Following on from the successful London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s innovative Starlight Express, the first initial dates and venues have been revealed for the musical’s eagerly anticipated first world tour.
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First casting news for Bank of Dave The Musical
Producers ROYO, Future Artists Entertainment, Curve and The Lowry have announced initial casting for the world premiere of Bank of Dave The Musical in May.
Leicester run for Public – The Musical
The award-winning Public – The Musical will play Leicester Curve’s Studio Theatre from 30 May until 13 June 2026.
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – Curve Leicester and Touring
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it continues until 22 March 2025. The tour continues until 4 April 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
UK premiere of Muriel’s Wedding musical – the full company
The full cast has been confirmed for the UK premiere of a hit musical based on the much-loved ABBA-flavoured Australian movie Muriel’s Wedding at Leicester’s Curve Theatre next spring.
My Fair Lady – Leicester Curve
My Fair Lady continues at Leicester Curve until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ With Lerner and Loewe’s classic score behind it, there is still a lot of ‘loverly’ things in this timeless show.
Double win for Leeds Playhouse’s Oliver! at the UK Theatre Awards
The winners of this year’s UK Theatre Awards have been announced at a ceremony hosted by Faye Tozer, which took place at 8 Northumberland Avenue. The UK Theatre Awards celebrate the very best of theatre across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Awards are given for creative excellence and outstanding work both on and off […]
Hairspray – Leicester Curve and Touring
Hairspray continues at Leicester Curve until 28 September 2024. The tour continues until 19 April 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Hairspray is a high-haired huge-hearted hit and is always a must-see show whenever it plays our stages.
Curve’s Muriel’s Wedding – first casting news
Rising star Megan Ellis will take on the title role in the UK premiere of a hit musical based on the much-loved ABBA-flavoured 1994 Australian movie Muriel’s Wedding at Leicester Curve next spring.
101 Dalmatians – Leicester Curve and Touring
101 Dalmatians was reviewed at Leicester Curve where it continues until 27 July 2024. The tour continues until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s apparent how much work has gone into tightening 101 Dalmatians since the Regent’s Park run, and it’s all the better for it. A colourful and fun musical, with plenty of bark and bite to make it a great watch for all the family.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Leicester Curve and Touring
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie continues at Leicester Curve until 20 July 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
A Chorus Line – Leicester Curve and Touring
A Chorus Line continues at Leicester Curve until 13 July 2024. The tour continues until 5 October 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Curve team has tightened up and improved upon their already-excellent production, and it really does shine a wonderful light on this world of theatre that we love.
Blood Brothers – Leicester Curve and Touring
Blood Brothers was reviewed at Leicester Curve. The tour continues until 7 December 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Performed with pure conviction by a talented cast, the musical remains its true authentic self and essential viewing for anyone who has yet to experience it, and a rewarding night out for those returning to it again and again.
Newsfeed: London encore for touring Wizard of Oz, Beverley Knight records new Sister Act single, 42 Balloons EP released
The UK and Ireland tour of Leicester Curve’s hit production of The Wizard of Oz will conclude its crowd-pleasing UK and Ireland tour with an encore season in London this summer.
Come From Away – Leicester Curve and Touring
Come From Away was reviewed at Leicester Curve where it runs until 9 March 2024. The tour continues until 5 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you’ve seen it before, you already know how good it is. And if you haven’t, “Welcome To The Rock” indeed. You won’t want to leave.
The Wizard of Oz – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield and Touring
The Wizard of Oz was reviewed at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield where it runs until 3 February 2024. The tour continues until 11 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★★ ★ ✩ Leaving Kansas behind and heading out for its first UK tour after a successful West End run, Dorothy, Toto and company do their […]
My Fair Lady will be Curve’s Christmas 2024 musical
Leicester Curve’s musical Christmas present this year will be a new production of Lerner and Loewe’s timeless My Fair Lady.
Newsfeed 23 November 2023: Mel Giedroyc in Starter For Ten, new production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and & Juliet to celebrate German premiere
Mel Giedroyc completes Starter For Ten musical cast Mel Giedroyc is one of the final additions to the cast for the new University Challenge-inspired musical Starter For Ten ahead of its world premiere at Bristol Old Vic early next year. The comedian, actress, presenter and writer whose theatre credits include The Crown Jewels at the […]
Full cast for Curve’s Evita
Leicester Curve has unveiled the full cast for the venue’s highly anticipated new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita later this year.
Aston Merrygold and The Vivienne to star in The Wizard of Oz
Pop star Aston Merrygold will step into the role of The Tin Man when Leicester Curve’s hit new production of The Wizard of Oz follows its London Palladium summer season with a festive run at the Liverpool Empire. The JLS singer will appear alongside RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne as The Wicked Witch of the West in the production which will run from 13 December 2023 until 7 January 2024.
