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Royal Academy of Music – Little Women

Little Women at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London was performed by students from the Royal Academy of Music. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ I’m sure we shall see more of these musical theatre actors in training very soon.

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Little Women – Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Little Women continues at the Assembly Rooms – Music Hall, Edinburgh on odd dates until 27 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland resumes its classic Fringe programme, performing two full-scale musicals on alternating days in repertory. Aside from providing valuable training for the students, this […]

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Little Women – Park Theatre

Little Women continues at the Park Theatre, London until 19 December 2021. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ When I was a child, I loved Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women. I grew up, avidly watching various TV and film adaptations, culminating in my favourite interpretation of all: the critically-acclaimed 2019 film, […]

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Cast for London premiere of Little Women

Casting has been confirmed for the upcoming London premiere of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women at London’s Park Theatre. The March sisters, Jo, Beth, Amy and Meg, will be played by Lydia White (Chess, Nuffield Southampton Theatre, Rags, Hope Mill Theatre), Anastasia Martin (Legends TV series), Mary Moore (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Southwark Playhouse) and […]

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Little Women and Tony Blair musicals lined up for new season at London’s Park Theatre

The London premiere of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women and a work-in-progress presentation of Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s Tony!(The Tony Blair Rock Opera) will feature in the autumn to spring season at London’s Park Theatre. Presented by the team behind last year’s successful transfer season of RAGS The Musical, Aria Entertainment, Hope Mill […]

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Doing, rather than waiting – An interview with acclaimed producer Katy Lipson (Part Two)

KATY LIPSON is the director of Aria Entertainment, a company which has been at the forefront of reimagining how theatre can operate given our current world of lockdowns and social distancing. Her Park Theatre production of Rags (originally at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre) and Southwark Playhouse production of The Last Five Years have been nominated for six Off-West End Awards […]

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Hope Mill Theatre’s Little Women premiere run extended

An extra week has been added to the European premiere of Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women, the final production in the second season of shows from the partnership between Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Following rave reviews and due to high demand, the show’s original four-week run at the distinctive […]

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Little Women – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester

Little Women continues at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 9 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Whilst its production of Hair has announced an extension to the London Vaults run, and its Pippin is due to open at Southwark Playhouse in February, Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre doesn’t show any signs […]

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Little Women at the Hope Mill Theatre – cast details

Casting has been announced for the European premiere of Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women, the final production in the second season of shows from the partnership between Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 novel, the show which has a book by Allan Knee, with […]

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Manchester’s Hope Mill to stage European premiere of Little Women

Bronagh Lagan will direct the European premiere of Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women, the final production in the second season of shows from the partnership between Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 novel, the show which has a book by Allan Knee, with lyrics […]

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Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre reveals trio of musicals for 2017

Details have been released for the second season of shows from the partnership between Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Following on from the success of this year’s productions of the Tony Award-winning Parade and with the venue’s version of the classic rock musical Hair opening on Saturday, the partnership has […]

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Little Women – Performance Preparation Academy

Little Women: A Broadway Musical was performed by third-year students (Cast One) from the Performance Preparation Academy at the Electric Theatre, Guildford. Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 publication Little Women has attained classic status as a novel as well as being reinvented for screen several times over the years, most recently as the 1994 film starring Winona […]

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Guildford School of Acting – Little Women/Chess

Little Women and Chess, performed by the Guildford School of Acting final year students at the Union Theatre, London and Ivy Arts Theatre, Guildford. Life’s full of surprises, isn’t it? I fully expected to love Chess, the underrated collaboration between Tim Rice and the Abba boys Andersson and Ulvaeus, but was less sure about Little […]

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Sutton Foster – Cafe Carlyle, New York

Sutton Foster is performing at the Café Carlyle, New York until 28 September. There aren’t many performers these days who merit the old-time appellation ‘a toast of Broadway’, but Sutton Foster is certainly one of them. Foster toiled away in four Broadway shows before her career-making Tony-winning lead performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002. […]

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