Burlesque continues at the Savoy Theatre, London until 6 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ On release in 2010, Burlesque – the Christina Aguilera/Cher movie musical – was met with a cold wall of indifference from critics, but a fervent dedication from fun-seeking moviegoers that has seen its popularity persist to this […]
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Burlesque – Opera House, Manchester
Burlesque continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 2 November 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A big thank you to the production team for creating such a magical, memorable project.
Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical – Filmed Live – Streaming
Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical is available to stream at bonnieclydelive.com from 24 June 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is a shot of musical theatre adrenaline.
More cast and crew for Burlesque as rehearsals begin
Further cast and creative team members have been revealed for the first stage adaptation of the 2010 movie musical Burlesque as rehearsals begin ahead of the production’s debut at the Manchester Opera House this summer.
Five new cast members for Lyric Theatre transfer of Death Note: The Musical in Concert
Olivier Award-winner George Maguire will be one of five new additions to the cast of the English language premiere of Manga musical Death Note: The Musical when the concert presentation transfers to the Lyric Theatre.
Music Review: Bonnie & Clyde The Musical – Original West End Cast Recording
BONNIE & CLYDE THE MUSICAL – Original West End Cast Recording (Broadway Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ While already an impressive score in itself, the principal cast is what really exalts the West End version of the soundtrack to a league of its own, lending emotional depth and vulnerability to this ill-fated love story.
Tarantino Live: Fox Force Five & The Tyranny of Evil Men – Riverside Studios
Tarantino Live continues at Riverside Studios, London until 30 July 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Bonnie & Clyde The Musical – Garrick Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde The Musical continues at the Garrick Theatre, London until 20 May 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ They made a name for themselves back in the 1930s and now Bonnie & Clyde returns to the West End for a second run after wowing audiences at the Arts Theatre and with live staged concerts.
Full cast confirmed for Bonnie and Clyde at the Garrick Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde The Musical’s Frances Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage will be joined in the cast by Jodie Steele as Blanche Barrow, Dom Hartley-Harris as Preacher with Cleve September returning as Ted.
Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol – Southbank Centre
Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol continues at the Southbank Centre, London until 8 January 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Musicals Mash Up: 23-30 October 2022
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.
Bonnie & Clyde Fan Night Q&A – Arts Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde Fan Night Q&A – Bonnie & Clyde continues at the Arts Theatre, London until 10 July 2022. On an otherwise calm Tuesday evening in the West End, an Arts Theatre’s worth of theatre enthusiasts suddenly found themselves transported to one of the history’s most infamous crime scenes. This was a special Fan […]
Bonnie & Clyde – Arts Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde continues at the Arts Theatre, London until 10 July 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Where has Bonnie & Clyde, the lively, entertaining musical version of the most bloody, unforgettable and groundbreaking movie of the 1960s, been hiding since its inauspiciously short, 36-performance Broadway run in 2011? Despite […]
Star line up for West End for Ukraine at the Charing Cross Theatre
A top line-up of West End stars will be taking to the stage at West End for Ukraine on 9 May 2022 at the Charing Cross Theatre. The musical fundraiser is in aid of the UNICEF Ukraine Emergency Appeal, raising vital urgent funds for children in desperate need. The line-up for West End for Ukraine […]
Five Questions With: George Maguire
Olivier Award winner GEORGE MAGUIRE is playing the title role in Rhys Jennings and Darren Clark’s The Wicker Husband at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor (and will reprise the part of as Buck Barrow in the West End premiere of the cult-favourite Bonnie and Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre from 9 April 2022). George won the […]
The Wicker Husband – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
The Wicker Husband continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 26 March 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ One can only assume that fate has played a manipulative role in The Wicker Husband, finally having its long-awaited run at the Watermill Theatre this month. From the first reading of writers Rhys Jennings and […]
Frances Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage to star in Bonnie and Clyde the Musical
Frances Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage will star as the titular Bonnie and Clyde in the West End premiere of Bonnie and Clyde The Musical, opening at London’s Arts Theatre from 9 April 2022. Following the extraordinary reaction to her performance as Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde In Concert in January 2022, Olivier-Award nominated […]
Full cast for Watermill’s The Wicker Husband
Full casting has been unveiled for the highly-anticipated return of folk-flavoured musical The Wicker Husband to Newbury’s Watermill Theatre next month. Joseph Alessi (The Lorax, Old Vic and Toronto) will take on the role of Cobbler with Gemma Sutton (Sweet Charity, The Watermill) as Ugly Girl, Olivier Award winner George Maguire (Sunny Afternoon, West End) […]
George Maguire and Natalie McQueen will reprise their roles in Bonnie and Clyde The Musical
George Maguire and Natalie McQueen will star as Buck and Blanche Barrow in the West End premiere of the cult-favourite Bonnie and Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre from 9 April 2022. Further casting to be announced in due course. Olivier Award winner Maguire and West End star McQueen reunite to reprise their roles […]
