Victoria Wood and Tom MacRae’s critically acclaimed Fourteen Again will receive its London premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory this winter.
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Midnight at the Never Get – Menier Chocolate Factory
Midnight at the Never Get continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 12 September 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Mark Sonnenblick’s richly crafted score and Ben Platt’s captivating performance make this a production well worth seeking out.
Cast for UK premiere of Midnight at The Never Get
The full cast has been unveiled for the UK premiere of Mark Sonnenblick’s Midnight at The Never Get at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory this summer.
Funny Girl hits the big screen – marking the 10-year anniversary of the acclaimed West End production
It’s 10 years since Funny Girl, directed by Michael Mayer, transferred to the Strand’s Savoy Theatre, having initially opened Off-West End at the Menier Chocolate Factory, and later touring the UK following huge success in London.
Ben Platt to star in the UK premiere of Mark Sonnenblick’s Midnight at The Never Get
Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner will star in the UK premiere of Mark Sonnenblick’s Midnight at The Never Get at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory debut this summer.
The Producers – Garrick Theatre
The Producers continues at the Garrick Theatre, London until 21 February 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Everything that was stunning at the Menier is only bigger and better at the Garrick.
West End transfer of Menier’s The Producers – full creative team confirmed
The full creative team has been unveiled for the upcoming West End transfer of Menier Chocolate Factory’s critically acclaimed revival of Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s classic musical The Producers.
Elephant – Menier Chocolate Factory
Elephant continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 29 June 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Ultimately, Elephant is more than a performance; it’s a reckoning. Bold, poignant and fiercely intelligent, Lucas offers a voice – and a vision – that demand to be heard.
West End transfer for Menier’s hit revival of The Producers
The Menier Chocolate Factory’s critically acclaimed revival of Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s classic musical The Producers will transfer into the West End in the autumn.
The Producers – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Producers continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 1 March 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A night when vulgarity rules but gets away with it.
The Baker’s Wife – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Baker’s Wife continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 14 September 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Although not fully risen to its full potential, there is still a delightful bake to be enjoyed.
Jerry’s Girls – Menier Chocolate Factory
Jerry’s Girls continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 29 June 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ This 33-song hurtle through the Jerry Herman songbook performed by a hard-working trio of Jerry’s Girls and an all-female band will send you home humming some of the greatest show songs ever written.
Menier Chocolate Factory to stage major revival of The Baker’s Wife
Gordon Greenberg will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory to direct a major revival of Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s The Baker’s Wife this summer.
Menier Chocolate Factory to stage revival of Jerry’s Girls
Hannah Chissick (Pack of Lies, Eugenius) will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory to direct a major revival of Jerry Herman and Larry Alford’s Jerry’s Girls next month.
Pacific Overtures – Menier Chocolate Factory
Pacific Overtures continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 24 February 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ For some, this production of Pacific Overtures will be a revelation, a bold demonstration of what theatre is capable of when stupendously talented creators dare experiment and make something truly singular.
Cast for Menier’s Pacific Overtures
The Menier Chocolate Factory has unveiled the full cast for the venue’s revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures.
Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical – Menier Chocolate Factory
Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 18 November 2023. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ Does it give offer a balanced dramatisation of Twiggy’s life? Not really, but some people will adore it for the nostalgia it throws up.
Full cast for Menier Chocolate Factory’s Twiggy musical
The Menier Chocolate Factory has unveiled the full cast for the world premiere production of Ben Elton’s new musical Close Up – The Twiggy Musical.
The Third Man – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Third Man continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 9 September 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Christina Bianco: In Divine Company – Menier Chocolate Factory
Christina Bianco: In Divine Company continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 20 May 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Third Man musical – full cast
Full casting has been unveiled for the highly anticipated world premiere of the musical version of Graham Greene’s classic story The Third Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory this summer.
Menier announces three major musical productions for 2023
The Menier Chocolate Factory is returning to its musical theatre roots with a 2023 season that will feature two world premiere musicals and a revival of a Stephen Sondheim classic.
