Summer: The Donna Summer Musical continues at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Donna Summer, who reigned as the “Queen of Disco”, died in 2012 of cancer. And Summer: The Donna Summer Musical makes for a scintillating memorial. Of course, this Broadway outing isn’t your ordinary memorial. […]
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The Scottsboro Boys – Garrick Theatre
The Scottsboro Boys continues at the Garrick Theatre until 21 February 2015. Any play dealing with America’s troubled racial history can struggle to feel like it has a place on a British stage at times. There isn’t quite the same sense of shared history, so what can feel raw and visceral to US audiences risks leaving their […]
The Scottsboro Boys – casting revealed for West End transfer
Initial casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Kander and Ebb’s award-winning and final musical The Scottsboro Boys. Brandon Victor Dixon, who originated the role of Haywood Patterson in the first US production of The Scottsboro Boys and is currently starring as Berry Gordy in Motown the Musical on Broadway, will make his West End debut this […]
