King of Pangea continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 6 July 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ King of Pangea is an intelligent, philosophical and honest theatrical treatise on grief that also happens to be a great deal of swashbuckling fun.
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Cast and creatives for premiere of King of Pangea
The full cast and creative team have been unveiled for the world premiere of King of Pangea at London’s King’s Head Theatre this summer.
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas – Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas continues at Liverpool Empire until 31st December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
White Christmas tour – full cast announced
The full cast has been confirmed for the upcoming UK tour of Made at Curve’s critically acclaimed production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.
Principal cast announced for White Christmas tour
Jay McGuiness will take on the role of showman Bob Wallace when Made at Curve’s critically acclaimed production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas returns to UK theatres this winter. The Wanted pop star and former Strictly champion whose genre credits include Big The Musical and Sleepless – A Musical Romance will appear alongside veteran stage […]
White Christmas The Musical – New Victoria Theatre, Woking and Touring
White Christmas was reviewed at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. The UK tour continues until 2 January 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The stage musical adaptation of White Christmas, the iconic 1954 film starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, may suggest a specific seasonal setting in its title, but it would […]
Sally Ann Triplett steps into cast for White Christmas tour
West End and Broadway star Sally Ann Triplett will join the UK tour of Made at Curve’s critically-acclaimed production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas when it launches later this month. The actress whose extensive credits include Cats and Guys and Dolls in London and Finding Neverland and Sting’s The Last Ship in New York has […]
Cast for UK tour of Made at Curve’s White Christmas
Olivier-nominated Dan Burton will reprise his scene-stealing performance as Phil Davis when the Made at Curve’s critically-acclaimed production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas embarks on its UK tour later this month. The actor who was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance as Tulsa in Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre will return to the […]
White Christmas – Dominion Theatre
White Christmas continues at the Dominion Theatre, London until 4 January 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It isn’t difficult getting into the Christmas spirit at the Dominion Theatre with the giant foyer and the twin staircase bedecked with sparkling decorations and a female trio of singers spreading their message of […]
Michael Brandon, Danielle Hope, Clare Halse and Brenda Edwards join White Christmas at the Dominion
Michael Brandon will take on the role of General Waverly when Leicester Curve’s critically-acclaimed 2018 production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas plays its festive season at London’s Dominion Theatre. The star of the classic TV crime series Dempsey & Makepeace, who created the role of Jerry Springer in the National Theatre’s Jerry Springer The Opera, […]
White Christmas – Curve Leicester
White Christmas continues at Curve Leicester until 13 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A year after Scrooge, artistic director of Curve, Nikolai Foster, is treating Leicester audiences to much lighter fare with a brand new staging of White Christmas, the famous holiday movie favourite put on the musical theatre […]
Is the success of Singin’ in the Rain a sign Paris audiences are getting the musical theatre bug?
Singin’ in the Rain completed its six-week run in the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris earlier on this month and proved itself the most popular English-language musical since the Theatre du Chatelet started bringing one over every year. The powers-that-be at the1,800-seat Chatelet, closed for two years for elaborate refurbishment, daringly revived their Christmas show (which had two spins […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Singin’ in the Rain continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 11 January 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For the third season, the Chatelet in-house production of Singin’ in the Rain is back for Christmas, but as the theatre itself is in the process of being refurbished, this six-week […]
Top Hat at Kilworth House Theatre – exclusive gallery of images
There’s just a week left in the run of Kilworth House Theatre’s production of the stage version of the classic 1935 film Top Hat, but there’s still time to enjoy this exclusive gallery of images from our official photographer Roy Tan. Joining Dan Burton (Jerry Travers) and Lauren Stroud (Dale Tremont) in the cast are Charles Brunton […]
Top Hat – Kilworth House Theatre
Top Hat continues at continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 17 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is a revival of the multi Olivier Award-winning 2013 Aldwych Theatre production, based in turn on the iconic 1935 film. The beautiful open-air theatre at Kilworth House is now in its tenth year […]
Singin’ in the Rain at the Grand Palais for Paris Christmas treat
The Theatre du Chatelet’s obsession with bringing the great American musicals to Paris in their original language is stalled for the next two years while the place undergoes a massive refurbishment – but it doesn’t mean the city will be starved of one of its favourite shows. While it is shut, the Chatelet is sending […]
42nd Street – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
42nd Street continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 8 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Now here’s a great idea for a Christmas present (especially if someone else pays for it): best seats at the glorious 1,800-seater Chatelet on the banks of the Seine, Eurostar tickets (cheap right now) and […]
Double helping of 42nd Street – first stop Theatre du Chatelet in Paris
While London readies itself for a March revival of 42nd Street, the musical that propelled Catherine Zeta-Jones to stardom in 1984, Paris gets in first with a seven-week English-language run of the same show at the Theatre du Chatelet from 17 November to 8 January. Stephen Mear will be directing a Chatelet cast headed by […]
42nd Street at Theatre du Chatelet – Ria Jones leads the cast
Ria Jones, the supersub who played Norma Desmond to rave reviews and standing ovations when Glenn Close went sick for a number of performances of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum at the end of April, gets a starring role in her own right in Paris in November. Jones plays Dorothy Brock in the Theatre […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Singin’ in the Rain continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, until 26 March and returns there from 27 November 2015 to 15 January 2016. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s raining Gene Kelly at the Chatelet with the pre-Christmas stage premiere of his 1951 masterpiece An American in Paris (now transferred to Broadway) quickly […]
