Kinky Boots continues at the London Coliseum until 11 July 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Johannes Radebe feels like he inhabits the character of Lola throughout. Partly that’s made easier by Fierstein’s book making Lola a character who is being an overt performer, but it’s also down to Radebe’s innate charisma and a genuinely great performance.
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Closer to Heaven – Turbine Theatre
Closer to Heaven continues at the Turbine Theatre, London until 30 June 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ This isn’t necessarily perfect for every theatregoer, but it is certain to be a night to remember for many.
Cast for Turbine Theatre’s Closer to Heaven
West End star Frances Ruffelle will play Billie Trix in the Turbine Theatre’s new production of Jonathan Harvey and The Pet Shop Boys’ Closer to Heaven.
Cool Rider – London Palladium
Cool Rider was reviewed at the London Palladium. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Following some recent concert production misfires, it was hugely impressive seeing the Cool Rider creative team getting this one right. This is how you deliver a concert.
Oliver Tompsett to take over as Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman as the show sets West End closing date
West End favourite Oliver Tompsett will step into the leading role of Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman The Musical at the Savoy Theatre from 4 April until 18 June 2023. The production will then close in London before embarking on a UK and Ireland tour, opening at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre on 17 October.
WhatsOnStage Awards 2023 – the winners
Women swept the board in the first-ever gender-neutral performance categories at the 23rd WhatsOnStage Awards.
Trio of hosts announced for WhatsOnStage Awards 2023
Courtney Bowman, Laurie Kynaston and Billy Luke Nevers will host the 23rd WhatsOnStage Awards at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre on 12 February 2023.
WhatsOnStage Awards 2023 – the nominees
Daniel Fish’s innovative 2019 Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s much-loved Oklahoma! leads the musical theatre nominees for the 23rd WhatsOnStage Awards.
Courtney Bowman to join cast of Pretty Woman and new extension announced
West End sensation Courtney Bowman will join the cast of Pretty Woman The Musical at the Savoy Theatre from 15 November 2022.
Black British Theatre Awards 2022 – nominees announced
The Royal Court’s production of For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy and Hope Mill Theatre’s production of The Wiz lead the way in the shortlist for the 2022 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs). Both productions have received six nominations, with Matthew Xia (The Wiz, Hope Mill Theatre) and […]
Kinky Boots The Musical In Concert – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Kinky Boots The Musical In Concert continues at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London until 9 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The London Musical Theatre Orchestra is back at Drury Lane this week for a two-nights-only bash at Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s Kinky Boots. And with the ceiling-lifting […]
Cast and extra date for Kinky Boots Drury Lane concert
The organisers of the upcoming concert version of feel-good musical Kinky Boots at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane have added an extra date, with the production now due to play two performances on 8 and 9 August 2022. As previously announced the first production of the multi-award-winning show in the West End in three years […]
Legally Blonde – Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park
Legally Blonde continues at the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park,London until 2 July 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Perhaps this feel-good story in which all “monsters” are kicked into the gutter amidst much pink is just what we need on an early summer evening – especially when it’s set in the tree-girt […]
Full cast for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Legally Blonde
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced the full cast for the venue’s upcoming production of Legally Blonde. As previously announced Courtney Bowman (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Six) will star as the irrepressible Elle Woods alongside Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Emmett), Lauren Drew (Brooke), Vanessa Fisher (Vivienne), Isaac Hesketh (Margot), Nadine Higgin (Paulette), Alžbeta Matyšáková (Enid), Eugene […]
Courtney Bowman to star in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Legally Blonde
Courtney Bowman will play Elle Woods in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Legally Blonde. The actress who originated the role of Fatimah in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and played Anne Boleyn in Six will reunite with SIX’s co-director and co-writer Lucy Moss who will direct the new production which play Regent’s […]
West End stars feature in workshop presentation of new Brit show Tinker Bell the Musical
West End stars Alice Fearn, Oliver Savile and Courtney Bowman will be among the cast of a week-long workshop production of new British musical Tinker Bell the Musical. Directed by Anna Fox with assistant director Ayoade Bamgboye, the cast will also include Miracle Chance, Tosh Wanogho-Maud, Patrick Munday, Charlie Kristensen, Beth Hinton-Lever, Gwion Morris Jones, […]
Disenchanted! – stream.theatre
Disenchanted! is available on stream.theatre until 11 April 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Disney princesses are intrinsic to modern pup culture. From Snow White to Rapunzel, the fairytales of Grimm and Perrault have been pummelled into capitalist submission, the dark edges of their morality tales chamfered away into tales that […]
West End stars to feature in Disenchanted digital production
A group of the West End’s rising stars will play fairytale princesses with a difference in a new digital production of Off-Broadway hit Disenchanted. Jodie Steele (Six The Musical, Heathers: The Musical) will play Snow White with Sophie Isaacs (Six The Musical, Heathers: The Musical) featuring as Cinderella, Grace Mouat (& Juliet, Six The Musical) […]
