The award-winning UK premiere production of the multi-award-winning Off-Broadway hit Adding Machine: A Musical is now available free-to-view on the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel. Directed by the winner of the 2016 Off West End Theatre Award for Best Director, Josh Seymour, the critically-acclaimed production will be available (without subtitles) until 12 November 2020. A subtitled […]
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Scottish stars team up for key workers’ tribute
Stage and screen favourites John Barrowman, Elaine C Smith and Alex Norton have joined a group of Scottish West End performers to record a special version of ‘Beautiful City’ to pay tribute to NHS and key workers. Produced by Scots in the City and shared on their YouTube channel, the video version of the song […]
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change – Chiswick Playhouse
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Chiswick Playhouse, London until 30 November 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I Love You? Yes! You’re Perfect? Not quite (a few dodgy accents and too many of them) but laugh-out-loud funny and lovable. Now Change? Wouldn’t alter a word. In fact, quite a […]
George Rae to play Feinstein’s 54 Below in February
West End favourite George Rae will be taking his new cabaret show to the prestigious Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York early next year. Packed with anecdotes about his glittering career beginning as a young Scottish artist working in London, Life is a Caba-RAE: A Scot in New York will play the Broadway supper club on […]
The Frogs at Jermyn Street Theatre – exclusive gallery of images
The 2004 Broadway re-working of Stephen Sondheim’s quirky musical comedy The Frogs, presented by House on the Hill Productions, continues at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre until 8 April. Here’s an exclusive gallery of production images from Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan. With a book revised and expanded by Nathan Lane, based on Sondheim and Burt Shevelove’s original […]
The Frogs – Jermyn Street Theatre
The Frogs continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 8 April. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Stephen Sondheim was on a roll when he wrote the music and lyrics for The Frogs in 1974; his three previous shows, Company, Follies and A Little Night Music, coming during his most fertile […]
The Frogs at Jermyn Street Theatre – Nathan Lane attends UK premiere
Nathan Lane, whose 2004 Broadway version of Stephen Sondheim’s The Frogs has its UK premiere tonight (Thursday 16 March), attended the show last night at Jermyn Street Theatre in London’’s West End. Afterwards, he happily posed for photos with the creative team and cast, including Michael Matus, who plays his central role of Dionysos, and […]
Sondheim’s Frogs at Jermyn Street Theatre – Matus and Rae head cast
The 2004 Broadway re-working of Stephen Sondheim’s quirky musical comedy The Frogs, presented by House on the Hill Productions, will receive its UK premiere at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre from 14 March until 8 April. With a book revised and expanded by Nathan Lane, based on Sondheim and Burt Shevelove’s original 1974 work, the production will […]
The New York-London Rendezvous – Canal Café Theatre
The New York-London Rendezvous at the Canal Café Theatre, London. Rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Once a year, old friends Valerie and George reunite. Though one lives in New York, the other in London, their annual reunion is a chance to catch up, and to burst into song at every opportunity to […]
Grand Hotel stars reunite for The New York – London Rendezvous
Grand Hotel stars George Rae and Valerie Cutko are reuniting for the premiere of the cabaret The New York – London Rendezvous at the Canal Café Theatre next month. The stars who appeared in last year’s well-received Southwark Playhouse production of the Tony Award-winning musical will play two transatlantic friends who meet up once a year in […]
