The Barricade Boys: West End Party at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
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Barricade Boys to play London and Cardiff shows
Fresh from a successful US tour, Les Misérables inspired male vocal group The Barricade Boys have announced plans for a special homecoming show in London’s West End later this year.
Star line up for West End for Ukraine at the Charing Cross Theatre
A top line-up of West End stars will be taking to the stage at West End for Ukraine on 9 May 2022 at the Charing Cross Theatre. The musical fundraiser is in aid of the UNICEF Ukraine Emergency Appeal, raising vital urgent funds for children in desperate need. The line-up for West End for Ukraine […]
The Other Palace rehomes Vault Festival shows and announces new musicals Love is only Love and Millennials
The Other Palace has announced that it has been able to support several shows that were due to perform in the cancelled Vault Festival, in The Other Palace Studio. Two musicals – Love is only Love written by Sam Harrison returns following its sold out debut at The Other Palace, and Millennials with music, book […]
Cast for Heathers The Musical’s Other Palace encore run
Ailsa Davidson and Freddie King will take on the central roles as Veronica Sawyer and Jason ‘J.D’ Dean when Heathers The Musical returns to its original London home The Other Palace later this month. They will be joined by Emma Kingston, Inez Budd and Teleri Hughes as ‘The Heathers’ with Vicki Lee Taylor as Ms. […]
West End favourites to star in A Musical Theatre Christmas at The Actors’ Church
A host of West End musical theatre performers will bring a touch of festive magic to The Actors’ Church in Covent Garden with a one-night only Christmas concert on 5 December 2021. Produced by Mark Robert Petty, the evening of musical theatre festive favourites, traditional carols and seasonal songs will feature: Roshani Abbey, Lewis Asquith, […]
Star line-up for CheerUp Charlie Gala
A host of musical theatre favourites will join inspirational young anti-bullying campaigner Charlie Kristensen at The Actors’ Church in Covent Garden for his fundraising event, #CheerUp Charlie – The Show on 31 October 2021. Produced by Mark Robert Petty, the gala performance will feature: Lewis Asquith, Lizzie Bea, Nikki Bentley, Daniel Boys, Kieran Brown, Robin […]
The Barricade Boys announce Bring Him Home Tour for 2022
Musical theatre group The Barricade Boys are heading back on the road in 2022, with their new Bring Him Home Tour. Starring past performers from the global theatrical sensation that is Les Misérables, The Barricade Boys have entertained fans around the world since they formed in 2015 and now they are visiting towns and cities […]
Anderson and Petty announce virtual concert A Christmas Wish in aid of Acting For Others
Songwriters Anderson and Petty have announced A Christmas Wish, a virtual concert with West End stars from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Six: The Musical, Wicked and more, available to stream at select times from 17-20 December 2020. The concert is hosted by Ben Stock and Hilary O’Neil and is in aid of theatrical charity Acting For Others who provide emotional and financial support to […]
Five Questions With: Kieran Brown
There have been occasions during 2020 when actor and singer KIERAN BROWN has been able to perform, not least a concert with The Barricade Boys on the jetty at the Turbine Theatre and his own Halloween cabaret at Above The Stag Theatre. However, it is his skills as a photographer which have come to the […]
New cabaret season launched at Above The Stag
Multi-award-winning West End star Janie Dee (Carousel, National Theatre, Hello Dolly!, Curve) will feature in conversation with actor, writer, director and radio presenter Tim McArthur this weekend as part of a new season of socially distanced cabaret at London’s Above The Stag Theatre. Featuring a mix of cabaret, musical theatre, LGBT+ poetry, comedy and drag […]
Scottish stars team up for key workers’ tribute
Stage and screen favourites John Barrowman, Elaine C Smith and Alex Norton have joined a group of Scottish West End performers to record a special version of ‘Beautiful City’ to pay tribute to NHS and key workers. Produced by Scots in the City and shared on their YouTube channel, the video version of the song […]
Barn Theatre launches virtual concert series
Cirencester’s Barn Theatre will launch a new virtual concert series showcasing the work of Britain’s musical theatre composers on Saturday 9 May 2020. Launching at 7.30pm BST on the venue’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter channels, The Barn Theatre Presents series will begin with a star-studded celebration of the music of the award-winning Welsh songwriters Daniel […]
The Barricade Boys and star guests unite for NHS-inspired performance of ‘Bring Him Home’
The Barricade Boys have joined forces with a number of fellow Les Misérables stars to perform a special version of ‘Bring Him Home’ in a tribute to NHS staff on the frontline during the coronavirus crisis. With an introduction by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, the virtual performance features the popular musical theatre-themed group alongside […]
Scots In The City returns to mark Burns Night with a special show at Above The Arts
West End star Kieran Brown will take to the stage alongside a host of fellow Scots at London’s Above The Arts next week on 24 January 2019 to celebrate Burns Night. Following a successful launch at the Arts Theatre in 2017, and a Burns Night special last year at The Other Palace Theatre, the third […]
