Jess Robinson: Your Song continues at Piccolo Tent at Assembly George Square Gardens until 24 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Don’t be surprised if you find yourself wanting to return and see her again.
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The Elmer Adventure – Blackheath Halls and Touring
The Elmer Adventure was reviewed at Blackheath Halls, London. The tour continues until 20 July 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Tall Stories’ musical adaptation of the much-loved Elmer books by David McKee ticks most of the boxes and is a pretty decent show of its type.
Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! – Ambassadors Theatre
Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder! continues at the Ambassadors Theatre until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bringing undeniable joy and murder-themed escapism to London audiences, this is surely set to be a “killer” London run.
Cast for West End run of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The full cast has been announced for the West End transfer season of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! at the Ambassadors Theatre. The show was the winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022.
Nanny – Bristol Old Vic and Touring
Nanny was reviewed at the Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic. The tour continues until 28 February 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
West End date set for Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
Award-winning musical comedy Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! is heading for London’s West End to play a limited season at the Ambassadors Theatre.
Cast and creatives for new-look Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
The producers of the new expanded version of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! have confirmed the full cast and creative team for the hit show’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe encore and Bristol and Manchester dates.
Edinburgh encore plus Bristol and Manchester dates for MTR Award-winner Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
A new expanded version of Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! will return to Edinburgh this summer before playing dates in Bristol and Manchester.
Writers celebrate second Musical Theatre Review Award as Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder wins Best Musical at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder at Roundabout @ Summerhall has won Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022. It is the second time writers Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones have won the accolade, they also took away MTR’s inaugural prize for A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super […]
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I was promised that I would laugh – and that’s a safe promise in this runaway hit show. A packed audience laughed practically the whole way through. Playing Kathy and Stella […]
A Super Happy Story (About Being Super Sad) – Stream.Theatre
A Super Happy Story (About Being Super Sad) is available via Stream.Theatre until 11 July 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jon Brittain’s multi-award winning work for Silent Uproar (including Best Musical – The Musical Theatre Review Award, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2017) has been immortalised on film as directed by Matthew […]
MTR Award-winner A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Sad) among four Seabright Productions to be streamed
New productions of cabaret-musical A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), the Nina Simone-inspired Black Is The Color Of My Voice, FRIEND (The One With Gunther) and Quentin Crisp:Naked Hope will be streamed worldwide next month. Curated by Olivier Award-winning producer James Seabright, the four productions were filmed last month in front of a […]
Inaugral MTR Winner A Super Happy Story heads out on UK tour
The winner of Musical Theatre Review’s first Best New Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) has launched its first UK tour. Co-produced by Hull UK City of Culture and marking award-winning Silent Uproar Productions’ first UK tour, the show which also won the Fringe First […]
Interview: Just one week left to see Oliver Mawdsley and Matthew Floyd Jones in Miss Nightingale at the London Hippodrome
Matthew Bugg’s Second World War set musical Miss Nightingale is just a week away from the end of its run at London’s Hippodrome Casino where the show has been enjoying its West End debut. Set in an underground cabaret club in London during the Blitz and featuring 16 original songs, the show which premiered in […]
Miss Nightingale – Hippodrome Casino
Miss Nightingale continues at the Hippodrome Casino, London until 6 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Matthew Bugg’s Second World War-set musical first appeared in London seven years ago as a late night chamber piece at the King’s Head. Since then it has been reworked, toured a series of venues […]
Miss Nightingale to play limited London season at the Hippodrome
Matthew Bugg’s 1940s-set musical Miss Nightingale will make its West End debut at the Theatre at the Hippodrome Casino next month. Set in London during the Second World War and featuring 16 original songs, the show which premiered in Salford in 2011 will play the 180-seat Leicester Square space from 21 March until 6 May. […]
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) continues at Pleasance Courtyard until 28 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Walking into the theatre, I wasn’t sure if I was at a kids’ show or not. There were bright shiny things on the stage and the performers were greeting everyone cheerfully […]
Sister Mary’s Playtime – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Frankenstein Pub
Sister Mary’s Playtime continues at Frankenstein Pub until 28 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Sister Mary McArthur, the alter ego of cabaret singer/actor/director Tim McArthur, blesses audiences at Frankenstein’s with a mix of cabaret, game show and chat show. A family-friendly affair, Playtime encourages audience participation, musical theatre singalongs and […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – top ten musical theatre tips
Musical Theatre Review contributor Fiona Orr offers her Top Ten Musical Theatre Tips for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe… Tom and Bunny Save the World (Fat Rascal Theatre) A show promising ‘serious political content’ alongside zombies and how pints are cheaper in Yorkshire must be worthy of consideration. ‘Whilst at its heart a comedy, Tom and […]
