Hadestown continues at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hadestown remains the most transcendently beautiful piece of theatre in the West End.
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Hadestown – Lyric Theatre
Hadestown continues at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It may have taken five years, but Nicola Roberts has finally got an opportunity to return to musical theatre.
Hadestown role for Nicola Roberts
Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts will join the acclaimed West End production of American folk singer Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking Hadestown next month.
Hadestown – Lyric Theatre
Hadestown continues at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Any doubts there might have been that the excitement around the West End production of Hadestown would dip following the departure of the Broadway OGs has been put to bed by the outstanding new cast.
New cast to join West End’s Hadestown
The acclaimed West End production of Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking Hadestown will welcome a number of new cast members to the stage at the Lyric Theatre from 11 March 2025.
West End production of Hadestown to be filmed
The acclaimed West End production of Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking Hadestown will be filmed at London’s Lyric Theatre across three performances during the upcoming limited run featuring members of the original National Theatre and Tony Award-winning Broadway cast (11 February to 9 March).
Hadestown – Lyric Theatre
Hadestown continues at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Hadestown is about change and rejuvenation, which will come with every repeat performance, making this truly extraordinary show even better with time.
Hadestown’s West End run extended
With performances at the Lyric Theatre due to begin on 10 February 2023, the West End premiere run of record-breaking and multi-award-winning Hadestown has already been extended up to 22 December.
Cast for West End premiere of Hadestown
The cast has been unveiled for the West End premiere of American folk singer Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking and multi-award-winning Hadestown.
SuperYou: The Musical in Concert – Lyric Theatre
SuperYou: The Musical in Concert was at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩
Mandy Patinkin – Live in Concert – Lyric Theatre
Mandy Patinkin – Live in Concert continues at the Lyric Theatre, London until 19 November 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you have ever been enraptured by one of Patinkin’s many brilliant performances, do not miss this rare opportunity to see him practice his magic in person. Fall in love with this exceptional talent one more time.
Babies – A New (Born) British Musical – cast confirmed
Casting has been confirmed for the three staged concert performances of new British musical Babies – A New (Born) British Musical at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue next month.
Star packed line-up for Charlie Kristensen’s There’s No Place Like Home
A host of musical theatre favourites will join inspirational young anti-bullying campaigner Charlie Kristensen at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on 22 October 2023. Celebrating the launch of The Charlie Kristensen Foundation and presented in partnership with New Frame Productions, There’s No Place Like Home will be hosted by Divina De Campo.
Award-winning new musical Babies to make West End debut
New British musical Babies will be showcased with three staged concert performances at London’s Lyric Theatre in November.
Another extra show for Death Note: The Musical in Concert
After selling out three shows at the London Palladium in just hours and with high public demand for the six scheduled performances at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, the producers of the English language premiere of Manga musical Death Note: The Musical in Concert have added an extra matinee performance.
West End debut for Fringe hits Bloody Elle and Boy Out the City
Edinburgh Festival Fringe hits Bloody Elle and Boy Out the City will play a limited West End season at the Lyric Theatre later this month.
Mandy Patinkin to return to West End stage for the first time in over a decade
Multi-award-winning stage and screen star Mandy Patinkin will return to the West End stage for the first time since 2009 in November with eight concert performances at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue.
Five new cast members for Lyric Theatre transfer of Death Note: The Musical in Concert
Olivier Award-winner George Maguire will be one of five new additions to the cast of the English language premiere of Manga musical Death Note: The Musical when the concert presentation transfers to the Lyric Theatre.
Extra London shows for Death Note: The Musical
The English language premiere of Manga musical Death Note: The Musical will follow its three sold-out performances at the London Palladium next month by transferring to the Lyric Theatre to play six extra shows in September.
Aspects of Love – Lyric Theatre
Aspects of Love is booking at the Lyric Theatre, London until 11 November 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
London encore for award-winning Hadestown
American folk singer Anaïs Mitchell’s record-breaking and multi-award-winning Hadestown will return to the UK for the first time since its sold-out National Theatre premiere run in 2018.
