in June next year. Bringing together top talent from the worlds of opera and the West End stage, and featuring the full-scale orchestra and chorus of Opera North, the London run of the […]
Kiss Me, Kate at Kilworth House Theatre – cast revealed
Matthew McKenna and Caroline Sheen will play the warring couple at the heart of the Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate. The first production of the season at the Leicestershire space in the grounds of the Kilworth Hotel will run from 31 May until 16 July. Joining McKenna (Fred Graham) […]
The New Yorkers – Encores! – New York City Center
The New Yorkers, an Encores! production, was performed at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “What kind of a show is this, I ask you?” Thus inquires a character in the midst of Act II of the Encores! re-creation of Cole Porter’s 1930 musical The New Yorkers. And […]
Anything Goes at Upstairs at the Gatehouse – casting details
Casting has been announced for Ovation’s revival of the Cole Porter classic musical Anything Goes at Highgate’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse opening next month. Taryn Erickson will make her UK musical debut alongside recent graduates Jack McCann and Jack Keane and West End regulars including Samantha Dorsey, David Pendlebury and Nova Skipp. Also in the […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff and Touring
Kiss Me, Kate continues at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff until 7 October, then plays dates in Liverpool, Llandudno, Birmingham, Oxford and Southampton. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Strictly speaking, it isn’t at all necessary to ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ to enjoy the infectiously foot-tapping music and lyrics of Cole Porter’s musical […]
Kiss Me, Kate set for Shakespeare-inspired WNO autumn season
Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate will be part of a celebratory Shakespeare-inspired autumn season from the Welsh National Opera. A co-production with Opera North, Porter’s Golden Age musical version of the Bard’s The Taming of the Shrew will feature operatic and West End singers alongside the renowned WNO Chorus and Orchestra. Directed by Jo Davies, […]
Out of this World – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Out of this World continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 30 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The consistently reliable Rose and Crown in Walthamstow works its magic again, turning its attention to a little-known Cole Porter show and covering it with almost enough glitter and glitz to […]
Broadway Melody – Cole Porter Songbook – Auguste Théâtre, Paris
Broadway Melody – the Cole Porter Songbook was performed at the Auguste Théâtre, Paris. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The long overdue new edition of Broadway Melody, celebrating this time the genius of Cole Porter, was well worth the wait. The production used the same cast as the Leonard Bernstein tribute last year: Christine […]
Out of This World at Ye Olde Rose and Crown – cast details
All Star Productions has revealed full details of the cast and creative team for the upcoming London stage premiere of Cole Porter’s Out of This World. The show, which opens at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre on 12 April, will star Cameron Bernard Jones, Rhiannon Moushall, Hugo Joss Catton, Ruth Betteridge, Megan Gilmartin, Adam Hepworth, […]
Out of This World London stage premiere from All Star Productions
All Star Productions is continuing its commitment to producing revivals of rarely produced musicals with the London stage premiere of Cole Porter’s Out of This World. The musical comedy, loosely based on a comedy by Roman playwright Plautus, with music and lyrics by the legendary Porter and a book by Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence, […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 12 February. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Parisians are being given just ten chances to catch the only Cole Porter musical that ran more than a thousand performances on Broadway (and won a 1949 Tony) and now that’s down to […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Grand Theatre, Leeds
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Grand Theatre, Leeds until 31 October before touring to Theatre Royal Newcastle, The Lowry Salford Quays and Theatre Royal Nottingham. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ So, the next step in Opera North’s journey through the Golden Age of Musicals brings us to Cole Porter. There is little doubt that this is […]
Elaine Delmar – The Lady and Her Music – Crazy Coqs
Elaine Delmar – The Lady and Her Music continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 1 August. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Elaine Delmar, making a most welcome return to the Crazy Coqs, is one of Britain’s finest jazz vocalists. Her pedigree began with singing as a youngster with her father’s (Leslie […]
High Society – the Old Vic
High Society continues at the Old Vic, London until 22 August. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Well, did you evah? What a swell party this is! Silly but swelegant and it’s hard not to fall in love with Maria Friedman’s swish, sparkling update of the 1998 Broadway show of the 1956 Frank Sinatra-Grace Kelly-Bing […]
Interview – rising star Ellie Bamber having a ball in High Society at the Old Vic
ELLIE BAMBER is the rising star who plays the role of 14-year-old Dinah Lord in Maria Friedman’s effervescent revival of Cole Porter’s High Society at The Old Vic (opening tonight, Thursday 14 May). Ellie made her screen debut at the age of 15 alongside Martin Clunes in the ITV drama A Mother’s Son, having earlier appeared on stage […]
CD Reviews – Love, Lies and Lyrics, Hugh Maynard and Sarah Cox
NICK WAKEHAM casts an eye over some of the latest CD releases. LOVE, LIES AND LYRICS – The words of Lesley Ross (SimG Records – SimGR-CD024) The latest cd from SimG Records celebrates the words of Lesley Ross, with music provided by Mark Aspinall, Matthew Brind, John-Victor, James Williams, Gounod and Tchaikovsky. For those who may not […]
High Society at the Old Vic – full casting revealed
Full casting for the Old Vic’s new production of High Society has been announced. Casting includes the previously announced Kate Fleetwood , Barbara Flynn, Jamie Parker, Annabel Scholey and Rupert Young along with Ellie Bamber, Richard Grieve, Christopher Ravenscroft and Jeff Rawle. The Old Vic’s new in-the-round production of Cole Porter’s classic musical is directed by Maria Friedman, with Joe […]
Kim Criswell and Wayne Marshall – Cadogan Hall
Kim Criswell and Wayne Marshall performed A Celebration of the American Broadway Songbook at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The incomparable duo of singer Kim Criswell and pianist Wayne Marshall gave their first London concert in a decade before a packed house at London’s Cadogan Hall as part of Cadogan Swings! […]
Pixie Lott joins Strictly professionals in Puttin’ On the Ritz
Pop singer Pixie Lott will appear at the New Wimbledon Theatre this May in a brand new production of Puttin’ On the Ritz. Lott will be joined by her Strictly Come Dancing dance partner Trent Whiddon, along with fellow dance champion professionals Kristina Rihanoff and Robin Windsor. The production will run at the theatre from 27–30 May, it is also visiting other venues […]
High Society – Kate Fleetwood and Jamie Parker lead line-up at the Old Vic
Kate Fleetwood, Barbara Flynn, Jamie Parker, Annabel Scholey and Rupert Young are to star in The Old Vic’s new production of Cole Porter’s classic feelgood musical, High Society, directed in the round by Maria Friedman, with Joe Stilgoe and the High Society Band. The show runs from 30 April to 22 August, press night is […]
Anything Goes – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Anything Goes continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre until 7 February and then tours until 10 October 2015. Star rating: 5 stars ***** The good ship Anything Goes has sailed full steam ahead out of Sheffield, where Daniel Evans’ Crucible feelgood production launched to general euphoria in December, docking first in Wimbledon before continuing its eight-month UK cruise […]
Anything Goes – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Anything Goes continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 17 January 2015, after which the production will embark on a 32-venue tour in the UK until October 2015. Following on from the success of his previous two Christmas productions My Fair Lady and Oliver!, Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans directs Cole Porter’s uplifting masterpiece of song, dance and […]
