Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London where it continues until 5 July 2025. The tour continues until 18 July 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The energy and atmosphere are sweltering, bawdy and utterly freeing.
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The Rocky Horror Show – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield and Touring
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show was reviewed at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield. The tour continues until 13 June 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Warm up your vocal chords, leave your inhibitions in the foyer and enjoy the experience.
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show – Dominion Theatre
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show was reviewed at the Dominion Theatre, London where it runs until 20 September 2024. The tour continues until 30 August 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
UK tour return for Jason Donovan’s Frank-N-Furter
Jason Donovan will reprise his performance as Frank-N-Furter for the first time in the UK in 25 years this summer when he takes centre stage in the latest tour of Richard O’Brien’s cult classic the Rocky Horror Show.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Opera House, Manchester and touring the UK until 29 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It would be easy to put the ecstatic way audiences and critics are receiving this revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s most crowd-pleasing show down to our […]
Jason Donovan to guest star as Teen Angel in West End production of Grease
Jason Donovan will return to the West End to play Teen Angel for selected performances in the hit new production of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s Grease at the Dominion Theatre. Currently as Pharaoh on tour in the London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the stage and screen favourite will play […]
Full cast confirmed for Palladium Joseph’s UK and Ireland tour
Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group have confirmed full casting for the eagerly-awaited UK and Ireland tour of the crowd and critic-pleasing London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Following two successful seasons at the Palladium, the hit production’s original Joseph and Pharaoh, Jac Yarrow and Jason Donovan, will return along […]
Palladium’s hit Joseph to play UK tour dates in 2022
Following two successful seasons at the London Palladium, Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group’s crowd and critic-pleasing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will head out on tour in 2022. The hit production’s original Joseph and Pharaoh, Jac Yarrow and Jason Donovan, will return along with Alexandra Burke and Linzi Hateley sharing the role […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London Palladium
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at the London Palladium until 5 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Way, way back many decades ago, stripling composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice collaborated on a small pop cantata for a prep school in Barnes. Between 1968 and 1984 the musical […]
Full cast confirmed for Joseph’s Palladium return
The full cast has been announced for the encore season of Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group’s crowd and critic pleasing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. As previously announced, performances are due to begin on 1 July with returning Joseph and Pharaoh Jac Yarrow and Jason Donovan appearing alongside […]
Linzi Hateley to return as The Narrator in Joseph at the London Palladium
Linzi Hateley will revisit her Olivier Award-nominated performance as The Narrator for special performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium this summer. Hateley will reunite with her original Joseph, Jason Donovan, who is due to return to the role of Pharaoh in the encore season of Michael Harrison and the […]
Casting for restart of Priscilla Queen of the Desert tour
Edwin Ray will step out of the ensemble to take on a starring role when the hit touring production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical takes to the road again this summer. The actor/dancer whose musical credits include Follies and We Will Rock You will star alongside Olivier Award-winning actor Miles Western (Pageant, […]
Alexandra Burke will star as The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium
Alexandra Burke will return to the West End this summer in the new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical gets ready for a strictly limited season at the London Palladium, running from 1 July (gala night is 15 July) to 5 September 2021. Jac Yarrow […]
Hit production of Joseph is rescheduled to summer 2021
Due to the current global situation and the uncertainty around the resumption of West End shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will defer its dates exactly 12 months, and Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow are both confirmed to star again in the acclaimed show next year. Performances at the London Palladium will now begin […]
Donovan & Yarrow will return to the Palladium for Joseph 2020
Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow will be back in action at the London Palladium next summer when Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group’s crowd and critic pleasing new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns for a second season at the world-famous venue. Donovan will once again take on the role of […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Priscilla Queen of the Desert continues at New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 12 October 2019, then tours until 23 May 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The third UK tour of Priscilla is in full swing, with 22 more ports of call after Wimbledon, and if you love colour, classic pop, over-the-top costumes, […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Priscilla Queen of the Desert continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 5 October 2019 and then tours until 23 May 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Drag has never been more popular, with programmes like RuPaul’s Drag Race gracing our screens and drag shows quickly becoming the fun, alternative night […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London Palladium
