Kinky Boots continues at the London Coliseum until 11 July 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Johannes Radebe feels like he inhabits the character of Lola throughout. Partly that’s made easier by Fierstein’s book making Lola a character who is being an overt performer, but it’s also down to Radebe’s innate charisma and a genuinely great performance.
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Tickets to go on sale for UK premiere of Newsies
Tickets will go on sale next week for the long-awaited UK premiere of Tony Award-winning musical Newsies at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre later this year. Directed and choreographed by Matt Cole, the public box office for the newly re-imagined production which will play a strictly limited season (previewing from 29 November, officially opening on […]
New Wolsey Ipswich and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch announce first UK revival of Kinky Boots
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre and the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch have announced the first UK revival and regional premiere of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots this autumn. Directed by Tim Jackson, the major new co-production will debut at the New Wolsey from 1-24 September 2022 before heading for the Queen’s Theatre from 28 […]
Disney’s Newsies to have UK premiere at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in November 2022
Producer Runaway Entertainment has confirmed that Disney’s Newsies, the award-winning Broadway musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman and book by Harvey Fierstein, will have its UK premiere at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, directed and choreographed by Matt Cole. The strictly limited season will run from 28 November 2022. Based on […]
Newsies to make headlines in the West End this year
Tony Award-winning musical Newsies will make its long-awaited West End debut this year. While no details have been revealed, the announcement of the hit show’s imminent arrival in London was made in a cryptic tweet on Twitter which included an image of a bundle of newspapers with the headline ‘Newsies Is Coming! All new London […]
Disney offers UK schools access to Newsies: The Broadway Musical
Schools across the UK are being offered free access to Disney Theatricals Productions’ filmed stage version of the Tony Award-winning musical Newsies. Featuring wraparound educational content, Newsies: The Broadway Musical will be made available to participating schools to view between 14 June and 23 July 2021. Produced in partnership with local arts organisations and regional […]
NBC’s Hairspray Live! is this week’s Shows Must Go On offering
The US TV production of Hairspray Live! starring Harvey Fierstein, Martin Short, Maddie Baillio, Jennifer Hudson, Ariana Grande, Kristin Chenoweth, Dove Cameron and Billy Eichner will be the next show available free of charge on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel. First broadcast live in the US in the run-up to Christmas 2016, the […]
Kinky Boots The Musical at the cinema – filmed live at the Adelphi Theatre
Kinky Boots The Musical at the cinema – filmed live at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The multiple Tony- and Olivier-winning musical Kinky Boots sashays its way into cinemas this February, completing something of a loop. The musical, inspired by the 2005 Miramax movie of the same […]
Tributes paid to Broadway legend Jerry Herman
Harvey Fierstein and Angela Lansbury were among the star names paying tribute to the musical theatre legend Jerry Herman following news that the multi-award-winning composer and lyricist had died on 26 December 2019 at the age of 88. Writing on Twitter, Fierstein who wrote the book for Herman’s La Cage Aux Folles said: “Jerry Herman […]
Paul Taylor-Mills to launch new Turbine Theatre at Battersea Arts Centre
Award-winning director and producer Paul Taylor-Mills will step back into the role of artistic director next month when he will take charge of a new theatre on the banks of the River Thames. Joining forces with another leading producer, Bill Kenwright, Taylor-Mills will open the inaugural season of the Turbine Theatre next month with a […]
Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry will return for London Kinky Boots film version
Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry will march back into the multi-award-winning Kinky Boots later this month to star in a filmed version of the hit show. The original stars of the show will be back playing Charlie and Lola at London’s Adelphi Theatre from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 November 2018 as filming takes place […]
‘Brilliantly captures Sheridan Smith in full bloom’: Funny Girl – the movie of the stage musical
Funny Girl – the movie of the stage musical premiered at cinemas nationwide on 24 October 2018. ‘Great’ is a vastly overused word but Sheridan Smith’s Fanny Brice in Funny Girl is indisputably one of the great performances on the British stage and is well worthy of preserving on film for posterity. It rivals Imelda […]
Kinky Boots to walk away from the West End in January 2018
Multi-award-winning Kinky Boots has become the latest West End favourite to announce it will close in early 2019. Following on from the news that Dreamgirls would end its Savoy Theatre run on 12 January 2019, the producers of the hugely popular tale of Charlie, Lola, Lauren and co. have announced they will be hanging up […]
West End Kinky Boots plays 1,000th performance and extends booking
Multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots is celebrating two more milestone events and another extension to its run at London’s Adelphi Theatre. After welcoming over one million customers, the hit show has tonight (Monday 15 January) played its 1,000th performance in the West End. A new booking period has also been opened with tickets now available […]
Kinky Boots to tour the UK in 2018
Multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots is to step out on a major UK tour from September next year. The show will hit the road from 19 September 2018, opening at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton where it will run until 6 October. Other confirmed dates include: Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (16-27 October 2018); Newcastle Theatre […]
Kinky Boots celebrates first West End birthday and booking extends to May 2017
Triple Olivier Award winner Kinky Boots has extended its West End run to at least Saturday 6 May 2017. Just a day after the production celebrated its first birthday in the West End, tickets went on sale for the new extended booking period at London’s Adelphi Theatre. The exuberant show recently celebrated adding three Oliviers (Best New […]
Funny Girl to tour UK next year
Michael Mayer’s critically acclaimed re-working of Funny Girl is to embark on a national tour early next year. The record-breaking Menier Chocolate Factory production is currently playing to packed houses at the Savoy Theatre. The touring production will begin at the Manchester Palace Theatre (20-25 February) and will then play Milton Keynes Theatre (28 February-4 […]
Kristin Chenoweth joins NBC’s Hairspray Live!
