The full cast has been unveiled for the world premiere run of the new production of Manga musical Death Note: The Musical at London’s Barbican Theatre this summer.
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Natalie Kassanga completes the cast for the European premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project
West End actress Natalie Kassanga will complete the cast for the European premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project in London this summer.
13 going on 30: The Musical – Opera House, Manchester
13 going on 30 The Musical continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 12 October 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Surely one of the most exceptionally talented companies to be seen on a UK stage in a long while.
David Hunter and Grace Mouat join 13 Going On 30 premiere cast
West End stars David Hunter and Grace Mouat have joined the cast for the upcoming world premiere of the musical based on the hit movie 13 Going On 30.
The OGs reunite for new Marlow and Moss track in the run up to Six the Musical Live! movie release
The producers of the award-winning global smash hit Six have announced the release of a brand-new track, ‘My Girls’, from writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, and recorded by the original West End cast of Six.
BYMT announces Grace Mouat as patron during 20th anniversary gala
At the 20th anniversary gala celebrating BYMT (British Youth Music Theatre) it was announced that BYMT alumna and West End performer Grace Mouat is the company’s new patron.
Line-up for BYMT gala show confirmed
The British Youth Music Theatre’s (BYMT) has confirmed the full line-up for its 20th anniversary gala event at London venue The Other Palace on 8 July 2024.
Mean Girls – Savoy Theatre
Mean Girls continues at the Savoy Theatre, London (booking until 16 February 2025). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It used to be that musicals got made into movies. But now, has your movie really been a success until it’s been made into a musical? Is Mean Girls just the latest in the lineage […]
BYMT 20th anniversary gala – first details
The British Youth Music Theatre’s (BYMT) has confirmed details of its 20th-anniversary gala event at London venue The Other Palace on 8 July. Hosted by BYMT alumnus and New Musical Theatre Award winner 2023, Lewis Cornay (SpongeBob SquarePants The Musical), the special event celebrating the last 20 years of the organisation will feature alumni including […]
London’s Mean Girls’ cast and creative team confirmed
The full cast and creative team have been unveiled for the eagerly anticipated West End debut of the Broadway hit Mean Girls this summer.
Before After – Southwark Playhouse Borough
Before After continues at the Southwark Playhouse Borough (The Little), London until 2 March 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Slightly reminiscent of The Time Traveller’s Wife… but more. Like The Last Five Years… but better. Before After, written by Stuart Matthew Price (music and lyrics) and Timothy Knapman (book and additional […]
White Christmas – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
White Christmas continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 13 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Irving Berlin’s flawless songbook is combined with 1950s Americana, delightful musical numbers and a sprinkling of sentimentality to produce the perfect festive treat.
The Great British Bake Off Musical – Noel Coward Theatre
The Great British Bake Off Musical continues at the Noël Coward Theatre, London until 13 May 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This new British musical is theatre escapism at its heart-warming best.
Original London cast recording of The Great British Bake Off musical to be released
Sony Music Masterworks will release the ‘Original London Cast Recording of The Great British Bake Off the Musical’ on 28 April 2023 via Masterworks Broadway.
Full cast for Bake Off Musical’s West End transfer
Quadruple Olivier nominee Hadyn Gwynne will play sharp-tongued judge Pam Lee alongside West End and Broadway star John Owen-Jones as silver-fox judge Phil Hollinghurst when hit show The Great British Bake Off the Musical makes its debut in the West End early next year at London’s Noël Coward Theatre.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella continues at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 11 December 2022. Star Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Grace Mouat injury delays Hope Mill’s press night for Cinderella
Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre has been forced to cancel this weekend’s press night night performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella after leading lady Grace Mouat suffered an injury.
