Assassins continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 24 June 2023. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★
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Full cast for Chichester Festival Theatre’s Assassins
The full company has been unveiled for the Chichester Festival Theatre’s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins.
Three musicals feature in Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2023 programme
A new musical based on the ground-breaking TV series Rock Follies is one of three major musicals and four world premieres to feature in artistic director Daniel Evans’ final season at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Musicals Mash-Up December 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. News editor Angela Thomas reports.
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.
Pretty Woman’s Savoy run extended into 2023
Pretty Woman The Musical will remain in residence at London’s Savoy Theatre into next year with booking now extended up to 28 January 2023. The hit show’s producers have also announced the news that the show’s original stars Aimie Atkinson (Six, Arts Theatre, In The Heights, King’s Cross Theatre) and Danny Mac (Sunset Boulevard UK […]
Pretty Woman confirms reopening date at the Savoy Theatre
Pretty Woman: The Musical will reopen in its new home, the Savoy Theatre, as planned on 8 July 2021 although social distancing measures will remain in place until 20 July. As previously announced Six’s Aimie Atkinson (In the Heights, King’s Cross Theatre) and Danny Mac (Sunset Boulevard UK tour, White Christmas, Dominion Theatre) will walk […]
Digital series The Theatre Channel returns with episode six
Kerry Ellis (Wicked, We Will Rock You), Danny Mac (Sunset Boulevard, Pretty Woman The Musical) and Layton Williams (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Rent) are among the star performers to feature in the next instalment in the popular pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. Ellis performs ‘Always Starting Over’ from If/Then, while Mac […]
Re-release of Curve’s Sunset Boulevard – At Home to raise funds in memory of Andy Nairn
The critically-acclaimed Made at Curve production Sunset Boulevard – At Home is being made available once again next month to raise funds for the newly launched Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre. All money raised from ticket sales and donations for the week-long run will go towards the scheme which has been launched in memory […]
Pretty Woman to reopen at the Savoy Theatre in July 2021
After breaking advance box office records at the Piccadilly Theatre last year, the London production of Pretty Woman: The Musical will take up residence in its new home, the Savoy Theatre this summer. Announcing the change and location and reopening dates for the show which had only just arrived in the West End when theatres […]
Curve extends online run of Sunset Boulevard – At Home
In response to popular demand Leicester Curve has announced an extended run for its critically-acclaimed Sunset Boulevard – At Home which will now continue streaming until 17 January 2021. Following the decision to turn the planned live theatre production of Sunset Boulevard In Concert into an online event in response to December’s lockdown restrictions, in […]
Sunset Boulevard in Concert – Curve Leicester
Sunset Boulevard in Concert at Home is streaming from Curve Leicester until 9 January 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Talk about making the very best of a bad job, Leicester Curve has dazzlingly turned the body-blow of having its planned Sunset Boulevard in Concert live-audience season scuppered by the new […]
Curve’s Sunset Boulevard Concert to be turned into online event
Forced to re-think its reopening season once again, with Leicester having entered Tier 3, Leicester Curve announced plans to turn the eagerly-anticipated concert version of Curve’s hit production of Sunset Boulevard into an online event. Plans for the return of live theatre are now on hold until the city can exit the country’s toughest restrictions, […]
Rescheduled dates and cast for Curve’s rescheduled reopening season
Leicester Curve has revealed new dates and further casting for the highly anticipated reopening season delayed by the current national lockdown. Live theatre will now return to Leicester Curve for the first time since the venue closed its doors to the public in March, on 18 December (four days later than originally planned) with the […]
Concert versions of The Color Purple and Sunset Boulevard to feature in Curve’s comeback season
Live theatre will return to Leicester Curve next month for the first time since the venue closed its doors to the public in March with the launch of an autumn season that will feature two re-imagined, socially distanced concert versions of two Made at Curve productions. Launching on 12 November 2020 with an exclusive event […]
New industry collective Theatre Together to present online fundraiser
Over 50 artists and industry professionals have joined forces to find ways to raise money for those in the arts facing hardship as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Theatre Together will present All The Web’s A Stage, an online fundraiser featuring live performances across a variety of entertainment genres on Shakespeare Day, 23 April. […]
Pretty Woman – The Musical – Piccadilly Theatre
Pretty Woman – The Musical continues at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, currently booking until 2 January 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ I was fully prepared to have to grin and bear this musical staging of the classic 1990 movie now opened at the Piccadilly, but you know what? I really enjoyed it. […]
Full cast details for Pretty Woman The Musical in the West End
The team behind the eagerly-anticipated West End debut of Pretty Woman: The Musical have marked the first week of rehearsals by announcing the full cast for the production which is due to begin previewing at the Piccadilly Theatre on 13 February 2020. As previously announced, Six’s Aimie Atkinson (In The Heights, King’s Cross Theatre) and […]
Aimie Atkinson and Danny Mac are the West End leads for Pretty Woman The Musical
Aimie Atkinson and Danny Mac have snagged the leading roles of Vivian and Edward in next year’s West End debut of Pretty Woman: The Musical which is due to begin previewing at the Piccadilly Theatre on 13 February 2020 ahead of a strictly limited 46-week run. Announcing the production’s two leads, producer Paula Wagner said: […]
