A number of new cast members will join the Bridge Theatre’s hit production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods next month.
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Halloween release for live cast album for new musical Unbound
A live cast recording of Matthew Harvey’s new musical Unbound will be released on 31 October as part of this year’s Halloween festivities.
Made in Dagenham – Pimlico Opera – HMP Bronzefield
Made in Dagenham by Pimlico Opera and the prisoners of HMP Bronzefield at Bronzefield Prison, Ashford, Surrey. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ They stood up for their rights and we stood up for their amazing performances. I’d love to see it again.
Jodie Jacobs will lead the cast of Pimlico Opera’s prison production of Made in Dagenham
Award-winning Jodie Jacobs (Rock of Ages) is to lead the cast as strike leader Rita O’Grady in Pimlico Opera’s prison production of the musical Made in Dagenham which runs from 5-9 March 2025 at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey.
Cast for West End run of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The full cast has been announced for the West End transfer season of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! at the Ambassadors Theatre. The show was the winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022.
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Underbelly, George Square – Udderbelly until 27 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Cast and creatives for new-look Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The producers of the new expanded version of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! have confirmed the full cast and creative team for the hit show’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe encore and Bristol and Manchester dates.
Edinburgh encore plus Bristol and Manchester dates for MTR Award-winner Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
A new expanded version of Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! will return to Edinburgh this summer before playing dates in Bristol and Manchester.
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I was promised that I would laugh – and that’s a safe promise in this runaway hit show. A packed audience laughed practically the whole way through. Playing Kathy and Stella […]
Full cast announced for But I’m A Cheerleader: The Musical
Alice Croft will play pom-pom wielding high school senior Megan Williams in the world premiere of But I’m A Cheerleader: The Musical at London’s Turbine Theatre from 18 February until 15 April 2022. The co-founder and artistic director of The Grad Fest, Croft (Soapdish The Musical – MT Fest 2020, Turbine Theatre) will be joined […]
Daily online conversation series Theatre Camp: Live! launched
Stars from across the West End and Broadway are supporting a new online series set up to support LGBTQ and vulnerable young people. Music director Benjamin Rauhala, journalist William J Connolly and Darren Bell for concert promoters Club 11 London have launched Theatre Camp: Live! – a daily online discussion series and charity fundraiser. Launching […]
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella In Concert – Cadogan Hall
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella In Concert at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It was Julie Andrews’ agent who was the first to think of Rodgers and Hammerstein adapting the tale of Cinderella as a musical for his client, Andrews having already played that part in a pantomime at the London […]
The Distance You Have Come – Cockpit Theatre
The Distance You Have Come continues at the Cockpit Theatre, London until 28 October 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Billed as a song cycle (by Scott Alan who also directs) this two-hour piece sits somewhere between musical theatre and a concert. Six people interact in various roles as we explore, […]
Unexpected Joy – Southwark Playhouse
Unexpected Joy continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 29 September 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The European Premiere of Bill Russell and Janet Hood’s new musical Unexpected Joy is an… Unexpected Joy! Following the Off-Broadway premiere earlier this year producers Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and Jim Kierstead for Kierstead Productions have brought […]
West End stars cast in Scott Alan’s The Distance You Have Come
Casting has been announced for The Distance You Have Come, the new musical based on the work of award-winning composer Scott Alan which is due to play The Cockpit in London from 16-28 October 2018. With musical direction by Scott Morgan, the show which features a song cycle of Alan’s most popular works follows the […]
Bananaman The Musical – Southwark Playhouse
Bananaman The Musical continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 20 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Superheroes have rarely inspired much success in musical theatre. The Man of Steel was the first, in 1966’s It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!, which at the best could be considered a […]
Bananaman the Musical at Southwark Playhouse – Matthew McKenna cast in lead role
Matthew McKenna has been unmasked as the star and “handsome hero” of Bananaman the Musical and will be attempting to save the world at London’s Southwark Playhouse this Christmas. Bananaman, the Man-of-Peel, is flying out of the pages of the much-loved comic Beano, and the hugely popular TV cartoon, in the world premiere of Bananaman […]
Lizzie musical at Greenwich Theatre – casting details
Casting has been announced for Lizzie, the ‘new gothic rock musical with a killer edge’, which will receive its UK premiere at London’s Greenwich Theatre early next year. Inspired by the story of notorious alleged axe-murderer Lizzie Borden, the musical will arrive in the capital in February following a European premiere at Frederica Teater in […]
CD review – Ms. A Song Cycle
Ms. A SONG CYCLE – Various Artists (SimG Records – SimGR-CD030) What a wonderful idea to help bring a bit more understanding of a truly dreadful disease – put it in song and get wonderful West End ladies to record the cycle, hopefully give it more substance and let the public know what it’s like to […]
Oliver! – Grange Park Opera
Oliver! continues at the Grange Park Opera at The Grange, Northington, Hampshire until 2 July. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Getting to the latest revival of Lionel Bart’s 1960 masterpiece in deepest Hampshire is quite a schlepp. Just when you think you’ve cracked it, there’s yet another narrow, windy country lane to […]
Oliver! at Grange Park Opera – Jodie Jacobs and Simon Lipkin star
The classic musical Oliver! will be the first of the four productions that will make up this year’s Grange Park Opera Festival at The Grange in Hampshire. This year’s Swansong Festival begins on 2 June with the company’s version of Lionel Bart’s timeless re-working of Oliver Twist performed in the picturesque grounds of one of […]
Legally Blonde the Musical – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Legally Blonde the Musical continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 31 January. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ’Tis the season of goodwill so let’s first go with the positives about Ovation’s version of the hit American musical comedy that launched Sheridan Smith as a shimmering West End star when it […]
Jest End – Waterloo East Theatre
Jest End continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 6 December. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Has it really been eight years since we were first treated to Garry Lake’s wicked sense of humour in Jest End at the Jermyn Street Theatre? Much may have changed in the West End […]
Cassie Compton – Crazy Coqs
Cassie Compton performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s not very much of Cassie Compton but from a tiny, almost fragile frame emerges a husky, effortlessly powerful voice that fair takes your breath away. The 2004 X Factor contender made her Crazy Coqs debut a winning one with […]
Legally Blonde at Upstairs at the Gatehouse – casting revealed
The full cast has been announced for Ovation’s upcoming production of Legally Blonde the Musical due to play London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre this Christmas season. Jodie Jacobs (Rock of Ages) will reprise the role of Paulette she played in the recent Kilworth House production of the show alongside London School of Musical Theatre […]
