The National Youth Music Theatre a three-week summer residency at The Other Palace will include a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s award winning Beautiful Game. Running from 15-18 August 2018, the musical set during ‘The Troubles’ in Belfast in 1969 will feature Jasper Britton, the NYMT alumnus who spoke the first lines […]
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A Little Princess – Royal Festival Hall
A Little Princess at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: two stars ★★✩✩✩ Andrew Lippa’s adaptation of A Little Princess makes its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in a one-off concert performance. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s original 1905 novel, the evening plays out in suitably quaint fashion, with plucky young Sara (Jasmine Sakyiama) being lovingly […]
The Secret Garden – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
The Secret Garden continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 15 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musicals are often the fall-back option for opening productions at new theatres, but artistic director Iwan Lewis has made an imaginative choice in reworking Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s Tony-winning The Secret Garden to launch […]
The Barn Theatre’s inaugural production The Secret Garden opens this week
The Tony award-winning musical The Secret Garden is the inaugural production at The Barn Theatre in Cirencester. Opening on 16 March and due to run until 15 April, the first production at the 200-seat venue follows three years of planning, rebuilding and technical development. Directed by Dominic Shaw whose West End credentials include Beautiful – The Carole […]
The Secret Garden at the Ambassadors Theatre – exclusive new images
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden has returned to the West End for a special summer season aimed at family audiences. Here, Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan offers our readers access to an exclusive selection of images from the production. Directed by Rupert Hands, the production is running until 31 August at London’s Ambassadors Theatre. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s […]
Marc Folan, an English composer in New York – with A Little Princess
A major event in the career of British composer/lyricist Marc Folan has just taken place – his musical A Little Princess has had its professional US premiere, opening Off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Not only that, but an additional run has just been announced at a larger, more central space, the Alice Griffin Jewel Box […]