Graduates at Cadogan Hall
Graduates at Cadogan Hall, available to stream until 28 March 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some people say that an actor must experience real-life hardship to deliver a convincingly three-dimensional performance on stage. If that were true, last year’s musical theatre graduates – who emerged from their education into a […]
Graduates at Cadogan Hall concerts – cast announced
The organisers of the upcoming Graduates at Cadogan Hall concert series have unveiled the list of 40 performing arts graduates chosen from 200 applicants to appear in the series of special fundraising concerts next month. Presented by the award-winning Grad Fest and hosted by West End stars including Courtney Bowman (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Six), […]
Musicals: The Greatest Show – BBC1 and BBC iPlayer
Musicals: The Greatest Show – BBC1 and BBC iPlayer (where it is available for a year). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As soon as the great Ramin Karimloo launched into a sublime ‘Music of the Night’, tears started rolling down cheeks and shivers tumbled like a waterfall down the spine. We […]
West End Musical Drive-In shows to be streamed online
Home-bound audiences will be able to get a taste of the initiative that brought a touch of musical theatre magic to a London car park with the release of digital recordings of the West End Musical Drive-In concerts via the stream.theatre platform. Featuring over 25 West End stars including Alice Fearn (Come From Away), Lucie […]
Roles We’ll Never Play – West End to be streamed to home audiences
A live recording of last month’s West End debut of the popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will be streamed to home audiences next weekend. Featuring a cast of over 25 the performance which was filmed live during the concert’s sold-out run at London’s Apollo Theatre in December will be streamed via stream.theatre at […]
Hiba Elchikhe collaborates with Nimax and Theatre Cafe on web-based series
Star of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in the West End, Hiba Elchikhe has joined forces with Nimax Theatres and The Theatre Café to present new musical theatre flavoured web series Out Of The Darkness, Into The Spotlight. Launching on 18 November 2020, the three-part themed series aims to entertain and showcase the breadth of talent […]
West End debut for Roles We’ll Never Play series
The popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will make its West End debut at London’s Apollo Theatre in December. Following two successful years of sold-out concerts in the capital, Roles We’ll Never Play West End on 7 December 2020 will once again offer a host of West End favourites the chance to perform songs […]
West End stars and industry figures to unite for Magic With The Musicals at the Palladium
Magic Radio will bring together over 70 leading figures from across the industry for a special Magic With The Musicals day at the London Palladium aimed at raising awareness of the plight of the theatre industry. Produced by Magic and TBI Media, the event on 17 September 2020 will result in a special three-hour show […]
Sunday At The Musicals returns in October with a fundraiser
A host of West End favourites will take to the stage at The Actors’ Church when the popular Sunday at the Musicals returns on 4 October 2020 with a fundraising concert. Produced by Paul Burton Productions, the star-studded show which will be directed by Charlotte Peters will raise funds for Acting For Others. The line-up […]
Extra West End Musical Drive-In shows announced
More West End favourites and extra shows have been added to September’s West End Musical Drive-In schedule following a successful August programme. After selling all tickets within 24 hours for the previously announced 12 September 2020 show featuring 17 past and present Queens from hit show Six, an extra performance of the musical theatre-themed concert […]
Eleven Six Queens to join the West End Musical Drive-In line-up
Eleven past and present ‘Queens’ from the hit show Six are the latest additions to the line-up of West End favourites bringing a touch of musical theatre magic to drive-in audiences in London. Courtney Bowman, Maddie Bulleyment, Collette Guitart, Sophie Isaac, Vicki Manser, Shekinah McFarlane, Grace Mouat, Natalie Paris, Jarneia Richard-Noel, Courtney Stapleton and Jodie […]
Six to keep rocking the West End until 2021
Crowd and critic-pleasing British musical Six is celebrating its first West End birthday at the Arts Theatre by announcing its third new booking period, taking the award-winning production’s run up to January 2021. Over 90,000 extra tickets have been made available for the show which will welcome a new member of the regal line-up, Sophie […]
Extended run for hit show Six and four new Queens announced
The current West End run of critically-acclaimed new British musical Six has been extended for the second time with the opening of a new booking period taking the Arts Theatre run up to 5 July 2020. Coinciding with the release of 85,000 more tickets, the producers of the rock-flavoured show in which the wives of […]
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize – Novello Theatre
When The Stephen Sondheim Society, with encouragement from legendary Sondheim interpreter Julia McKenzie, launched the first Student Performer of the Year competition at what is now the Leicester Square Theatre, only ten musical theatre students applied to take part. Not surprisingly, all ten qualified for the final! Now, in the tenth anniversary edition, a record […]
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize – winners revealed
The Stephen Sondheim Society and Mercury Musical Developments have announced the winners of the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize. The winners were revealed at the tenth anniversary West End Gala held at the Novello Theatre which was hosted by star of stage and screen Julian Ovenden. Courtney Bowman is this year’s Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year, performing ‘Me and […]
