Don Black’s From the Heart continues at the Garrick Theatre, London until 18 October 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This long overdue and highly personal reflection, in revue form, is a marvellous reminder of the considerable lyrical talents of Don Black.
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Frances Mayli McCann and Shona McCarty join cast of Don Black’s From the Heart
Olivier Award nominee Frances Mayli McCann and EastEnder Shona McGarty are the latest additions to the cast of Don Black’s From the Heart next month.
Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical – Filmed Live – Streaming
Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical is available to stream at bonnieclydelive.com from 24 June 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is a shot of musical theatre adrenaline.
Music Review: Bonnie & Clyde The Musical – Original West End Cast Recording
BONNIE & CLYDE THE MUSICAL – Original West End Cast Recording (Broadway Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ While already an impressive score in itself, the principal cast is what really exalts the West End version of the soundtrack to a league of its own, lending emotional depth and vulnerability to this ill-fated love story.
The Third Man – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Third Man continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 9 September 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Norma Desmond role for Nicole Scherzinger in new Sunset Boulevard
Nicole Scherzinger will play faded movie star Norma Desmond in a major new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard later this year.
The Third Man musical – full cast
Full casting has been unveiled for the highly anticipated world premiere of the musical version of Graham Greene’s classic story The Third Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory this summer.
Menier announces three major musical productions for 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory is returning to its musical theatre roots with a 2023 season that will feature two world premiere musicals and a revival of a Stephen Sondheim classic.
West End cast album planned for Bonnie and Clyde
The DLAP Group has announced a cast recording of the hit production of Bonnie And Clyde The Musical will be released featuring stars Francis Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage who are due to reprise their performances in the title roles in the West End in March.
Frances Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage to play title roles in West End encore of Bonnie and Clyde
Frances Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage will reunite to star in Bonnie And Clyde The Musical when it returns to the West End in early 2023.
West End encore for hit production of Bonnie and Clyde The Musical
Tony Award-nominated show Bonnie and Clyde The Musical will return to the West End in early 2023 with a strictly limited 11-week season at the Garrick Theatre from 4 March 2023.
Unheard songs from musical theatre giants to feature in Regenerate fundraiser
The world premiere of a song from multi-award-winning lyricist Don Black and Platinum Jubilee composer and musical director Debbie Wiseman’s new musical Feather Boy will be among a number of unsung songs to feature in a star-studded live-streamed online fundraiser in September. Presented by Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) with Musical Theatre Network (MTN), REGENERATE: Lost […]
Bonnie & Clyde – Arts Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde continues at the Arts Theatre, London until 10 July 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Where has Bonnie & Clyde, the lively, entertaining musical version of the most bloody, unforgettable and groundbreaking movie of the 1960s, been hiding since its inauspiciously short, 36-performance Broadway run in 2011? Despite […]
West End premiere for full production of Bonnie and Clyde The Musical
Tony Award-nominated show Bonnie And Clyde The Musical will receive its West End premiere at the Arts Theatre in the spring. Announced on stage by producers, the DLAP group, during the second of this week’s two sold-out performances of Bonnie And Clyde In Concert at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the highly-anticipated full-length […]
Tell Me On A Sunday – Leicester Curve and Touring
Tell Me On A Sunday continues at Leicester Curve until 16 October 2021 and then tours until 20 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a brilliant musical. Perfect in so many ways. A delight of an evening. How come? Unusually, just one magnificent performer electrifies the whole show. […]
Extra performance announced for Bonnie And Clyde In Concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Fourth Wall Live has announced an extra performance for next year’s London performance of Bonnie And Clyde In Concert in response to high public demand. Reuniting Broadway stars Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan the show will now play the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 17 and 18 January 2022. Marking the first time […]
Jodie Prenger to star in UK tour of Tell Me On A Sunday
Jodie Prenger will be hitting the road across the UK this summer in a revival of the acclaimed 2016 Watermill Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s Tell Me On A Sunday. Presented by Jamie Wilson with Kevin McCollum and Gavin Kalin, the UK national tour will launch at the Malvern Festival Theatre […]
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 […]
Dear Evan Hansen, & Juliet, Mary Poppins & Fiddler all winners at the Olivier Awards 2020
