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Final extension for Bridge Theatre’s Guys and Dolls
Nicholas Hytner’s critically acclaimed Guys & Dolls has been extended for a final time with tickets now on sale for performances at the Bridge Theatre up to 4 January 2025.
Historic win for Andrew Scott and Guys & Dolls picks up Best Musical at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards
The 33rd Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards saw Andrew Scott net a historic win as Best Actor, the first time any performer has been named Best Actor by both the nation’s film critics and theatre critics in the same year.
Sunset Boulevard wins big at the WhatsOnStage Awards, Guys and Dolls picks up Best Revival and Operation Mincemeat is top New Musical
The big winner of the night at the 24th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards at the London Palladium was Sunset Boulevard with seven awards from its nine nominations.
New Nathan and Adelaide for Bridge Theatre’s Guys & Dolls
Nicholas Hytner’s critically acclaimed Guys & Dolls will welcome a new Nathan Detroit and Miss Adelaide to the stage of the Bridge Theatre ahead of the immersive production’s first anniversary.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2023
A selection of critics have chosen their ‘show of the year’ although some struggled to pick just one. The shows represent just a small percentage of productions staged this year, but we hope these ‘top picks’ bring back some happy memories.
Guys & Dolls encore for Daniel Mays’ Nathan Detroit plus new extension announced
Daniel Mays will step back into the role of Nathan Detroit in Nicholas Hytner’s critically acclaimed immersive production of the classic musical Guys & Dolls at the Bridge Theatre later this month.
Hit production of Guys & Dolls extended into February 2024
Booking for Nicholas Hytner’s critically acclaimed immersive production of the classic musical Guys & Dolls at the Bridge Theatre has been extended up to 24 February 2024.
Guys & Dolls – Bridge Theatre
Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre, London until 2 September 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The perfect musical done to perfection. To steal yet another line from elsewhere ‘Who could ask for anything more?’
Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre – cast announced
Casting has been revealed for Nicholas Hytner’s highly anticipated immersive production of the classic musical Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre next spring.
Darius Campbell Danesh (1980-2022) – A short but successful musical career
It is sad that the life of the Scots singer and actor Darius Campbell Danesh has suddenly come to an end. From success on the television talent competitions Popstars and Pop Idol to a career writing his own hit songs and subsequently starring in West End musicals, he showed immense promise for his future career […]
Nicholas Hytner to direct immersive production of Guys and Dolls at The Bridge Theatre
Nicholas Hytner will direct Guys and Dolls – the first musical to be presented at The Bridge – a musical fable of Broadway based on the story and characters of Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. Choreography will be by Arlene Phillips. This immersive […]
Five Questions With: Adam Cooper
Award-winning performer ADAM COOPER plays the intimidating director/choreographer Zach in Curve Leicester’s production of the groundbreaking musical A Chorus Line, directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Ellen Kane (running until 31 December 2021). Having gained acclaim for creating the lead role of the Swan/Stranger in Matthew Bourne’s production of Swan Lake – a role […]
Five Questions With: Andrew Wright
The Wright Agency – led by double Olivier Award nominee, double WhatsOnStage and Carl Alan Award-winning choreographer ANDREW WRIGHT – was launched in September 2020 to represent and most importantly celebrate choreographers and associate choreographers in the UK. The agency represents 11 of the UK’s emerging choreographic talent. Its mission is to support those who […]
Bonnie Langford: Fifty Years On Stage – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs
Bonnie Langford: Fifty Years On Stage – live-streamed from Crazy Coqs, London (repeated at 6.30pm and 8.30pm on 17 December 2020). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From the almost unbearably cute six-year-old who won TV talent show Opportunity Knocks to her multiple stage successes and TV soap fame, there hasn’t been much in […]
Guys and Dolls – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Guys and Dolls continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 18 January 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Could the fedora make a comeback? It’s not impossible. After all, who would have predicted the ubiquity of the beard three years ago? If it does come to pass, Robert Hastie’s production of […]
Cast for Sheffield Theatres’ Guys and Dolls
Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director Robert Hastie has announced full casting details for his festive season revival of Guys and Dolls. Kadiff Kirwan (Sweet Charity, City of Angels, Donmar Warehouse) will take on the role of Sky Masterson opposite Alex Young (Follies, National Theatre, Me and My Girl, Chichester Festival Theatre) who will return to Sheffield […]
Guys and Dolls – The Mill at Sonning
Guys and Dolls continues at The Mill at Sonning until 23 February 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The lyrics of ‘Luck Be a Lady’ may relate Sky Masterson’s hopes that he will win a bet and save his relationship with the girl of his dreams but it’s not just luck that sees […]
Ria Jones heads up the Guys and Dolls cast at Paris’ Theatre Marigny
Paris will be seeing Guys and Dolls for the first time when Frank Loesser’s iconic 1950 musical lands in the Theatre Marigny, just off the Champs-Elysees, for a four-and-a-half-month run from 13 March to 27 July. Ria Jones, so brilliant in Sunset Boulevard, heads the cast which also features Clare Halse, Christopher Howell and Matthew […]
Guys and Dolls – Royal Albert Hall
Guys and Dolls was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The legendary Royal Albert Hall turned into musical comedy heaven for a weekend. Though the venue will never be the ideal venue for musical theatre, and there have been better productions lately of Guys and […]
Lara Pulver and Stephen Mangan join cast of Guys and Dolls at the Royal Albert Hall
Lara Pulver, Stephen Mangan, Sharon D. Clarke and Paul Nicholas are the latest star names to be added to the cast of double Olivier Award winner Stephen Mear’s semi-staged version of the classic musical Guys and Dolls at the Royal Albert Hall next month. An Olivier Award winner for her performance in the hit revival […]
Guys and Dolls – Kilworth House Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 8 July 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s that time of year again. Kilworth House Theatre has thrown open its gates and treated us to another summertime classic, care of director and choreographer Nick Winston and the cast of this […]
Kilworth’s Guys and Dolls – cast unveiled
