This year’s Offies Awards ceremony was free and online – and announced winners for the Offies, the OffFest and also the new OnComms for online shows Winners were announced in 25 Offies categories from amongst the live shows that returned to London stages from May 2021, and in eight OnComm categories from online shows from […]
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Godspell – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Godspell continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 10 October 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s been 50 years since John-Michael Tebelak’s musical retelling of the gospel of St Matthew – scored with songs by Tebelak’s fellow Carnegie Mellon University alumni Stephen Schwartz – opened Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane […]
New production of Godspell to play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown
CR8TRACT Theatre’s new production of Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak’s Godspell will play 16 performances at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in East London from 25 September until 10 October 2021. Originally due to debut at the Walthamstow venue in May this year, the production is directed and choreographed by Brendan Matthew who also […]
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Unlimited: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz – Thespie.com
Unlimited: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz is streamed by Thespie.com. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is the first of Thespie’s four streamed December concerts under the Reunited banner, the reunion in this case being nine performers who have all appeared in Stephen Schwartz’s huge hit Wicked in its first 14 […]
Musical theatre favourites to feature in Reunited series of streamed concerts on Thespie
Over 30 of the UK’s leading musical theatre artists are lined up to feature in Reunited, a series of filmed concerts premiering on theatre platform Thespie. Following on from last month’s successful The Reunion show featuring seven Queens from the original West End run of Six, the Reunited series of four concerts will be filmed […]
Godspell 50th to feature at West End Musical Drive-In
Stars from the recent online charity concert marking the 50th anniversary of Godspell will feature alongside a one-off screening of the event at the West End Musical Drive-In on 4 October 2020. Jodie Steele (Six, Heathers), Danyl Johnson (2009 X Factor finalist), Jenny Fitzpatrick (Tina, The Musical, Our House), John Barr (The Story of Bart, […]
Godspell 50th Anniversary Online Concert
Godspell 50th Anniversary Online Concert – available to watch until 29 August 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From Godspell in 1971 to Prince of Egypt, six weeks into its West End run when Covid-19 reared its ugly head and put theatreland into a coma, Stephen Schwartz has been a massive […]
Six star Jodie Steele records ‘Beautiful City’ as taster for Godspell 50th online
West End star Jodie Steele features on a special recording of ‘Beautiful City’ from Godspell released as a preview of the upcoming star-studded online charity concert marking the 50th anniversary of the hit show. Producer Ginger Quiff Media has teamed up with leading theatre-recording label Broadway Records to release the single which will be available […]
Star-packed online concert to mark Godspell’s 50th
West End favourites Ruthie Henshall, Ria Jones and Jenna Russell will be among the star names joining an online charity concert marking the 50th anniversary of Godspell next month. Presented by Thomas Hopkins and Michael Quinn for Ginger Quiff Media in association with Hope Mill Theatre, the Godspell 5oth Anniversary Concert will stream worldwide on 27, […]
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 […]
Stars to join British Theatre Academy performers for special performance of Godspell
West End favourites Laura Baldwin, Luke Bayer, Max Bowden, Rachel John and Ramin Karimloo will appear alongside students from the British Theatre Academy in a semi-staged production of Godspell at London’s Cadogan Hall on 29 June 2019. Announcing the line-up of guest performers, BTA artistic director Matthew Chandler said: “I am so excited about this […]
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 […]
Godspell – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Godspell continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 24 August as part of the Camden Fringe 2016. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Opinion is often divided on the musical Godspell. For the faithful, it has been seen as potentially blasphemous and to non-believers it can be perceived as a musical version of the […]
Godspell in Concert returns to tour in 2015
Godspell, the legendary rock musical from Stephen Schwartz, the Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer of Wicked, is back. Following the success of 2014’s gala performance at Shaftesbury Avenue’s Lyric Theatre, in support of the charity Make-A-Wish-Foundation UK, Godspell in Concert is set to tour the UK in 2015, opening at the Hackney Empire on 4 April. Prior to the gala, the show last […]
Godspell – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Godspell continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 7 June. Written by Stephen Schwartz and first performed in 1971, Godspell comes from the time of hippies and chants of all you need is love. The show is mainly based on the parables from the Bible’s book of Matthew and contains many traditional hymns all set […]
Godspell – Lyric Theatre
Godspell was performed at the Lyric Theatre, London for one night only. In front of members of the original London cast, on the 43rd anniversary of the show’s opening in the West End, Godspell made a return for just one night only at the Lyric Theatre. Having never encountered the musical before and then seeing […]
Marti Webb reunites with original cast members of Godspell for one night only
Marti Webb, who recently returned to the West End in Tell Me On a Sunday, has confirmed she will reunite with David Essex and other original members of the rock musical Godspell at the Lyric Theatre on Monday 19 May. Godspell, the Broadway musical from Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), is being staged in the West End […]
Godspell returns to West End for charity gala
The acclaimed Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s musical Godspell is to be staged in the West End for the first time since it premiered there 42 years ago. And the one-off charity gala concert performance at the Lyric Theatre (Monday 19 May), in aid of Make-A-Wish Foundation UK, will be introduced on stage by David Essex, whose casting […]