Michael Ball confirms Jamie Bogyo as the new Alex in Aspects of Love
Thirty-four years after Michael Ball starred as Alex in the original West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, the musical theatre favourite has unveiled Jamie Bogyo as his successor in the role ahead of the new West End production.
Musicals Mash-Up 6-14 November 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. News editor Angela Thomas reports
Michael Ball to revisit Aspects of Love in the West End
Michael Ball will return to the West End next year in a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love re-imagined for the 21st century. Reuniting Ball with his director on the 2012 West End revival of Sweeney Todd, Jonathan Kent, the new production will begin performances at the Lyric Theatre on 12 May […]
Five Questions With: Michael Duke
MICHAEL DUKE plays the title role in the Olivier Award-nominated production of Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical at London’s Lyric Theatre, booking through to 8 January 2023. Developed with the backing of Bob Marley’s family and with unlimited access to the musician’s platinum-selling catalogue of music, Billy Elliot The Musical writer Lee Hall’s […]
Final performance date for West End’s Get Up Stand Up! plus tour is planned
Olivier Award-winning musical Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical will take its final bow at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on 8 January 2023. Following the end of the world premiere West End run the production will embark on a UK tour and discussions are also underway for the musical to play overseas […]
Room on the Broom – Lyric Theatre
Room on the Broom continues at the Lyric Theatre, London until 4 September 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Tall Stories, now 25 years old, is a reliable entertainer of young audiences. Room on the Broom works well enough because, directed by Olivia Jacobs, it uses much of the catchy rhymes […]
West End summer season for Tall Stories’ Room on the Broom
Award-winning theatre company Tall Stories’ hit adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-selling picture book Room on the Broom will fly into the West End this summer. Running from 21 July until 4 September, the Olivier Award-nominated production which mixes puppetry, live performance and singalong songs will be enchanting family audiences at the Lyric […]
Booking for Get Up, Stand Up! extended into 2023 – first images of Michael Duke as Bob Marley released
The world premiere run of Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue has been extended for second time, taking the quadruple 2022 Olivier Award-nominated production through to 29 January 2023. The extension announcement coincided with the release of images of new lead Michael Duke (West Side Story, Manchester […]
West End stars celebrate Valentine’s Day with West End Musical Love Songs
An all-star line-up including Les Misérables stars Jon Robyns (currently playing Jean Valjean) and Shan Ako (who previously played Eponine), Wicked stars Emma Hatton and Nikki Bentley who both played the iconic Elphaba, Six stars Natalie Paris and Jodie Steele (who recently reprised her role as Heather Chandler in Heathers), Matt Jeans (Joseph, White Christmas) […]
Roles We’ll Never Play concert – 2022 date set
Following a successful West End debut in 2020, followed by two sold-out shows in May this year, the popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will return to the West End for a one-night-only performance in March 2022. Produced by Tom Duern (HMS Pinafore, Pirates Of Penzance) Roles We’ll Never Play – West End on […]
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical – booking period extended to autumn 2022
The world premiere run of Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical at the Lyric Theatre has been extended up to 18 September 2022. Produced by Playful Productions, Stage Play and Cedella Marley, the production which stars Arinzé Kene (Misty, Bush Theatre/Trafalgar Studios, Girl from the North Country, The Old Vic) as Bob Marley […]
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical
Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical continues at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Getting truly under the skin of a music icon, translating that effectively to the stage and entertaining a West End audience was never going to be easy. Bob Marley, reggae superstar, political […]
Date set for West End Musical Christmas Live in London
The team behind the popular West End Musical Brunch events, the West End Musical Drive-In series and the hit West End Musical Celebration shows will return to London with another star-packed celebration of musical theatre this festive season. Featuring a cast of West End stars, a live band and a dance ensemble, West End Musical […]
Five month West End residency at the Lyric Theatre for Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Improv specialists The Showstoppers will return to the West End’s Lyric Theatre in November for the first in a five-month season of monthly shows With two live shows left to play at The Showstoppers’ current residency, the Garrick Theatre, on 27 September and 11 October, the Olivier Award-winners have confirmed they will be taking their […]
Six to move to new London home the Vaudeville Theatre from late September
The Queens will set up residence in their new West End home when hit show Six moves to the Vaudeville Theatre in September 2021. Currently reigning over audiences at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue until 29 August, the production will transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre on The Strand from 29 September with tickets going […]
Cast confirmed for premiere of Bob Marley musical Get Up, Stand Up!
Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical this autumn. As previously announced the production featuring Arinzé Kene as the iconic musician Bob Marley is due to begin preview performances at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on 1 October 2021 ahead of an opening night […]
Six to reopen at the Lyric in May
The Queens will return to their West End thrones when hit show Six reopens at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on 21 May 2021. With social distancing at indoor venues due to remain in place until 21 June at the earliest the theatre will initially operate at the same 50% capacity as it did […]
Premiere of Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical postponed
The world premiere of Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical has been delayed until the autumn. Featuring Arinzé Kene as the iconic music star, the musical will now begin preview performances at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on 1 October 2021 ahead of an opening night on 20 October. Produced by Playful Productions, […]
Extra 11 weeks for Six at the Lyric Theatre
The eagerly-anticipated West End temporary transfer run of Six at the Lyric in Shaftesbury Avenue has been extended by 11 weeks into April 2021. Subject to the upcoming announcement on which tier London will fall into following the end of the current national lockdown, the critic and crowd-pleasing show should become the first West End […]
Pandemic fears set to bring the curtain down on Theatreland again
After a few weeks in which theatres had started to reopen or announce imminent plans to kickstart new seasons the curtain looks set to come down on live entertainment once again as the Covid crisis continues. In the wake of a day of frenzied media speculation following a leaked report, the Government was forced to […]
Carly Mercedes Dyer is the new Queen in the touring production of Six
Carly Mercedes Dyer will be the new Jane Seymour when the touring version of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ crowd and critic-pleasing musical Six begins its six-week Christmas season at The Lowry in Manchester on 27 November 2020. The casting of Dyer whose genre credits include Leicester Curve’s recent production of West Side Story and […]
Six to become first West End musical to reopen
Crowd and critic-pleasing musical Six will become the first West End musical to resume performances in November when the hit show temporarily moves from its Arts Theatre home to the Lyric in Shaftesbury Avenue. Running from 14 November 2020 until 31 January 2021, the Lyric Theatre run will begin a fortnight before the touring production […]
West End’s Thriller Live has taken its last moonwalk
The producers of Thriller Live have confirmed the hit show took its final bow at the Lyric Theatre last Sunday (15 March 2020) just three performances short of becoming the 11th longest-running West End musical of all time. Originally due to end its record-breaking 11 year run at the Lyric Theatre on 28 April, the […]
Birthday singalong planned by Thriller Live
Hit show Thriller Live will celebrate its record-breaking 11th year in the West End with its first Singalong Show on 22 January 2020. For one night only, audience members will be invited to join the cast in singing Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 classic songs. The birthday singalong comes just a few months after it […]
Oi Frog & Friends! – Lyric Theatre
Oi Frog & Friends! continues at the Lyric Theatre, London until 5 January 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Thriller Live – Lyric Theatre
Thriller Live continues at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After 10 years in the West End Thriller Live has made history as the longest-running show the Lyric Theatre has ever played host to, and is listed by Official London Theatre as the West End’s 14th longest-running musical. […]
Thriller Live – Lyric Theatre
Thriller Live (4,000th performance) at the Lyric Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If you’re looking for a quiet night out, Thriller Live probably isn’t the place for you. However, if you’re after a show where you’re encouraged to treat it as if you were going to see the late king of pop […]
West End’s Thriller Live to celebrate Michael Jackson’s 60th birthday
Cast and crew on the hit Thriller Live at London’s Lyric Theatre are gearing up for a 10th anniversary year of milestone moments. Now the eighth longest-running show currently playing in the West End, Thriller Live will celebrate becoming the 14th longest-running West End musical of all time on 15 February. Further celebrations and prime-time […]