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, […]
Danny Mac to join tour of Amelie
British actor Danny Mac will star opposite French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson in the UK tour of the critically-acclaimed musical version of hit French film Amélie. The former Hollyoaks star whose theatre credits include On the Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and an award-winning performance in the UK touring production of […]
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 […]
A Little Princess – Royal Festival Hall
A Little Princess at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: two stars ★★✩✩✩ Andrew Lippa’s adaptation of A Little Princess makes its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in a one-off concert performance. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s original 1905 novel, the evening plays out in suitably quaint fashion, with plucky young Sara (Jasmine Sakyiama) being lovingly […]
Rebecca Trehearn, Adam J Bernard and Alexia Khadime join A Little Princess cast
Olivier award winners Rebecca Trehearn (Show Boat) and Adam J Bernard (Dreamgirls) and Wicked’s Alexia Khadime are the latest star names to be added to the cast of the UK premiere production of Andrew Lippa’s musical version of Francis Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved novel A Little Princess. Joining the previously announced Sherlock star Amanda Abbington and […]
Sunset Boulevard – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Sunset Boulevard continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre until 14 April, then tours until 28 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Sunset Boulevard tour has been on the go since September so it came as a surprise when Wimbledon threw a press night with only two more ports of […]
Manchester Theatre Awards winners revealed
Leicester Curve’s acclaimed touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard won the battle of the musicals at this year’s Manchester Theatre Awards. Presented by Michael Harrison, David Ian and Curve, the production – directed by Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster – beat the equally high profile Funny Girl and Bat Out of Hell and […]
Manchester Theatre Awards 2018 nominees announced
Hope Mill Theatre’s acclaimed production of Yank! will battle it out with-high profile hits Funny Girl, Bat Out of Hell and Sunset Boulevard for the title of Best Musical at this year’s Manchester Theatre Awards. Funny Girl’s Sheridan Smith and Sunset Boulevard’s Ria Jones and Danny Mac are also among a number musical theatre stars […]
Sunset Boulevard – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Sunset Boulevard continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 2 December and then tours until 28 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After a highly successful, if headline making, run last year by the English National Opera, this touring production of Sunset Boulevard has arrived at the Milton Keynes Theatre. […]
Sunset Boulevard – Leicester Curve and Touring
Sunset Boulevard was reviewed at Leicester Curve and continues touring until 26 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The audience loved it. And isn’t that what musicals are for? To tell a lovelorn story that makes hearts ache; to serve up yearning solo songs and explosive ensembles, with some swirling […]
Sunset Boulevard UK and Ireland tour – full casting details
Full casting has been revealed for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning musical Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Nikolai Foster, the tour will open at Curve on Saturday 16 September 2017 (press night is Thursday 28 September). Joining the previously announced Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and Danny Mac as Joe […]
On the Town – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
On the Town continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 1 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ On the Town has its origin in the ballet Fancy Free which had opened in New York in the spring of 1944. With choreography by Jerome Robbins and music by Leonard Bernstein, […]
On the Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – opening night postponed
This week’s press night for the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of the classic Hollywood musical On the Town has been postponed due to the ‘incapacity’ of actor Fred Haig (playing Chip) who has broken his foot. Billed as the Regent’s Park Theatre’s ‘biggest ever dance musical’, On the Town directed and choreographed by […]
On the Town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – Danny Mac, Fred Haig and Jeremy Taylor cast
Casting has been announced for the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of the classic Hollywood musical On the Town. Based on a concept by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the opening production in the venue’s 2017 season will run from 19 May to 1 July. Strictly Come Dancing contestant Danny […]
Sleepless musical premiere postponed until further notice
The premiere of Sleepless the musical, based on Nora Ephron’s hit movie Sleepless in Seattle, has been postponed until next year at the earliest. A statement from the producers of the show, which was due to open at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal in April ahead of dates at The Lowry in Salford and Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre […]
Sleepless the Musical – Danny Mac and Carley Stenson cast in premiere
Fresh from the Final of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Danny Mac and West End leading lady Carley Stenson will be playing the roles of Sam and Annie in the world premiere of SLEEPLESS the Musical, based on the Tristar Pictures Inc film Sleepless in Seattle. The new musical has a book by Michael Burdett, music […]
Legally Blonde at Curve – full casting revealed
Actress and singer Lucie Jones will play Elle Woods in Curve’s brand new production of the award-winning West End and Broadway musical comedy Legally Blonde which opens on 14 April, with previews from 11 April and running until 14 May (this is artistic director Nikolai Foster’s first musical at the venue). Jones rose to prominence on The X Factor […]
