A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) was performed at the Young Vic Theatre, London as part of the venue’s Shedinburgh season. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Bright, silly, sad and surprisingly affecting, the shows earns its optimism rather than forcing it.
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Stage musical version of wrestling film Fighting With My Family in development
A major new musical based on Stephen Merchant’s cult British wrestling film Fighting With My Family is in development.
Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! – Ambassadors Theatre
Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! continues at the Ambassadors Theatre until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bringing undeniable joy and murder-themed escapism to London audiences, this is surely set to be a “killer” London run.
Cast for West End run of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The full cast has been announced for the West End transfer season of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! at the Ambassadors Theatre. The show was the winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022.
West End date set for Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
Award-winning musical comedy Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! is heading for London’s West End to play a limited season at the Ambassadors Theatre.
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Underbelly, George Square – Udderbelly until 27 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Cast and creatives for new-look Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The producers of the new expanded version of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! have confirmed the full cast and creative team for the hit show’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe encore and Bristol and Manchester dates.
Edinburgh encore plus Bristol and Manchester dates for MTR Award-winner Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
A new expanded version of Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! will return to Edinburgh this summer before playing dates in Bristol and Manchester.
Writers celebrate second Musical Theatre Review Award as Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder wins Best Musical at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder at Roundabout @ Summerhall has won Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022. It is the second time writers Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones have won the accolade, they also took away MTR’s inaugural prize for A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super […]
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I was promised that I would laugh – and that’s a safe promise in this runaway hit show. A packed audience laughed practically the whole way through. Playing Kathy and Stella […]
MTR Award-winner A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Sad) among four Seabright Productions to be streamed
New productions of cabaret-musical A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), the Nina Simone-inspired Black Is The Color Of My Voice, FRIEND (The One With Gunther) and Quentin Crisp:Naked Hope will be streamed worldwide next month. Curated by Olivier Award-winning producer James Seabright, the four productions were filmed last month in front of a […]
Billionaire Boy The Musical – NST City, Southampton and Touring
Billionaire Boy The Musical continues at NST City, Southampton until 6 January 2019 and then on tour. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ David Walliams’ children’s stories are familiar to many of us. Recently dominating the BBC’s family Christmas programming with highly popular screen adaptations, Walliams’ third book for children, Billionaire Boy, has […]
Inaugral MTR Winner A Super Happy Story heads out on UK tour
The winner of Musical Theatre Review’s first Best New Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) has launched its first UK tour. Co-produced by Hull UK City of Culture and marking award-winning Silent Uproar Productions’ first UK tour, the show which also won the Fringe First […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – top ten musical theatre tips
Musical Theatre Review contributor Fiona Orr offers her Top Ten Musical Theatre Tips for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe… Tom and Bunny Save the World (Fat Rascal Theatre) A show promising ‘serious political content’ alongside zombies and how pints are cheaper in Yorkshire must be worthy of consideration. ‘Whilst at its heart a comedy, Tom and […]
