The multi-award-winning Jersey Boys will return for a 20th anniversary tour across the UK and Ireland next year.
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Ain’t Too Proud – Prince Edward Theatre
Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations continues at the Prince Edward Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
West End’s Temptations revealed for Ain’t Too Proud
The producers of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud have unveiled the five actors who will bring iconic R&B group The Temptations to the West End stage.
Tony Award-winning Temptations musical Ain’t Too Proud set for West End
The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations is heading for the West End. Reuniting many of the award-winning creatives behind the hit show Jersey Boys, Ain’t Too Proud will begin performances at the Prince Edward Theatre on 31 March 2023. Commenting on the show’s London debut, […]
Jersey Boys – Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Touring
Jersey Boys continues at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley until 11 June 2022 and then tours until 18 March 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following the true life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, this jukebox musical weaves the group’s most known and loved songs around the narrative of their rise […]
New dates for Jersey Boys tour
The producers of multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys have announced new dates for the hit show’s current UK and Ireland tour. With casting for the second leg of the tour to be announced soon, the new dates will include return visits to venues including Edinburgh Playhouse, the Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton and the Wales Millennium Centre […]
New extended booking period announced for West End’s Jersey Boys
The newest West End run for multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys has been extended with tickets now on sale for performances up to 2 October 2022. Starring Ben Joyce as Frankie Valli, Adam Bailey as Bob Gaudio, Karl James Wilson as Nick Massi and Benjamin Yates as Tommy De Vito, the critically-acclaimed production took up residence […]
Jersey Boys – Trafalgar Theatre
Jersey Boys continues at the Trafalgar Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Oh what a night! Yet another outing for that old warhorse Jersey Boys, the unstoppable jukebox musical that launches the new-look 630-seat Trafalgar Theatre, back to its Art Deco beauty, and is due to kick off a year-long UK tour […]
Young cast announced for West End production of Jersey Boys
A new, young, dynamic cast has been announced for the return of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. It will be led by Ben Joyce as Frankie Valli, Adam Bailey as Bob Gaudio, Benjamin Yates as Tommy De Vito and Karl James Wilson as Nick Massi. The musical will open at the new […]
Jersey Boys to hit the road again from November
Multi award-winning musical Jersey Boys will be back on the road for its third UK and Ireland tour from November. Launching at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 25 November 2020 and currently booking through to 12 November 2022, the tour will visit Oxford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Stoke, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Sunderland, Glasgow, Hull, Llandudno, Inverness, Southampton, […]
Jersey Boys to work their way back into the West End in July 2021
Multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys will return to the West End to take up residence at the newly refurbished and reinstated Trafalgar Theatre in Whitehall from 28 July 2021. Plans for the much-loved show which tells the true rags to riches story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to be the first production to play […]
Jersey Boys will be back to reopen Whitehall’s Trafalgar Theatre
Multi-award-winning musical Jersey Boys will return to the West End to take up residence at the new refurbished and reinstated Trafalgar Theatre in Whitehall from April next year. The much-loved show which tells the true rags to riches story of New Jersey’s Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will be the first production to play […]
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical continues at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Donna Summer, who reigned as the “Queen of Disco”, died in 2012 of cancer. And Summer: The Donna Summer Musical makes for a scintillating memorial. Of course, this Broadway outing isn’t your ordinary memorial. […]
Jersey Boys UK tour – more dates for 2018
A number of extra venues have been added to the second UK and Ireland tour of the hit show Jersey Boys which is due to begin at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre on 16 December. The newly announced 2018 dates are Theatre Royal Plymouth (17-28 April), Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (9-19 May), Bradford Alhambra Theatre (22 […]
Jersey Boys to head off on second UK and Ireland tour
Hit show Jersey Boys is heading back on the road for its second UK and Ireland tour at the end of this year. Following on from the success of the show’s debut tour which ended in March last year, the second outing will begin at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre on 16 December. Staged by the […]
The Who’s Tommy the Rock Opera – Blackpool Opera House
The Who’s Tommy the Rock Opera continues at Blackpool Opera House until 26 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cast your mind back 40 years to eccentric director Ken Russell’s over the top film version of The Who’s 1969 double album rock opera Tommy. Well, if you can’t manage 40 years, try and […]
The Who’s Tommy at Greenwich Theatre – Ashley Birchall cast in lead role
Full casting is announced today for The Who’s Tommy, which will play a limited run at Greenwich Theatre from Wednesday 29 July to Sunday 23 August. The production comes 20 years after Tommy was last seen in London, marking the 40th anniversary of the original film and the 50th anniversary of The Who. The title role of […]
Tommy – Landestheater Linz, Austria
Tommy continues in rep at the Landestheater Linz, Austria until 15 May. Star rating: Four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ As its final musical theatre production this season, the Landestheater Linz presents Tommy in an electrifying production directed by Gil Mehmert (Sunset Boulevard, Das Wunder von Bern), which will run in rep until 15 May. The […]
The Who’s Tommy has anniversary production at Greenwich Theatre this summer
Almost 20 years after its last UK production, The Who’s Tommy will play a limited run at Greenwich Theatre this summer (29 July to 23 August, press night is 31 July), marking the 40th anniversary of the original film and the 50th anniversary of The Who. Based on the iconic 1969 double-album rock opera, which later […]
Doctor Zhivago – Broadway Theatre, New York
Doctor Zhivago continues at the Broadway Theatre, New York. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Just the thought of trying to turn Doctor Zhivago into a stage musical tires me out. Doctor Zhivago, as I’m sure you know, is the hefty novel that won its author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize and the basis for director […]
Jersey Boys – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Jersey Boys continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 4 October, before touring until August 2015. “It’s a classic American story. It’s rags to riches, and back to rags,” says book co-writer Marshall Brickman on why he took up the challenge of bringing the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to the stage. Unlike […]
