The 2027 UK and Ireland tour of multi-award-winning musical Chicago will open at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 5 February 2027.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman – Curve Leicester and Touring
Kiss of the Spider Woman was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it continues until 25 April 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a bold, deeply moving revival.
Music Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Kiss of the Spider Woman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Lakeshore Records and Center Stage Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jennifer Lopez and her co-stars honour the original while adding their own distinct voices.
Music Review: Karen Mason And All That Jazz!
Karen Mason And All That Jazz! (Zevely Records and King Kozmo Music, a division of the Jazzheads Music Group). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Mason’s unwavering admiration for Kander and Ebb’s legacy shines through every note.
Music Review: New York, New York – Original Broadway Cast Recording
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Original Broadway Cast (Wine & Peaches Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Bathtubs Over Broadway – Netflix
Bathtubs Over Broadway – Netflix. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s about 526,000 minutes since we last saw a live show on Broadway or in the West End but these lockdowns have given musical theatre aficionados plenty of time to trawl through the movie outlets we now have on TV in search […]
Chicago The Musical 2021 UK tour announced
David Ian in association with Barry and Fran Weissler has announced the 2021 UK tour of the multi-award-winning musical Chicago. The show will open at the Birmingham Alexandra Theatre on 12 March, running until 20 March. After Birmingham, the tour is due to visit Sunderland, Liverpool, Woking, Milton Keynes, Eastbourne, Crawley, Torquay, Cardiff, Manchester, Inverness, […]
Caroline Flack confirmed as Chicago’s new Roxie in the West End
Television personality Caroline Flack will be the new Roxie Hart in the hit revival of Chicago at London’s Phoenix Theatre from 10 December 2018. Love Island presenter Flack, the latest TV regular to take the trip to the West End stage via Strictly Come Dancing, will take over from the production’s original Roxie Hart, Sarah […]
Interview: Gemma Sutton – star of The Rink at the Southwark Playhouse – finds the best things come in small packages
GEMMA SUTTON joins Caroline O’Connor in the first London revival of Kander and Ebb’s The Rink in 20 years, opening at London’s Southwark Playhouse this week. The Rink, running from 25 May until 23 June 2018, is the story of Italian housewife Anna (O’Connor), who runs a failing roller-skating business on the East Coast of the US, […]
Full cast for The Rink at Southwark Playhouse
Full casting has been announced for the first London revival of Kander and Ebb’s The Rink in 20 years which is due to open at the Southwark Playhouse next month. Stewart Clarke, Ross Dawes, Michael Lin, Elander Moore, Ben Redfern and Jason Winter will play the roles Dino, Lino, Lucky, Benny, Lenny and Tony respectively. […]
Cuba Gooding Jr to make musical debut in Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre
Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr will be making his British stage debut and his musical debut as smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the multi award-winning Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End. Following a successful UK and international tour and after a five and a half year absence from London, the winner of […]
Kid Victory – Vineyard Theatre, New York
Kid Victory continues at the Vineyard Theatre, New York until 19 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Composer John Kander, the music theatre treasure now heading into his 90th year, continues his collaboration with playwright Greg Pierce, some 50 years his junior, with Kid Victory. Their second show together, it’s an […]
Chicago national tour – full casting revealed
Full casting has been announced for the international award-winning musical Chicago, which opens a national tour at the New Theatre Oxford on Friday 12 February 2016. Joining the previously announced John Partridge as Billy Flynn, Hayley Tamaddon as Roxie Hart and Sam Bailey as Mama Morton will be Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Neil Ditt as Amos Hart and A.D. Richardson as Mary Sunshine. The rest of the company includes: Daniele […]
Kander and Ebb’s The Visit finally makes it to Broadway
The Visit, the brooding musical stew of love and revenge that has been cooking for years, will be served up on Broadway at last. As a last-minute addition to the 2014-2015 season, it will join the crush of musicals opening in April. The first-night curtain is to rise on 23 April, the final date for […]
The Scottsboro Boys – casting revealed for West End transfer
Initial casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Kander and Ebb’s award-winning and final musical The Scottsboro Boys. Brandon Victor Dixon, who originated the role of Haywood Patterson in the first US production of The Scottsboro Boys and is currently starring as Berry Gordy in Motown the Musical on Broadway, will make his West End debut this […]
Cabaret – Studio 54, New York
Cabaret continues at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, New York, in an open-ended run. The Kit Kat Club has never been more repellent and yet more enticing. The Kit Kat Girls have never been more sullen and yet more watchable. And the Master of Ceremonies has never been more brazen and yet more entertaining. Yes, […]
Chicago – Leicester Curve
Chicago continues at the Curve, Leicester until 18 January 2014. Back in 1991, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Chicago was Paul Kerryson’s choice for his first production as artistic director of the Leicester Haymarket. Now it’s the centrepiece of Curve’s fifth birthday celebrations, a work of genius, with brand new choreography by Drew McOnie, and a […]
Verity Rushworth – Chicago-bound
Former soap star Verity Rushworth is taking on the role of Velma Kelly at the Curve, Leicester, in a brand new production of Chicago. As the show’s memorable opening line states, it’s ‘a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery’. Bit like an episode of Emmerdale, really. Born in West Yorkshire, Rushworth […]
Will Young and Cabaret on tour
Singer/songwriter Will Young will reprise his role as the Emcee in Rufus Norris’ acclaimed production of Cabaret. Following a successful West End run, the UK tour of the musical will open at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre on 28th August. Ever since winning the inaugural series of Pop Idol in 2002, Young has been one of the UK’s […]
