Rent continues at the New Theatre, Peterborough until 29 June 2024, and then plays at the Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple from 3-7 July 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Rent is essential viewing for any musical lover, and Landmark has delivered a powerful and affecting production here.
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Lift: A Musical – Southwark Playhouse
Lift continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 18 June 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s nothing particularly groundbreaking about a drama set in a lift. There’s a Chinese opera about a man trapped in a lift for 81 hours (a true story, disturbingly)… Aerosmith sang about ‘Love in an Elevator’… […]
Five Questions With: Dean Johnson
DEAN JOHNSON will direct a new production of the London Underground-set musical LIFT at London’s Southwark Playhouse from 13 May until 25 June 2022. Developed by new musical theatre specialists Perfect Pitch and now presented by Gartland Productions, the musical which debuted at Soho Theatre in 2013 starring Cynthia Erivo, Julie Atherton and George Maguire, has […]
Cast for Southwark Playhouse’s LIFT
X Factor finalist (2013) Luke Friend will head the cast of the London Underground-set musical LIFT when it returns to the capital next month with a new production directed by Dean Johnson. Opening at the Southwark Playhouse on 13 May 2022, the production will feature former busker Friend (American Idiot, Footloose) as the Busker alongside […]
Cast for tenth anniversary tour of American Idiot
Waterloo Road star Tom Milner will be joined by two former X Factor finalists who will make their stage debuts in the cast of Green Day’s American Idiot when the award-winning rock musical returns to the UK in 2019 for a special anniversary tour. Milner whose stage credits include Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre) and Waterbabies […]