Frances Mayli McCann steps in to play Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde In Concert
Olivier Award-nominee Frances Mayli McCann will star opposite Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan in the two sold-out performances of Bonnie And Clyde In Concert at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane early next year. McCann (Heathers The Musical, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Evita, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will step into the role of Bonnie, replacing […]
Marc Bolan musical to tour on 40th anniversary of his death
Olivier Award winner George Maguire will return to the role of Glam Rock icon Marc Bolan in a new national tour of 2oth Century Boy. Timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the singer’s death, the 20-week tour will visit 27 theatres following its opening run at G-Live in Guildford beginning on 8 March. […]
Interview – George Maguire on his role in 35mm – A Musical Exhibition and maybe playing Javert in Les Mis one day
GEORGE MAGUIRE is currently appearing in 35mm – A Musical Exhibition at London’s The Other Palace, featuring the photos of Broadway and theatre photographer Matthew Murphy. George won the Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Award at the Oliviers in 2015 for his performance as Kinks guitarist Dave Davies in the musical Sunny Afternoon. Other […]
35mm – A Musical Exhibition – The Other Palace
35mm – A Musical Exhibition continues at The Other Palace, London until 30 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Anyone who really believes that a picture is worth a thousand words obviously hasn’t been subjected to a forced viewing of a relative’s latest holiday snaps. But, according to Adam Lenson, director […]
Another Night Before Christmas – Bridge House Theatre
Another Night Before Christmas continues at the Bridge House Theatre, London until 23 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A hidden gem just 20 minutes from London’s Victoria Station, Bridge House Theatre in Penge (SE20) has a proven track record of producing wonderful, magical Christmas productions and the team there has […]
Another Night Before Christmas – Bridge House Theatre to stage UK premiere
The musical Another Night Before Christmas will receive its UK premiere at South London’s Bridge House Theatre this festive season. Starring Olivier Award-winning George Maguire (Sunny Afternoon) and West End favourite Rachael Wooding (We Will Rock You), the show will run from Monday 28 November until Friday 23 December. The production, which will be staged by […]
Godspell at St Paul’s Church – exclusive images
Olivier Award winner George Maguire and current Rocky Horror star Dominic Andersen appeared alongside Broadway and West End leading lady Kerry Ellis (Wicked), Preeya Kalidas (Bend It Like Beckham) and Ramin Karimloo (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables) for the concert production of Godspell at St. Paul’s Church in London’s Covent Garden. These fabulous, exclusive images are all by Musical Theatre Review’s […]
The Buskers Opera – Park Theatre
The Buskers Opera continues at the Park Theatre, London until 4 June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In 1728, John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera debuted. A satirical sideswipe at the political figures of the day, it was one of the nascent breed of operas that dropped the sung recitative between arias, […]
The Buskers Opera at the Park Theatre – exclusive images
The Buskers Opera, a brand new musical from the pen of Dougal Irvine (Departure Lounge, The Snow Queen, Britain’s Got Bhangra), opens this week at the Park Theatre, playing until 4 June. In the cast are David Burt –the original revolutionary Enjolras in Les Misérables in 1985 – as Jeremiah Peachum, alongside comedian Simon Dylan-Kane (best known for regular appearances on Radio […]
The Buskers Opera – relaxed performance and crowdfunding scheme
The producers of The Buskers Opera, a brand new musical by Dougal Irvine (Departure Lounge, Laila, Britain’s Got Bhangra) and Park Theatre have announced the first ever ‘relaxed’ performance at the Park Theatre, to take place on Thursday 2 June 2016. The producers of the show have launched a unique crowdfunding scheme in order help deliver […]
The Buskers Opera at Park Theatre – George Maguire and Lauren Samuels cast
Casting has been revealed for The Buskers Opera, a brand new musical from the pen of Dougal Irvine (Departure Lounge, The Snow Queen, Britain’s Got Bhangra), which will open at Park Theatre on 28 April and play until 4 June, with a press night on 5 May. The Buskers Opera will star Olivier Award-winning George Maguire (Best Supporting Actor in a […]
Julie Atherton debut at Crazy Coqs features special West End guests
Multi-talented West End star Julie Atherton will make her debut at London cabaret venue the Crazy Coqs tonight (16 February) in the first of five special shows. The Preston-born entertainer who created the roles of Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut in the hit show Avenue Q, will perform a set list of songs taken […]
New cast members join Sunny Afternoon from 6 April
New hit British musical Sunny Afternoon today announced new members of the cast to start from 6 April 2015. Original cast members will be joined by Jason Baughan in the role of Eddie Kassner and Jo Servi as Gregory Piven. Nominated for five Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, Sunny Afternoon is currently booking until 24 October 2015 at […]
Sunny Afternoon – behind the scenes in video and new images
A rehearsal room video feature (just click HERE) and images for the critically acclaimed new musical Sunny Afternoon have been revealed today. Sunny Afternoon tells the story of the early life of Ray Davies and the rise to stardom of The Kinks and begins previews at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 4 October 2014 with press night on 28 October. […]
27 Billy Eliots unite for Billy Elliot the Musical Live on 28 September
Twenty-seven former and current Billy Elliots will unite on stage in a specially choreographed mash-up finale on Sunday 28 September when Billy Elliot the Musical is broadcast live from the Victoria Palace Theatre to cinemas across the UK and around the world. All three original Billy Elliots – James Lomas, George Maguire and Liam Mower – will take part in the […]
