Waitress was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it continues until 25 July 2026. The tour continues until 31 October 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ An excellent cast and a score that remains among the finest of the past decade.
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Full cast for UK and Ireland tour of Waitress
The full cast has been confirmed for the upcoming second UK and Ireland tour of the Broadway and West End hit Waitress.
Les Dennis, Sandra Marvin and Evelyn Hoskins join Waitress tour
Les Dennis, Sandra Marvin and Evelyn Hoskins will join the previously announced Carrie Hope Fletcher in the upcoming second UK and Ireland tour of the Broadway and West End hit Waitress.
Cast for new UK tour of Ghost The Musical
Rebekah Lowings will reprise her performance as lovelorn Molly Jenson alongside fellow returnee Jacqui Dubois’ not-so-fake psychic Oda Mae Brown in the upcoming UK tour of Bill Kenwright Ltd’s critically acclaimed production of the hit Ghost The Musical.
42nd Street – New Victoria Theatre, Woking and Touring
42nd Street was reviewed at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. The production continues touring until 4 May 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Its nature as a backstage musical ideally lends itself to the dazzling succession of song and dance montages that bear the hallmarks of its cinematic origins and yield a genuine spectacular from start to finish.
42nd Street – Sadler’s Wells
42nd Street continues at Sadler’s Wells, London until 2 July 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Samantha Womack, Michael Praed and Faye Tozer to lead UK tour of 42nd Street
Samantha Womack, Michael Praed and Faye Tozer will step into Curve and Sadler’s Wells’ 42nd Street when the new production of classic backstage musical comedy heads out on tour this summer.
Star casting announced for Curve and Sadler’s Wells’ 42nd Street
Ruthie Henshall, Adam Garcia, Les Dennis, and Nicole-Lily Baisden will lead Curve and Sadler’s Wells’ highly anticipated new production of classic backstage musical comedy 42nd Street.
Les Dennis to play Grandad in Only Fools and Horses musical
Comedy favourite turned stage star Les Dennis is heading back into the West End to play Grandad in the smash hit Only Fools and Horses The Musical at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket from 3 October 2022. The announcement of the latest addition to the Trotter family coincides with the news that the acclaimed production’s London […]
HMS Pinafore – London Coliseum
HMS Pinafore continues at the London Coliseum until 11 December 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Colourful costumes, bawdy jokes, silly songs, Les Dennis: oh, how we have missed panto season! That isn’t quite fair of course. Dennis has recently been praised for a string of RSC acting roles, proving himself […]
Sherrie Hewson, Les Dennis and Jessica Ellis join the touring cast of Fat Friends The Musical
Further casting has been announced for the UK and Ireland tour of Kay Mellor’s hit Fat Friends The Musical. With original music by Nick Lloyd Webber, the tour will open at Dartford Orchard Theatre on 14 January 2022. Joining the previously announced Lee Mead as Kevin will be Sherrie Hewson as Julia, Jessica Ellis as […]
Cal McCrystal directs ENO’s first ever production of HMS Pinafore
The English National Opera will present its first ever production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece HMS Pinafore at the London Coliseum later this month. Directed by Cal McCrystal, the award-winning Irish director who returns to the ENO for the first time since the hit 2018 production of Iolanthe, the new version of the much-loved […]
Hairspray – London Coliseum
Hairspray continues at the London Coliseum until 29 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ During the curtain call for the new West End production of Hairspray I took in the view from my seat in the stalls. A full standing ovation has never looked so beautiful. Yes, there were 1,000 rather than […]
Les Dennis to return as Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray at the London Coliseum
Entertainment favourite Les Dennis will return to the role of Wilbur Turnblad when the eagerly-anticipated London Coliseum production of Hairspray the Musical begins performances on 21 June 2021. The stage and screen star whose varied career has taken him from the Northern club circuit to the RSC stage in Stratford-upon-Avon via the cobbles of Coronation […]
Showstoppers plan second Alternative Eurovision Song Contest online fundraiser
Olivier Award-winning improv specialists The Showstoppers will be joined by a number of special star guests for the second Alternative Eurovision Song Contest fundraiser on 15 May 2021. The team which kept lockdown audiences entertained in 2020 will be aiming to build on last year’s glitter and fun-filled Eurovision-themed event which raised £7,500 for The […]
The Addams Family – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
The Addams Family continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 20 May and tours the UK until 4 November 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s gloriously ghoulish musical take on The Addams Family is enjoying its UK professional premiere with a tour that […]
She Loves Me – Menier Chocolate Factory
She Loves Me continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 5 March 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick wrote She Loves Me the year before they hit the jackpot with Fiddler On the Roof (1964). The initial Broadway production which starred Barbara Cook and Daniel […]
Cameron Blakely joins The Addams Family on tour
Cameron Blakely has joined the cast for the touring production of The Addams Family musical which will debut in the UK next year. The actor, whose previous credits include a two-year stint as Thenardier in Les Misérables in the West End, will play Gomez, the head of the distinctively creepy and kooky Addams Family opposite […]
The Addams Family – Carrie Hope Fletcher, Samantha Womack and Les Dennis cast
Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher will star as Morticia, Fester and Wednesday Addams in the UK and Irish premiere of The Addams Family, a musical comedy, with book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, based on the characters created by Charles Addams. Further casting is to be […]
She Loves Me at the Menier – Les Dennis, Mark Umbers and Katherine Kingsley join cast
With his character’s days on screen numbered, Coronation Street’s Les Dennis is preparing for a role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s new production of the 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me. Former stand-up comedian and presenter turned actor Dennis will swap the cobbles of Weatherfield for the London stage when he joins the previously announced […]
