Lovestuck continues at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London until 12 July 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ There’s no point in pooh-poohing a fun musical.
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Broken Wings – Charing Cross Theatre
Broken Wings continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 26 March 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The evening did not start well. A damp, squelchy walk across Hungerford Bridge from Waterloo Station, then a false start to the show because of a sound issue at the Charing Cross Theatre […]
Full cast for Broken Wings at Charing Cross Theatre
Aria Entertainment has announced the final casting for the first full production of new musical Broken Wings at the Charing Cross Theatre early next year. Johan Munir (Little Women, Hope Mill Theatre, It Happened in Key West, Charing Cross Theatre) and Stephen Rahman-Hughes (Rock of Ages UK tour, Aladdin, New Amsterdam Theatre) will join the […]
Full cast for Rumi: The Musical at the London Coliseum
Final casting has been confirmed for the world premiere performances of Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan’s Rumi: The Musical at the London Coliseum next month. As previously announced West End stars Ramin Karimloo and Naaman will follow their performances on the musical’s concept album by playing Rumi and his mentor Tabrizi in the semi-staged […]
Cast for workshopped new musical Daisy revealed
Jason Manford and Rachel Tucker will feature in the cast of a workshop production of new Irish musical Daisy next month. Manford (Curtains, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Tucker (Come From Away, The Last Ship) will appear with the show’s creator, singer/songwriter and actress Caroline Kay (taking on the title role), with Jessica Cervi (The […]
West End stars and Beirut musicians unite for fundraising video
Over 40 artists have united to record a music video of ‘All I Longed To See’ from musical Broken Wings to raise funds for the Red Cross’ Beirut Emergency Appeal set up in the wake of the devastation caused by the explosion on 4 August 2020. The video features West End stars and former cast […]
It Happened in Key West – Charing Cross Theatre
It Happened in Key West continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 18 August 2008. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ One can see why the macabre tale of Carl Tanzler, and the true story of his obsession with a young Cuban woman that continued long after her death, might have seemed to be […]
Alyssa Martyn joins cast of musical It Happened in Key West at the Charing Cross Theatre
Final casting has been announced for It Happened in Key West, a major new romantic comedy musical, which will get its world premiere at London’s Charing Cross Theatre in a strictly limited seven-week season from Wednesday 4 July 2018. It Happened in Key West is inspired by shocking true events that rocked the tiny island […]
Royal Academy of Music – Love’s Labour’s Lost
Love’s Labour’s Lost was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at Hackney Empire, London. This review refers to the cast at the Saturday evening performance (Cast A). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The lofty heights of Shakespearian adaptation have famously permeated the Broadway canon to its very […]