The winners of the Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard were announced in a special ITV programme filmed at the London Palladium, and on Official London Theatre’s YouTube channel. The presentation was hosted by Jason Manford, and honoured Ian McKellen with his seventh Olivier Award for his 8oth Birthday tour, as well as lyricist Don Black, […]
Don Black and Ian McKellen to be honoured in Olivier Awards 2020
The winners of the 2020 Olivier Awards with Mastercard will be revealed on 25 October 2020 during a special programme broadcast from the London Palladium on ITV at 10.20pm. Originally due to be held in April this year, the replacement for the usual Red Carpet event will be hosted as planned by Jason Manford and […]
Marti Webb – The Pheasantry
Marti Webb at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ British singers who have shows written specifically for them, particularly when those writers are as famous as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, are few but their brilliant song cycle Tell Me On a Sunday transformed Marti Webb from singers’ […]
Madalena Alberto and Eleanor Jackson join cast of Aspects of Love London run
Madalena Alberto and Eleanor Jackson will complete the cast for the London transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s hit version of Aspects of Love early next year. One of the Southwark Playhouse’s final productions at its current Newington Causeway site, the London run of Aspects of Love will star most of those who appeared in the […]
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 […]
Arlene Phillips to join musical theatre cruise
Choreographer Arlene Phillips is the latest big name to be lined up to join the West End and Broadway favourites aboard the UK’s first specialist musical theatre festival at sea. Following on from last year’s announcement that lyricist Don Black and award winning musical theatre star Marti Webb would be taking to the seas, Phillips […]
Marti Webb – The Pheasantry
Marti Webb performed at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ So, it’s your actual birthday, the house is full and the clearly very discerning, expectant festive audience includes legendary lyricist Don Black – so, no pressure then! But, it’s a kind of pressure that Marti Webb has been dealing with […]
Mrs Henderson Presents to close on 18 June
Theatregoers have just six weeks left to catch Mrs Henderson Presents at London’s Noel Coward Theatre. Based on the 2005 film of the same name, the final performance in the production’s limited 18-week season will be on 18 June. Tracie Bennett, a double Olivier Award-winner for her performances in the musicals She Loves Me and Hairspray, […]
Sunset Boulevard – London Coliseum
Sunset Boulevard continues at the London Coliseum until 7 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The golden age of Hollywood, when silent pictures gave way to ‘talkies’, has been a fertile ground for storytelling in the past. Singin’ in the Rain gave us a comedic take on the screen starlet who […]
Bar Mitzvah Boy – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Bar Mitzvah Boy continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 10 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There can surely be no better time to revive a musical that combines the skills of Jule Styne and Don Black than 2016. Composer Styne’s Gypsy and Funny Girl have been successfully revived […]
Interview – lyricist Don Black on Bar Mitzvah Boy and 2016 being a very good year
This year is looking to be a good one for lyricist DON BLACK. As well as a new West End musical, Mrs Henderson Presents, under his belt, the London Coliseum is to play host to a revival of Sunset Boulevard (for which he co-wrote the book and lyrics with Christopher Hampton and won two Tony […]
Mrs Henderson Presents – Noel Coward Theatre, London
Mrs Henderson Presents at the Noel Coward Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Terry Johnson’s musical reworking of the 2005 movie about that great Soho institution, the ‘We Never Closed’ Windmill Theatre, and what it did for male morale in the dark days of the Second World War, is a very British, frequently […]
Tell Me On a Sunday – Watermill Theatre, Newbury and Touring
Tell Me On a Sunday continues at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury until 20 February, before touring until 8 June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Returning to the Watermill stage following a national tour in the title role of Calamity Jane, Jodie Prenger restrains her natural effervescence to encapsulate the character of Emma as she […]
Tell Me On a Sunday with Jodie Prenger – tour dates revealed
A national tour of the Watermill Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s classic musical Tell Me On a Sunday, starring Jodie Prenger, opens on Wednesday 2 March 2016, following a season at the Watermill Theatre from Thursday 28 January to Saturday 20 February 2016. Tell Me On a Sunday charts the romantic misadventures of a young English girl in […]
Marti Webb – Crazy Coqs
Marti Webb performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musical theatre star of a bygone era Marti Webb, a rare visitor to the cabaret circuit making her Crazy Coqs debut, turned back the clock the best part of half a century as she reprised the songs that informed her […]
Bar Mitzvah Boy – Aria Entertainment presents rare London revival in 2016
Aria Entertainment is presenting a rare revival of the musical Bar Mitzvah Boy which will run for six weeks at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre from Thursday 3 March to Sunday 10 April (press night is 10 March). Jack Rosenthal adapted his award-winning 1976 TV play (British Academy Best Play Award and Broadcasting Press […]
