Two musicals, Wicked and Emilia Pérez, made the final ten for Oscars night on 2 March after nominations for Hollywood’s big night were eventually announced last week.
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Wicked movie wins Golden Globe for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
The movie version of West End and Broadway mega-hit Wicked took home the second Golden Globe Award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the weekend’s star-studded ceremony.
Musical Theatre Review editor Lisa Martland reviews the Wicked movie on Andrew Tomlins’ West End Frame Show
To mark the release of part one of the Wicked movie, Musical Theatre Review editor joined podcast supremo Andrew Tomlins on the West End Frame Show to discuss the momentous occasion.
A conversation with Stephen Schwartz: Pippin, that Wicked movie and an astonishing career as a composer
When STEPHEN SCHWARTZ was just 26 years old, he had three successful shows running on Broadway simultaneously. Four and a half decades later, with Wicked about to join The Prince of Egypt in reopening after the Covid closures, and Charing Cross Theatre’s psychedelic production of Pippin extending its run to 3 October 2021, the legendary […]
Film Review: ’A spellbinding cinematic firework’ – In The Heights
In the Heights, now playing in cinemas. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Many years before Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical was In The Heights: a love letter to the neighbourhood in which he grew up. It is arguably less technically sophisticated than his later Pulitzer Prize-winning ode to America’s first treasury secretary, […]
In The Heights movie debuts in cinemas – Watch the first eight minutes
The new film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning In The Heights debuts in UK cinemas this month. Brought to the big screen by Jon M. Chu, the director of the critic and crowd-pleasing Crazy Rich Asians, the film version of the Hamilton creator’s first Tony Award-winning musical stars Anthony Ramos, the actor/singer and songwriter who […]
