The Offies Awards 2024 – celebrating the best of independent, alternative and fringe theatre – across Greater London and at selected fringe festivals around the UK – have been announced in a ceremony at London’s Woolwich Works. The winners from 2023 were invited to return to present the awards to this year’s recipients. Among the musical […]
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Full cast for Turbine Theatre’s Eugenius!
London’s Turbine Theatre has unveiled the full cast for the re-worked version of cult British musical Eugenius! ahead of its debut at the Battersea venue on 17 March 2023.
Musicals Mash Up: January 2023
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports Cory English to return to West End’s Back To The Future West End and Broadway actor Cory English will step back into the […]
How to survive two weeks of isolation with free online musicals
Have a slight cough and a finely-honed sense of anxiety? Facing two weeks of self-isolation in home lockdown? Worried whether your body can even cope with an entire fortnight away from kick-lines, high Eb belts, and getting charged £10 for a house red? Here are 14 pieces of musical theatre you can watch online for […]
Footage from London production of Eugenius! to be broadcast on Facebook as fundraiser for Acting For Others
The team behind hit British musical Eugenius! will release footage recorded during the show’s 2018 London runs online on Friday (20 March) at 7pm in order to raise money for theatrical charity Acting For Others and help entertain those self-isolating at home. Announcing their decision to make the archive footage from the show’s Other Palace […]
Finalists for ninth annual Offies announced
Southwark Playhouse’s hit production of The Rink leads the finalists in the musical theatre categories of the 2019 Offies Awards. The critically-acclaimed production’s six finalists across the eight genre-specific categories are included in the 89 finalists across the 28 awards categories. Selected from 400 shows at over 80 Off West End venues by the Offies panel […]
Eugenius! West End Season cancelled
The last-minute loss of a key investor has forced producers of British musical Eugenius! to call a halt to plans to follow the show’s second critically-acclaimed run at The Other Palace with a West End transfer season. Announcing the cancellation of the limited ten-week season at the Ambassadors Theatre, producer Kevin Wood said: “The past […]
Eugenius! celebrates West End transfer
The Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! will follow its second critically-acclaimed run at The Other Palace with a West End transfer for a strictly limited winter season. After playing to packed houses for its extended season at The Other Palace until 21 October 2018, the show will move to the Ambassadors […]
Eugenius! – The Other Palace
Eugenius! continues at The Other Palace, London until 21 October 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A baby milk dependent villain. His nefarious robot sidekick voiced by Mark Hamill. Brian Blessed narrating… and rapping. All this and more awaits you in Eugenius! With such pop-culture titans lending their talent and a […]
West End stars for Eugenius! Other Palace return
Rob Houchen will take the leading role in the Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! when it returns to The Other Palace in September 2018 for a six-week season. Houchen (Titanic, Broken Wings), who will play central character Eugene, is one of a number of West End favourites lined up to play key […]
Early return to The Other Palace for Eugenius!
The Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! will return to The Other Palace this autumn for a limited comeback season in response to public demand. Running from 1 September until 7 October 2018, the hit show’s early return follows on from its successful debut as a full-scale theatrical production at The Other Palace […]
Eugenius! – The Other Palace
Eugenius! continues at The Other Palace, London until 3 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Paul Taylor Mills has chosen a new British musical to celebrate The Other Palace’s first year in business, and while this might seem a risky move, it’s a well mitigated one. Eugenius is co-written by […]
Star Wars legend Mark Hamill to voice character in Eugenius! The Musical
Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood have announced Star Wars legend Mark Hamill as the voice of ‘Kevin The Robot’ in Eugenius! The Musical which is currently playing for a strictly limited run at The Other Palace until 3 March 2018. Hamill is most famous for his roles on screen; in particular, playing the iconic role of Luke Skywalker in the Star […]
Musical Theatre 2018 Preview – all you need to know
You can’t get more comprehensive than this, here’s a preview of all the 2018 musical theatre openings we know about so far in the West End, on the London Fringe and across the UK. JANUARY Girl From the North Country – Noel Coward Theatre, London The Old Vic’s critically-acclaimed world premiere production of Girl From […]
Full cast for Eugenius! at The Other Palace
American Liam Forde will make his UK theatre debut in the Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! which will follow up last year’s world premiere concert performance with a full-scale production at The Other Palace in 2018. Forde will take on the central role of Eugene opposite one of the stars of […]
Full production of Eugenius! to play The Other Palace
The Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! will follow up last year’s world premiere concert performance with a full-scale production at The Other Palace in 2018. Written by Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins, the show – which debuted at the London Palladium last year – will play The Other Palace form 22 […]
Eugenius! – London Palladium
Eugenius! was performed at the London Palladium. Rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ A rare phenomenon in the West End, a brand new musical not based on a movie or play nor a famous group’s catalogue of songs, Eugenius! was a one-night only concert of a new show three years in the making. Despite a […]
Win a pair of tickets to Eugenius! – starring Warwick Davis
WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO EUGENIUS! – STARRING WARWICK DAVIS ‘The wait is over… Eugenius!, the best new musical for years, is here! Playing for one night only at the London Palladium, featuring an all-star cast led by Warwick Davis.’ Come and be part of the world premiere concert performance at the London Palladium […]
Palladium debut for Warwick Davis-produced musical
The Warwick Davis-produced new British musical Eugenius will premiere in concert form at the London Palladium next month. Harry Potter and Star Wars favourite Davis will also appear in the show alongside double Olivier Award winner David Bedella (In The Heights, Jerry Springer The Opera), Amy Lennox (Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), Samuel Holmes (Mrs Henderson Presents, Spamalot) and […]
