Cameron Mackintosh’s hit West End production of Les Misérables will welcome a number of new cast members to the stage of the Sondheim Theatre early next month.
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The Last Five Years – Reading Rep Theatre and Touring
The Last Five Years was reviewed at Reading Rep Theatre where it continues until 11 October 2025. The production then visits the Barn Theatre, Cirencester (17 October to 15 November) and Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio (25 November to 3 January). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Special Feature: The Last Five Years at Reading Rep Theatre
The Barn Theatre, Reading Rep Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath co-production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years runs in Reading until 12 October.
Club NVRLND – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Club NVRLND continues at Checkpoint at Assembly Checkpoint until 24 August 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Designed as a quasi plunge into the noughties, Club NVRLND is a unique, high-energy, fully immersive musical.
Evita – Curve Leicester
Evita continues at Curve Leicester until 13 January 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The score will always sound good, and there are certainly elements to enjoy here, but most of that comes from the material and the performances rather than the production itself.
Full cast for Curve’s Evita
Leicester Curve has unveiled the full cast for the venue’s highly anticipated new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita later this year.
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical – New Victoria Theatre, Woking and Touring
Bat out of Hell: The Musical continues at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking until 5 November 2022, then on international tour until 1 April 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 2 October 2021 and then tours until 5 November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As befitting a songwriter whose output is known for being on the lengthy and grandiose side, the story of Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of […]
Full cast for Bat Out Of Hell UK and Ireland tour
Full casting has been confirmed for the UK and Ireland tour of Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical ahead of its launch in early September. As previously announced Glenn Adamson (American Idiot, Where is Peter Rabbit?) will return to the role of Strat he previously played on tour in the UK and the US […]
Soft Sessions: Live in Concert – Stream.Theatre
Soft Sessions is available on stream.theatre until 2 May 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Perhaps the thing I’ve missed most of all over the past year are cabaret nights. Sitting in a small, intimate space, tightly crammed in (back when we didn’t mind that sort of thing), listening to voices […]
YouTube series Soft Sessions becomes Soft Sessions Live In Concert
Following the success of YouTube series Soft Sessions, a group of major West End performers are to appear in Soft Sessions Live In Concert. Appearing in the concert together, recorded at Woolwich Warehouse, are: Grace Mouat (Hair, & Juliet, Six), Jake Halsey-Jones (Hamilton), Courtney Stapleton (Dear Evan Hansen, Six), Martha Kirby (Grease, Bat Out of […]
CD Review: Rags The Musical – Original London Cast Recording
RAGS THE MUSICAL – Original London Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records – download) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Rags The Musical is my all-time favourite Strouse/Schwartz score. I absolutely loved the original (almost) Broadway version and, when I worked for a production company in London in the 1990s I tried desperately to get the […]
London cast recording of Rags – release date announced
Ghostlight Records will release Rags – The Musical: Original London Cast Recording in digital and streaming formats on 15 May 2020 with a physical CD to be made available later in the year. The first recording of the show since Sony’s 1991 album of the Broadway cast and the first to include the newest version […]
