Musik continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 25 October 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A charming and an outrageously funny way to spend an evening.
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The Last Five Years and Rags share the musical theatre honours at the 2021 Offies
There were two wins each for the Southwark Playhouse run of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and the Park Theatre transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s critically-acclaimed production of Rags (Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz, Joseph Stein), directed by Bronagh Lagan, at OffWestEnd’s 2021 Offies Awards. Jonathan O’Boyle won in the Director category for his […]
Hope Mill to celebrate writer Jonathan Harvey and launch writing prize
Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre will host a star-studded online celebration of the work of writer Jonathan Harvey, scheduled for 18 July 2020. Coinciding with the launch of Through The Mill, a new playwrighting prize which will include the opportunity of a mentorship with Harvey, An Evening With Jonathan Harvey will include an interview with the […]
Musik – Leicester Square Theatre
Musik continues at the Leicester Square Theatre, London until 1 March 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Judging by the stone-cold faces of some of my fellow reviewers, Musik might well be one of those Marmite musicals you either love or hate. It’s rude, it’s scatalogical, it’s loud, it’s chaotic. And […]
Pet Shop Boys and Jonathan Harvey’s Musik is heading for London
Jonathan Harvey and The Pet Shop Boys’ (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe) new cabaret show MUSIK will follow its world premiere run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a London transfer. The show which reunites the writers with stage and screen star Frances Barber who returns to the role she previously played in the trio’s […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 Preview: 10 musicals that have grabbed our attention
With only a matter of days before the Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, we’re keen to share the Top 10 shows that have piqued our curiosity, writes Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr. There will be, once again, a winner selected from the huge range of musical theatre pieces staged at the Fringe for Musical Theatre Review’s Best […]
