West End actress Natalie Kassanga will complete the cast for the European premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project in London this summer.
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The Lightning Thief – The Other Palace
The Lightning Thief continues at The Other Palace, London until 2 March 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ If you are a fan of the book series already, The Lightning Thief will be a fun retelling of a story you know well. And if you weren’t a fan before, it has every chance of converting you to the charms of Riordan’s world.
Musicals Mash Up: January 2023
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. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports Cory English to return to West End’s Back To The Future West End and Broadway actor Cory English will step back into the […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Film Premiere
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is being screened on Amazon Prime Video from 17 September 2021. Musical Theatre Review’s Fiona Orr reviewed the movie at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Moving successful stage musicals onto the screen has, at best, a chequered past record. Much-loved Jamie needed strong vision […]
Jamie movie to premiere at 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will host a special preview screening of the eagerly-awaited film adaptation of feel-good British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. The screening on 20 August 2021 which will be accessible to the public via the EIFF’s first Pay-What-You-Can model will be preceded by Edinburgh’s Talking About Jamie – a unique and […]
Jamie’s future plans revealed
The phenomenon that is feel-good British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie continues with the announcement of plans for this autumn and beyond. The show which recently celebrated its 1,000th performance in the West End will extend its current run at London’s Apollo Theatre until 26 September 2021. The production will then take a break before […]
Aimie Atkinson’s 24-hour charity musical-a-thon raises over £10,000 for Save The Children
Following on from their 24-hour all-singing-all-dancing Musical-athon, Aimie Atkinson, star of Six the Musical and Pretty Woman, and Tom Gribby, agent and producer of the UK premiere of The Pirate Queen, raised £10,421 for the Save the Children Coronavirus Appeal. The fully live-streamed event featured the pair singing and dancing along to musical theatre soundtracks […]
Spring Awakening – Stockwell Playhouse
Spring Awakening at Stockwell Playhouse, London. Star rating: three stars ★★★✩✩ Spring Awakening The Musical is not easy. Adapted from Frank Wedekind’s scandalous 1891 original play, it’s a coming of age story with themes charting sexual frustration to eponymous awakening, societal pressures from school to home life, the conservation of innocence by the older generation, parental abuse and teen […]
