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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Sunset Boulevard wins big at the WhatsOnStage Awards, Guys and Dolls picks up Best Revival and Operation Mincemeat is top New Musical
The big winner of the night at the 24th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards at the London Palladium was Sunset Boulevard with seven awards from its nine nominations.
Flowers for Mrs Harris – Riverside Studios
Flowers for Mrs Harris continues at Riverside Studios, London until 25 November 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This beautiful show reminds us that dreams do matter, goodness and kindness are important, being classy is not about the money, and that love is the thread that holds us all together. It is life-affirming, life-enhancing and hopeful.
Jenna Russell leads London premiere of Flowers For Mrs Harris
Olivier Award-winner Jenna Russell will take on the title role when the critically acclaimed musical Flowers For Mrs Harris receives its London premiere at Riverside Studios later this month.
Casting update – West End, regional and touring theatre, plus London concerts too
Sometimes there are so many exciting press releases arriving in the Musical Theatre Review email inbox, that it’s hard to keep up, so we asked our news editor Angela Thomas if she could round up all the very latest casting news related to West End, regional and touring productions (and even a few London concerts […]
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Musical Theatre Review critics offer their Top 5 theatre picks from 2020
As each year draws to a close, Musical Theatre Review usually pulls together a round-up of all the productions covered that have received four and five star reviews. After such an extraordinary year, during which any production staged has been a triumph over adversity, such an approach seemed inappropriate. Instead, I asked a small group […]
CD Review: Flowers For Mrs Harris – Chichester Cast recording
FLOWERS FOR MRS HARRIS – Chichester Cast recording (SimG Records – SimGR-CD038) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I have loved the story of Mrs Ada Harris and her adventure to save up for a new Dior dress ever since I read the book many, many years ago. An old-fashioned story that […]
Chichester’s Flowers For Mrs Harris cast reunites for first official recording
The cast of the Chichester Festival Theatre’s hit 2018 production of Flowers For Mrs Harris has been reunited for the first official recording of Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff’s award-winning musical. Due for release on CD and download on 3 December 2020 by SimG Records, the cast album was recorded in July this year. Unveiling […]
Flowers For Mrs Harris – Chichester Festival Theatre website
Flowers For Mrs Harris is free to watch on the Chichester Festival Theatre website until 8 May 2020. There’s been precious little feelgood factor about this past miserable month but Chichester Festival Theatre is doing its bit to spread sunshine into our shrivelling lives by offering their charming 2018 production of Flowers For Mrs Harris […]
Flowers for Mrs Harris launches online productions streamed from Chichester Festival Theatre
For the first time, Chichester Festival Theatre is to stream a selection of its archive productions online, beginning with the musical Flowers for Mrs Harris from 9 April 2020 for the Easter weekend. Flowers for Mrs Harris will be available on CFT’s website for 30 days and will be free to watch. Daniel Evans and Kathy Bourne, artistic […]
Flowers for Mrs Harris – Chichester Festival Theatre
Flowers for Mrs Harris continues at Chichester Festival Theatre until 29 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Daniel Evans’ farewell production at The Crucible, Sheffield before taking over as Chichester’s artistic director was the staging of this new British musical, based on the 1958 novella by Paul Gallico. Rachel Wagstaff […]
Musical highlights of Chichester Festival Theatre 2018 season are Flowers For Mrs Harris and Me and My Girl
Productions of the Noel Gay classic Me and My Girl and new musical Flowers For Mrs Harris will be the musical highlights of artistic director Daniel Evans and executive director Rachel Tackley’s star-studded second season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Following on from a record-breaking 2017, the new season will feature a mix of major revivals […]
Interview – director Robert Hastie on catching the musical bug while staging The Wizard of Oz at Sheffield Theatres
This week Sheffield Theatres’ Christmas production of The Wizard Oz, directed by artistic director ROBERT HASTIE, will have its official opening at the Crucible Theatre. Hastie was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. His credits for the company include Julius Caesar (Best Director nomination for the 2017 UK Theatre Awards) and Of Kith and Kin (also Bush Theatre). His other theatre […]
UK Theatre Awards – Sheffield Theatres double as Flowers For Mrs Harris and Show Boat share top musical prize
Sheffield Theatres productions Flowers For Mrs Harris and Show Boat have shared the honours in the Best Musical Production category at the UK Theatre Awards today (Sunday 9 October). The double triumph was especially sweet for the shows’ director Daniel Evans who earlier this year left his post as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres after seven […]
UK Theatre Awards 2016 – nominees revealed
Flowers For Mrs Harris, Half a Sixpence and Show Boat will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards next month. The three hit shows were among the list of nominees for the 2016 awards which will be presented at a ceremony at London’s Guildhall on Sunday 9 […]
Flowers for Mrs Harris – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Flowers for Mrs Harris continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 4 June. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Daniel Evans, in the programme notes for his last production as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, claims that Music and Lyrics Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff’s Flowers for Mrs Harris has something of the Wagnerian […]
Interview – Clare Burt on Flowers for Mrs Harris and creating new work
Actress CLARE BURT (This is My Family, London Road) has returned to Sheffield Theatres to take on the title role in the world premiere of Flowers for Mrs Harris, Daniel Evans’ final production as artistic director at the venue (opening tonight, 23 May). The new musical by Richard Taylor (The Go-Between, Tom’s Midnight Garden) and Rachel Wagstaff (Birdsong, Moonshadow), based […]
Robert Hastie is new Sheffield Theatres artistic director
Actor-director Robert Hastie is to succeed Daniel Evans as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres. The appointment marks a homecoming for Hastie who began his professional theatre career at Sheffield Crucible as an actor in Edward Bond’s Lear in 2005. He will take up his new role in July, taking over from fellow actor-director Evans who is […]
New musical Flowers for Mrs Harris – Anna-Jane Casey, Rebecca Caine and Laura Pitt-Pulford cast
Full casting details for Flowers for Mrs Harris, Daniel Evans’ final production as Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director, have been announced. The new musical by Richard Taylor (The Go-Between, Tom’s Midnight Garden) and Rachel Wagstaff (Birdsong, Moonshadow), based on American writer Paul Gallico’s (The Poseidon Adventure) novel is due to have its world premiere at the Sheffield Crucible in May. […]
Sheffield Theatres season features new British musical Flowers For Mrs Harris
Artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, Daniel Evans has revealed that he will direct the world premiere of a new British musical Flowers For Mrs Harris as part of the company’s new season (18 May to 4 June 2016, press night is 23 May). The piece is written by Richard Taylor and Rachel Wagstaff, based on the novel by Paul Gallico, […]
