Here & Now was reviewed at The Alexandra, Birmingham where it continues until 30 November 2024. A UK tour will begin at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury in August 2025, running into 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ An example of how to do jukebox musicals the right way, Here & Now is one of the most fun nights out you can have right now.
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First casting news for Steps musical Here & Now
The lead cast has been announced for the record-breaking world premiere run of pop group Steps’ new musical Here & Now at The Alexandra in Birmingham this autumn.
The Time Traveller’s Wife: A New Musical – Apollo Theatre
The Time Traveller’s Wife: A New Musical is booking at the Apollo Theatre, London until 2 March 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Go for the gorgeous story you may already love, be wowed by the impeccable stagecraft, and remember the remarkable lead performances for the rest of your life.
Full cast for The Time Traveller’s Wife West End debut
The full cast has been announced for the upcoming West End debut of the world premiere production of the stage musical adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveller’s Wife at the Apollo Theatre.
More cast confirmed for The Time Traveller’s Wife’s West End debut
Producer Colin Ingram has unveiled further casting for the West End debut of the world premiere production of the stage musical adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveller’s Wife at the Apollo Theatre in the autumn.
West End debut for Off-Broadway hit Emojiland
Off-Broadway hit Emojiland will make its West End debut for a one night only concert performance at the Garrick Theatre later this month. Featuring music by Keith Harrison Dworkin, and a book and lyrics by Dworkin and Laura Schein, the award-winning new musical will arrive in London on 31 October. The new production of the […]
Cast for Millennials at The Other Palace
Casting has been revealed for the premiere of 21st century pop musical Millennials at The Other Palace next month. Written and composed by award-nominated composer, lyricist and actor, Elliot Clay, Millennials will star Georgina ‘Yas Queen’ Onuorah (Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre, Dick Whittington, National Theatre), Luke ‘Bae’ Bayer (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre, Soho […]
Lift: A Musical – Southwark Playhouse
Lift continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 18 June 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s nothing particularly groundbreaking about a drama set in a lift. There’s a Chinese opera about a man trapped in a lift for 81 hours (a true story, disturbingly)… Aerosmith sang about ‘Love in an Elevator’… […]
Five Questions With: Dean Johnson
DEAN JOHNSON will direct a new production of the London Underground-set musical LIFT at London’s Southwark Playhouse from 13 May until 25 June 2022. Developed by new musical theatre specialists Perfect Pitch and now presented by Gartland Productions, the musical which debuted at Soho Theatre in 2013 starring Cynthia Erivo, Julie Atherton and George Maguire, has […]
Cast for Southwark Playhouse’s LIFT
X Factor finalist (2013) Luke Friend will head the cast of the London Underground-set musical LIFT when it returns to the capital next month with a new production directed by Dean Johnson. Opening at the Southwark Playhouse on 13 May 2022, the production will feature former busker Friend (American Idiot, Footloose) as the Busker alongside […]
I Could Use a Drink – Garrick Theatre
I Could Use a Drink played at the Garrick Theatre, London on 2 August 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Drew Gasparini’s angst-ridden song cycle received its one-night-only live UK premiere at the West End’s Garrick Theatre, and it couldn’t have been more enthusiastically embraced by the young audience. Every musical theatre student […]
Star studded line-up for UK debut of Well-Behaved Women
Janie Dee, Kerry Ellis, Cassidy Janson and Nicole Raquel Dennis will be among a star-studded cast of West End favourites celebrating famous females across the ages in a one night only concert performance of award-winning composer Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women in September. Presented by Lambert Jackson Productions, the concert on 3 September 2021 at London’s […]
CD Review: Fiver – Live Concert Recording
FIVER – LIVE CONCERT RECORDING (Available on Download) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Five performers take on a number of roles to tell a stream of personal stories, all connected by the passing of one £5 note from character to character. Sounds a bit strange but it is a great concept and does […]
In Pieces: A New Musical – Stream.Theatre
In Pieces is available on stream.theatre until 26 April 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ What a year it’s been, and what different approaches musical theatre makers have taken to get content out there. We started off with hastily assembled performances from living rooms, and progressed to a few theatres letting in small […]
West End’s Jamie to return in May with Shane Richie back as Loco Chanelle
Shane Richie will make his delayed return as Hugo/Loco Chanelle in the West End cast of feel-good British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie when the hit show reopens at the Apollo Theatre from 20 May 2021. If all goes to plan with the Government’s roadmap the Apollo will reopen with social distancing along with Nimax’s […]
CD Review: In The Willows The Musical – Studio Cast
IN THE WILLOWS: THE MUSICAL – Studio Cast Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I absolutely love it when someone takes a classic and turns it on its head to make it even more accessible to young theatregoers. Metta Theatre has done just that, in collaboration with Perfect Pitch, with their hip-hop version of […]
Casting for film of musical In Pieces
Casting has been announced for the online film release of the new musical In Pieces. Due to receive its UK and European premiere online for a limited time in support of the LGBT Foundation, the film features 2020 London College of Music graduate Kyle Birch, Amy Di Bartolomeo (We Will Rock You UK tour), Hiba […]
Studio cast recording for Metta’s In The Willows released
Leading independent theatre production company Metta Theatre has announced the release of the studio album for hip hop musical In The Willows. Working in collaboration with new musical development specialists Perfect Pitch, the cast album which was produced remotely during October and November last year, is now available via Spotify, iTunes and other digital media. […]
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 […]
Southwark Playhouse announces encore screenings of new musicals Fiver, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake
The critically-acclaimed live-stream productions of new British musicals FIVER, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake have been made available for an extra two weeks in response to high public demand. First seen as part of a mini-season of musical livestreams from The Little Theatre space at Southwark Playhouse late last year, the encore streaming of […]
