Cats continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 19 September 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s not a reinvention but an improved and dusted-off version of a classic.
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Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Cats – the full cast and tour dates
The full cast has been confirmed for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats this summer.
Something Rotten! In Concert – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Something Rotten! In Concert was performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ We really hope this concert is the start of a successful longer life for the show, because Something Rotten! is actually something brilliant.
The Artist – Theatre Royal Plymouth
The Artist at Theatre Royal Plymouth. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following its premiere at the Theatre Royal Plymouth, it will be interesting to see where this piece of art goes next. Could it be West End bound?
Palladium’s Jack and the Beanstalk – further casting news
Louis Gaunt, Rob Madge and Natalie McQueen are the latest additions to the cast of this year’s London Palladium pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. After playing Bert in Mary Poppins, Gaunt (Gypsy, Royal Exchange Theatre, Sweet Charity, Nottingham Playhouse) will play Jack, with Madge (Millennials, The Other Palace, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, UK and Ireland tour) […]
Wicked encore for Mark Curry’s Wizard
The hit London production of Wicked will welcome back actor and presenter Mark Curry as The Wizard from 18 October 2022. The former Blue Peter presenter who previously played The Wizard at the Apollo Victoria as part of the 10th anniversary London cast in 2016/2017 will step back into the role following Gary Wilmot’s last […]
Palladium’s Jack and the Beanstalk – Alexandra Burke to play giant’s wife
Alexandra Burke will join previously announced panto favourites Julian Clary, Nigel Havers, Dawn French, Gary Wilmot and Paul Zerdin in Jack and the Beanstalk at the London Palladium this Christmas. The former X Factor winner and recording artist whose musical theatre pedigree includes playing the Narrator in the acclaimed London Palladium revival of Joseph and […]
Tickets for a live screening of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala to be released
Tickets for a live screening at the Prince Edward Theatre of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala are to be released today, 30 March 2022. Priority will be given to the thousands of people who signed up in the hope of securing tickets but couldn’t be accommodated for the performance at the Sondheim Theatre. Booking […]
Cabaret leads nominations for Olivier Awards 2022
Musicals are once again making their presence felt in the nominations for the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard with the innovative West End revival of Cabaret topping the list with 11 nominations. In the running for the Magic Radio Best Musical Revival, the production which has transformed the Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club […]
Dawn French and Julian Clary lead the cast of Jack and the Beanstalk at the London Palladium
Leading the cast of the London Palladium pantomime, back for its seventh year, are Dawn French and Julian Clary in a brand new production of Jack and the Beanstalk. For a strictly limited five-week run, French and Clary will be joined by returning Palladium panto favourites Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers and Gary Wilmot. Dawn French […]
Film Review: Anything Goes
Anything Goes is screened in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 28 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you missed Kathleen Marshall’s phenomenally successful production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Barbican this year, then fear not: the cameras were in over a few nights to capture the […]
Lucie Jones, Ryan Reid, Sophie-Louise Dann and Gary Wilmot to join Helen Woolf in 2022 cast of Wicked
Lucie Jones (Elphaba), Ryan Reid (Fiyero), Sophie-Louise Dann (Madame Morrible) and Gary Wilmot (The Wizard) will lead the new London cast of Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre from 1 February 2022. They will join Helen Woolf, who returns from maternity leave to continue her acclaimed performance as Glinda, Carina Gillespie (Nessarose), Nicholas McLean (Boq), […]
Anything Goes breaks Barbican’s box office records
The hit UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes smashed the Barbican Theatre’s box office record last week. With takings of £717,000, the critic and crowd-pleasing production celebrated the highest-grossing week for a musical at the Barbican in its 39-year history. Commenting on the response […]
The Tiller Girls dance into Palladium Pantoland
The world-famous Tiller Girls are the latest addition to the star-studded line-up for the return of Pantoland at The Palladium this Christmas. Known to home audiences for their regular appearances on the iconic show Sunday Night At The London Palladium in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tiller Girls were the brainchild of musical theatre director […]
Cinema screenings announced for hit production of Anything Goes
The hit production of Anything Goes, due to take its final bow on 6 November, will sail into over 450 cinema screens nationwide for two nights only on 28 November and 1 December in a live recording filmed at London’s Barbican Theatre. Presented by the Barbican and filmed live in London – during the show’s […]
Rachel York and Hadyn Gwynne to join cast of Anything Goes in London
Broadway star Rachel York and Tony and Olivier nominee Haydn Gwynne will join the cast of the critically-acclaimed UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of Anything Goes for its final weeks at the Barbican. York (City of Angels, Victor/Victoria) will reprise her US touring production performance as Reno Sweeney from 12 October with Gwyne […]
