Here We Are continues at the National Theatre (Lyttelton) until 28 June 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Stephen Sondheim’s final staged work – a musicalisation of two movies by Spanish-Mexican auteur Luis Buñuel – has opened at the 890-seat Lyttelton in the National Theatre.
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Wicked sets new box office records in London and on tour
Wicked, the award-winning musical that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, was seen by 45,000 people in the UK last week (ending 3 January 2015), grossing an incredible £2,160,377.50, at box offices in London and Edinburgh and breaking its own previous records in both the West End and on its UK and Ireland tour. The London production set […]
The Last Ship – Neil Simon Theatre, New York
The Last Ship continues at the Neil Simon Theatre, New York. The shipyard workers in the north east English town of Wallsend are a proud lot. And they’re stubborn, too, as portrayed in The Last Ship, the problematic new Broadway musical buoyed with a glorious score by rock star Sting. The town’s shipyard has been […]
Emma Hatton to take over as Elphaba in Wicked from February 2015
Emma Hatton will star as Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked from Monday 2 February 2015 at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre. Currently the Standby Elphaba, Emma Hatton will replace international Wicked star Jennifer DiNoia, who is soon to play a special limited engagement from 27 October 2014 to 31 January 2015. Current performer Kerry Ellis plays her final performance […]
Broadway and Off-Broadway season – we preview what’s ahead
Ron Cohen writes: It’s almost autumn in New York but the thrill of first-nighting (as Vernon Duke expressed it in his classic song) won’t be felt on Broadway – at least as far as musicals are concerned – until mid-October when the first one of the fall opens, a revival of the enduring 1944 landmark On the Town. […]
