The Secret Garden: The Musical continues at York Theatre Royal until 4 April 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The combined talents of an all-singing, playing, acting cast results in a magical, albeit abbreviated, version of the Secret Garden story.
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The Color Purple – at Home – Curve Leicester
The Color Purple at Home is streaming from Curve Leicester until 7 March 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If the cynics are right, if musical theatre is indeed all jazz hands and pomp and fluff – a medium incapable of supporting the weight of “important” stories – then this musical […]
The Color Purple music video released to raise funds for BTA
Five West End stars have reunited with the British Theatre Academy ensemble from the BTA’s critically-acclaimed production The Color Purple in Concert to record a fundraising single. Featuring Marisha Wallace (Waitress, Dreamgirls), Wendy Mae Brown (Ghost, The Lorax), Cavin Cornwall (Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors), Tyrone Huntley (Dreamgirls, Jesus Christ Superstar), and Hugh Maynard (Miss […]
Lambert Jackson announces concert version of The Secret Garden at the London Palladium
Lambert Jackson Productions has unveiled plans for a London Palladium concert version of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden and a third season of intimate genre shows at The Other Palace. After starring in Lambert Jackson’s concert staging of Dr Zhivago at London’s Cadogan Hall, Ramin Karimloo (Love Never Dies, Adelphi Theatre, The Phantom […]
The Bridges of Madison County – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Bridges of Madison County continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 14 September 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jason Robert Brown’s musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by US writer, musician and photographer Robert James Waller (1939-2017) finally gets its long-overdue UK premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory. […]
INTERVIEW: ‘We could all do with a healthy dose of love’ – Edward Baker-Duly stars in The Bridges of Madison County at the Menier Chocolate Factory
Stage and screen actor EDWARD BAKER-DULY will star opposite Jenna Russell in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s eagerly-anticipated UK premiere of the musical version of Robert James Waller’s much-loved novel The Bridges of Madison County, officially opening on 23 July 2019 and running until 14 September. With music and lyrics by triple Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert […]
Cast for Menier Chocolate Factory’s UK premiere of The Bridges of Madison County
Stage and screen actor Edward Baker-Duly will star opposite Olivier Award winner Jenna Russell in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s eagerly-anticipated UK premiere of the musical version of Robert James Waller’s much-loved novel The Bridges of Madison County. With music and lyrics by triple Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Honeymoon in […]
Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome to co-produce The Color Purple
Leicester Curve and the Birmingham Hippodrome have revealed plans for a major new co-production of the Broadway musical version of Alice Walker’s best seller The Color Purple. Directed by award-winning Tinuke Craig (2014 Genesis Future Directors Award), the production which will be the first UK presentation of the award-winning show outside of London, will play Curve […]
The Secret Garden – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
The Secret Garden continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 15 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musicals are often the fall-back option for opening productions at new theatres, but artistic director Iwan Lewis has made an imaginative choice in reworking Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s Tony-winning The Secret Garden to launch […]
The Secret Garden – Ambassadors Theatre
The Secret Garden continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 31 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ If you want charm and highly moral, traditional clean entertainment you can’t go far wrong with The Secret Garden. Marsha Norman’s version (based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel), pared down here to 75 mins […]
The Secret Garden at the Ambassadors Theatre – exclusive new images
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden has returned to the West End for a special summer season aimed at family audiences. Here, Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan offers our readers access to an exclusive selection of images from the production. Directed by Rupert Hands, the production is running until 31 August at London’s Ambassadors Theatre. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s […]