Simon Thomas and Harriet Jones will play Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown in Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Guys and Dolls. The cast for the opening show in the distinctive Leicestershire venue’s 12th season will also include: Daniel Robinson (Nathan Detroit), Holly Dale Spencer (Adelaide), Daniel Stockton (Nicely, Nicely), Graham Hoadly (Arvide Abernathy), Adam Venus […]
February auditions for Kilworth House Theatre’s Guys and Dolls
Auditions will be held in London next month for Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Guys and Dolls, the opening show in the distinctive Leicestershire venue’s twelfth season. The new season at the theatre in the grounds of the Kilworth Hotel, which will also include a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has sold […]
Guys and Dolls – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Guys and Dolls continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 3 February 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Reimagining Frank Loesser’s almost unparalleled Broadway fable with an all-black cast is not a new idea. It was done in 1976 when the show was first revived on Broadway, in a Motown-infused […]
Talawa and Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester present all-black cast Guys and Dolls
Classic musical Guys and Dolls will be transported to 1930s Harlem in December in the UK’s first all-black cast production co-produced by Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and the Talawa Theatre Company. Featuring RSC star Ray Fearon as the commitment-phobic gambler Nathan Detroit, the innovative production is set to play the Royal Exchange from 2 December […]
Guildford School of Acting – Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls, performed by Guildford School of Acting final-year students at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, continues until 25 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s probably sacrilege to say so, but this remarkable student revival of one of the greatest musicals ever written leaves for dead the much-praised Chichester Festival […]
Musical Theatre 2016 – a reflection – what was your favourite?
Musical Theatre Review reflects on an incredibly busy year of theatre – in the West End, on the London Fringe, across the UK – and picks a selection of shows from each month that topped the FOUR and FIVE star ratings with our contributors. JANUARY Guys and Dolls – Savoy Theatre, London Star rating: five stars ★ […]
Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award For Best Musical – nominations revealed
The voting has opened for the Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical in this year’s 2016 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Now in their 63rd year, the annual awards celebrate outstanding achievement and performance in London theatre. Listeners will be able to cast their vote by heading to bbc.co.uk/radio2 and will have until 11.59pm on […]
London Guys and Dolls to close early
Producers of Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ Guys and Dolls at London’s Phoenix Theatre have confirmed that the show will close four months early, on 21 August 2016. The closure will coincide with the departure of award-winning actor Rebel Wilson (playing Miss Adelaide) who joined the West End cast for a strictly limited eight weeks only on 28 June. A […]
Guys and Dolls – Phoenix Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Damon Runyon’s stories of 1950s New York, which form the basis of Frank Loesser’s musical Guys and Dolls, show a side of Broadway vastly at odds with the backstage antics and tap dancing mayhem of the usual […]
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 […]
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson to join West End cast of Guys and Dolls as Miss Adelaide
Award-winning actor Rebel Wilson will be joining the West End cast of Guys and Dolls for a strictly limited eight weeks only at the Phoenix Theatre to play the part of Miss Adelaide from Tuesday 28 June until Sunday 21 August 2016. Guys and Dolls also announces the opening of a new booking period, with tickets […]
Nigel Lindsay joins Guys and Dolls at the Phoenix
Nigel Lindsay will be joining the West End cast of Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ Guys and Dolls for a limited time at the Phoenix Theatre to play the part of Nathan Detroit. Lindsay will take over from American star Richard Kind who will give his last performance as commitment-phobic gambler Detroit on 22 May. The […]
Guys and Dolls – Phoenix Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London until 30 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Frank Loesser’s iconic musical, reckoned by some to be the greatest of them all, is not only back in town after its nine-week run at the Savoy – it’s all over the place with […]
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 tour – Richard Fleeshman and Louise Dearman cast
Following critical acclaim and announcing an extension in the West End, the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls will tour throughout the UK, opening at the Liverpool Empire on 16 March 2016. Casting for the tour includes Richard Fleeshman (Coronation Street, Ghost the Musical, Call the Midwife) as Sky Masterson, Maxwell Caulfield (Grease […]
Guys and Dolls extended run – Samantha Spiro, Richard Kind and Oliver Tompsett cast
Following critical acclaim at the Savoy Theatre, the Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls will be extending its run at the Phoenix Theatre from 19 March 2016. Casting for the West End extension includes multiple Olivier Award-winning actress Samantha Spiro (Hello, Dolly!) as Miss Adelaide, Richard Kind (Disney/Pixar’s BAFTA award-wining Inside Out) as […]
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 […]
Guildhall School of Music & Drama – Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls continues at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Silk Street Theatre, London until 15 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ You could transport this student production lock, stock and barrel a couple of miles to the West End, charge £65 for an uncomfortable seat instead of a fraction of that […]
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 […]
Imelda Staunton’s Gypsy headlines Chichester Festival Theatre season
Chichester Festival Theatre’s much-anticipated production of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton as Mama Rose, will open on 14 October (running to 8 November) in the newly refurbished main house as part of the 2014 season. The production will reunite Staunton with director Jonathan Kent, following their award-winning collaboration on Sweeney Todd. Also in the cast will be Lara […]
Guys and Dolls – Volksoper Vienna
Guys and Dolls runs in rep at the Volksoper Vienna until 21 February. As part of its Musicalwochen, the Volksoper revives its 2009 production of the Frank Loesser classic Guys and Dolls. The show, which for this production has been translated by Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz (dialogue) and Alexander Kuchinka (lyrics), mostly consists of cast members from the […]
