Kimberly Akimbo continues at the Hampstead Theatre, London until 7 November 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An exceptionally entertaining evening out with exactly as much to give as you are emotionally able to take.
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Maria Friedman to star in European premiere of Kimberly Akimbo
Triple Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman will take on the title role in the European premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony Award-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo in London later this year.
Big wins for Kimberly Akimbo and Parade at the Tony Awards 2023
Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, the work of Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, led the way at the 76th Annual Tony Awards, winning five prizes (the most received by any production) including Best Musical. The show also picked up performance awards for Victoria Clark and Bonnie Milligan plus Best Book […]
Music Review: Kimberly Akimbo – Original Broadway Cast
Kimberly Akimbo – Original Broadway Cast (GhostlightRecords.com). Available in digital and streaming formats or on CD from Sh-K-Boom Records. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
On Broadway with Patrick Honoré
Patrick Honoré has been giving his regards to Broadway… Dancin’, Some Like it Hot, Bad Cinderella and Kimberly Akimbo.
High Fidelity – Turbine Theatre
High Fidelity continues at the Turbine Theatre, London until 7 December 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity has had a circuitous route in its various adaptations. Five years later, the story of slacker record shop workers discussing music and failing at relationships moved from North London to […]
High Fidelity will be the first musical to play new venue the Turbine Theatre
The musical version of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity will receive its UK premiere at the newly opened London venue, the Turbine Theatre next month. Following on from the successful launch production of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song (due to end its run on 13 October 2019), High Fidelity will be the second production in award-winning director […]
Shrek the Musical tour – new dates announced
New dates have been announced for the 2017/2018 tour of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek the Musical. The second major tour of the Dreamworks Theatricals’ musical hit will now play dates in Sheffield, Cardiff, Woking, Liverpool, Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Llandudno and Leeds. As previously announced, the outsize ogre will initially take to […]
Shrek das Musical – Vienna
Shrek das Musical continues at Vienna Stadthalle until 22 March. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Following a triumphant premiere in Düsseldorf in October 2014 and a subsequent tour through Germany and Switzerland, the world’s most beloved ogre has arrived in Vienna for its final tour dates. The show is based on the first of the four Dreamworks […]
Shrek the Musical – Grand Theatre, Leeds
Shrek the Musical continues at the Grand Theatre, Leeds to 17 August, then tours until September 2015. Shrek, the grumpy green ogre who was the unlikely love interest in the vastly popular DreamWorks movie and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane production in 2011, has plenty to grouch about, including being booted out of his home aged seven […]