First dates and venues announced for first UK and Ireland tour of Come From Away
The producers of the multi-award-winning Come From Away have announced the first dates and venues for the West End production’s first UK and Ireland tour.
First UK and Ireland tour of Bonnie & Clyde The Musical
Following two successful West End seasons, the DLAP group’s hit production of Bonnie & Clyde The Musical will embark on its first major UK and Ireland tour early next year.
World premiere and two classic musicals to feature in NYMT’s summer season
The world premiere of the stage musical adaptation of Lara Williamson’s best-selling novel The Boy Who Sailed The Ocean In An Armchair is one of three major musical productions to feature in the National Youth Music Theatre’s (NYMT) summer season.
Palladium’s The Wizard of Oz finds its Dorothy – Georgina Onuorah
Georgina Onuorah will return to the central role of Dorothy when Leicester Curve’s hit new production of The Wizard of Oz arrives at the London Palladium this summer.
Jason Manford and Ashley Banjo to star in Palladium’s Wizard of Oz plus UK tour announced
Jason Manford and Ashley Banjo will be following the yellow brick road to the London Palladium this summer when Leicester Curve’s hit production of The Wizard of Oz arrives in London before embarking on a UK tour.
UK Theatre Awards – the winners
Leicester Curve’s Billy Elliot was crowned Best Musical Production when the UK Theatre Awards returned to London’s Guildhall at the weekend after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
Cast confirmed for Curve’s festive Wizard of Oz
Leicester Curve has unveiled the full cast for the regional premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of The Wizard of Oz this Christmas. As previously announced, Georgina Onuorah (Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre, Millennials, The Other Palace Studio) will make her Curve debut as Dorothy. Onuorah will take to the yellow brick road alongside Jonny Fines […]
UK Theatre Awards 2022 – The nominees
Leicester Curve’s Billy Elliot, Storyhouse Chester’s Now Is Good, and the Watermill Theatre’s production of Whistle Down the Wind will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards 2022. Returning after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the three hit shows are of among the 2022 nominees […]
Curve casts Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
Rising star Georgina Onuorah will star as Dorothy in Leicester Curve’s eagerly anticipated regional premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of The Wizard of Oz this Christmas. Part of the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, Onuorah who made her stage debut in Dick Whittington at the National Theatre, […]
The Color Purple – Birmingham Hippodrome and Touring
The Color Purple was reviewed at Birmingham Hippodrome and continues touring until 5 November 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Color Purple. A heart-pounding story that began as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, transformed into a Steven Spielberg award-winning movie, to then take the Broadway stage by storm, winning Tony Awards […]
Cast for The Color Purple tour
Me’Sha Bryan will lead the cast of Leicester’s Curve Theatre and Birmingham Hippodrome’s hit production of The Color Purple as it hits the road for the first time across England and Wales this autumn. Bryan (Romantics Anonymous, Bristol Old Vic, Caroline, or Change, The Playhouse Theatre) will play Celie alongside Bree Smith (The Wiz, Hope […]
National Youth Music Theatre – Chess
Chess, performed by National Youth Music Theatre, continues at Leicester Curve until 13 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following hot on the heels of last week’s Drury Lane concert production, another variation of the musical Chess is being performed at Leicester’s Curve theatre this week by the National Youth Music Theatre […]
Hit show Annie to embark on third UK tour in 2023
Michael Harrison and David Ian’s hit production of Annie will embark on a UK tour next year, opening at Leicester Curve on 25 February 2023. Directed by Nikolai Foster with set and costume design by Colin Richmond, choreography by Nick Winston, lighting by Ben Cracknell and sound design by Richard Brooker, the popular version of […]
Slight delay for Curve’s Billy Elliot debut
Leicester Curve’s new production of the multi-award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical will open slightly later than planned after rehearsals were hit by a number of Covid-19 cases. Directed by Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster, the first new production of the hit show will now begin performances on 13 July 2022, just under a week later […]
The three faces of The Cher Show revealed
Debbie Kurup, Danielle Steers and Millie O’Connell will play the three stages in the sequin-drenched life of the legendary Cher when hit Broadway jukebox musical The Cher Show launches in the UK this spring. Directed by Arlene Phillips reuniting with ex Strictly pro Oti Mabuse as choreographer, with the musical’s all-important costumes designed by Six […]
Graeae to debut and tour first chamber opera The Paradis Files
Graeae, the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre company, has announced its first chamber opera, multi-award-winning composer Errollyn Wallen’s The Paradis Files. Directed by Graeae’s artistic director Jenny Sealey, the opera inspired by the life of 18th century Austrian musician Maria-Theresia von Paradis will begin preview performances at Leicester Curve on 8 April 2022 ahead of its […]
