The Band’s Visit continues at the Donmar Warehouse, London until 3 December 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The 10-time Tony Award-winning The Band’s Visit finally pulls into London’s Donmar Warehouse for its European premiere and has immediately become the capital’s must-see show. As much as I’ve harped on during my […]
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Cast for Donmar Warehouse’s The Band’s Visit
Casting has been announced for the European premiere of the multi-award-winning The Band’s Visit at the Donmar Warehouse this autumn. The company will be led by award-winning stage and screen actor Alon Moni Aboutboul (Body of Lies, Nina’s Tragedies) and seven-time winner of Israeli Female Singer of the Year Award and talent show judge Miri […]
Donmar Warehouse date for European premiere of Broadway hit The Band’s Visit
Michael Longhurst will direct the European premiere of the multi-award-winning The Band’s Visit at the Donmar Warehouse this autumn. Based on the 2007 film of the same name, the musical which features music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses, will play the London venue from 24 September until 3 December […]
CD Review: Tootsie – Original Broadway Cast
TOOTSIE – Original Broadway Cast (DECCA BROADWAY: 602577821660) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ How refreshing – a traditional musical comedy with no angst or depressing maudlin moments. This is escapism at its best. And I loved every second. Of course, I haven’t seen Tootsie (the musical that is, I have of course seen […]
The Band’s Visit tops the Tony Awards
The Band’s Visit, the anti-razzmatazz musical, was warmly welcomed at the 2018 Tony Awards, taking home 10 of the trophies, including Best Musical, and far outstripping its competition. The tender tale of a group of Egyptian musicians who by happenstance spend a night in a small Israeli desert town, a night in which they make […]
The Band’s Visit – Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
The Band’s Visit continues at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ After an ecstatically acclaimed Off-Broadway run last year, The Band’s Visit has journeyed onto Broadway and lovingly fills the expanded dimensions of the venerable Ethel Barrymore Theatre to the brim. Director David Cromer has maintained […]
The Band’s Visit – Atlantic Theater Company – Linda Gross Theater, New York
The Band’s Visit continues at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, New York until 8 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An Egyptian musician plays a plaintive melody on his clarinet to calm an Israeli baby who’s been crying in his crib. His music also brings together in tears the […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown extends run
The West End musical Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will extend its run to Saturday 22 August 2015. Olivier Award-nominees Tamsin Greig (Best Actress in a Musical) and Haydn Gwynne (Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical), continue to lead the international cast that includes Ricardo Afonso, Marianne Benedict, Seline Hizli, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, Sarah Moyle, Alastair […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Playhouse Theatre
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown continues at the Playhouse, London. 2 stars ** Arguably one of Pedro Almodovar’s best loved movies, Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is an unconventional comedy that touches on the lives of several women in Madrid in the late 1980s. The movie brought the director international acclaim and featured a young Antonio […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ends West End run in March before tour
After a successful year in London at the Savoy Theatre, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be moving on to pastures new with international productions in Australia, South Korea and Germany and on a two-year national UK tour. London theatregoers have until 7 March to book tickets. Starting at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre on 5 May, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown has official London launch
Last night saw a frenzied reception for the launch of the UK premiere of new musical comedy Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The Institute of Contemporary Arts was packed to capacity with theatre glitterati and members of the press being serenaded by flamenco guitars, while carefully appointed screens spooled scenes from the original movie. Based […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels set to tour the UK in 2015
A national tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will open at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on 5 May 2015 where it plays until 16 May 2015 (the musical then goes on to visit Sunderland, Glasgow, Liverpool, Torquay, Stoke, Oxford and Edinburgh). The West End production of the show continues to play at the Savoy Theatre. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opened in the West End […]
Willemijn Verkaik joins the Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
New musical comedy Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will boast an international cast with Ricardo Afonso, Haydn Oakley and Willemijn Verkaik joining the previously announced Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne, Jérôme Pradon and Anna Skellern. Additional cast members include Marianne Benedict, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, Sarah Moyle, Alastair Natkiel, Nuno Queimado and Dale Rapley. In addition, the song ‘Madrid’, the opening number from David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s score for the […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – more casting announced
Hadyn Gwynne, Jerome Pradon and Anna Skellern join Tamsin Greig in the UK premiere of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s new musical adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-nominated film Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher, and following two full-scale development workshops with actors, musicians and the creative team, […]
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – first glimpse of Tamsin Greig
Today is the first chance to see Tamsin Greig as ‘Pepa Marcos’ in the forthcoming musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown which opens at the Playhouse Theatre on 12 January, with previews from 20 December. See the behind-the-scenes video of Grieg’s transformation via: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iMwCHJpZ4U Olivier-Award winner Greig makes her musical theatre debut in the UK premiere of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Savoy Theatre
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels continues at the Savoy Theatre, London. Billy Elliot, The Commitments, The Bodyguard, Once, not to mention forthcoming stage versions of Made in Dagenham and Back to the Future; those musical adaptations of movies just keep on coming. This time it’s Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek’s take on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (the 1988 Michael […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – West End launch
Musical theatre fans, don your bow ties, shine your shoes and brace yourselves. In only a few weeks, with previews beginning at the Savoy Theatre on 10 March, one of the most highly anticipated theatrical events of the year arrives – the UK premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Librettist Jeffrey Lane and composer/lyricist David Yazbek’s […]
