Follies at the Grand Opera House, Belfast is also performed on 16, 19 and 20 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This revival marks 50 odd years since Follies first beguiled an audience and it’s still here.
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Star casting announced for Northern Ireland Opera’s Follies
West End stars Anna-Jane Casey and Annette McLaughlin will lead the cast of Northern Ireland Opera’s upcoming revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway smash Follies.
Come From Away – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Come From Away was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London. The tour continues until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ In a climate where every news bulletin brings reports of more division across the world, there is no better antidote than Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s much-loved, award-winning musical Come From Away.
Come From Away – first tour cast
Casting has been confirmed for the first UK and Ireland tour of the multi-award-winning West End production Come From Away. As previously announced following a successful London run where the critic and crowd-pleasing production played over 1,000 performances, entertaining over 850,000 people at the Phoenix Theatre, the tour will launch in Leicester from 1-9 March 2024.
Final curtain for London’s Come From Away in January 2023
The producers of the multi-award-winning Come From Away have announced a final extension to the show’s West End run with its last performance at the Phoenix Theatre scheduled for 7 January 2023. By the time the West End company takes its final bow, the critic and crowd-pleasing production will have played 1,048 performances in London […]
Come From Away concert cancelled – ATG theatres to remain closed until April
The special staged concert production of the Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, Come From Away has become the latest casualty of the current lockdown. Originally due to play the hit show’s West End home, the Phoenix Theatre from 10-27 February 2021, performances of Come From Away: The Concert have now been cancelled with performances of […]
Concert version of Come From Away is coming back to the West End
Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, Come From Away is heading back to the West End with a special staged concert version at the Phoenix Theatre in February 2021. Running from 10-27 February, Come From Away: The Concert will reunite the London cast, band and company for a specially adapted staging of the hit show created […]
Come From Away – Cast changes and first year anniversary
Come From Away continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London and this week celebrates its first year in London’s West End. Is there a show in the West End that has a bigger heart or that delivers a more affecting, emotional punch than Come From Away? I seriously doubt it. Sure, there are musicals with grander […]
Rachel Tucker leads cast of European premiere of Come From Away
Thirteen actors will take on both lead and supporting roles in the Tony Award-winning new musical Come From Away which is due to land on this side of the Atlantic in December with a premiere run in Ireland ahead of its West End debut in early 2019. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the […]
Rachel Tucker in Concert – Live At Zédel
Rachel Tucker in Concert continues at Live At Zédel, London until 25 March, then on tour in May and June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Bubbly Belfast songbird Rachel Tucker’s main claim to fame is that she played the role of Elphaba in Wicked longer than any other actress in the […]
