Gatsby continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 8 January 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The beauty of creating atmosphere in a novel is that so much of the heavy lifting is done in the imagination of the reader. Adaptations often fall short when bringing well-realised fictional worlds to other mediums, […]
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Jodie Steele and Ross William Wild to star in Gatsby: The Musical
Jodie Steele and Ross William Wild will return to the central roles of Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby for the festive run of Ruby in the Dust Theatre’s Gatsby: The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse. Steele (SIX The Musical, Heathers) and Wild (Million Dollar Quartet, American Idiot) will be joined by Luke Bayer (Everybody’s Talking […]
Rock musical Dorian back online for Halloween
As a Halloween treat for theatre fans Dorian A Rock Musical, the new stage version of Oscar Wilde’s haunting novel The Picture of Dorian Gray will be streamed on demand via stream.theatre from 31 October until 28 November 2021. Filmed at a secret location in London’s Mayfair, Ruby in the Dust Theatre’s contemporary take on […]
Christmas season for Gatsby musical at Southwark Playhouse
Linnie Reedman and Joe Evans’ Gatsby: The Musical will follow its digital concert performance at Cadogan Hall earlier this year, by playing a full festive season at the Southwark Playhouse. Written and directed by Reedman with original jazz-infused music by Evans, the musical inspired by F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age romantic tragedy, The Great […]
Dorian A Rock Musical – Stream.Theatre
Dorian A Rock Musical is available via Stream.Theatre until 12 August 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Yes! This is what we live for. This is a brand-new British musical. Dorian A Rock Musical is based on Oscar Wilde’s only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray – a witty, dark, decadent […]
New Dorian Gray musical to launch on stream.theatre
Keith Ramsay will take on the title role in Dorian A Rock Musical, a new stage version of Oscar Wilde’s haunting novel The Picture of Dorian Gray which will be launched on stream.theatre next month. Recently seen in Preludes at the Southwark Playhouse, Ramsay (Amour, Charing Cross Theatre, Lost in Yonkers, Watford Palace) stars alongside […]
New cast members and dates for Gatsby online concert
West End stars Jodie Steele and Liam Doyle are among the new cast members announced for the upcoming digital concert version of Gatsby A Musical later this month. Steele (Six The Musical, Heathers) will play Daisy Buchanan with Doyle (Wicked, Legally Blonde) as her husband Tom and Joe Frost (Jersey Boys, An Officer and a […]
Semi-staged concert performance of Gatsby musical to be streamed online
Olivier Award nominee Charlotte Wakefield will star opposite former Spandau Ballet singer Ross William Wild in a special concert version of Gatsby A Musical which will be made available online next month. Wakefield (Spring Awakening, The Sound of Music) will play Daisy Buchanan alongside Wild’s (Million Dollar Quartet, American Idiot) Jay Gatsby in the socially-distanced […]
Over 3,000 view the first In The Wings episode
Three thousand, four hundred people tuned in to view the first episode in the In The Wings series of shows featuring the first live performances in a theatre with a live band since the Covid-closedown. Filmed from 3-6 June 2020 in strict accordance with social distancing rules, In The Wings, the four-part series of interviews […]
Ruby in the Dust’s Gatsby at the Union Theatre – exclusive rehearsal images
Ruby in the Dust’s popular musical reworking of The Great Gatsby returns to the London stage next month for a limited run at the Union Theatre. Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan has been along to rehearsals to take some exclusive images. Adapted from F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age romantic tragedy, Gatsby features […]
Gatsby at the Arts Theatre – exclusive rehearsal images
Ruby in the Dust’s acclaimed musical reworking of The Great Gatsby returns to the London stage this month for a limited run at the Arts Theatre. Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan took some exclusive images behind the scenes. The exclusive showcase production of Gatsby opens on 26 October and runs on Monday nights until 16 November. Matilda Sturridge, who featured in the […]
