Tim Sheader will direct the UK premiere of the award-winning musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 as part of his inaugural season as the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse.
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The Witches – National Theatre
The Witches continues at the National Theatre (Olivier) until 27 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This show is an incredible addition to the canon of uniquely British family musicals – even if it did reach across the Atlantic for some key components – and deserves all the future success it will most certainly see.
Full cast for The Witches at the National Theatre
The National Theatre has unveiled the full cast of 53 for the highly anticipated new musical version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches.
New musical version of Dahl’s The Witches to debut at the National Theatre
Triple Olivier nominee Katherine Kingsley and BAFTA Award-winner Daniel Rigby will lead the cast of a new musical version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches at the National Theatre later this year.
Preludes in Concert – Southwark Playhouse
Preludes in Concert, live streaming from Southwark Playhouse, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Experimental art about the struggles of an artist can be bad. Uniquely, horrifyingly, embarrassingly bad. As such, perhaps you never made the trip to see Southwark Playhouse’s autumn 2019 production of Dave Malloy’s Preludes, despite the cavalcade […]
Preludes The Concert to be live-streamed by Southwark Playhouse
Southwark Playhouse will live stream a concert version of triple Tony Award nominee Dave Malloy’s Preludes in May. Previously seen in The Large in the autumn of 2019, the new version of UK premiere production which was directed by Alex Sutton and produced by Danielle Tarento will reunite the original cast for the live-streamed performances […]
A Strange Loop voted Outstanding Musical in New York’s Drama Desk Awards.
A Strange Loop capped its winning streak in the 2019/2020 New York theatre season, as it grabbed the Outstanding Musical Award from the Drama Desk. The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on 13 June 2020 in a special pre-recorded presentation on a local television news channel. The awards are usually handed out with […]
How to survive two weeks of isolation with free online musicals
Have a slight cough and a finely-honed sense of anxiety? Facing two weeks of self-isolation in home lockdown? Worried whether your body can even cope with an entire fortnight away from kick-lines, high Eb belts, and getting charged £10 for a house red? Here are 14 pieces of musical theatre you can watch online for […]
Ghost Quartet – Boulevard Theatre
Ghost Quartet continues at the Boulevard Theatre, London until 4 January 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It feels as if 2019 has been the year where London finally got Dave Malloy. First his Preludes got its debut at Southwark Playhouse, and now Ghost Quartet has been chosen to be the debut production at […]
Preludes – Southwark Playhouse
Preludes continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 12 October 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Wow. Where do I start trying to describe the latest offering from the Southwark Playhouse and producer Danielle Tarento? Preludes, by Dave Malloy – he of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 fame – […]
UK premiere for Dave Malloy’s musical Preludes at the Southwark Playhouse
Triple Tony Award nominee Dave Malloy’s Preludes will receive its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse in September. Subtitled ‘A Musical Fantasia Set In The Hypnotised Mind Of Sergei Rachmaninoff’, the musical is based on the true story of the Russian composer and virtuoso musician’s sessions of hypnotherapy in his early twenties. Running from 6 […]
Octet – The Pershing Square Signature Center, New York
Octet continues at The Pershing Square Signature Center, New York, until 30 June 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Dave Malloy is among the brainiest and most unpredictable makers of musical theatre around these days. In 2016, his rapturous, kaleidoscopic take on a slim slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, entitled Natasha, […]
Book Review – Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – Steven Suskin and Dave Malloy
NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 – Steven Suskin and Dave Malloy (Sterling Books – ISBN: 9781454923282) The musical of this same name is currently playing to capacity audiences on Broadway, starring Josh Groban and Denée Benton. So, what better tie-in than a gorgeously produced tome which takes you through the whole process […]
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 – Imperial Theatre, New York
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 continues at the Imperial Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The passionate, flamboyant characters that inhabit Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace come blazingly off the page in pop opera style in Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. The musical burrows […]
