Summer Holiday the Musical was reviewed at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield where it continues until 18 July 2026. The production then transfers the Grand Theatre, Blackpool from 29 July to 8 August 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical – Theatre Royal Bath
Alfred Hitchcock Presents – The Musical continues at Theatre Royal Bath until 12 April 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a sophisticated and innovative production is a rare gem, making a visit to the beautiful Theatre Royal Bath a must-do before the show concludes its run.
Full company confirmed for Sondheim’s Old Friends
The full cast has been unveiled for the highly anticipated West End return of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends with a strictly limited season at the Gielgud Theatre later this year.
The Great British Bake Off Musical – Noel Coward Theatre
The Great British Bake Off Musical continues at the Noël Coward Theatre, London until 13 May 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This new British musical is theatre escapism at its heart-warming best.
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim – Crazy Coqs
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 22 October 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Kim Criswell to re-stage A Grand Night for Singing at the Edinburgh International Festival
West End and Broadway star Kim Criswell will bring Tony-nominated musical revue A Grand Night for Singing to this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. The actress who was nominated for an Olivier for her performance as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun in the West End and was part of the original Broadway cast of […]
A Little Night Music – Opera Holland Park
A Little Night Music was performed at Opera Holland Park, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What could possibly keep a dedicated Sondheimite away from an outdoor, summer evening production of A Little Night Music? A global pandemic? A very limited supply of tickets that sold out nearly instantly? An actual thunderstorm being […]
Star-studded online concert Kings Of Broadway 2020 will celebrate the work of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman & Stephen Sondheim
Kings Of Broadway 2020, an online concert celebrating the music of the legendary Broadway composers Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim (the latter two whose lyrics will also be celebrated), will premiere at 7pm on Sunday 31 May 2020 via the ‘Quick Fantastic’ channel on YouTube. The evening will feature a cross section of […]
West End stars for Eugenius! Other Palace return
Rob Houchen will take the leading role in the Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! when it returns to The Other Palace in September 2018 for a six-week season. Houchen (Titanic, Broken Wings), who will play central character Eugene, is one of a number of West End favourites lined up to play key […]
Spamilton – Menier Chocolate Factory
Spamilton continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory until 8 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Spamilton– not to be confused with the other hip-hop parody musical Shamilton – is Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini’s inevitable parody of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Herculean hit Hamilton. And just like its target, the show is packed full to bursting with […]
Casting for Spamilton at the Menier Chocolate Factory
Casting has been announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Gerard Alessandrini’s Hamilton-inspired spoof Spamilton which will make its UK debut this month. Running from 12 July until 8 September 2018 with an opening night on 24 July, the UK premiere of Spamilton marks a return to the Menier for Forbidden Broadway creator Alessandrini. Alessandrini will […]
Follies’ Alex Young to join Edward Seckerson for next Comparing Notes show
Former Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and West End rising star Alex Young will be Edward Seckerson’s next guest in his Comparing Notes series at Pizza Express Live Holborn on 18 February. Launched last September at the newly opened London entertainment venue, the format of the musical theatre-themed shows features writer and […]
Comédies Musicales á Broadway – Sondheim – Auditorium du Nouveaux Siecle, Lille
Comédies Musicales á Broadway – Sondheim at the Auditorium du Nouveaux Siecle, Lille. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With Passion soon to open at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, the work of Stephen Sondheim has been getting even more exposure in France, beginning with this extraordinary concert performed by the Orchestre National de Lille. Where else […]
Alexandra Silber – Crazy Coqs
Alexandra Silber continues in cabaret at Crazy Coqs, London, until 5 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just now and again someone special comes along who is forever bookmarked in your Favourites and you never let them go. Streisand was like that for me in the 1960s with her first, numbingly wonderful album, Judy Collins opened my […]
Interview – American actress Alexandra Silber back in the UK making her cabaret bow at Crazy Coqs
