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Théâtre du Châtelet celebrates amazing attendance figures for West Side Story
The enduring popularity of West Side Story, now well into its seventh decade, has hit new peaks with the just-ended ten-week run of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Robbins-Laurents musical at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
West Side Story – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
West Side Story continues at Theatre du Châtelet, Paris until 31 December 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Man Of La Mancha – London Coliseum
Man Of La Mancha continues at the London Coliseum until 8 June 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Man Of La Mancha (1965) was a huge hit in its day, clocking up a Broadway run of more than 2,000 performances, so putting it in the same league as Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. […]
Peter Polycarpou joins ENO’s Man Of La Mancha
Stage and screen star Peter Polycarpou will play squire Sancho Panza opposite Kelsey Grammer’s Don Quixote in the eagerly-anticipated London Coliseum production of Man Of La Mancha.
Kelsey Grammer and Danielle de Neise to star in Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum
Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer will return to London next year to star in a new production of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Grammer will make his West End debut playing Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote alongside international opera star Danielle de Neise as Aldonza and Dulcinea for a […]
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill – Wyndham’s Theatre
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill continues at the Wyndham’s Theatre, London until 9 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Finally, after a year’s delay while its star produced an unexpected baby, the legendary Audra McDonald’s hypnotic re-creation of jazz singer Billie Holiday’s decline just a few months before her […]
Carousel – London Coliseum
Carousel continues at the London Coliseum until 13 May. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When the Michaels Linnit and Grade collaborated with the ENO and brought Sweeney Todd (starring Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel) to the London Coliseum in 2015, they appeared to have come up with a pretty successful formula: pick […]
Carousel at the ENO – first rehearsal images
Rehearsal images have been released of the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between The GradeLinnit Company and English National Opera (ENO). The cast features Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan), Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Star Keeper), Derek Hagen (Jigger Craigin), Alex Young (Carrie Pipperidge), Brenda Edwards (Nettie Fowler), […]
Sunset Boulevard – Palace Theatre, New York
Sunset Boulevard continues at the Palace Theatre, New York until 25 June. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In her latest incarnation, Norma Desmond is totally heart-breaking. The narcissistic ferocity of the queen of silent movies has been softened. Her eccentricities are at times almost endearing rather than frightening. She can be haughty […]
Carousel at the ENO – Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins star
Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins will star for the first time together in the West End as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO)and the GradeLinnit Company. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of 41 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum. Beginning on 7 April 2017, with press night on 11 April, the final […]
Sunset Boulevard – London Coliseum
Sunset Boulevard continues at the London Coliseum until 7 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The golden age of Hollywood, when silent pictures gave way to ‘talkies’, has been a fertile ground for storytelling in the past. Singin’ in the Rain gave us a comedic take on the screen starlet who […]
Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close – first production images
Today (1 April 2016) previews begin for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at ENO’s London Coliseum. Joining Glenn Close (Norma Desmond), Michael Xavier (Joe Gillis), Siobhan Dillon (Betty Shaefer) and Fred Johanson (Max Von Mayerling) are Anna Woodside as Hedda Hopper, Emily Bull as Hedy Lamarr, Julian Forsyth as Cecil B DeMille, Mark Goldthorp as Sheldrake, Fenton Gray as Manfred, […]
Sunset Boulevard – full cast revealed as show begins rehearsals
Today (22 February 2016) rehearsals for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard begin at the English National Opera Rehearsal Studios as the full cast was announced. Joining Glenn Close, Michael Xavier, Siobhan Dillon and Fred Johanson in Sunset Boulevard, are Anna Woodside as Hedda Hopper and Emily Bull as Hedy Lamarr who will work alongside the […]
Sunset Boulevard at ENO – Michael Xavier, Siobhan Dillon and Fred Johanson join Glenn Close in cast
Michael Xavier, Siobhan Dillon and Fred Johanson will join Glenn Close in Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s Sunset Boulevard, the second production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of 43 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum which begins on 1 April 2016 with press night on 4 April, with the final performance on 7 May. The full ENO […]
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill starring Audra McDonald hits the West End in June 2016
Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winner Audra McDonald will make her long-awaited West End debut this summer portraying legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in the musical play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. The critically acclaimed production will play a limited engagement at the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre from 25 June to 3 September, having broken box office records at the Circle in […]
Glenn Close to star in semi-staged ENO production of Sunset Boulevard
Glenn Close will star as Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s Sunset Boulevard, the second production in the partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. In March 2015 ENO and the GradeLinnit Company presented the critically acclaimed sell-out run of Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in the inaugural production of their partnership. Lonny Price will direct the strictly limited run of […]
Sweeney Todd – does size matter?
In the battle of the large and small scale productions of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd (currently playing in London), which one produces the ultimate, dramatic knockout punch? The star-studded US transfer at the ENO or Tooting Arts Club’s intensely intimate staging in a pop-up pie shop in Shaftesbury Avenue? Craig Glenday investigates… Londoners are currently being treated […]
Sweeney Todd at the ENO – production images released
Here’s a first look at images of Lonny Price’s staging of Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller, the first production in a major new long term partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. Pictures are by Tristram Kenton. Joining Terfel and Thompson who will lead the cast as Sweeney Todd and […]
Sweeney Todd at London Coliseum – full cast revealed
Due to unprecedented public demand, an extra performance has been scheduled on Sunday 5 April at 3pm for Lonny Price’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller at the London Coliseum. Tickets for the 5 April performance, including 300 seats at £10 each, will go on sale today (3 March […]
Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel star in Sweeney Todd at ENO
Lonny Price will direct Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller, the first production in a major new long term partnership between English National Opera (ENO) and the GradeLinnit Company. The strictly limited run of 13 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum begins on 30 March 2015 with press night on 31 March and the final performance […]
