Caroline – A New Musical was reviewed at the New Theatre, Peterborough. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Thanks to its excellent performers and irresistible soundtrack, Caroline still proves itself a lively and entertaining voyage.
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Footloose – Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Footloose continues at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre in repertory until 26 September 2024, and then at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich from 3-26 October 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a colourful, joyous, celebratory show – bring your dancing shoes for the finale!
Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Touring
Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter was reviewed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. The UK tour continues until 3 June 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch announces its Adrian Mole and friends
James Hameed will take on the title role in the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s major new production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ – The Musical. Hameed (Be More Chill, The Other Palace/Shaftesbury Theatre will be joined by Ben Williamson-Jones (Stick Man Live, Leicester Square Theatre) as Barry, Claire Storey (Twelfth Night, […]
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch plans new actor/musician production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical
Queen’s Theatre artistic director Douglas Rintoul will direct a major new production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical at the popular Hornchurch venue next spring. Announced as part of a packed spring 2022 season, the new actor/musician production of Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary’s musical version of Sue Townsend’s […]
Love Letters – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Love Letters continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 21 August 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Artistic director Douglas Rintoul brings a new jukebox musical to the Queen’s Theatre called Love Letters in which he asks: what would you do if you received a love letter 16 years after it […]
Lucy Benjamin heads cast of new musical Love Letters
EastEnders favourite Lucy Benjamin will star in the new jukebox-style musical Love Letters when it receives its delayed world premiere at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch from 30 July until 21 August 2021. Returning to her local theatre for the first time since appearing in In Basildon in 2019, Benjamin will be joined by Holly Ashton […]
Premiere of Love Letters will be part of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch reopening plans
The delayed premiere of new jukebox-style musical Love Letters will be part of the reopening season at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. Written and directed by the venue’s artistic director Douglas Rintoul and featuring the music of home-grown Essex stars from the 1960s up to present day, the musical comedy which tells the story of young […]
Clive Rowe stars in new musical Cells from Metta Theatre
Leading independent theatre production company Metta Theatre will unveil a new lockdown-written, developed and recorded musical online next month. Starring Metta’s new patron, Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe (In The Willows, Guys and Dolls) and rising star Lem Knights (School of Rock, Billionaire Boy), Cells will be released in episodic form daily from 19 April […]
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 26 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The man who brought the Queen’s Theatre Made in Dagenham, artistic director Douglas Rintoul, is presenting another regional premiere of a great modern musical. Based on the 1994 movie, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert […]
Interview – Douglas Rintoul brings Made in Dagenham back home to the Queen’s Hornchurch
DOUGLAS RINTOUL is the new artistic director at the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch. Appointed in 2015, Rintoul – a Drama & Theatre Arts alumnus of the University of Birmingham – has chosen for his first major show the musical comedy Made in Dagenham (music by David Arnold, lyrics by Richard Thomas, book by Richard Bean), which […]
First revival of Made in Dagenham from Queen’s Hornchurch and New Wolsey Ipswich
The first revival of the hit musical Made In Dagenham will be a co-production between the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre. The staging, directed by the Queen’s artistic director Douglas Rintoul, receives its regional premiere in Hornchurch from 26 August until 17 September, before playing the New Wolsey from 21 September until 15 October. Inspired by the true […]