Sunset Boulevard – Glenn Close on making her West End debut at ENO
In April 2016, the London Coliseum will play host to a semi-staged production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard, with Glenn Close reprising the role of former silent movie star Norma Desmond, which she played in Los Angeles and on Broadway. In front of an invited press audience, she spoke of her previous involvement […]
Mrs Henderson Presents transfers to the West End in February 2016
Following a sell-out season at the Theatre Royal Bath this summer, Mrs Henderson Presents will open at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday 9 February 2016, for a strictly limited season, with a press night on Tuesday 16 February 2016. Mrs Henderson Presents will star Tracie Bennett as Laura Henderson, Ian Bartholomew as Vivian Van Damm and Emma Williams as […]
Glenn Close to star in semi-staged ENO production of Sunset Boulevard
Glenn Close will star as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s Sunset Boulevard, the second production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. In March 2015 ENO and the GradeLinnit Company presented the critically acclaimed sell-out run of Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in the inaugural production of their partnership. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of […]
Mrs Henderson Presents – Theatre Royal Bath
Mrs Henderson Presents continues at the Theatre Royal Bath until 5 September, ahead of a planned West End production. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Still they come! Musical stage versions of successful films have been all the rage for a while now – think Billy Elliot, The Bodyguard, Shrek, The Commitments, Bend It Like Beckham, the now-in-preview Kinky […]
Mrs Henderson Presents – Tracie Bennett replaces Janie Dee
Rehearsals started today for the new British musical Mrs Henderson Presents, now starring Tracie Bennett (taking over from Janie Dee who has had to withdraw for personal reasons), which concludes the Theatre Royal Bath summer season, playing 15 August to 5 September, prior to a West End run. Bennett will be reunited with director Terry Johnson, having last […]
Jodie Prenger stars in Tell Me On a Sunday tour
A national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s musical Tell Me On a Sunday, starring Jodie Prenger, will begin on Wednesday 2 March 2016, following a season at the Watermill Theatre from Thursday 28 January to Saturday 20 February 2016. Tell Me On a Sunday charts the romantic misadventures of a young English girl in […]
Janie Dee to star in new musical Mrs Henderson Presents at Theatre Royal Bath
Janie Dee will star in the world premiere of Mrs Henderson Presents, the brand new musical based on the film starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. The show is part of Theatre Royal Bath’s summer season 2015 (15 August–5 September, press night is 26 August), prior to a West End run. The cast also includes actress Emma Williams […]
Tell Me On a Sunday – St James Theatre
Tell Me On a Sunday continues at the St James Theatre, London until 12 January before transferring to the Duchess Theatre for two weeks from 18 February–1 March. It’s nostalgia time at the St James with Marti Webb bravely re-creating the one-woman Tell Me On a Sunday show of almost 32 years ago that took […]
Tell Me On a Sunday transfers to the Duchess
Tell Me On a Sunday has always commanded a loyal following as the 1979 collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Don Black produced a number of still-popular songs, not least the title number and the even bigger hit ‘Take That Look Off Your Face’. Even so, the news that, due to public demand, this […]
Stephen Ward the Musical – Aldwych Theatre
Stephen Ward the Musical opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London on 19 December. Set in the swinging 1960s, Stephen Ward the Musical is a biographical piece describing the rise and fall of the society playboy who fell foul of the ruling classes. Known eternally as the lynchpin to the Profumo affair –a sexual scandal that precipitated […]
The S&S Award – St James Theatre
The S&S Award was presented at the St James Theatre, London. The inaugural S&S Award ceremony, created in memory of Sidney and Sylvia Brown, the parents of the lyricist and librettist Warner Brown, was all about discovering and promoting new writers in British musical theatre. The new prize follows in the wake of the Vivian […]
Eyre stages Lloyd Webber Stephen Ward musical
Richard Eyre will direct the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and Don Black’s new musical Stephen Ward, previewing at London’s Aldwych Theatre from 3rd December 2013, with opening night on 19th December. Stephen Ward has music by Lloyd Webber, with book and lyrics by playwright Hampton and lyricist Black (with whom Lloyd Webber previously […]
Billy the Musical – Union Theatre
Playing at the Union Theatre, London until 29th June. Originally staged in the West End back in 1974, Billy the Musical (adapted from Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall’s play Billy Liar by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais), with a score from John Barry and Don Black, has at its heart a hardly average musical hero. Billy […]
Liz Robertson Sings Her Favourite Songs
Reviewed at The Crazy Coqs, London. Forty years on from making her showbiz bow as a cabaret dancer at the nearby Savoy Hotel, the ageless Liz Robertson is back in cabaret mode for her one-woman show at The Crazy Coqs, the new go-to Piccadilly nightspot for lovers of the genre which becomes ever more polished […]
