Love Never Dies In Concert was reviewed at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Love Never Dies, long mocked as ‘Paint Never Dries’, has found in the concert format the rebirth its original staging never gave it.
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Further cast for Love Never Dies concert
Further casting has been announced for the autumn return of the WhatsOnStage Award-winning concert presentation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies.
Cast for National Theatre Pride musical premiere
The full cast has been unveiled for the National Theatre’s world premiere of the highly anticipated new musical based on the award-winning film Pride later this year.
Halloween release for live cast album for new musical Unbound
A live cast recording of Matthew Harvey’s new musical Unbound will be released on 31 October as part of this year’s Halloween festivities.
The Mad Ones – The Other Palace
The Mad Ones continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 1 June 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Catch this show on this intimate scale while you can.
Cast for MTFest 2025 showcase musicals
West End favourites Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Hannah Lowther, Obioma Ugoala, Courtney Stapleton, Dean John-Wilson, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Iván Fernández González and Sarah O’Connor will feature in the cast for this year’s MTFestUK.
London debut of The Mad Ones – the cast
West End stars Jacob Fowler and Courtney Stapleton will lead the London debut run of The Mad Ones at The Other Palace from 7 May to 1 June.
Music Review: Matthew Harvey – Whatever Happens Next
Matthew Harvey – Whatever Happens Next. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ British musical theatre composer and performer Matthew Harvey has released his debut album – a compact eight-song repertoire entitled Whatever Happens Next. Having amassed performance credits in West End stalwarts such as Les Misérables and Jesus Christ Superstar, Harvey branched out […]
Line-up for BYMT gala show confirmed
The British Youth Music Theatre’s (BYMT) has confirmed the full line-up for its 20th anniversary gala event at London venue The Other Palace on 8 July 2024.
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 […]
Beauty and the Beast – London Palladium
Beauty and the Beast continues at the London Palladium until 17 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Stage adaptations of popular Disney movie musicals are an interesting mix. Some are visually spectacular but beyond a few hits lack a memorable score, others feature one great song after another but somehow the creative […]
West End stars to step out on stage and on the pitch for charity football event
A host of West End favourites will feature in a fundraising football and concert event in aid of theatrical charity Acting For Others and child bereavement charity Sands London in July. The fundraiser on 17 July 2022 at the New River Sports and Fitness Centre in Wood Green will open with a short concert at […]
Beauty and the Beast – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Beauty and the Beast runs at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 4 June 2022 and then tours the UK until 8 January 2023 (including a run at the London Palladium from 24 June to 17 September 2022). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ It’s a tale almost as old as time. Disney […]
Star line up for West End for Ukraine at the Charing Cross Theatre
A top line-up of West End stars will be taking to the stage at West End for Ukraine on 9 May 2022 at the Charing Cross Theatre. The musical fundraiser is in aid of the UNICEF Ukraine Emergency Appeal, raising vital urgent funds for children in desperate need. The line-up for West End for Ukraine […]
Fundraising anniversary stream for acclaimed Now or Never
The Barn Theatre’s acclaimed recording of its ambitious live stream concert performance of song cycle Now or Never will receive a one-night-only anniversary stream next month to raise money for The Suzie Mackie Fellowship. Originally performed at the Barn Theatre in 2021, the digital song cycle which marked Matthew Harvey’s first collaboration with the Barn […]
The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals – A0 Arena, Manchester
The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals at A0 Arena, Manchester, broadcast on BBC1 and BBC Radio 2, also available via BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Close your eyes, listen and you would swear it was Tina Turner belting out ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’, ‘Simply […]
London Palladium season for new Beauty and the Beast
The re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will play a limited season at the London Palladium this summer as part of its successful UK and Ireland tour. After impressing regional audiences and the critics with her performance as Belle, Courtney Stapleton (Six, Dear Evan Hansen) […]
Beauty and the Beast – Edinburgh Playhouse and Touring
Beauty and the Beast continues at the Edinburgh Playhouse until 27 November 2021 before touring until November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ There is a babble and hum of excitement before the lights even dim as the packed audience delights in simply being in a theatre once again. This unique […]
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo to star in new look Beauty and the Beast on tour
