Here Comes J. Edgar! A Comedy Musical continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 16 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This could be the most purely entertaining new musical of the year and it is surely bound for big things.
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Cast for world premiere of Here Comes J Edgar!
The full cast has been confirmed for the upcoming world premiere of comedy musical Here Comes J Edgar!
Already Perfect – King’s Head Theatre
Already Perfect continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 15 February 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This autobiographical tale feels authentic and original, sidestepping the failings of many such pieces.
Goin’ Hollywood – King’s Head Theatre
Goin’ Hollywood was reviewed at the King’s Head Theatre, London. Undeniably, the concept behind the show is innovative and, at first, highly promising.
King of Pangea – King’s Head Theatre
King of Pangea continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 6 July 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ King of Pangea is an intelligent, philosophical and honest theatrical treatise on grief that also happens to be a great deal of swashbuckling fun.
Snap! – King’s Head Theatre
Snap! continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 25 May 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The best thing in this harmless, rather lightweight little 60-minute show is the harmony singing.
Cast and creatives for premiere of King of Pangea
The full cast and creative team have been unveiled for the world premiere of King of Pangea at London’s King’s Head Theatre this summer.
The Offies 2025 – the winners are announced
The winners of the Offies have been announced at a star-studded ceremony, marking the awards’ 15th anniversary. Drag-artist superstar Divina De Campo hosted the night at London’s Central Hall Westminster.
Jerry Mitchell to make debut as producer for the world premiere of King of Pangea in London
Triple Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell is stepping into the role of producer for the first time for the world premiere of King of Pangea in London.
Stalled: A New Musical – King’s Head Theatre
Stalled: A New Musical continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 23 March 2025. Stalled’s premise is an interesting one: the cross section of Seattle people who regularly use one ladies’ room could well have an interesting collection of stories to tell. Sadly, no such stories are in evidence here.
Buyer & Cellar – King’s Head Theatre
Buyer & Cellar continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 19 October 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Rob Madge’s comic timing is at masterclass level.
Diva: Live From Hell – King’s Head Theatre
Diva: Live From Hell continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 29 June 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This solo musical sees Luke Bayer give a mostly mesmeric, increasingly manic and gloriously self-obsessed performance.
New musical theatre announced for Tania Azevedo’s MT Pride Lab season at the King’s Head
The King’s Head Theatre has announced details of Tania Azevedo’s LGBTQ+ musical theatre focused season, MT PrideLab, celebrating the best in developing musical theatre.
Five Questions With: Joel Goodman
Joel Goodman is the producer and composer of Alan Turing: The Musical (with Jan Osborne), beginning a further run at London’s King’s Head Theatre this week (7-18 March 2023).
Fame Whore – King’s Head Theatre
Fame Whore continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 29 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s a bit basic to immediately bring up RuPaul’s Drag Race when reviewing a new drag show but seeing as Fame Whore – an excellent new piece of LGBTQ+ writing now playing at […]
Tom Ratcliffe and Gigi Zahir’s comedy Fame Whore premieres at the King’s Head
The premiere run of Tom Ratcliffe and Gigi Zahir’s outrageous, fast-paced dark comedy Fame Whore, laced with irreverent humour and cabaret songs, continues at London’s King’s Head Theatre until 29 October 2022 (press night is 11 October). Presented by Sarah Allen Productions, it’s a really fun piece, but it’s also pretty hard-hitting – covering our […]
Le Gateau Chocolat debuts new show at the King’s Head Theatre
Cabaret favourite Le Gateau Chocolat has joined forces with London’s King’s Head Theatre for a new opera-inspired show. Written and directed by Le Gateau Chocolat and co-written and narrated by Tommy Bradson, Liminal aims to bridge the gap between the opera star on stage and off. Running until 23 October 2021, each night features a […]
For Queen and Country to open at King’s Head Theatre in November
Writer and director Paul Stone has paid tribute to supporters who have helped ensure his For Queen and Country make its delayed debut at London’s King’s Head Theatre in November. Cancelled by Covid just days before its opening night in March 2020, the show inspired by the extraordinary true story of Denis Rake – the […]
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical – King’s Head Theatre / Plays On Film
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical, streaming via King’s Head Theatre’s Plays On Film. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Although it might have one of the most convoluted titles in recent musical theatre history, I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical follows a fairly simple premise. Four performers […]
Tickle The Musical – King’s Head Theatre,
Tickle The Musical continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 26 October 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The world of male competitive endurance tickling is a phenomenon previously unknown to this reviewer, despite there being a film, Tickled, that has won several awards and was kickstarted by Stephen Fry. […]
High street-inspired Timpson The Musical is heading for London
Edinburgh Festival hit Timpson The Musical will debut in London at the King’s Head Theatre in early 2019. Presented by innovative company Gigglemug Theatre, the show which was named by The Guardian as one of the newspaper’s ‘Best Shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018’ will play the Islington venue from 18 February until […]
Beauty and the Beast: A Musical Parody – King’s Head Theatre
Beauty and the Beast: A Musical Parody continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 17 November 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Fat Rascal’s production of Beauty and the Beast is billed as a musical parody, and parody it certainly does. With a vengeance. It might be more accurate to bill it […]
Shortlist revealed for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018