Donny Osmond to join star-studded 2021 Pantoland at The Palladium cast
Donny Osmond will join panto royalty Julian Clary, Nigel Havers, Gary Wilmot and Paul Zerdin when Pantoland at The Palladium returns to the London Palladium this Christmas. Stepping into the role of the Wizard of Pantomime, Osmond will be part in the all-star cast assembled for the extra-special celebration of all-things pantomime at the world-famous […]
Anything Goes – Barbican Theatre
Anything Goes continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 31 October 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If anyone comes out of this remarkable revival of Anything Goes without a broad smile on their face, feeling ten times better than when they arrived and humming a Cole Porter classic, the probability is that […]
Broadway’s Sutton Foster to replace Megan Mullally in Barbican’s Anything Goes
Multi-award-winning Broadway star Sutton Foster will replace injury hit Megan Mullally in the much-anticipated UK re-working of award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes at the Barbican this summer. Foster (The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie) will reprise her Tony Award-winning performance as Reno Sweeney and make her West […]
Anything Goes Barbican dates announced plus more casting news
The producers of the much-anticipated UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes have announced new dates and further casting for the show which will play a season at the Barbican before embarking on a UK tour. Starring Emmy and Screen Actors’ Guild winner Megan Mullally […]
The Theatre Channel – Classics of Broadway
Classics of Broadway is streaming on The Theatre Channel. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★✩ Digital performance has come a long way in 12 months. Perhaps, at some point in the future, we shall regard this as a positive pandemic outcome. We’ve learned – really learned – to make the best of a bad job. […]
The Theatre Channel’s Broadway episode – revised date announced
Adam Blanshay Productions and The Theatre Café have confirmed a new release date for the Broadway-flavoured instalment in the pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. Originally due to premiere on 29 January 2021, The Theatre Channel – The Golden Era Of Broadway Episode will now debut on 19 February following production delays […]
Felicity Kendal and Gary Wilmot join the cast of Anything Goes
Felicity Kendal and Gary Wilmot are the latest star additions to the cast of the much-anticipated UK re-working of director Kathleen Marshall’s award-winning 2011 Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes. Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Kendal (Much Ado About Nothing, Lettice and Lovage) will make her West End musical […]
Line-Up for Theatre Channel’s Broadway-centred January episode
Adam Blanshay Productions and The Theatre Café have announced an all-star line-up for the Broadway-flavoured January instalment in the pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. Due to premiere on 29 January 2021, The Theatre Channel – The Golden Era Of Broadway Episode will feature: Freddie Fox (TV’s White House Farm, The Judas […]
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 […]
Elaine Paige to join star-studded Pantoland at The Palladium
Elaine Paige is the latest addition to the all-star cast heading for Pantoland at The Palladium for three weeks this Christmas. The veteran leading lady who previously played Queen Rat in Dick Whittington at the iconic London venue in 2017 will revisit the villainous role as part of the festive celebration of pantomime at the […]
Star-studded Pantoland to play London Palladium
Julian Clary will head an all-star cast in an extra-special celebration of pantomime at the London Palladium this Christmas. Presented by the world’s leading pantomime specialist Qdos Entertainment and LW Theatres, Pantoland at The Palladium will play a strictly limited three-week season at the world-famous theatre. The feast for panto-starved theatregoers which will run from […]
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 […]
CD Review: The Prince Of Egypt – Original London Cast
THE PRINCE OF EGYPT – Original London Cast (Ghostlight Records: 791558460131) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When I started playing this album I was a little impressed – I thought to myself ‘If the rest of this cast recording is as powerful as the opening number, ‘Deliver Us’, then we are in […]
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 […]
The Prince of Egypt – Dominion Theatre
The Prince of Egypt continues at the Dominion Theatre, London until 31 October 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Full cast announced for The Prince of Egypt
The producers of the new stage musical version of The Prince Of Egypt have revealed full casting details and released the first scenic design illustration by Kevin Depinet for the show’s London premiere early next year. As previously announced Luke Brady (Sweeney Todd, Chichester Festival Theatre, West End, St George and the Dragon, Shakespeare’s Globe, […]
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical! – Dorfman, National Theatre
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical! continues at the Dorfman, National Theatre, London – until 31 August 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There really is nothing not to like in Andy Stanton’s stage adaptation of his own kids’ book. This wise-cracking, rib-tickling, side-splitting phantasmagoria probably has more in […]
Charlie Stemp and Danielle Hope will star in London Palladium panto Snow White
