Sing Street continues at the Lyric Hammersmith, London until 23 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There are many reasons, then, to fall for Sing Street.
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Play On! – Lyric Hammersmith
Play On! continues at the Lyric Hammersmith, London until 22 February 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Play On! is more than a clever adaptation; it’s a celebration of Black joy, Shakespeare, jazz and theatre’s power to transport us to another time and place.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2024
A selection of Musical Theatre Review critics were asked to choose their ‘show of the year’ from all the productions they had seen in 2024. As you can see below, some struggled to pick just one!
Fangirls – Lyric Hammersmith
Fangirls continues at the Lyric Hammersmith, London until 24 August 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fangirls feels vibrant, alive and wholeheartedly full of love. Fangirls tells us it loves us not through headphones, but with a full-on audiovisual blast – and it is impossible not to love it back.
First casting news for Lyric Hammersmith’s Fangirls
The Lyric Hammersmith and Sonia Friedman Productions have announced initial casting for the UK premiere of the multi-award-winning Australian pop musical Fangirls.
Newsfeed: Carrie Hope Fletcher tour, MTFestUK 2024, Lena Hall and Jamie Muscato at the Cadogan Hall and more
Following her successful first solo concert tour An Open Book, award-winning West End star and author Carrie Hope Fletcher will embark on a second tour in September 2024.
Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas – Lyric Hammersmith
Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas continues at the Lyric Hammersmith, London until 31 December 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
London Christmas season for touring Bugsy Malone
The hit revival of the Lyric Hammersmith’s production of Alan Parker’s musical Bugsy Malone The Musical is heading for London to play a Christmas season at the Alexandra Palace. Currently in the middle of a successful UK tour, the production will take up residence at the iconic venue from 3 December 2022 until 15 January […]
Cast and venues announced for UK tour of Bugsy Malone
The casting and tour schedule for the first professional UK touring production of Alan Parker’s exuberant musical Bugsy Malone have been announced. Presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Birmingham Rep and Kenny Wax, the revival of the Lyric Hammersmith’s Olivier Award-nominated production will open at the Theatre Royal Bath from 2-23 July 2022 followed by […]
First UK pro touring production of Bugsy Malone planned for 2022
The first ever professional UK touring production of Alan Parker’s exuberant musical Bugsy Malone will hit the road next summer. Presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Birmingham Rep and Kenny Wax, the revival of the Lyric Hammersmith’s Olivier Award-nominated production will open at the Theatre Royal Bath from 2 July 2022 followed by Birmingham Rep […]
Leslie Bricusse’s Sammy to close season at Lyric Hammersmith
Following on from last year’s successful workshop presentation, Sammy, Leslie Bricusse’s musical celebration of the life of his friend, the legendary Sammy Davis Jr., will debut as a full-scale production at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in the summer. Presented in association with Anthology Theatre Productions and Aria Entertainment, Bricusse’s original work, Sammy, has been re-imagined […]
Billy Cullum joins Tyrone Huntley in the world premiere of Leave to Remain at the Lyric Hammersmith
Billy Cullum will star opposite award winner Tyrone Huntley in the world premiere of Leave to Remain at the Lyric Hammersmith early next year. Cullum (Rent, UK tour; Matilda, West End), one of the stars of the recent Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors, will join Huntley, who attracted acclaim for […]
Fantastic Mr Fox heads back to Lyric Hammersmith
The hit touring production of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox will return to London’s Lyric Hammersmith next month seven months after its launch at the venue. Following on from its world premiere last Christmas at Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, the Nuffield and Leicester Curve’s new musical adaptation of the classic story has been touring the UK […]
Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox – Lyric Hammersmith
Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox continues at the Lyric Hammersmith, London until 19 February and then tours until 9 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Most adaptations of Roald Dahl’s spikey, often subversively uplifting, children’s stories are plays with songs. This entertaining, energy-packed version (a co-production between Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre and Curve Leicester in […]
Musical version of Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox to tour UK
Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox will take to the road next year in a major new musical adaptation due to receive its world premiere this Christmas. Amidst different events celebrating the much-loved author’s 100th birthday, producing partners Nuffield and Curve have revealed plans for the tour which will begin at the Lyric Hammersmith in January, following […]
Full casting for the Lyric’s Bugsy Malone
The Lyric Hammersmith has revealed full casting details for Alan Parker’s exuberant musical Bugsy Malone which returns to the theatre for a limited run next month. The Olivier-nominated production which reopened the Lyric last year following its major redevelopment will begin its 12-week run on 11 June. A mixture of young performers from the 2015 […]
Lyric Hammersmith brings Bugsy Malone back in June 2016
The Lyric Hammersmith’s critically acclaimed production of Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone, with music and lyrics by Paul Williams and directed by Sean Holmes, will return to the Lyric for a 12-week run, opening on Friday 24 June 2016, with previews from Saturday 11 June. Bugsy Malone re-opened the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2015 following a […]
Youth Music Theatre Orchestra – Lyric Hammersmith
Youth Music Theatre Orchestra performed at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, with the Youth Music Theatre UK Alumni Choir and special guests Kerry Ellis, Stephen Rahman-Hughes and Chris McGuigan. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is always an honour to be present at the birth of a major initiative with such exciting […]
Bugsy Malone – run at Lyric Hammersmith extends to 5 September
The Lyric Hammersmith’s stage production of Alan Parker’s musical Bugsy Malone will extend its run until Saturday 5 September 2015. The production is the UK’s first professional stage production of Bugsy Malone in over a decade and has reopened the Lyric Hammersmith following a multi-million pound redevelopment and creation of the Reuben Foundation Wing. Three […]
Bugsy Malone – Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
Bugsy Malone continues at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London until 1 August. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Alan Parker’s 1976 movie musical Bugsy Malone remains a favourite from my childhood, so I have to admit to some apprehension when I heard it was being brought to life on the London stage. The original concept required […]
Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith – casting news
Casting has been announced for the new stage production of Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith. Based on Alan Parker’s acclaimed film, the musical will re-open the theatre, following a multi-million pound re-development. The Lyric’s artistic director Sean Holmes will bring to life the UK’s first professional stage production of Bugsy Malone (words and music by Paul Williams) in more […]
Bugsy Malone first production when Lyric Hammersmith reopens in 2015
In April 2015, Alan Parker and Paul Williams’ world famous stage musical Bugsy Malone, based on his acclaimed film, will reopen the Lyric Hammersmith following a multi-million pound redevelopment (previewing from 11 April). The Lyric’s artistic director Sean Holmes and choreographer Drew McOnie will bring to life the UK’s first professional stage production of Bugsy Malone in over […]
