Gordon Greenberg will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory to direct a major revival of Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s The Baker’s Wife this summer.
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Rags: The Musical – Park Theatre
Rags: The Musical continues at the Park Theatre, London until 8 February 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In an early scene of this musical about the New York Jewish immigrant experience in the early 20th century, Carolyn Maitland’s expert seamstress Rebecca is berated by Jack (Jeremy Rose), the dressmaker for […]
Enter Laughing: The Musical continues at The York Theatre Company, New York
Enter Laughing: The Musical continues at The York Theatre Company, New York until 9 June 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For audiences with a deep nostalgia for old-time Hollywood and rather rosy feelings about getting through the hard times of the Great Depression, the Off-Broadway revival of Enter Laughing: The […]
Full company for Menier Chocolate Factory’s Fiddler On the Roof
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for Trevor Nunn’s eagerly-anticipated new staging of the much-loved classic Fiddler On the Roof. Quadruple Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn (Chess, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Imperial Theatre, New York) will play Golde opposite Andy Nyman (Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory, Hangmen, Wyndham’s Theatre) as the title […]
Fiddler On the Roof – Chichester Festival Theatre
Fiddler On the Roof continues at the Chichester Festival Theatre until 2 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Who would have thought that a musical set in an Ukrainian Shtetl, that tells of the persecution and eviction of Jews from their homeland, would prove to be such a durable success. Such […]
The Baker’s Wife – Drayton Arms Theatre
The Baker’s Wife continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 4 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The French obsession with bread – even over the whereabouts of a loved-up runaway baker’s wife – is at the core of Stephen Schwartz’s sweet and tuneful musical comedy that never quite made it in the […]
Maureen Lipman leads cast of Rags the Musical in Concert
Maureen Lipman has joined the cast of Rags the Musical in Concert, the show written by Joseph Stein, Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz, which will be presented for one night only on Monday 28 April at London’s Lyric Theatre. All proceeds from the performance go to Centrepoint – the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. […]
Rags the Musical in Concert – casting revealed
Casting details have been revealed for Rags the Musical in Concert, the musical written by Joseph Stein, Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz, which will be presented for one night only on Monday 28 April at London’s Lyric Theatre. All proceeds from the performance go to Centrepoint – the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. […]
Rags the Musical in Concert for one night only
Rags the Musical in Concert – the musical written by Joseph Stein, Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz – will be presented for one night only on Monday 28 April at London’s Lyric Theatre. All proceeds from the performance go to Centrepoint – the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. Produced on Broadway in 1986, […]