Barricade Boys to launch UK tour in March
Les Misérables’ inspired male vocal group The Barricade Boys will follow up their sold-out festive three-week season at the Studio at The Other Palace with a UK tour. Launching on 11 March at Charing Cross Theatre, the tour will take in dates at Aylesbury’s Waterside Theatre (12 March), York’s Grand Opera House (15 March), Folkestone’s […]
Casting for UK and Ireland tour of Titanic The Musical
Eleven actors who have previously played roles in Titanic The Musical are among the full cast for the production’s eagerly-anticipated UK and Ireland tour. Due to visit the cities and communities most closely associated with the doomed ship, Thom Southerland’s critically-acclaimed production of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical is due to launch its UK and Ireland […]
Interview – Kieran Brown teams up with Shona White for Scots In the City on Burns Night
KIERAN BROWN and Shona White are coming together once again, this time to celebrate Burns Night (25 January) at London’s The Other Palace with the very best of Scotland’s musical heritage and musical theatre. Scots In the City launched at the Arts Theatre in November 2017 and now the duo has returned for round two, but […]
Scots in the City to celebrate Burns Night at The Other Palace
West End stars Shona White and Kieran Brown will bring a touch of tartan to London’s The Other Palace later this month to celebrate Burns Night. A celebratory re-working of the duo’s sellout Scots in the City show which played the Arts Theatre in the capital in November, Scots in the City – Burns Night […]
The Barricade Boys – Christmas Cabaret – The Other Palace
The Barricade Boys – Christmas Cabaret continues at The Other Palace, London until 23 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Barricade Boys are back for a festive three-week season at The Other Palace. The quartet was launched by Scott Garnham and Simon Schofield in 2015 and brings together some of […]
West End favourites line up to join The Barricade Boys’ Christmas shows
Les Misérables-inspired male vocal group The Barricade Boys has revealed a star-studded list of guest stars lined up to join them during their festive three-week season at the Studio at The Other Palace next month. School of Rock’s Gary Trainor will take to the stage with the group on the first night (5 December), with […]
Barricade Boys to play Christmas season at The Other Palace
Les Misérables’ inspired male vocal group The Barricade Boys will play a festive three-week season at The Other Palace this December. The brainchild of Scott Garnham and his business partner Simon Schofield, the group was first launched in 2015 with plans to feature male singers who all had one thing in common – they had […]
Zedel return for Joan Vazquez’s Sondheim show
Spanish artist Joan Vázquez will return to London next month with his celebration of musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim, Something’s Coming – a Sondheim Tribute. The performer, who made his London debut last autumn as part of the launch season of entertainment concept Live At Zédel, will once again appear at the Crazy Coqs on […]
Hippodrome concert to celebrate Alexander Bermange’s Wit & Whimsy
Musical theatre favourites will take to the stage at London’s Hippodrome on Sunday (30 April) to celebrate the work of musical comedy composer Alexander S. Bermange. Celebrating the launch of Whit & Whimsy, a double album of the writer’s songs recorded by a star-studded line-up of stage and screen favourites, the live show will feature performances […]
West End Wilma Awards charity single raises money for relaxed theatre performances
One of the nominees for this year’s West End Wilma Award for Best Understudy, Kieran Brown (The Phantom of the Opera) will debut this year’s awards charity single at the ceremony at the Hippodrome Casino today (Friday 4 November). ‘No Awards For You’ (a song for bad losers everywhere) is Brown’s tongue-in-cheek look at what […]
Caroline Sheen – Feeling Lucky – Live At Zedel
Caroline Sheen – Feeling Lucky at Live At Zedel, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Feeling Lucky weren’t exactly the words used by the golden-voiced Caroline Sheen when she arrived at Live At Zedel with laddered tights and no spare pair, but by the end of a great-value, fun-filled set it was her […]
Kieran Brown returns to Vienna for one-off concert West End Meets Broadway!
Kieran Brown, currently cover Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, will return to Vienna, where he was last seen in concert at the Theater Drachengasse and in Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick… Boom!, for West End Meets Broadway on Sunday 22 November at Vienna’s English Theatre. He will be joined by Suzanne Carey Kirchner (Die Schöne […]
Kieran Brown and guests – Union Theatre
Kieran Brown performed Music That Matters with a selection of guest artists at the Union Theatre, London. Beginning with a low-key entrance, and unusually the lights up rather than dimmed, actor and singer Kieran Brown (currently appearing in the Rodgers and Hammerstein piece Pipe Dream at the Union Theatre) opened with a gentle medley of ‘Someone’s Waiting […]
New musical Stealing Mona Lisa has showcase
Stealing Mona Lisa, a new musical, has a showcase reading at the Concert Artistes’ Association in Covent Garden, London. In August 1911 an Italian patriot stole Leonardo Da Vinci’s celebrated painting of the Mona Lisa (aka La Gioconda or La Joconde) from the Louvre Museum in Paris, believing that one of the greatest works of Italian […]