As part of Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe, Musical Theatre Review will once again be making an award for the Best Musical. This is to recognise excellence in the challenging form of musical theatre and to highlight the best of the genre in the 2018 programme. This is an exceptional year for musical theatre with the themes […]
Holy Crap! – King’s Head Theatre
Holy Crap! continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 30 June. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The Heather Brothers – past masters of pastiche – return to the London stage with Holy Crap! – a ‘satirical’ burlesque that takes a sideways look at two industries ripe for ridicule: televangelism and porn. Think Rocky Horror and […]
Heather Brothers musical Holy Crap to debut at the King’s Head
West End stars John Addison and Arvid Larsen will head the cast of new musical comedy Holy Crap when it opens at London’s King’s Head Theatre next month. The latest from The Heather Brothers, the writing partnership behind the award winning A Slice of Saturday Night, the show follows the arrival in the UK of […]
2 Become 1 – King’s Head Theatre
2 Become 1 continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 29 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s the 1990s, when playing snake on your Nokia mobile phone was a form of entertainment and there was (wait for it) no Twitter. No wonder at the start of Swipe Right Theatre’s […]
Adam & Eve and Steve – King’s Head Theatre
Adam & Eve and Steve continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 29 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This frisky, oddly old-fashioned show (music by Wayne Moore; book and lyrics by Chandler Warren), did very well at Edinburgh last year and it’s easy to see why. A five-hander with jolly songs […]
Girl power-fuelled 2 Become 1 returns to the King’s Head Theatre
Kerrie Thomason and Natasha Granger’s nineties girl power play 2 Become 1 returns to London’s King’s Head Theatre in April. Following sell-out runs at two successive Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and a run at the Islington venue last year, the show – taking its audience on a female-fuelled trip through the music and mood of 1990s Britain – will run […]
Thelma Ruby – That’s Entertainment – King’s Head Theatre
Thelma Ruby – That’s Entertainment at the King’s Head Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ By any account, this was an extraordinary entertainment. At 91 years old, Thelma Ruby has surely set records tumbling, presenting her one woman show of anecdotes, sketches and songs from a stage career that has […]
Interview – That’s Entertainment with Thelma Ruby – 91 not out
At the age of 91 actress THELMA RUBY is returning to the stage for her one-woman show That’s Entertainment, part of the Festival 46 events at the King’s Head, Islington. Here she talks about her long and very varied career… You presumably inherited your acting talents from your mother who was a music hall singer, […]
Veteran actress Thelma Ruby to return to the stage
Ninety-one-year-old stage and screen actress Thelma Ruby has been tempted out of retirement to take centrestage in the King’s Head Theatre’s inaugural Festival 46. The actress will offer audiences a glimpse into a 70-year career that has included roles alongside theatrical legends including Ian Carmichael, Judi Dench, Michael Horden and Terence Rattigan, in a revival […]
Devilish! – Landor Theatre
Devilish! continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 29 May. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Slow to start with some very wonky singing in the early numbers, this is a show which improves as the evening progresses. Alex Green is an angel. He arrives from heaven and crash lands in a […]
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens – King’s Head Theatre
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 21 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Having kept meaning to see Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens but failing dismally, I was unsure what to expect, but I have to say the experience entirely exceeded my expectations. From the opening number, […]
Something Something Lazarus – King’s Head Theatre
Something Something Lazarus continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 2 April. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Described as a new British (Broken) Musical; a dark comedy about resurrections, second chances and the healing power of performance, Something Something Lazarus is presented by Broken Cabaret in association with the King’s Head Theatre. […]
Lovett + Todd – King’s Head Theatre
Lovett + Todd continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 1 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It’s an audacious theatre company that tackles a brand new musical inspired by Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. But it’s the kind of audacity that we’ve come to expect from Another Soup, creators of […]
The Flannelettes – King’s Head Theatre
The Flannelettes continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 6 June. Rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Mike Bradwell (founder of Hull Truck and previous artistic director at the Bush theatre) is making his return to London theatre with Richard Cameron’s drama The Flannelettes (previous collaborations have included The Glee Club and Going […]
Shock Treatment – King’s Head Theatre
Shock Treatment continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 6 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Following the huge success of The Rocky Horror Show on stage, Richard O’Brien was able to capture the beast on celluloid although the movie originally failed to make much of an impact with the general public at the time. […]
Dorian Gray – King’s Head Theatre
Dorian Gray continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 12 April. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ “I have the simplest tastes,” said Oscar Wilde famously. “I am always satisfied with the best.” If this was the case, then Mr Wilde would perhaps be left wanting after experiencing Another Soup’s musical exploration of his only novel. […]
Rocky Horror sequel Shock Treatment to be staged at the King’s Head
Nearly a quarter of a century after its film release, creator Richard O’Brien and composer Richard Hartley have collaborated with Tarquin Productions to bring Shock Treatment – the sequel to cult hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show – to the stage for the first time. The world premiere production will run at London’s King’s Head Theatre from 17 April to 6 […]
Once We Lived Here – King’s Head Theatre
Once We Lived Here continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 26 April. A musical based on the gritty, dour reality of family life and interwoven personal problems on a remote sheep shearing station in Australia doesn’t seem the most promising scenario for a joyous night out. Certainly, for the most part, Act I […]