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at the London Palladium until 8 September 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It’s large scale, spectacular, energetic and impressive. In other ways, however, this eagerly anticipated revival of the first real success the youthful Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (both in the audience […]
Jason Donovan’s back for London Palladium’s new Joseph
Jason Donovan will take on the role of the Pharaoh when he returns to the London Palladium for the eagerly-anticipated new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this summer. The star who famously gave a career-changing performance as Joseph at the Palladium in the 1990s, will take to the stage opposite the new, […]
Jason Donovan to launch producing career with Priscilla tour
Jason Donovan will make his debut as a theatre producer with a new touring production of hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert next year. One of the stars of the show’s original West End and UK touring productions, Donovan will join veteran producers Mark Goucher, Gavin Kalin and Matthew Gale to present the new […]
Hamilton collects seven Olivier Awards including Best New Musical
New American musical Hamilton collected seven Olivier Awards including Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards 2018 with Mastercard, the UK’s most prestigious stage honours, announced at London’s Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Catherine Tate. Composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire won Outstanding Achievement in Music (which Lacamoire accepted by singing a speech […]
Olivier Awards 2018 ceremony – Hamilton opener, Chita Rivera singing West Side Story, Joseph 50th ann tribute
Special performances to mark the 60th anniversary of the London opening of West Side Story and the 50th anniversary of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will feature in the star-studded ceremony for the 2018 Olivier Awards on 8 April 2018. Musical theatre legend Chita Rivera will celebrate her London debut as Anita in the classic […]
Darren Day joins cast of touring version of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Stage and TV personality Darren Day will join the cast of the touring version of the hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical for a number of performances early next year. Day, whose first major theatre role was in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, will take over the role of Tick in […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert – New Wimbledon Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 10 October, and then touring. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Jukebox musicals get a bad rap. True, all too often they are opportunistic, cynical exploitations appealing to an undemanding audience, with as many corners cut as the producers think they can get […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert tour – full cast revealed
The full cast for the UK tour of the musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert, opening on Thursday 20 August 2015 at the Manchester Opera House, has been revealed. Joining the previously announced Duncan James and Jason Donovan, who share the role of Tick, are Simon Green as Bernadette, Adam Bailey as Felicia and Philip Childs as Bob. Simon Green’s most recent stage credits include Bruce Ismay in Titanic […]
Jason Donovan to share role of Tick in Priscilla Queen of the Desert UK tour
Jason Donovan will play the role of Tick in the UK tour of the international hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the following venues – Hull New Theatre (28 September – 3 October 2015), Wimbledon New Theatre (5 – 10 October), Bradford Alhambra (12 – 17 October), Birmingham Alexandra Theatre (20 – 24 October), Aylesbury Waterside […]
Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds – LG Arena, Birmingham and Touring
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was reviewed at the LG Arena, Birmingham. The show continues to tour until 15 December. Based on the book by HG Wells, Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds needs no introduction. With ever increasing popularity spanning multiple generations, it is no wonder the […]
Annie Get Your Gun – Opera House, Manchester
Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Opera House, Manchester before touring until 4 October 2014. When the London production of Annie Get Your Gun premiered at the Coliseum on 7 June 1947, the Times’ unnamed critic was in no doubt that the Broadway import’s success belonged to Irving Berlin’s “many amusing and attractive songs” and also the […]
Annie Get Your Gun – Jason Donovan and Emma Williams are cast
A major new production of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, with Emma Williams as Annie Oakley, Jason Donovan as Frank Butler and Norman Pace as Buffalo Bill, will tour the UK from May this year. As part of the Ambassador Theatre Group’s ‘Manchester Gets It First’ initiative, the production, directed by Ian Talbot, will […]
The War of the Worlds – Final Arena Tour
Westlife’s Brian McFadden, Jason Donovan and Les Miserables’ Carrie Hope Fletcher will star in Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds when it returns for the sixth and final time to tour in 2014. The announcement coincides with the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ iconic radio adaptation, the 35th anniversary of Wayne’s classic multi-platinum album […]