First Musical Con – full schedule announced
The full schedule has been confirmed for Musical Con, the new musical theatre themed event which will turn ExCel London into a haven for musical theatre lovers on 22 and 23 October 2022. Ten thousand musical theatre fans and enthusiasts are due to attend the weekend event which will offer fans the opportunity to meet […]
Full cast for Hope Mill Theatre’s Cinderella
Full casting has been confirmed for the upcoming UK theatrical premiere of the Broadway version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. As previously announced the production which will play the Ancoats’ venue from 1 November until 11 December 2022, will star Grace Mouat (Legally Blonde, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; & […]
Hope Mill’s Ella finds her Prince in Jacob Fowler
Jacob Fowler will play the Prince to Grace Mouat’s Ella in the UK theatrical premiere of the Broadway version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Known for winning the BBC talent search show Little Mix: The Search, Fowler’s musical theatre credits include playing JD in Heathers The Musical at The Other […]
Grace Mouat to star in Hope Mill’s Cinderella
Grace Mouat will take on the central role when the delayed UK theatrical premiere of the Broadway version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella dances into Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre in November. Mouat whose credits include the recent Regent’s Park Open Air production of Legally Blonde, and the West End productions of Six The Musical, & […]
Full cast for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Legally Blonde
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced the full cast for the venue’s upcoming production of Legally Blonde. As previously announced Courtney Bowman (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Six) will star as the irrepressible Elle Woods alongside Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Emmett), Lauren Drew (Brooke), Vanessa Fisher (Vivienne), Isaac Hesketh (Margot), Nadine Higgin (Paulette), Alžbeta Matyšáková (Enid), Eugene […]
Courtney Bowman to star in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Legally Blonde
Courtney Bowman will play Elle Woods in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Legally Blonde. The actress who originated the role of Fatimah in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and played Anne Boleyn in Six will reunite with SIX’s co-director and co-writer Lucy Moss who will direct the new production which play Regent’s […]
The Other Palace rehomes Vault Festival shows and announces new musicals Love is only Love and Millennials
The Other Palace has announced that it has been able to support several shows that were due to perform in the cancelled Vault Festival, in The Other Palace Studio. Two musicals – Love is only Love written by Sam Harrison returns following its sold out debut at The Other Palace, and Millennials with music, book […]
Where it all starts: Follow the likes of Ed Sheeran, Christopher Tendai and Grace Mouat by auditioning for BYMT
UK’s Number One Artist of the Decade Ed Sheeran recently released his fourth studio album and it has become immensely popular all over the world. Way before he gained such recognition and rose to the top of his industry, Ed started looking for ways to express his creativity. One of Ed’s attempts to gain knowledge […]
Get a real taste of what it’s like to be a musical theatre performer: BYMT’s National Auditions go on tour in 2022
Great news for young people dreaming of being on stage, preparations are now well under way for the British Youth Music Theatre’s National Audition Tour, taking place in January and February 2022 and visiting 15 different cities across the UK and Ireland. Every year BYMT, the leading youth musical theatre organisation for young people, auditions […]
Closer Than Ever – BroadwayHD
Closer Than Ever continues exclusively on BroadwayHD. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Award-winning producers Ginger Quiff Media and BroadwayHD, the streaming service for live theatre, are presenting this brand-new digital revival of the Outer Critics Circle Award-winning musical revue, with music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr, from […]
Two new cast members announced for Be More Chill’s West End run
The West End production of hit Broadway musical Be More Chill will welcome two new cast members for the final five weeks in its limited 10-week run at the Shaftesbury Theatre. & Juliet’s Grace Mouat (Six will step into the role of Chloe Valentine with Mountview graduate Nathania Ong making her professional debut as Jenna Rolan. […]
Grace Mouat and Andrew Patrick-Walker to star in new musical From Here at Chiswick Playhouse
Six’s Grace Mouat and Bat Out of Hell’s Andrew Patrick-Walker will take to the stage in the world premiere of new British musical From Here at the Chiswick Playhouse in July. Directed by Annabelle Hollingdale, the production which will run from 1-31 July will feature Mouat (& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre, Hair, Turbine Theatre) and Walker […]
West End stars in cast for digital revival of Closer Than Ever
Musical theatre stars Kerry Ellis, Lee Mead and Grace Mouat will feature with 2018 X Factor winner Dalton Harris in a digital revival of Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever in September. Produced by Thomas Hopkins and Michael Quinn for Ginger Quiff Media and Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley and Gio Messale for Broadway HD, […]
Soft Sessions: Live in Concert – Stream.Theatre
Soft Sessions is available on stream.theatre until 2 May 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Perhaps the thing I’ve missed most of all over the past year are cabaret nights. Sitting in a small, intimate space, tightly crammed in (back when we didn’t mind that sort of thing), listening to voices […]
Disenchanted! – stream.theatre
Disenchanted! is available on stream.theatre until 11 April 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Disney princesses are intrinsic to modern pup culture. From Snow White to Rapunzel, the fairytales of Grimm and Perrault have been pummelled into capitalist submission, the dark edges of their morality tales chamfered away into tales that […]
Showstoppers plan second Alternative Eurovision Song Contest online fundraiser
Olivier Award-winning improv specialists The Showstoppers will be joined by a number of special star guests for the second Alternative Eurovision Song Contest fundraiser on 15 May 2021. The team which kept lockdown audiences entertained in 2020 will be aiming to build on last year’s glitter and fun-filled Eurovision-themed event which raised £7,500 for The […]
