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October 2023 launch for the first UK and Ireland tour of Disney’s Aladdin
Disney’s Aladdin will take flight on its first UK and Ireland tour this autumn, launching at the Edinburgh Playhouse from 24 October until 18 November 2023.
Beauty and the Beast – Edinburgh Playhouse and Touring
Beauty and the Beast continues at the Edinburgh Playhouse until 27 November 2021 before touring until November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ There is a babble and hum of excitement before the lights even dim as the packed audience delights in simply being in a theatre once again. This unique […]
Little Shop of Horrors – Old Joint Stock Pub & Theatre, Birmingham
Little Shop of Horrors continues at the Old Joint Stock Pub & Theatre, Birmingham until 26 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This sizzling production of Little Shop of Horrors is an in-house staging by Birmingham’s Old Joint Stock, which doubles as a pub – with a revered history as a bank – […]
Beauty And The Beast’s Leicester Curve premiere run cancelled and Dublin dates delayed
The Leicester Curve debut of the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has been shelved due to the ongoing Coronavirus restrictions. Originally planned to open in Leicester in late May before heading for Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in July, the UK and Ireland […]
New look Beauty and the Beast to debut in UK in 2021
A re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will open a UK and Ireland tour at Curve Leicester in May next year. Reuniting the original award-winning creative team led by director Rob Roth, the production will make use of advanced theatrical techniques which were not […]
Howard – Disney Plus
Howard is a Disney+ documentary about American playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ To the younger generation of theatregoers and lovers of Disney animations, Howard Ashman may be little more than a name on the credits of shows like Beauty and The Beast and The Little Shop of Horrors. This full-length […]
Little Shop of Horrors – Storyhouse Theatre, Chester
Little Shop of Horrors continues at the Storyhouse Theatre, Chester – until 2 June 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Much of the charm of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors is in its small-scale cast and orchestration. Stephen Mear, who has directed and choreographed this new production for Chester’s Storyhouse […]
Little Shop of Horrors – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 22 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Under Maria Aberg’s direction, this production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s 1982 classic glitters, often literally, with quality. From the moment the anonymous hooded figures slide on to the all grey impoverished Skid […]
Beauty and the Beast – movie review
Beauty and the Beast – Star rating: three stars ★★★✩✩ There is, let’s face it, a whole lot to live up to in remaking 1991’s Beauty and the Beast. The second masterpiece of the Disney Renaissance that started with The Little Mermaid, Beauty became the first animated film to receive a nomination for Best Picture at […]
Little Shop of Horrors – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Little Shop of Horrors continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London and tours until 26 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Somewhere in the darkest back streets of New York, a shop assistant is struggling with her abusive boyfriend, whose violent outbursts have left her with bruises and even broken bones. […]
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – New York City Center
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, an Encores! Off-Center production at New York City Center, continues until 30 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is hardly a well-known title in the musical theatre canon, but it turns out to be a terrifically entertaining gem that’s spookily relevant […]
Little Shop of Horrors new UK tour – cast revealed
Full casting has been revealed for musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors, bringing everyone’s favourite carnivorous plant to theatres across the UK in a brand new tour for 2016, opening at Bournemouth Pavilion on 4 August 2016. There will be a press night at New Wimbledon Theatre on 23 August. The cast will feature Sam Lupton […]
Aladdin at the Prince Edward Theatre – check out rehearsal images
Ahead of its West End premiere at the Prince Edward Theatre, rehearsal images for Aladdin have been released today. From the producer of The Lion King, the new West End musical from Disney will debut at the theatre on Wednesday 15 June 2016, with previews from Friday 27 May. Tickets are on general sale for performances up to and […]
Disney’s Aladdin has West End premiere in June 2016
Disney has revealed that the Tony Award-winning new musical Aladdin will hold its West End premiere on Thursday 9 June 2016 at the Prince Edward Theatre, with previews from Friday 27 May. Broadway cast member Trevor Dion Nicholas will make his London stage debut as Genie. “In 1992, Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Tim Rice’s reimagining of the Aladdin […]
Little Shop of Horrors at Salisbury Playhouse – casting news
Full casting has been announced for a major new production of Little Shop of Horrors opening at Salisbury Playhouse on Thursday 23 April (press night is Tuesday 28 April). Ben Stott (Wicked, West End and Sweeney Todd, West Yorkshire Playhouse) will play Seymour, the down and out shop worker who becomes an overnight sensation when he grows […]
Aladdin – New Amsterdam Theatre, New York
Aladdin continues at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, in an open-ended run. All the folks involved in putting on Aladdin, the new Broadway musical based on the 1992 Disney animated film, seem to be working feverishly to make sure we, the audience, don’t take it seriously. It’s all just good-natured, expensive hokum. That includes […]
Little Shop of Horrors – King’s Arms, Salford
Little Shop of Horrors continues at the King’s Arms, Salford until 22 December. Much like the insatiable, intergallactic flora at its centre, Little Shop of Horrors has grown from its humble beginnings as an Off-Broadway breakout hit in 1982 into a world-straddling stage behemoth. In those years, the endearing appeal of Alan Menken and Howard […]
