The Harder They Come continues at Stratford East until 1 November 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It feels as if that sense of lightness and euphoria – which is indeed deservedly joyous – is what people would most want from a reggae musical.
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Patrick Honoré is just in time for a Broadway round-up
Patrick Honoré offers a round-up of some standout Broadway shows, beginning with a crooner’s comeback and concluding with a nostalgic and traditional nod to the past.
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends – Gielgud Theatre
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends continues at the Gielgud Theatre, London until 6 January 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What a glorious evening of unalloyed brilliance at the Gielgud with a superb cast headed by Sondheim muse Bernadette Peters and fellow Broadway legend Lea Salonga feasting on the works of the greatest composer of our time in a glittering revue originally conceived as a one-off tribute by entrepreneur Cameron Mackintosh after he left us at 91 with so many rich and profound memories.
Full company confirmed for Sondheim’s Old Friends
The full cast has been unveiled for the highly anticipated West End return of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends with a strictly limited season at the Gielgud Theatre later this year.
Broadway’s Kyle Ramar Freeman to lead the West End cast of A Strange Loop
Kyle Ramar Freeman will make his West End debut in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning A Strange Loop at London’s Barbican Theatre this summer.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical – Piccadilly Theatre
Moulin Rouge! The Musical continues at the Piccadilly Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is hard to envisage now, some 20 years on, just how remarkable and visually unique Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! was when it hit cinemas in 2001. Not only was it a period in which movie […]
Cast unveiled for Moulin Rouge’s West End debut
Liisi LaFontaine has won the coveted role of Santine in the first UK production of the stage musical version of Baz Luhrmann’s vibrant movie Moulin Rouge. The actress who previously starred as Deena Jones in the Savoy Theatre production of Dreamgirls, will step into the role famously played by Nicole Kidman on screen opposite West […]
Hello Harry! – YouTube
Hello Harry! is available to stream on YouTube. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Harry Gabriel has been the Stage Door Keeper at Shaftesbury Theatre for four decades. While watching some of London’s finest theatrical productions come and go, he has become something of a legend in his own right for the commitment, joy, and […]
Karl Queensborough is the new West End Hamilton from November 2019
Karl Queensborough will step into the role of Alexander Hamilton next month as the multi-award-winning Hamilton enters its third year at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Currently performing as the alternate Hamilton in the London production, Queensborough (The Girl From the North Country, The Old Vic) will take over the role full-time from 18 November 2019. […]
New King to lead ten new cast members into London’s Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton will face a new King George from early December when Avenue Q’s Jon Robyns will take over from Olivier Award winner Michael Jibson in the smash hit London version of Hamilton. Robyns, who was last seen on stage in the UK tour of The Wedding Singer, is one of ten new cast members […]
Hamilton receives a recording-breaking 13 nominations in Olivier Awards 2018
Smash hit musical Hamilton predictably leads the field with a record-breaking 13 nominations for this year’s Olivier Awards, overtaking previous joint record holders: last year’s The Cursed Child and 2008’s Hairspray with 11 nominations. Announced today by Elaine Paige and Alexandra Burke, the nominees for the 2018 Olivier Awards with Mastercard recognised a number of […]
New booking period for West End run of Hamilton – tickets go on sale 29 January
A new booking period for the hit London version of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton has been announced. Tickets for performances from 30 July to 15 December will go on sale via official Hamilton ticketing channels from Monday (29 January) at 12 noon GMT. The new booking period follows on from the news that the team […]
Hamilton West End – initial casting revealed
Initial casting has been announced for the West End production of Hamilton: Christine Allado (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rachelle Ann Go (Eliza Hamilton), Tarinn Callender (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Rachel John (Angelica Schuyler), Jason Pennycooke (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Cleve September (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Giles Terera (Aaron Burr) and Obioma Ugoala (George Washington) will open the […]
StreetDreams – Guildford School of Acting
StreetDreams was performed by second-year BA Musical Theatre students (Friday/Saturday evening cast) from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Studio, Guildford. Drawing Guildford School of Acting’s summer 2014 season to a close was the world premiere of StreetDreams, an entertaining yet serious ensemble show with book co-written by Bob Tomson (who also directed this […]