Kristin Chenoweth is the latest big name to join the star-studded cast of Hairspray Live!, this year’s festive season TV show from US broadcaster NBC. The Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress who was the original Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, will play the manipulative Velma Von Tussle in the three-hour live broadcast on 7 December this year. […]
NBC’s Hairspray Live! – Martin Short and Derek Hough join cast
Comedian and actor Martin Short and dancer Derek Hough are the latest big name stars to join the cast of US broadcaster NBC’s Hairspray Live! Award-winning comedy star Short will play Wilbur Turnblad while Dancing With the Stars stalwart turned actor Hough will play Corny Collins in the production alongside the already announced Broadway legend Harvey […]
Funny Girl – Savoy Theatre
Funny Girl continues at the Savoy Theatre, London until 8 October. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When it was announced that Sheridan Smith was to play Fanny Brice at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2015, the complete run of Funny Girl sold out within 24 hours. In theatrical terms, Smith is extremely valuable currency in the West […]
Harvey Fierstein brought in to rework Funny Girl at the Menier
One of Broadway’s biggest and busiest names, the inimitable Harvey Fierstein, is being lined up to take on the task of turning the classic Funny Girl into a musical fit for its new leading lady, Sheridan Smith. According to the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, Fierstein, who’s already celebrating both the West End success of Kinky […]
Kinky Boots – Adelphi Theatre
Kinky Boots continues at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ One by one, British-inspired movies are popping up in musical stage adaptations, although unlike Bend It Like Beckham (currently running at the Phoenix Theatre) and Made in Dagenham (this show’s predecessor at the Adelphi), Kinky Boots originally opened on Broadway […]
Competition – win tickets to Casa Valentina at Southwark Playhouse
Win a pair of tickets to Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina – nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best New Play – running at Southwark Playhouse from 10 September to 10 October. Back in 1962, most men went to the Catskill Mountains of New York to escape the summer heat, but others took the two-hour drive to escape something else entirely: being men. Nestled […]
Kinky Boots – Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry lead cast
Casting for the UK premiere of Kinky Boots sees Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry portray the central characters Charlie and Lola at the heart of the story. Joining them are Amy Lennox (Lauren), Jamie Baughan (Don), Amy Ross (Nicola) and Michael Hobbs (George). Kinky Boots will open at London’s Adelphi Theatre on 15 September 2015, with previews from 21 August. With a book by Broadway legend and four-time Tony Award-winner […]
Kinky Boots – tickets go on sale on 2 March
Tickets for the UK premiere of Kinky Boots, Broadway’s high-heeled hit, will go on sale from Monday 2 March 2015, and will open at London’s Adelphi Theatre on 15 September 2015, with previews from 21 August. With a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), and songs by Grammy-winning pop artist Cyndi […]
Kinky Boots opens at the Adelphi Theatre in September 2015
The UK premiere of multi award-winning musical Kinky Boots will open in the West End on 15 September at the Adelphi Theatre, with previews from 21 August 2015. With a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by pop icon Cyndi Lauper, and direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots […]
A Catered Affair – London Theatre Workshop
A Catered Affair continues at London Theatre Workshop, Fulham, until 20 June. Almost a year to the day since the Royal Academy of Music graduates introduced many of us to A Catered Affair comes the professional UK premiere of this thought-provoking piece at the go-ahead London Theatre Workshop. More a play with music than a musical, […]
