Kimberly Akimbo continues at the Hampstead Theatre, London until 7 November 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ An exceptionally entertaining evening out with exactly as much to give as you are emotionally able to take.
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Fun Home – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Fun Home continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 1 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The UK regional premiere production of Fun Home has opened at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, and it is hard to imagine a better place (or time) for it to receive this much anticipated revival.
Maria Friedman to star in European premiere of Kimberly Akimbo
Triple Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman will take on the title role in the European premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony Award-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo in London later this year.
Big wins for Kimberly Akimbo and Parade at the Tony Awards 2023
Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, the work of Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, led the way at the 76th Annual Tony Awards, winning five prizes (the most received by any production) including Best Musical. The show also picked up performance awards for Victoria Clark and Bonnie Milligan plus Best Book […]
Music Review: Kimberly Akimbo – Original Broadway Cast
Kimberly Akimbo – Original Broadway Cast (GhostlightRecords.com). Available in digital and streaming formats or on CD from Sh-K-Boom Records. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
On Broadway with Patrick Honoré
Patrick Honoré has been giving his regards to Broadway… Dancin’, Some Like it Hot, Bad Cinderella and Kimberly Akimbo.
Soft Power – The Public Theater, New York
Soft Power continues at The Public Theater, New York until 17 November 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Violet – Charing Cross Theatre
Violet continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 6 April 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It may be overshadowed in composer Jeanine Tesori’s back catalogue by Fun Home and Shrek the Musical, but the musical score for Violet is one of her best. Brian Crawley’s book doesn’t quite live […]
Caroline, or Change – Playhouse Theatre
Caroline, or Change continues at the Playhouse Theatre, London until 6 April 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ After acclaimed runs at the Chichester Festival’s Minerva and London’s Hampstead Theatre, Caroline, or Change, a collaboration between Fun Home composer Jeanine Tesori and Angels in America author Tony Kushner, makes its much-anticipated […]
UK premiere for Jeanine Tesori’s award-winning musical Violet at the Charing Cross Theatre
Violet, a multi-award-winning musical with music by Jeanine Tesori (Tony Award winner for Best Original Score with Lisa Kron for Fun Home, and Tony-nominated for Caroline, Or Change and Shrek the Musical), and book and lyrics by Brian Crawley (The Little Princess), is to get its UK premiere in an international co-production at London’s Charing Cross Theatre, followed […]
Caroline, Or Change – West End run extended
Just weeks before the opening night of the eagerly-anticipated West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Caroline, Or Change, the show’s producers have announced a two-month extension to the Playhouse Theatre run. Following sold-out runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre and London’s Hampstead Theatre, the production which features a critically-acclaimed central performance […]
Cast for Caroline, Or Change West End transfer season
Full casting has been announced for the eagerly-anticipated West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, Or Change. Following sold-out runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre and London’s Hampstead Theatre, the production which features a critically-acclaimed central performance from Sharon D. Clarke will play the Playhouse Theatre […]
Fun Home – Young Vic
Fun Home continues at the Young Vic, London until 1 September 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Arriving through the pearly gates of Broadway in 2015, and going on to win five Tony Awards, plus a Grammy for its original cast recording, the UK finally gets to share in the Fun Home fever at the […]
Fun Home at the Young Vic – cast includes Kaisa Hammarlund, Jenna Russell and Cherrelle Skeete
Multi award-winning musical Fun Home, the final production in David Lan’s 18-year tenure as artistic director at the Young Vic, will feature a cast that includes Kaisa Hammarlund (Alison, pictured), Eleanor Kane (Medium Alison), Jenna Russell (Helen), Ashley Samuels (Roy, Mark and Jeremy), Cherrelle Skeete (Joan) and Zubin Varla (Bruce, Alison’s father). Produced in association […]
Caroline, or Change heads for West End transfer
Sharon D. Clarke’s acclaimed performance in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, or Change will be seen in London’s West End this autumn following sold-out runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre and London’s Hampstead Theatre. Currently playing Hampstead Theatre until 21 April, the Chichester Festival Theatre production will transfer to the Playhouse Theatre from 20 […]
Caroline, or Change – Hampstead Theatre
Caroline, or Change continues at the Hampstead Theatre, London until 21 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Caroline, or Change comes to the Hampstead Theatre from the small Minerva Theatre at Chichester where it was playing in the same season as Fiddler On the Roof. It addresses issues of race […]
Full company for Hampstead Theatre run of Caroline, Or Change
Hampstead Theatre has announced the full company joining Sharon D. Clarke for Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, Or Change which is due to open next month following its successful run last year at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Clarke, who will reprise her acclaimed performance in the title role, will be joined by Naana Agyei-Ampuda, […]
Caroline, or Change transfers to Hampstead with Sharon D Clarke reprising lead role
Tony Kushner’s and Jeanine Tesori’s celebrated musical Caroline, or Change will transfer to the Hampstead Theatre, following its run at Chichester Festival Theatre with Sharon D Clarke reprising her role as Caroline Thibodeaux. Artistic director Edward Hall commented: “Tony Kushner’s work continues to enthral audiences around the world and we are thrilled that he will […]
Broadway musical Fun Home to open at Young Vic in June 2018
The Young Vic will host the UK premiere of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fun Home, by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, from 18 June to 1 September 2018 (press night is 27 June). Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel’s celebrated 2006 graphic novel, made its debut at The Public Theater, New York in October […]
Caroline, or Change – Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Caroline, or Change continues at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester until 3 June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Chichester Festival Theatre has a new artistic director, Daniel Evans, and though his tenure may have started with a bit of a blip in the revival of Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On, this inaugural […]
Shrek the Musical tour – new dates announced
New dates have been announced for the 2017/2018 tour of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek the Musical. The second major tour of the Dreamworks Theatricals’ musical hit will now play dates in Sheffield, Cardiff, Woking, Liverpool, Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Llandudno and Leeds. As previously announced, the outsize ogre will initially take to […]
Tony Awards 2015 – victories for Kelli O’Hara and Fun Home
The big news at the Tony Awards on Sunday night in New York was that Broadway’s adored songbird Kelli O’Hara finally won one after a string of six nominations. The recognition came for her lead role as English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens making her way in 19th Century Siam in Lincoln Center Theater’s mounting of Rodgers and […]
Shrek das Musical – Vienna
Shrek das Musical continues at Vienna Stadthalle until 22 March. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Following a triumphant premiere in Düsseldorf in October 2014 and a subsequent tour through Germany and Switzerland, the world’s most beloved ogre has arrived in Vienna for its final tour dates. The show is based on the first of the four Dreamworks […]
Shrek the Musical – Grand Theatre, Leeds
Shrek the Musical continues at the Grand Theatre, Leeds to 17 August, then tours until September 2015. Shrek, the grumpy green ogre who was the unlikely love interest in the vastly popular DreamWorks movie and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane production in 2011, has plenty to grouch about, including being booted out of his home aged seven […]
Violet – American Airlines Theatre, New York
Violet continues at the American Airlines Theatre, New York until 10 August. Violet, the eponymous heroine of the musical Violet, tells us early on that she has a “scar that cuts a rainbow clear across my cheek”. It’s the result, we eventually learn, of an accident some 12 years earlier when Violet was 13. Violet was […]
