Gordon Greenberg will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory to direct a major revival of Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s The Baker’s Wife this summer.
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Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory – exclusive new production images
Comedian and writer Marcus Brigstocke is currently take on the title role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Barnum which opened last week. Here our official photographer Roy Tan offered a brand new collection of production images. This first major London revival of the show since the classic American musical first played the West End 36 years […]
Barnum – Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Barnum continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 3 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Barnum – “The Greatest Show on Earth” – has, like some double-jointed contortionist worthy of the titular showman, managed to flex, twist and squeeze its way into one of London’s smallest theatres. And the […]
Interview – Celinde Schoenmaker on playing the real-life Jenny Lind in Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory
CELINDE SCHOENMAKER is best known for playing big roles in big West End shows – notably and most famously Fantine in Les Misérables (2013, her West End debut, and again in 2014) and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (2015-17). But she’s about to open in one of London’s smaller houses, the Menier Chocolate […]
Barnum to be revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory has unveiled plans for the first major London revival of Barnum 36 years after the classic American musical played the West End. Opening on 5 December, with previews from 25 November, the production is due to run until 3 March 2018. The story of P.T. Barnum, the 19th century travelling circus […]
Holiday Inn the New Irving Berlin Musical – Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York
Holiday Inn, the New Irving Berlin Musical continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York until 15 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Holiday Inn is the kind of show that makes you feel like a time-traveller. You’ve been whisked back to the late 1940s (that’s even before the ubiquitous […]
Guys and Dolls – Simon Lipkin joins Rebel Wilson in West End cast
Simon Lipkin will take over the role of Nathan Detroit opposite Australian screen star Rebel Wilson’s Miss Adelaide in Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ Guys and Dolls at London’s Phoenix Theatre later this month. Lipkin who trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and then at Arts Ed, will join the West End cast […]
Guys and Dolls – Empire Theatre, Liverpool and Touring
Guys and Dolls continues at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool until 19 March and then tours until 30 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Chichester Festival Theatre has become the theatre to watch, with West End transfers and regional touring of at least one production per season coming out of the regional […]
Guys and Dolls transfers to Phoenix Theatre while also touring UK
Following critical acclaim at the Savoy Theatre, the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls will transfer to the Phoenix Theatre (following the closure of Bend It Like Beckham) while simultaneously touring the UK from March 2016. The West End production opens 19 March and is booking until 30 October while the UK tour […]
Guys and Dolls – Savoy Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at the Savoy Theatre, London until 12 March 2016. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The extraordinarily effective and skilful use of stillness and silence is what I shall remember first about this show. As a whole it’s glitzy, funny and pulsating with energy as it sails triumphantly on […]
Guys and Dolls at the Savoy Theatre – David Haig and Siubhan Harrison join the cast
Full casting has been announced for the highly acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls, which will open at the Savoy Theatre for a strictly limited 13-week run from 10 December 2015. Joining Sophie Thompson as Miss Adelaide and Jamie Parker as Sky Masterson, are David Haig as Nathan Detroit and Siubhan Harrison as Sarah […]
Chichester’s Guys and Dolls transfers to the Savoy Theatre in December
Chichester Festival Theatre’s highly acclaimed production of Guys and Dolls will transfer to London’s Savoy Theatre in December for a strictly limited 13-week run. CFT continues its musical successes with this revival which follows transfers of Singin’ in the Rain, The Pajama Game and, most recently, Gypsy. Sophie Thompson and Jamie Parker will reprise their roles, with further […]
Guys and Dolls – Chichester Festival Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 21 September. It looks very much as though Chichester has scored another mega-hit with Frank Loesser’s musical fable of Broadway (book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows). It’s big, brash and boasts a brilliant score that is stylish, witty and packed with tunes, many that […]
