Little Shop of Horrors was reviewed at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, where it runs until 18 May 2024, and then tours until 22 June 2024 (Hull Truck Theatre: 22 May-8 June and Theatre Royal Windsor: 18-22 June). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
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World premiere production of The Book Thief to play Coventry and Leicester
The stage musical adaptation of Markus Zusak’s much-loved novel The Book Thief will follow its well-received Bolton Octagon world premiere run by playing Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre and Leicester’s Curve Theatre this autumn.
Highlights for Theatre By The Lake 2023 season
A lavish new production of Alan Plater’s Blonde Bombshells of 1943 is one of five ambitious co-productions lined up for the spring/summer 2023 season at the Theatre By The Lake in the heart of the Lake District.
The Book Thief – Octagon Theatre, Bolton
The Book Thief continues at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton until 15 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Adapting lengthy and well-loved literary classics into musical theatre has almost become a competitive sport, and one in which the outcome is usually either a smash hit or a resounding flop. This retelling of […]
Cast announced for Octagon’s The Book Thief
Bolton’s Octagon Theatre has confirmed the cast for the highly anticipated stage musical adaptation of Markus Zusak’s much-loved novel The Book Thief. Featuring a script by award-winning author Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper) and Timothy Allen McDonald (adaptor of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and James and the Giant Peach), and music and lyrics by Elyssa […]
Creatives for world premiere of The Book Thief musical
Bolton’s Octagon Theatre has unveiled the high-powered creative team transforming Markus Zusak’s much-loved novel The Book Thief into a stage musical. Featuring a script by award-winning author Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper) and Timothy Allen McDonald (adaptor of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and James and the Giant Peach) and music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel […]
Sci-Fi fan musical Fanatical to debut at the Playground Theatre
London’s Playground Theatre will stage the world premiere of Fanatical, a new musical which takes a fond look at the sometimes bizarre and always off-beat world of sci-fi fandom. Due to run from 7 November until 8 December 2018, the musical which was written by Matt Board (Austentatious) and Reina Hardy (Glassheart) will feature a […]
Six – Arts Theatre
Six continues at the Arts Theatre, London until 22 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It was inevitable, perhaps, that the runaway success of Hamilton on Broadway would inspire a new generation of musical theatre writers. As Lin-Manuel Miranda’s epic musical shows, it is possible to engage with a country’s history […]
Tudor musical SiX – cast and creatives revealed for London premiere at the Arts Theatre
The cast and creative team has been announced for the London premiere of the new British musical SiX that sees the six wives of Henry VIII singing their way out of the history books and into the West End spotlight. Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, SiX will play four dates at the […]
The World Goes Round – The Best of Kander & Ebb – Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
The World Goes Round – The Best of Kander & Fred Ebb continues at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough until 3 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Staging musicals in-the-round is always a challenge. Just where, for example, should director Lotte Wakeham tell the the cast to focus for voice projection? The most successful at solving this […]
The World Goes Round at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre – casting news
The line-up of performers cast in Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough’s forthcoming 25th anniversary production of The World Goes Round – The Songs of Kander & Ebb has been announced. Part of the venue’s 2016 Summer Festival, the show was conceived by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman and David Thompson, to celebrate the work of the prolific partnership of composer […]
Kander and Ebb revue part of Stephen Joseph Theatre summer festival
A 25th anniversary production of The World Goes Round –The Songs of Kander & Ebb will feature as part of the Stephen Joseph Theatre’s Summer Festival of entertainment in Scarborough. Conceived by Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman and David Thompson, and directed by Lotte Wakeham, this show features much-loved showstoppers like ‘New York, New York’, ‘All That Jazz’, and ‘Money, Money’, alongside lesser-known […]
Frank Wildhorn musical Wonderland tours the UK in 2017
The musical Wonderland, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice stories, will receive its UK and European premiere next year at the Edinburgh Playhouse prior to a UK tour. Following sold out seasons in Tampa, Texas and Tokyo, the multi Grammy, Tony and Drama Desk Award nominated Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland will be presented in a brand new British production. Produced […]
Sweet Charity – National Youth Music Theatre – Curve Leicester
Sweet Charity was presented by the National Youth Music Theatre at Curve, Leicester. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In a month other than August, this outstanding production by the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) could have graced the main stage at Curve, where it wouldn’t have been out of place against any of the high-profile musicals […]
Guildford School of Acting – Snoopy: The Musical
Snoopy: The Musical was performed by MA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The world of Charles M. Schulz’s immortal Peanuts newspaper comic strip (and its subsequent iterations on television) presents itself as an obvious candidate for adaptation […]
Spend Spend Spend – London School of Musical Theatre
Spend Spend Spend, performed by students from the London School of Musical Theatre at the Bridewell Theatre, London, continues until 3 May. Spend Spend Spend ran for nearly ten months in the West End in 1999-2000, the true life story of how Yorkshire lass Viv Nicholson blew the biggest ever football pools cheque of £152,319 in […]
The Beautiful Game – Union Theatre
The Beautiful Game continues at the Union Theatre, London until 3 May. On its original West End run in 2000, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s musical The Beautiful Game attracted much scorn for attempting to address Northern Ireland’s Troubles of the late 1960s and early 1970s through the use of musical theatre. And while there is plenty to be […]
Niamh Perry playing The Beautiful Game
It’s not every 23 year-old musical theatre actress who can plausibly first-name drop Lord Lloyd Webber. Niamh Perry is one. “It’s taken the best bits of both productions… it’s what it always should have been in Andrew’s eyes.” The musical in question is one of the Lord’s lesser known works, The Beautiful Game. The show, […]