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo will take on the title roles in the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast when the production launches at the Bristol Hippodrome on 24 August 2021. Two of musical theatre’s rising stars Stapleton (Six, Dear Evan Hansen) and Kojo […]
Soft Sessions: Live in Concert – Stream.Theatre
Soft Sessions is available on stream.theatre until 2 May 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Perhaps the thing I’ve missed most of all over the past year are cabaret nights. Sitting in a small, intimate space, tightly crammed in (back when we didn’t mind that sort of thing), listening to voices […]
Now or Never – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Now or Never was streamed from the Barn Theatre, Cirencester. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Since the start of the first lockdown over a year ago, Cirencester’s Barn Theatre has led the way in finding avenues for live theatre in a socially distanced world. Be that live circus shows, YouTube reimaginings […]
YouTube series Soft Sessions becomes Soft Sessions Live In Concert
Following the success of YouTube series Soft Sessions, a group of major West End performers are to appear in Soft Sessions Live In Concert. Appearing in the concert together, recorded at Woolwich Warehouse, are: Grace Mouat (Hair, & Juliet, Six), Jake Halsey-Jones (Hamilton), Courtney Stapleton (Dear Evan Hansen, Six), Martha Kirby (Grease, Bat Out of […]
Barn Theatre to premiere new song cycle Now or Never with live digital concert
Casting has been confirmed for the Barn Theatre’s most ambitious live-stream to date, the premiere of new song cycle Now or Never next month. Marking Matthew Harvey’s first collaboration with the Barn since the composer, lyricist and performer took up the post of associate artist at the popular Cirencester venue, the live ‘one-shot’ digital concert […]
Streaming dates announced for recordings of Live In London concerts
The Live In London series of concerts produced by Fourth Wall Live at The Hippodrome Casino London in December will be available to stream on Stream.Theatre from 26 March 2021. Recorded live at the Leicester Square venue in front of live audiences, the series of 12 concerts feature a range of genres from musical theatre, […]
First track release from new Barn Theatre associate artist Matthew Harvey
The Barn Theatre has released the first recording of a new song by Matthew Harvey to coincide with the announcement of the appointment of the composer, lyricist and performer as associate artist. Featuring Harvey (Jesus Christ Superstar, Violet) along with fellow West End stars Eloise Davies (Be More Chill, Grease), Tyrone Huntley (Jesus Christ Superstar, […]
Thespie announces star-studded concerts celebrating Black and LGBT+ theatre artists
West End stars will feature in two fundraising online concert premieres as part of theatre discovery platform Thespie’s month-long celebration of Black and LGBT+ theatre artists. With proceeds going to LGBT+ charity Stonewall, Break Free will feature LGBT+ theatre artists sharing their personal stories and performing the musical theatre and pop songs that have inspired […]
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 […]
UK’s child gardeners feature in Golden Toad Theatre’s new music video
Green-fingered children from across the country feature alongside West End stars Courtney Stapleton (Six) and Joe Griffiths-Brown (Hamilton) in a new music video released by Golden Toad Theatre. The video is part of the theatre company’s lockdown efforts to keep youngsters entertained following the postponement of the touring interactive musical adaptation of Gillian Hibbs’ award-winning […]
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 […]
Line-up for Barn Theatre’s Dominic Powell online concert
The Barn Theatre has announced the line-up of performers for the sixth virtual concert in the venue’s popular on-line series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers. Celebrating the work of actor, writer and composer Dominic Powell, the concert this Saturday (8 August 2020) will include performances from Andrew Patrick-Waller (Brooklyn, Bat Out of […]
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 […]
Full cast for Dear Evan Hansen’s London debut
Newcomer Sam Tutty has won the coveted title role in the eagerly-waited West End debut of Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre late next month. The actor who recently made his professional stage debut in Once On This Island at the Southwark Playhouse is one of a number of fresh faces making their […]
Return run of Six extended plus cast win The Curtain Up Show album award
The success of critically acclaimed musical Six is continuing into the New Year with the news of an extension to the show’s second season in the capital into January 2020. With many dates for the show’s return run at Covent Garden’s Arts Theatre already sold out, the team behind the rock-flavoured show in which the […]
Current cast of Six will return for the West End run – with two new additions…
The award-winning original West End cast of the critically-acclaimed musical Six will return for the show’s second season in the capital. Announced in October, just a few days before the end of the show’s season at Covent Garden’s Arts Theatre, the rock-flavoured show in which the wives of Henry VIII take centre stage will return […]
