The full cast has been unveiled for the UK premiere of a new musical inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre at London’s Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
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Spirited Away – London Coliseum
Spirited Away continues at the London Coliseum until 24 August 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Spirited Away has long ago cemented its status as a classic of cinema, and I am delighted to report that it is now also an outstanding work of live theatre.
On sale dates for London Coliseum debut of original Japanese stage production of Spirited Away
Tickets will go on sale next week for the eagerly anticipated European premiere of the original Japanese stage version of Studio Ghibili’s Oscar-winning Japanese animated film fantasy Spirited Away at the London Coliseum next year.
Royal Academy of Music – Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Children of Eden 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert – Cadogan Hall
Children of Eden 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stephen Schwartz’s musical Children of Eden is an odd beast. First performed in 1991, Schwartz’s music and lyrics combine with a book by John Caird to tell two Biblical tales from the Book of Genesis. Act I […]
Star-studded cast for Children of Eden concert
Ruthie Henshall is among the high-powered West End cast assembled for the 30th anniversary concert performances of Stephen Schwartz and John Caird’s Children of Eden this autumn. A member of the musical’s original London cast, Henshall (Chicago, Cats) will appear alongside Alice Fearn (Come From Away, Wicked), Carl Spencer (Hamilton, Motown: The Musical), Adam Pearce (The […]
Daddy Long Legs – Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin (Stream.Theatre)
Daddy Long Legs, Boulevard Productions’ staging is streaming from the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin (via Stream.Theatre) and continues until 21 March 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Don’t expect to hear the Oscar-nominated ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ or any of the other Johnny Mercer numbers which featured in the much-loved 1955 Fred Astaire-Leslie […]
Daddy Long Legs – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
Daddy Long Legs continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 2 November 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ When Fred Astaire played the romantic lead opposite a gamine-like Leslie Caron in the 1955 film of Jean Webster’s novel Daddy Long Legs – all about an unknown benefactor falling for the feisty […]
Children of Eden – Union Theatre
Children of Eden continues at the Union Theatre, London until 10 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Old Testament Book of Genesis provides the basis for Stephen Schwartz and John Caird’s musical, now revived at the Union Theatre 25 years after its brief West End run. Taking the stories of […]
Children of Eden at the Union Theatre – full casting
Full casting has been revealed for Children of Eden, which returns to London 25 years after its original West End production, playing at the Union Theatre from Wednesday 10 August, with a press night on Friday 12 August 2016. The cast features Natasha O‘Brien (A Christmas Carol, Rose Theatre) as Eve/Mama, Stephen Barry (The Beautiful Game, Union Theatre) as Adam/Noah, Joey […]
New production of Children of Eden heads to Union Theatre
Twenty-five years after its original West End production, Children of Eden will return to London in a new production at the Union Theatre, opening on Friday 12 August with previews from Wednesday 10 August 2016. Children of Eden will be the second production in the Union Theatre’s brand new state-of-the-art space in Southwark, where Ruthie […]
Cynthia Erivo wins Drama Desk Award for The Color Purple on Broadway
British singer actress Cynthia Erivo has collected a prestigious Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Broadway transfer of The Color Purple. The Londoner first played the role of Celie Harris in the Menier Chocolate Factory production in 2013. Following her Broadway debut in the transfer of the show last year, she has won the […]
Daddy Long Legs – Davenport Theatre, New York
Daddy Long Legs continues at the Davenport Theatre, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Daddy Long Legs, a musical adaptation of the 1912 novel by Jean Webster, premiered in 2009 at the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura in southern California. Since then the show, written and directed by John Caird with a score by […]
Les Misérables – Imperial Theatre, New York
Les Misérables continues at the Imperial Theatre, New York, in an open-ended run. All those hard-living, hard-suffering, hard-singing people of 19th century France, known collectively as Les Misérables, are back on Broadway, and as the French would say, they are still tres formidable. This giant-sized pop opera, based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel, first hit […]