Perfect Pitch & Stream.Theatre collaborate on showcase of new British musicals
Not-for-profit theatre company Perfect Pitch is partnering with online venue stream.theatre to present a regular monthly preview series spotlighting new British musicals and UK writing talent and featuring performances from West End stars. Part of a drive to promote new contemporary musicals to a wider audience, each episode of Rise:Up will focus on a different […]
Live-stream performances for concert version of Fiver
The original cast from last year’s first full production of new British musical FIVER will return to London’s Southwark Playhouse for three live-streamed performances of a concert version of the show. Directed by the show’s co-creators, singer/songwriter Alex James Ellison and musical director Tom Lees, the cast members who featured in the sold-out world premiere […]
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 […]
In The Wings series has entertained thousands of home viewers
Over 75,000 theatre-lovers have tuned in to view the two In The Wings series of shows celebrating new British musicals and shows postponed due to the Covid-closedown. Due to take its final bow on 30 October 2020 with the final episode in the second series focusing on The Rise by Graham Lappin, In The Wings […]
Jamie’s heading back to the West End
Feelgood British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will be the first full-book musical to reopen in the West End with audiences being welcomed back to the Apollo Theatre from 28 November 2020. Announcing the return of the critic and crowd-pleasing show as it celebrates its third year in the West End, producer Nica Burns said: […]
West End stars and Beirut musicians unite for fundraising video
Over 40 artists have united to record a music video of ‘All I Longed To See’ from musical Broken Wings to raise funds for the Red Cross’ Beirut Emergency Appeal set up in the wake of the devastation caused by the explosion on 4 August 2020. The video features West End stars and former cast […]
Extra West End Musical Drive-In shows announced
More West End favourites and extra shows have been added to September’s West End Musical Drive-In schedule following a successful August programme. After selling all tickets within 24 hours for the previously announced 12 September 2020 show featuring 17 past and present Queens from hit show Six, an extra performance of the musical theatre-themed concert […]
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding reunite for outdoor staging of A Little Night Music
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding will star in a special outdoor version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s evocative A Little Night Music in London. The pair who previously appeared together in the National Theatre’s hit production of Follies will reunite for the socially distanced concert performance in Holland Park on 15 August 2020. They […]
Cast for Amies and Clements virtual concert
Six’s Jodie Steele, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s Hiba Elchikhe and Shrek’s Marcus Ayton will be among the West End stars featured in this weekend’s Barn Theatre’s instalment in the popular online series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers. Released on 27 June 2020 at 7.30pm BST on the Cirencester venue’s Facebook, YouTube and […]
Daily online conversation series Theatre Camp: Live! launched
Stars from across the West End and Broadway are supporting a new online series set up to support LGBTQ and vulnerable young people. Music director Benjamin Rauhala, journalist William J Connolly and Darren Bell for concert promoters Club 11 London have launched Theatre Camp: Live! – a daily online discussion series and charity fundraiser. Launching […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Apollo Theatre
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie continues at the Apollo Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ While drag has been a prevalent genre of entertainment within gay culture for several decades, it is only in the last few years that it has truly become mainstream. True, in Britain we have the traditional […]
New cast for West End’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Hiba Elchikhe will make her West End debut in the role of Pritti Pasha in the West End cast of the award-winning musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie from 6 January 2020. The actress who played Princess Jasmine in the Australian version of Disney’s Aladdin and recently starred in Fiver at the Southwark Playhouse will be […]
Brooklyn: The Musical – Greenwich Theatre
Brooklyn: The Musical continues at Greenwich Theatre, London until 19 October 2019. Star rating: two stars ★★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Telling an original story within the frame of a theatrical musical is never easy. That is, in part, why we see so many adaptations from other media – the familiarity with the underlying story helps […]
Fiver – Southwark Playhouse
Fiver continues at The Little at Southwark Playhouse, London until 20 July 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If a five-pound note could tell you the story of its life, what would it say? Whose hands has it been in? Whose g-string has it been tucked into? Whose nose has it […]
Fiver at Southwark Playhouse – full cast announced & video released
Final casting has been announced for the first full production of new British musical FIVER which will receive its world premiere at the Southwark Playhouse this summer. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s award-winning Luke Bayer, Aoife Clesham (Peter Pan international tour) and Alex James Ellison (The Secret Garden) will join the previously announced Daniel Buckley (Eugenius!) […]
Nadim Naaman leads cast of Broken Wings West End run – new pictures released
Nadim Naaman will head the cast of the West End debut of Broken Wings, the musical created by the West End star and Qatar-based composer Dana Al Fardan. Following on from a series of London workshops and the recording of a concept album, a semi-staged production of the show is due to play the Theatre […]
CD Review – Broken Wings – The Original Concept Album
BROKEN WINGS: The Original Concept Album – Studio Recording (Auburn Jam Records –AJR2638 and downloads) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An autobiographical tale of tragic love based on Lebanese-born poet Kahill Gibran’s 1912 masterpiece The Prophet. Doesn’t sound like the sort of thing you would go running to watch or listen […]
Nadim Naaman to release concept album for debut musical Broken Wings
West End star Nadim Naaman and Qatar-based composer Dana Al Farden will release a concept album for their debut musical Broken Wings later this year. Following on from a series of London workshops, the show which features a book by Naaman and music and lyrics by Naaman and Al Farden, will take another step towards […]