Charlie Stemp will return to the London Palladium to star as the Prince opposite Danielle Hope’s Snow White in this year’s eagerly-anticipated Christmas pantomime. Following his successful Broadway debut in Hello, Dolly!, the Half a Sixpence star will return to the Palladium to join four other favourites from last year’s Dick Whittington, Julian Clary, Nigel […]
West End Wind in the Willows musical to play in cinemas at Easter
Cinema audiences across the UK and Ireland will get the chance to see the musical re-working of the classic The Wind in the Willows this Easter. Captured live during the show’s limited London Palladium run last year, the multi-camera production will be shown in high definition and surround sound at selected cinemas nationwide over the […]
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 […]
Dick Whittington – London Palladium
Dick Whittington continues at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You do get an awful lot of Dick for your money at the London Palladium. Dick Whittington, Qdos Entertainment’s second pantomime in the venue after last year’s Cinderella, is a love letter to London, to pantomime’s malleable ability to […]
Interview – Emma Williams is enjoying the magic of panto in Dick Whittington at the London Palladium
EMMA WILLIAMS is playing Alice Fitzwarren in this year’s star-studded pantomime Dick Whittington at the London Palladium. She will be reunited with her Half a Sixpence co-star, Charlie Stemp, who will play the title role. Also featured in the star-billing are Julian Clary, Elaine Paige, Diversity, Paul Zerdin, Gary Wilmot and Nigel Havers. Emma returns […]
The Wind in the Willows at the London Palladium – exclusive new images
Adapted for the stage by the team of Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, the major new musical theatre adaptation of the family classic The Wind in the Willows has sped into the London Palladium. Here is a selection of brand new exclusive images from Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan. Rufus Hound […]
Wind in the Willows at the Palladium – full cast revealed
Denise Welch, Gary Wilmot, Simon Lipkin and Craig Mather will join Rufus Hound and Neil McDermott in the cast of The Wind in the Willows which will speed into the London Palladium in June. Announcing the new casting details, producer Jamie Hendry also revealed previews would begin ahead of schedule on Friday 16 June (opening […]
Big the Musical – Theatre Royal Plymouth and Touring
Big the Musical played the Theatre Royal Plymouth and moves on to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin from 7 December until 7 January 2017. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This production brings a much-loved 1988 movie onto the stage, full of energy, fun and a little bit of magic. The film has become a […]
Big the Musical – European premiere opens at Theatre Royal Plymouth
The musical based on the hit body swap movie Big has made its European debut ahead of a potential West End opening next year. Big the Musical is playing the Theatre Royal Plymouth until Saturday (12 November) before transferring to Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for a Christmas run from 7 December until 7 January […]
Some Enchanted Evening – Cadogan Hall, London
Some Enchanted Evening continues until 20 August at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Spanning over 60 years, the career of composer Richard Rodgers, in his partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, is celebrated by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, a choir from Arts Educational Schools, […]
Interview – Michael Xavier on Richard Rodgers tribute, Some Enchanted Evening
This week West End leading man MICHAEL XAVIER will join Ruthie Henshall, Lesley Garrett and Gary Wilmot in Some Enchanted Evening, a series of concerts at Cadogan Hall celebrating the timeless music of Broadway legend Richard Rodgers. Presented by Garrett, the four performances running from 18 August until 20 August will feature the four vocalists […]
End of the Rainbow – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Touring
End of the Rainbow continues at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry until 27 February and tours until 9 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following the undisputed triumph of its predecessor at Trafalgar Studios, Peter Quilter’s searing comedy-drama-musical End of the Rainbow, based on the harrowing six weeks Judy Garland spent during her umpteenth ‘comeback […]
End of the Rainbow UK tour – first look and exclusive interviews
There’s an unassuming little rehearsal space in East London – wood floor, parish notices, stacked chairs. A table at the back buzzes with laptops, low chatter and paperwork. A keyboard sits in anticipation on its stand, and a makeshift set has been constructed from an old sofa and the resident grand piano. You’d be forgiven for not […]
End of the Rainbow – Lisa Maxwell leads new touring production
Actress and television presenter Lisa Maxwell will take on the central role of Judy Garland in a new touring production of Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow next year. The former ‘Loose Woman’, best known for her long-running role in ITV’s The Bill, will hit the road – along with Gary Wilmot and Sam Attwater […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 24 October and then on tour until 28 November. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Since Musical Theatre Review saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in the early stages of its tour at the Liverpool Empire in July, Gary Wilmot has taken over […]
Oklahoma! – Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Touring
Oklahoma! continues at the Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton until 28 February and then tours until 8 August, 2015. Star rating: 4 stars **** There is a traditional charm that pervades the Royal & Derngate’s Oklahoma! This show, the first collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein, is at once dark and glorious, but above all crammed with some of […]