Cast for new touring production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Molly-Grace Cutler (The Worst Witch) will play singer/songwriter Carole King in a major new touring production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical in 2022. Co-produced by Leicester Curve, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, the cast of actor/musicians will also include Tom Milner (American Idiot, UK tour) as King’s former husband […]
A Chorus Line – Leicester Curve
A Chorus Line continues at Leicester Curve until 31 December 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It was so great to be back at the Curve in Leicester for real after the cancellation of Roman Holiday (originally due to be staged in the summer of 2020) which I pray will some […]
The Midnight Bell – Leicester Curve and Touring
The Midnight Bell was reviewed at Leicester Curve and continues touring until 27 November 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Matthew Bourne’s highly-anticipated premiere graced the Leicester Curve for its thrilling spin (pardon the pun) on Patrick Hamilton’s bittersweet novel The Midnight Bell (or rather, taking elements from his entire trilogy […]
Tell Me On A Sunday – Leicester Curve and Touring
Tell Me On A Sunday continues at Leicester Curve until 16 October 2021 and then tours until 20 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a brilliant musical. Perfect in so many ways. A delight of an evening. How come? Unusually, just one magnificent performer electrifies the whole show. […]
Osmonds musical – first casting news
Ryan Anderson, Jamie Chatterton, Alex Lodge, Danny Nattrass and Joseph Peacock will play the famous singing siblings in The Osmonds: A New Musical when the bio-show receives its world premiere at Leicester Curve on 3 February 2022 at the start of a UK and Ireland tour which will run through to 3 December 2022. Recently […]
The Osmonds musical to debut in Leicester in February 2022
THE OSMONDS: A New Musical will now receive its world premiere at Leicester Curve on 3 February 2022 as part of a UK and Ireland tour which will run through to 3 December 2022. Originally due to launch at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre in August this year, the show traces the remarkable story of the […]
Leicester Curve’s Rent: The Concert postponed
In the wake of the Government announcement delaying step four of the roadmap Leicester Curve has made ‘the difficult decision’ to postpone its Made at Curve production of Rent: The Concert. Although the special concert version of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical Rent was not due to debut in Leicester until August, a statement released by […]
First live stage production of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Smeds And The Smoos
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-selling picture book The Smeds And The Smoos will be brought to life on stage in a major new touring production created by award-winning theatre company Tall Stories. Developed and previewed at Tall Stories’ new studio space at Central Library in Islington, the fifth Tall Stories’ theatre production to be […]
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber – Leicester Curve
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber continues at Leicester Curve until 19 June 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s easy to forget, when examining the legend of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the sheer proliferation of work which has gone into a career spanning decades. Not to worry – Nikolai Foster and […]
Arlene Phillips and Oti Mabuse head creative team for The Cher Show’s UK and Ireland debut
Arlene Phillips and Oti Mabuse are joining forces to help bring hit Broadway jukebox musical The Cher Show to the UK and Ireland next year with a major production launching at Leicester Curve. The Strictly alumni will head the creative team with Phillips taking charge as director and Mabuse stepping up as choreographer of the […]
Leicester Curve to stage Rent: The Concert in August 2021
Leicester Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster will direct a special concert version of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical Rent this summer. Staged in-the-round in Curve’s specially adapted auditorium the Made at Curve production of Rent: The Concert will run from 10 to 21 August 2021. Announcing the latest addition to Curve’s reopening programme, Foster and Curve […]
Curve extends online run of Sunset Boulevard – At Home
In response to popular demand Leicester Curve has announced an extended run for its critically-acclaimed Sunset Boulevard – At Home which will now continue streaming until 17 January 2021. Following the decision to turn the planned live theatre production of Sunset Boulevard In Concert into an online event in response to December’s lockdown restrictions, in […]
Curve’s Sunset Boulevard Concert to be turned into online event
Forced to re-think its reopening season once again, with Leicester having entered Tier 3, Leicester Curve announced plans to turn the eagerly-anticipated concert version of Curve’s hit production of Sunset Boulevard into an online event. Plans for the return of live theatre are now on hold until the city can exit the country’s toughest restrictions, […]
Rescheduled dates and cast for Curve’s rescheduled reopening season
Leicester Curve has revealed new dates and further casting for the highly anticipated reopening season delayed by the current national lockdown. Live theatre will now return to Leicester Curve for the first time since the venue closed its doors to the public in March, on 18 December (four days later than originally planned) with the […]
