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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New Wolsey Ipswich and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch announce first UK revival of Kinky Boots
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre and the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch have announced the first UK revival and regional premiere of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots this autumn. Directed by Tim Jackson, the major new co-production will debut at the New Wolsey from 1-24 September 2022 before heading for the Queen’s Theatre from 28 […]
Kinky Boots The Musical at the cinema – filmed live at the Adelphi Theatre
Kinky Boots The Musical at the cinema – filmed live at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The multiple Tony- and Olivier-winning musical Kinky Boots sashays its way into cinemas this February, completing something of a loop. The musical, inspired by the 2005 Miramax movie of the same […]
Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry will return for London Kinky Boots film version
Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry will march back into the multi-award-winning Kinky Boots later this month to star in a filmed version of the hit show. The original stars of the show will be back playing Charlie and Lola at London’s Adelphi Theatre from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 November 2018 as filming takes place […]
Kinky Boots to walk away from the West End in January 2018
Multi-award-winning Kinky Boots has become the latest West End favourite to announce it will close in early 2019. Following on from the news that Dreamgirls would end its Savoy Theatre run on 12 January 2019, the producers of the hugely popular tale of Charlie, Lola, Lauren and co. have announced they will be hanging up […]
West End Kinky Boots plays 1,000th performance and extends booking
Multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots is celebrating two more milestone events and another extension to its run at London’s Adelphi Theatre. After welcoming over one million customers, the hit show has tonight (Monday 15 January) played its 1,000th performance in the West End. A new booking period has also been opened with tickets now available […]
SpongeBob SquarePants – The Broadway Musical – Palace Theatre, New York
SpongeBob SquarePants – The Broadway Musical continues at the Palace Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SpongeBob SquarePants, the anthropomorphic sponge who lives at the bottom of the ocean, has made it to the Palace, the one-time mecca for vaudeville greats and now one of the vaunted showplaces for […]
Kinky Boots to tour the UK in 2018
Multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots is to step out on a major UK tour from September next year. The show will hit the road from 19 September 2018, opening at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton where it will run until 6 October. Other confirmed dates include: Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (16-27 October 2018); Newcastle Theatre […]
Kinky Boots celebrates first West End birthday and booking extends to May 2017
Triple Olivier Award winner Kinky Boots has extended its West End run to at least Saturday 6 May 2017. Just a day after the production celebrated its first birthday in the West End, tickets went on sale for the new extended booking period at London’s Adelphi Theatre. The exuberant show recently celebrated adding three Oliviers (Best New […]
Kinky Boots cast – Matt Henry stays, David Hunter joins
Matt Henry, who received the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Kinky Boots, is extending his acclaimed performance as Lola into 2017. He will be joined by David Hunter (Once, One Man, Two Guvnors) who will take on the role of Charlie Price. Also joining Kinky Boots from Monday 15 August 2016 […]
Olivier Awards – Cyndi Lauper to perform
Two worldwide musical stars will be joining the line-up for the 40th anniversary ceremony of The Olivier Awards. Grammy and Tony Award-winning musician Cyndi Lauper is set to perform both on her own and in a unique collaboration following the seven nominations for Kinky Boots, the musical for which she composed the music and lyrics. Michael Feinstein, master of […]
Kinky Boots – Adelphi Theatre
Kinky Boots continues at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ One by one, British-inspired movies are popping up in musical stage adaptations, although unlike Bend It Like Beckham (currently running at the Phoenix Theatre) and Made in Dagenham (this show’s predecessor at the Adelphi), Kinky Boots originally opened on Broadway […]
Kinky Boots – Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry lead cast
Casting for the UK premiere of Kinky Boots sees Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry portray the central characters Charlie and Lola at the heart of the story. Joining them are Amy Lennox (Lauren), Jamie Baughan (Don), Amy Ross (Nicola) and Michael Hobbs (George). Kinky Boots will open at London’s Adelphi Theatre on 15 September 2015, with previews from 21 August. With a book by Broadway legend and four-time Tony Award-winner […]
Kinky Boots – tickets go on sale on 2 March
Tickets for the UK premiere of Kinky Boots, Broadway’s high-heeled hit, will go on sale from Monday 2 March 2015, and will open at London’s Adelphi Theatre on 15 September 2015, with previews from 21 August. With a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), and songs by Grammy-winning pop artist Cyndi […]
Kinky Boots opens at the Adelphi Theatre in September 2015
The UK premiere of multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots will open in the West End on 15 September at the Adelphi Theatre, with previews from 21 August 2015. With a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, and direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots […]
Tony Awards 2013
Kinky Boots danced away from the Tony Awards on Sunday night in New York with top honours, being celebrated as Best Musical of the 2012-2013 Broadway season, alongside plaudits for Best Original Score (by pop queen Cyndi Lauper) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Billy Porter as the irresistible drag […]
Tony Awards 2013
Kinky Boots danced away from the Tony Awards on Sunday night in New York with top honours, being celebrated as Best Musical of the 2012-2013 Broadway season, alongside plaudits for Best Original Score (by pop queen Cyndi Lauper) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Billy Porter as the irresistible drag […]