August has already been a big month for the American (but Scottish-trained) soprano ALEXANDRA SILBER as she’s just landed the part of Tzeitel in the Broadway revival of Fiddler On the Roof which opens on 12 November – eight years after she sang Hodel in the same show in the West End. And it’s going to get even […]
Broadway performer Alexandra Silber to appear at Crazy Coqs with special guests
She’s a Grammy nominee, a Broadway star, a BBC Proms headliner… and she has just five shows in the UK this year (1–5 September at London’s Crazy Coqs). It’s ‘the fastest-rising soprano in musical theatre’, Alexandra Silber. Born in LA, growing up outside Detroit, Michigan, Silber trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow before being cast immediately […]
Songs For a New World – St James Theatre
Songs For a New World continues at the St James Theatre, London until 8 August. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Taking your seat in St James’ auditorium, spying the spare apartment, stacks of furniture in the corner, you get a glimpse of what the show is at its heart: a juxtaposition of […]
Songs For a New World – Cynthia Erivo and Jenna Russell lead cast at St James
Celebrating 20 years since its first performance Off-Broadway, an all-new London production of triple-Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s first musical Songs For a New World runs at the St James Theatre for a strictly limited run of three weeks (Wednesday 22 July to 8 August, press night is Friday 24 July), directed by Adam Lenson. This special anniversary […]
Caroline Sheen – Sondheim & So Forth – Jermyn Street Theatre
Caroline Sheen: Sondheim & So Forth at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: Four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Caroline Sheen has been gracing the London stage since her West End debut in Grease at the Cambridge Theatre in the late 1990s – a job that saw her cut short […]
Janie Dee – Dee-Licious, Lightful and Lovely! – Crazy Coqs
Janie Dee performs her show Dee-Licious, Lightful and Lovely! at the Crazy Coqs until 14 March. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Last night a packed audience filled with showbiz personalities was treated to a masterclass in cabaret perfection. The multi-talented Janie Dee entertained, enthralled and enchanted her many fans with glorious singing as well as amusing […]
Forbidden Broadway – Vaudeville Theatre
Forbidden Broadway continues at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, until 24 November. Musical theatre fans who missed this hilarious mickey-take on their favourite and not-so-favourite shows in its sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory now have 11 weeks to catch it on The Strand and it is well worthy of its transfer to the West End. […]
Menier’s Forbidden Broadway transfers to Vaudeville with Christina Bianco in cast
Following a sold out and critically acclaimed run, the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Forbidden Broadway will transfer to the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre from 9 September-22 November, with press night on 15 September. Joining the cast is YouTube sensation Christina Bianco who has played in Forbidden Broadway: Goes to Rehab in New York (Drama Desk nomination for […]
Forbidden Broadway – Menier Chocolate Factory
Forbidden Broadway continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 16 August. First premiering in 1982, comedy revue Forbidden Broadway (conceived and written by Gerard Alessandrini, with additional material by Philip George, who also directs) has been poking fun at musical theatre staples ever since, renewing itself as old shows close and newer productions provide fresh pickings. Now back […]
The Life of the Party – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Life of the Party – A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 14 June. As a composer, Andrew Lippa seems to specialise in adaptations that don’t immediately stand out as obvious musical theatre material. Alongside his most well-known and successful work, the Tony-nominated The Addams […]
Casey and Dann return to Menier’s Forbidden Broadway
Anna-Jane Casey, Sophie-Louise Dann, Damian Humbley and Ben Lewis will star in New York’s longest-running comedy revue, Forbidden Broadway, which returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory, London from 19 June. This updated version of the satire showcases some of the best productions from both Broadway and the West End, including The Book of Mormon, Once, […]
Menier Chocolate Factory celebrate songs of Andrew Lippa
The Menier Chocolate Factory presents The Life of the Party – A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa from 27 May to 14 June (press night is 30 May). The exciting Broadway composer and lyricist will be accompanied by Caroline O’Connor, Damian Humbley and Summer Strallen in a unique concert performance of songs from some of […]
Putting It Together – St James Theatre
Putting It Together continues at the St James Theatre, London until 1 February. This is a lesser-known Stephen Sondheim revue that was first performed in 1992 at the Old Fire Station Studio Theatre in Oxford. Subsequent productions took place, notably in New York, Los Angeles and Chichester, each slightly different in song content and ‘story’. […]