West End stars to feature in Disenchanted digital production
A group of the West End’s rising stars will play fairytale princesses with a difference in a new digital production of Off-Broadway hit Disenchanted. Jodie Steele (Six The Musical, Heathers: The Musical) will play Snow White with Sophie Isaacs (Six The Musical, Heathers: The Musical) featuring as Cinderella, Grace Mouat (& Juliet, Six The Musical) […]
Six’s Seven Queens to play Drive In concert
Seven of Six The Musical’s Queens will reunite for a special one-off concert at The Drive In in North London on 3 May 2021 at 3.15 pm. After coming together during lockdown last year and featuring in a series on online events Aimie Atkinson, Alexia McIntosh, Grace Mouat, Millie O’Connell, Natalie May Paris, Maiya Quansah-Breed […]
YouTube series Soft Sessions becomes Soft Sessions Live In Concert
Following the success of YouTube series Soft Sessions, a group of major West End performers are to appear in Soft Sessions Live In Concert. Appearing in the concert together, recorded at Woolwich Warehouse, are: Grace Mouat (Hair, & Juliet, Six), Jake Halsey-Jones (Hamilton), Courtney Stapleton (Dear Evan Hansen, Six), Martha Kirby (Grease, Bat Out of […]
Graduates at Cadogan Hall
Graduates at Cadogan Hall, available to stream until 28 March 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some people say that an actor must experience real-life hardship to deliver a convincingly three-dimensional performance on stage. If that were true, last year’s musical theatre graduates – who emerged from their education into a […]
Turbine’s production of Hair The Musical will play the London Palladium and Mayflower Southampton
Following a sell-out run as part of The Turbine on the Jetty season, Hair The Musical (In Concert), directed by Arlene Phillips, will now play two performances at the London Palladium on 13 June 2021, and two performances at Southampton Mayflower Theatre on 27 June. The performances were originally planned for earlier this year, but […]
Thespie announces ten new online events for March
Theatre discovery platform Thespie has announced ten new online theatre and arts events including an International Women’s Day concert double feature and a conversation with the cast and creatives of a new virtual production of The Last Five Years streaming from New York. On 8 March 2020, Thespie will mark International Women’s Day with a […]
Graduates at Cadogan Hall concerts – cast announced
The organisers of the upcoming Graduates at Cadogan Hall concert series have unveiled the list of 40 performing arts graduates chosen from 200 applicants to appear in the series of special fundraising concerts next month. Presented by the award-winning Grad Fest and hosted by West End stars including Courtney Bowman (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Six), […]
Line-up for 21st WhatsOnStage Awards revealed
Details of the star-studded line-up for this year’s special WhatsOnStage Awards ceremony have been unveiled. Reflecting current times as the industry awaits the return to live theatre following the Covid crisis, the event will feature performances from shows that were cut short in 2020 and selections from productions planned for 2021. Jodie Prenger and Tom […]
West End Musical Drive-In shows to be streamed online
Home-bound audiences will be able to get a taste of the initiative that brought a touch of musical theatre magic to a London car park with the release of digital recordings of the West End Musical Drive-In concerts via the stream.theatre platform. Featuring over 25 West End stars including Alice Fearn (Come From Away), Lucie […]
Roles We’ll Never Play – West End to be streamed to home audiences
A live recording of last month’s West End debut of the popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will be streamed to home audiences next weekend. Featuring a cast of over 25 the performance which was filmed live during the concert’s sold-out run at London’s Apollo Theatre in December will be streamed via stream.theatre at […]
Andy Fickman is planning a UK return to direct new musical Halls
Heathers director Andy Fickman will return to the UK in 2021 as director of new British musical Halls. Written by George Stroud and Jennifer Harrison, the pop/rock-flavoured musical which follows the fortunes of eight first year university students, Fickman has already presided over a virtual first official read-through during the national lockdown. Discussing his involvement […]
Girl Power / Oops! I Streamed It Again – Thespie.com
Girl Power, streaming on Thespie.com from 17 December 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This third streamed offering in Thespie’s series of four December concerts reunites the original team from the 2018 UK tour of cult musical Six who stayed together for the show’s second spell in the West End last […]
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 […]
Hiba Elchikhe collaborates with Nimax and Theatre Cafe on web-based series
Star of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in the West End, Hiba Elchikhe has joined forces with Nimax Theatres and The Theatre Café to present new musical theatre flavoured web series Out Of The Darkness, Into The Spotlight. Launching on 18 November 2020, the three-part themed series aims to entertain and showcase the breadth of talent […]
Six Queens reunite for special stage and streamed concert
Seven Queens from the original award-winning West End run of the critically-acclaimed musical Six will reunite for a special stage and streamed concert next month. Presented by theatre platform Thespie, The Reunion will feature Olivier Award-nominees Aimie Atkinson, Alexia McIntosh, Grace Mouat, Jarneia Richard-Noel, Maiya Quansah-Breed, Millie O’Connell and Natalie Paris. Commenting on the concert […]
Turbine Theatre outdoor festival to feature concert production of Hair
Arlene Phillips will direct an outdoor concert version of classic rock musical Hair next month as part of the Turbine Theatre’s special festival of live entertainment presented on a safe and socially distanced jetty next to Battersea Power Station. Starring Matt Croke (Aladdin, Funny Girl), Danielle Fiamanya (The Color Purple, & Juliet), Jordan Luke Gage […]
Alice Fearn presents Intermissions – Kimberley Walsh
Alice Fearn presents Intermissions – Kimberley Walsh, available to stream online until 1 September 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Thank the musical theatre gods for the great online content being put out during these times of lockdown. It has been a blessed distraction from the tedium and worry. A particular joy in […]
