RIDE – Original London Cast Recording (Broadway Records). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
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Ride – Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Ride continues at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London until 12 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Ride – Curve Leicester
Ride continues at Leicester Curve’s studio space until 15 July 2023, prior to a run at the Southwark Playhouse, London from 19 July-12 August 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Ride – Charing Cross Theatre
Ride continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 17 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The incredible story of the first woman to bicycle around the globe feels like one that should be well known. Names like Nellie Bly, Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and perhaps even Aloha Wanderwell have resonated […]
Charing Cross Theatre premiere for award-winning Ride
Award-winning new musical RIDE will receive its world premiere at Charing Cross Theatre next month. Featuring music, book and lyrics by Freya Catrin Smith and Jack Williams and directed by Sarah Meadows, the first full-scale production of the musical will play the London venue from 25 August until 17 September 2022. Inspired by the true […]
New UK Musicals: Live in Concert – The Other Palace
New UK Musicals: Live in Concert at The Other Palace, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In the UK, new musical theatre writing, and particularly new British writing, is something of a Cinderella – it tends to get overlooked. With the West End filled with established long-runners and an endless cycle of […]
New UK Musicals concert announced
West End stars Tyrone Huntley (Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Anoushka Lucas (Oklahoma, Young Vic), Michael Rouse (A Christmas Carol, Old Vic) and Gemma Sutton (Follies, National Theatre) will appear alongside a new generation of performers in a special concert celebrating new UK musicals early next month. Produced by Darren Clark for […]
15 new musicals to be showcased at The Chamber Musical Sessions event in October
Aria Entertainment’s Katy Lipson and Adam Lenson of Adam Lenson Productions will showcase the results of the first year of their AriaALP Chamber Project with a concert celebration in London in October. Featuring the first two newly commissioned shows, The Chamber Musical Sessions at the Garrick Theatre on 4 October 2021 will celebrate the work […]
Gemma Sutton & Bronté Barbé to feature in London performances of new musical Ride
West End stars Gemma Sutton and Bronté Barbé will take the lead in two special semi-staged workshop performances of award-winning new musical RIDE. With music and lyrics by Jack Williams and a book and lyrics by Freya Catrin Smith who will co-direct with Adam Lenson, the musical will play two performances at the Garrick Theatre […]
Longlist of 15 new musicals announced for Chamber Musical Project
Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment and Adam Lenson of Adam Lenson Productions have revealed a longlist of 15 new musicals as part of their previously announced Chamber Musical Project. With a passion and a commitment to discovering new musical theatre, evidenced by Aria’s From Page To Stage festival and full-time literary department, and Lenson’s regular […]
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize 2020 – a virtual concert streamed online via YouTube. While the annual Sondheim Student Performer of the Year contest fell victim to Covid-19, the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize which has run alongside it since 2008 was happily saved with the bonus of top musical theatre […]
All-star line-up for Stiles and Drewe Prize online concert
A host of West End stars have been enlisted to perform the shortlist of 15 compositions in the running for the 2020 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize in a virtual concert to be streamed online next Sunday (5 July 2020). With musical direction by Steve Ridley, the songs will be performed by: Allyson […]
Ride – Vault Festival
Ride at the Vault Festival, London Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Incredibly, the story of Annie Londonderry’s cycle ride around the world in 1894/95 seems to be true. She died in obscurity in 1947 but her great nephew published a book about her in 2007. Ride, at the Vaults Festival, presented […]
Under Construction – St James Studio
Under Construction, a showcase featuring three new musicals, was performed at St James Studio, London. Star rating: 2 stars ★ ★ The three musicals are: The Sorrows of Satan Authors: Luke Bateman and Michael Conley; director: Adam Lenson; musical director: Freddie Tapner. Cast: Oliver Hembrough, Paul Keating, Samantha Hull and Freddie Tapner. One Way Ticket Authors: Daniel Sturman and RC Staab; director: Luke Fredericks; musical director: Nathan Jarvis. […]
New musical theatre writing showcased in Under Construction at St James Theatre
Three new musicals will benefit from a week of development workshops, culminating in a public showcase at the St James Studio on 27 March 2015, thanks to FTG Productions’ initiative Under Construction. Fisher Taylor-Gaunt Productions sent out a call for submissions last year to musical theatre writers up and down the country. They received more than […]
