HMS Pinafore continues at the London Coliseum until 11 December 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Colourful costumes, bawdy jokes, silly songs, Les Dennis: oh, how we have missed panto season! That isn’t quite fair of course. Dennis has recently been praised for a string of RSC acting roles, proving himself […]
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Cal McCrystal directs ENO’s first ever production of HMS Pinafore
The English National Opera will present its first ever production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece HMS Pinafore at the London Coliseum later this month. Directed by Cal McCrystal, the award-winning Irish director who returns to the ENO for the first time since the hit 2018 production of Iolanthe, the new version of the much-loved […]
Peter Polycarpou joins ENO’s Man Of La Mancha
Stage and screen star Peter Polycarpou will play squire Sancho Panza opposite Kelsey Grammer’s Don Quixote in the eagerly-anticipated London Coliseum production of Man Of La Mancha.
Kelsey Grammer and Danielle de Neise to star in Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum
Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer will return to London next year to star in a new production of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Grammer will make his West End debut playing Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote alongside international opera star Danielle de Neise as Aldonza and Dulcinea for a […]
Porgy and Bess – London Coliseum
Porgy and Bess continues at the London Coliseum until 17 November 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This co-production of Porgy and Bess (the Gershwins, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward), directed by James Robinson, is to be seen at the Dutch National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera New York in later seasons. […]
Chess – London Coliseum
Chess continues at the London Coliseum until 2 June 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Can we drop the use of “semi-staged” when talking about Grade-Linnit’s annual summer musical revivals at the London Coliseum now? That the production team continues to use the term in association with their shows seems more […]
Writers join Chess stars for first rehearsals
Rehearsals have begun for the eagerly-anticipated new production of Chess which is due to begin a strictly limited five-week season at the London Coliseum on 26 April. Two of the show’s creators, Benny Andersson and Tim Rice, joined director Laurence Connor and members of the cast in the rehearsal room as they prepared for the […]
Chess at the London Coliseum – starry line-up led by Michael Ball and Alexandra Burke
The first West End production of Chess since 1986 is to star Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke, Murray Head, Tim Howar and Cassidy Janson. The production will open at the London Coliseum on 26 April 2018 (press night on 1 May 2018) for a strictly limited five-week season. This is the fourth production in collaboration with English […]
Chess receives West End revival at London Coliseum in 2018
Chess, the epic musical love story set amidst the tensions of a world championship chess match, will play at the London Coliseum for a strictly limited five-week run from Thursday 26 April 2018, with a press night on Tuesday 1 May. Tickets go on public sale on Friday 3 November from 10am. This will be the first West […]
Gate and ENO collaborate on cabaret-style show Effigies of Wickedness
Ellen McDougall will direct opera stars Peter Brathwaite and Katie Bray in the world premiere of Effigies of Wickedness in May next year. The Gate Theatre’s ground-breaking collaboration with English National Opera will be the final production in McDougall’s first season as artistic director of the Notting Hill-based venue. Featuring satirical songs banned by the […]
Carousel – London Coliseum
Carousel continues at the London Coliseum until 13 May. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When the Michaels Linnit and Grade collaborated with the ENO and brought Sweeney Todd (starring Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel) to the London Coliseum in 2015, they appeared to have come up with a pretty successful formula: pick […]
Carousel at the ENO – first rehearsal images
Rehearsal images have been released of the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between The GradeLinnit Company and English National Opera (ENO). The cast features Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan), Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Star Keeper), Derek Hagen (Jigger Craigin), Alex Young (Carrie Pipperidge), Brenda Edwards (Nettie Fowler), […]
Nicholas Lyndhurst joins ENO Carousel
Small screen favourite Nicholas Lyndhurst will return to the West End stage for the first time since 2011 to join the previously announced Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins in the much-anticipated Carousel at the London Coliseum in April. Last seen in on the London stage in Trevor Nunn’s 2011 production of The Tempest, the much-loved […]
Carousel at the ENO – Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins star
Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins will star for the first time together in the West End as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO)and the GradeLinnit Company. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of 41 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum. Beginning on 7 April 2017, with press night on 11 April, the final […]
Alternate Norma Desmond Ria Jones wins over Sunset Boulevard audience
Actress and singer Ria Jones stepped into the spotlight this week to take over the leading role in Sunset Boulevard and won over an audience angered by the news that award-winning actress Glenn Close was too ill to perform (Pictures: Kevin Wilson). Jones, who had ironically been involved in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s early workshops for […]
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 […]
Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close – first production images
Today (1 April 2016) previews begin for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at ENO’s London Coliseum. Joining Glenn Close (Norma Desmond), Michael Xavier (Joe Gillis), Siobhan Dillon (Betty Shaefer) and Fred Johanson (Max Von Mayerling) are Anna Woodside as Hedda Hopper, Emily Bull as Hedy Lamarr, Julian Forsyth as Cecil B DeMille, Mark Goldthorp as Sheldrake, Fenton Gray as Manfred, […]
Sunset Boulevard at ENO – Michael Xavier, Siobhan Dillon and Fred Johanson join Glenn Close in cast
Michael Xavier, Siobhan Dillon and Fred Johanson will join Glenn Close 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. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of 43 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum which begins on 1 April 2016 with press night on 4 April, with the final performance on 7 May. The full ENO […]
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 […]
Sweeney Todd – does size matter?
In the battle of the large and small scale productions of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd (currently playing in London), which one produces the ultimate, dramatic knockout punch? The star-studded US transfer at the ENO or Tooting Arts Club’s intensely intimate staging in a pop-up pie shop in Shaftesbury Avenue? Craig Glenday investigates… Londoners are currently being treated […]
Sweeney Todd at the ENO – production images released
Here’s a first look at images of Lonny Price’s staging of Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller, the first production in a major new long term partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. Pictures are by Tristram Kenton. Joining Terfel and Thompson who will lead the cast as Sweeney Todd and […]
Sweeney Todd at London Coliseum – full cast revealed
Due to unprecedented public demand, an extra performance has been scheduled on Sunday 5 April at 3pm for Lonny Price’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller at the London Coliseum. Tickets for the 5 April performance, including 300 seats at £10 each, will go on sale today (3 March […]
Philip Quast joins Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in cast of Sweeney Todd at ENO
Philip Quast will play Judge Turpin, joining the previously announced Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, in Lonny Price’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller at ENO’s London Coliseum (30 March to 12 April 2015). Further tickets have also been released for the first production in a major new long […]
