Casting has been announced for new swinging 1960s-set jukebox musical Summer in the City, written by Jennifer Selway and devised and directed by John Plews.
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Forever Plaid – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Forever Plaid continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 27 June 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stewart Ross’ 1992 musical gives us four young men who met at high school somewhere in America in the 1950s. They form a part-time harmony group called Forever Plaid. En route to their first […]
Upstairs At The Gatehouse return for Forever Plaid
Popular Off-Broadway musical revue Forever Plaid will return to London’s Upstairs At The Gatehouse for a season of socially distanced performances in June. Presented by Ovation, the rock ‘n’ roll- flavoured production which is directed by John Plews and choreographed by Racky Plews will play the Highgate venue from 1-27 June. With a cast including […]
Upstairs at the Gatehouse’s Christmas musical is Forever Plaid
The Christmas musical at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse will be venue favourite, ‘Heavenly Musical’ Forever Plaid. Packed with 1950s songs including ‘Magic Moments’, ‘Catch a Falling Star’, ‘Cry’, ‘Love is a Many Splendored Thing’ and ‘Three Coins in a Fountain’, the production runs from 16 December 2020 to 24 January 2021 (press night is […]
42nd Street – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
42nd Street continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 26 January 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just a year after the most spectacular version ever of 42nd Street closed at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Ovation is treating us to the most intimate ever as the company’s eagerly-awaited yearly musical […]
Nice Work If You Can Get It – Upstairs At The Gatehouse
Nice Work If You Can Get It continues at Upstairs At The Gatehouse, London until 27 January 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Gatehouse has done it again with the first-rate UK, and I think European, premiere production of the Gershwin jukebox musical as its 21st Christmas musical offering. One […]
Top Hat – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Top Hat continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 28 January 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★. Featuring songs from the Irving Berlin catalogue (like White Christmas and Holiday Inn), this Fringe premiere of Top Hat is following in the footsteps of successful in-house-productions of the Gershwins’ Crazy For You […]
Strictly’s Joanne Clifton to star in London Fringe production of Top Hat
Strictly Come Dancing reigning champion Joanne Clifton will star in the London Fringe premiere of the stage version of the classic 1935 film Top Hat at North London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse in December. Clifton, who starred in the touring production of Thoroughly Modern Millie this year, will follow in the footsteps of Hollywood Golden […]
Anything Goes – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Anything Goes continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 29 January 2017. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It can be more than a little frustrating for the musical theatre lover that because of commercial imperatives, such as a title having to be familiar at all costs, the list of frequently revived […]
Anything Goes at Upstairs at the Gatehouse – casting details
Casting has been announced for Ovation’s revival of the Cole Porter classic musical Anything Goes at Highgate’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse opening next month. Taryn Erickson will make her UK musical debut alongside recent graduates Jack McCann and Jack Keane and West End regulars including Samantha Dorsey, David Pendlebury and Nova Skipp. Also in the […]
Wallis: A Certain Person – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Wallis: A Certain Person continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 26 June. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jennifer Selway’s fictionalised account of the troubled relationship between Wallis Simpson and the Prince of Wales counterpoints it against the friendship between a gay valet and a perky maid who often function as commentators. Robert Hazle […]
Legally Blonde the Musical – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Legally Blonde the Musical continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 31 January. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ’Tis the season of goodwill so let’s first go with the positives about Ovation’s version of the hit American musical comedy that launched Sheridan Smith as a shimmering West End star when it […]
Legally Blonde at Upstairs at the Gatehouse – casting revealed
The full cast has been announced for Ovation’s upcoming production of Legally Blonde the Musical due to play London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre this Christmas season. Jodie Jacobs (Rock of Ages) will reprise the role of Paulette she played in the recent Kilworth House production of the show alongside London School of Musical Theatre […]
Legally Blonde is Christmas musical at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Upstairs At the Gatehouse in London’s Highgate will play host to Ovation’s new production of Legally Blonde the Musical this Christmas season. The staging of the multi-award winning show will run at the venue from 16 December 2015 until 31 January 2016. Casting details have yet to be announced, but the creative team is in place and includes: director […]
There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 28 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A nostalgic, funny but quite hard-hitting evening among the warm theatrical Gatehouse community sees a long-held idea of Ovation’s director John Plews brought gutsily to life by close […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Singin’ in the Rain continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 25 January. Although everybody remembers Gene Kelly’s magical dancing-in-rain, splashing-in-puddles, getting-soaked routine from the timeless 1952 Hollywood movie, it was London that eventually translated Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s screenplay into a stage musical when Tommy Steele directed and starred in it at the Palladium in the […]
Singin’ in the Rain at Upstairs at the Gatehouse – casting revealed
Casting has been revealed for Ovation’s production of Singin’ in the Rain at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in London’s Highgate Village, running from 17 December to 25 January 2015 (press night is 19 December). With a screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed, Singin’ in the Rain […]
The Blonde Bombshells of 1943 – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Blonde Bombshells of 1943 at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 29 June. You probably remember it better as a TV movie with Judi Dench called The Last of the Blonde Bombshells but 14 years on from that we’ve got a revival of the original 1989 version of Alan Plater’s ‘play with music’ at […]
Kiss Me Kate – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Kiss Me Kate continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 26 January 2014. Cole Porter’s lovely Kiss Me Kate (comma deleted in line with the recent Old Vic revival and all the better for it) is one of those special musicals, like West Side Story and My Fair Lady, in which virtually every song […]
