For the latest instalment in Musical Theatre Review’s Five Questions With… series, the spotlight falls on director, musical director, actor, cabaret performer and Ugly Sister BEN STOCK. Ben has appeared in musicals and plays in the West End, on tour and in many regional theatres. Favourite roles include Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, […]
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Starting Here, Starting Now – Waterloo East Theatre
Starting Here, Starting Now continues at the Waterloo East Theatre until 18 July 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire are together best known as collaborators on revue show Closer Than Ever, but their history dates to their days as Yale students together. After leaving university, they […]
Waterloo East to reopen with Maltby and Shire’s Starting Here, Starting Now
A trio of West End favourites will feature in a new production of Maltby and Shire’s Starting Here, Starting Now which will be the first show to play the Waterloo East Theatre in 16 months. Nikki Bentley (Wicked, Apollo Victoria), Gina Murray (Mamma Mia! Novello Theatre) and Noel Sullivan (School of Rock, Gillian Lynne Theatre) […]
Ben Stock – The Land of Make Believe – Live at Zédel
Ben Stock – The Land of Make Believe at Live at Zédel, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ With the cosy, but lavish surrounds of Live at Zédel being perfect for Ben Stock’s style of intimate performance, he wasted little time in making sure his small, but appreciative audience knew exactly […]
Ben Stock brings new show to Live at Zédel
West End theatre actor Ben Stock returns to London cabaret venue Live at Zédel this week with his new show Land of Make Believe. Aimed at chasing the ‘January Blues’ away, Stock’s new offering will feature the music of some of musical theatre’s best-loved writers including Stiles and Drewe, Jerry Herman, Noel Coward, Stephen Sondheim and […]
A Song Goes Round the World – St James Theatre Studio
A Song Goes Round the World at the St James Theatre Studio. London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This cabaret takes its patrons on a musical journey through 20th century European chansons and offers a chance, as the European continent seems to be drifting apart, for an audience to be reunited through music. The […]
A Song Goes Round the World at St James Theatre Studio
The music that brought light to some of Europe’s darkest hours will be celebrated at London’s St James Theatre Studio on 16 May. A Song Goes Round the World is a musical journey that will take its audience from the Russian cabaret of Alexander Vertinsky, to the heart-wrenching theatrics of France’s Edith Piaf, combined with a little […]
Romance Romance opens at the Landor Theatre on 8 October
Full details of the cast of Theatrica Limited’s new production of Broadway musical Romance Romance, opening at the Landor Theatre on 8 October, have been revealed. Sex, love and money: what happens when you strike the wrong balance between these three? Romance Romance is a comedic look at the many twists and turns of any romantic relationship. Through […]
The Immortal Hour – Finborough Theatre
The Immortal Hour continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 26 August. Written by Rutland Boughton in 1912, The Immortal Hour has not proved particularly immortal. And it isn’t difficult to see why. Its complex, symbolic plot rooted in Celtic mythology was out of date almost before the first performance. The late Victorians may have loved fairies, […]
