Singin’ in the Rain continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 25 January 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
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Music Review: Marisha Wallace – Live in London
Marisha Wallace – Live in London (Westway Music, Center Stage Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Marisha Wallace’s personable, conversational delivery and vocal quality are sublime as ever.
101 Dalmatians The Musical – Eventim Apollo
101 Dalmatians The Musical continues at the Eventim Apollo, London until 30 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a great night out – no strings attached!
Full cast for world premiere of Austenland
The full cast has been confirmed for the world premiere of a new musical based on Shannon Hale’s 2007 best-selling novel Austenland later this month.
Star casts lined up for MTFestUK 2024
West End favourites Miriam-Teak Lee (& Juliet), Laura Baldwin (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella), Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie & Clyde), Rebecca Lock (Elf The Musical) and Declan Bennett (Jesus Christ Superstar) will be among the actors to appear at MTFestUK 2024.
West End debut for Off-Broadway hit Emojiland
Off-Broadway hit Emojiland will make its West End debut for a one night only concert performance at the Garrick Theatre later this month. Featuring music by Keith Harrison Dworkin, and a book and lyrics by Dworkin and Laura Schein, the award-winning new musical will arrive in London on 31 October. The new production of the […]
Cinderella – Gillian Lynne Theatre
Cinderella continues at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Variants of the Cinderella story exist wherever folk tales have thrived. These days, we tend to regard the version collected by Charles Perrault as “the” version of the story – pumpkin, fairy godmother, glass slippers and all – […]
World premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is set for 25 August 2021
After a period of enforced closure, the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella will be on 25 August 2021. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, written by Academy Award winning Emerald Fennell (Best Original Screenplay Oscar in April 2021) and with lyrics from David Zippel, the brand new musical will resume performances at the Gillian […]
What do we really know about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s misfit Cinderella?
Emily Shepherd writes: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is set to break stereotypes of the traditional Cinderella narrative that we’re all familiar with. Set to have its gala opening this week at London’s Gillian Lynne Theatre, the cast and creatives have given little away about the new interpretation of the classic fairy tale, keeping fans on […]
Rebecca Trehearn, Georgina Castle, Laura Baldwin & Gloria Onitiri join the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella
The full cast has been announced for the forthcoming world premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, with Rebecca Trehearn as The Queen, Georgina Castle and Laura Baldwin as Cinderella’s stepsisters Marie and Adele and Gloria Onitiri as The Godmother. They join Carrie Hope Fletcher as Cinderella, Ivano Turco as Prince Sebastian and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt […]
Roles We’ll Never Play – West End to be streamed to home audiences
A live recording of last month’s West End debut of the popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will be streamed to home audiences next weekend. Featuring a cast of over 25 the performance which was filmed live during the concert’s sold-out run at London’s Apollo Theatre in December will be streamed via stream.theatre at […]
West End debut for Roles We’ll Never Play series
The popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will make its West End debut at London’s Apollo Theatre in December. Following two successful years of sold-out concerts in the capital, Roles We’ll Never Play West End on 7 December 2020 will once again offer a host of West End favourites the chance to perform songs […]
Dear Evan Hansen tops the bill at Mousetrap Awards
Dear Evan Hansen was the big winner at the ninth annual Mousetrap Awards as the UK’s only theatre awards run by and for young people moved online as the lockdown continues. The Broadway hit that opened at London’s Noel Coward Theatre in November last year, collected four awards with actors Sam Tutty and Rebecca McKinnis, […]
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical – Churchill Theatre, Bromley and Touring
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical continues at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley until 18 January and then tours until 29 August 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Beautiful – The Carole King Musical tells the true, inspiring story of Carole King, an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent, and her remarkable […]
Hannah Tointon is the new Dawn in West End’s Waitress
Hollyoaks favourite Hannah Tointon will join the cast of hit show Waitress in December when the former soap star will step into the role of Dawn. Following in the footsteps of Blake Harrison, her co-star in hit show The Inbetweeners who took on the role of Ogie earlier this year, Tointon will step into a […]
Katharine McPhee serves up one last Waitress treat
Outgoing Waitress leading lady Katharine McPhee has recorded the show’s hit ballad ‘She Used to Be Mine’ for release as she serves up her last performance in the hit West End production on Saturday (15 June 2019). McPhee’s exclusive version of the showstopping song is now available for download and on streaming platforms via https://linkto/NywiPtpH […]
Stars to join British Theatre Academy performers for special performance of Godspell
West End favourites Laura Baldwin, Luke Bayer, Max Bowden, Rachel John and Ramin Karimloo will appear alongside students from the British Theatre Academy in a semi-staged production of Godspell at London’s Cadogan Hall on 29 June 2019. Announcing the line-up of guest performers, BTA artistic director Matthew Chandler said: “I am so excited about this […]
Special after-show karaoke for Waitress UK theatregoers
Fans of the hit Broadway show Waitress have an extra treat in store when the musical makes its eagerly-anticipated UK debut at London’s Adelphi Theatre with the announcement of the first ever ‘Cast Album Karaoke Nights’. Following the performances on Tuesday 19 February and Monday 18 March 2019, theatregoers will be given the chance to […]
Star of hit US comedy 30 Rock Jack McBrayer joins Waitress London cast
Emmy-nominated 30 Rock star Jack McBrayer is the latest addition to the cast of the eagerly-anticipated UK debut of the hit Broadway show Waitress. The American film and television actor, whose distinctive voice can be heard in hit animated films including Despicable Me and in the lead role of Fix-It Felix in Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, […]
Marisha Wallace and David Hunter join the West End cast of Waitress
Further principal casting has been announced for the eagerly-anticipated UK premiere of hit Broadway show Waitress at London’s Adelphi Theatre early next year. Joining the previously announced Katharine McPhee, who will make her West End debut in the title role, will be fellow American, Marisha Wallace, who made her own West End debut last year […]
Eugenius! – The Other Palace
Eugenius! continues at The Other Palace, London until 21 October 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A baby milk dependent villain. His nefarious robot sidekick voiced by Mark Hamill. Brian Blessed narrating… and rapping. All this and more awaits you in Eugenius! With such pop-culture titans lending their talent and a […]
West End stars for Eugenius! Other Palace return
Rob Houchen will take the leading role in the Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! when it returns to The Other Palace in September 2018 for a six-week season. Houchen (Titanic, Broken Wings), who will play central character Eugene, is one of a number of West End favourites lined up to play key […]
Eugenius! – The Other Palace
Eugenius! continues at The Other Palace, London until 3 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Paul Taylor Mills has chosen a new British musical to celebrate The Other Palace’s first year in business, and while this might seem a risky move, it’s a well mitigated one. Eugenius is co-written by […]
Full cast for Eugenius! at The Other Palace
American Liam Forde will make his UK theatre debut in the Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! which will follow up last year’s world premiere concert performance with a full-scale production at The Other Palace in 2018. Forde will take on the central role of Eugene opposite one of the stars of […]