Legacy: Maria Friedman and Friends extends run
The Menier Chocolate Factory in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, has confirmed an extension of the world premiere of new show, Maria Friedman & Friends – Legacy in response to high demand. Starring triple Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman, the show which celebrates the genius of Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Stephen Sondheim will now continue […]
Legacy: Maria Friedman and Friends – Menier Chocolate Factory
Legacy: Maria Friedman and Friends continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 17 April 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Maria Friedman – the three-time Olivier winner from nine nominations – is suddenly one of the busiest women in showbusiness. Having not long ago completed a week-long residency at the […]
Maria Friedman unveils new show celebrating the work of Hamlisch, Legrand and Sondheim
Triple Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman will celebrate the genius of Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Stephen Sondheim in a new show premiering at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory in March 2022. Presented by the Menier Chocolate Factory in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, Maria Friedman & Friends – Legacy will begin preview performances on 3 March […]
Catching up with Janie Dee about the London Climate Change Festival
After attending a matinee of The Boy Friend at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Musical Theatre Review’s Barrie Jerram chatted to the ever-busy JANIE DEE who starred as Madame Dubonnet in the superlative production [NB This interview was conducted several weeks before the coronavirus pandemic worsened]. Janie spoke at great length and bubbled over with enthusiasm […]
The Boy Friend – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Boy Friend continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 7 March 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ One thing that’s noticeable about musicals is that the older they are, the thinner their plots tend to be. That’s especially true of The Boy Friend, written by Sandy Wilson in the […]
Casting for Menier Chocolate Factory’s The Boy Friend includes Amara Okereke, Janie Dee, Adrian Edmondson and Issy van Randwyck
Rising star Amara Okereke will follow in the footsteps of Julie Andrews and Twiggy to play the effervescent Polly in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s much-anticipated version of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend. Okereke, who graduated from the Arts Educational School just last year and went on to win The Stage Debut Award for Best Actress […]
Nominees for UK Theatre Awards 2019
Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome’s The Color Purple, Sheffield Theatres’ Standing At The Sky’s Edge and the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester’s West Side Story will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards next month. The three hit shows were among the list of nominees for the 2019 awards […]
Menier Chocolate Factory to revive The Boy Friend
The Menier Chocolate Factory will follow its current hit productions of The Bridges of Madison County and Fiddler on the Roof with the first major revival of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend in over a decade. With previews from 22 November 2019 ahead of an opening night on 3 December, the production is due to […]
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 […]
Fiddler On the Roof – Menier Chocolate Factory
Fiddler On the Roof continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory until 9 March 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Rehearsals for Trevor Nunn’s intimate but full-blooded revival of Fiddler On the Roof must have only just begun days after it was announced that anti-semitic attacks in the UK were numbering more than […]
Full company for Menier Chocolate Factory’s Fiddler On the Roof
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for Trevor Nunn’s eagerly-anticipated new staging of the much-loved classic Fiddler On the Roof. Quadruple Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn (Chess, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Imperial Theatre, New York) will play Golde opposite Andy Nyman (Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory, Hangmen, Wyndham’s Theatre) as the title […]
‘Brilliantly captures Sheridan Smith in full bloom’: Funny Girl – the movie of the stage musical
Funny Girl – the movie of the stage musical premiered at cinemas nationwide on 24 October 2018. ‘Great’ is a vastly overused word but Sheridan Smith’s Fanny Brice in Funny Girl is indisputably one of the great performances on the British stage and is well worthy of preserving on film for posterity. It rivals Imelda […]
Principal cast for Menier and Nunn’s Fiddler On the Roof
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced principal casting for Trevor Nunn’s eagerly anticipated new staging of the much-loved classic Fiddler On the Roof. Quadruple Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn (Chess, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Imperial Theatre, New York) will play Golde opposite the previously announced Andy Nyman (Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory, Hangmen, Wyndham’s […]
Funny Girl cinema screening: ‘Fans will be able to relive this joyous show’
In less than a month Funny Girl fans will be able to relive this joyous show as a filmed version of the stage production will hit cinemas nationwide on 24 October 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s nothing like live theatre and it does feel quite distant sat in a […]
Funny Girl cinema screening – trailer released
A trailer has been released to promote the filmed version of the award-winning Menier Chocolate Factory production of Funny Girl ahead of its screening in cinemas nationwide on 24 October 2018. Featuring Sheridan Smith’s critically-acclaimed performance as Fanny Brice and filmed by Digital Theatre during the final week of the show’s run at the Manchester […]
Trevor Nunn to direct Menier Chocolate Factory’s Fiddler On the Roof
Trevor Nunn will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory later this year for a major new staging of the much-loved classic Fiddler On the Roof. Running from 5 December 2018 until 9 March 2019, with previews from 23 November, the production will be the first in London in over a decade, and marks a re-kindling […]
Sheridan Smith’s Funny Girl to debut in cinemas
Cinemagoers will get the chance to see Sheridan Smith’s critically-acclaimed performance as Fanny Brice when a filmed version of the hit stage production of Funny Girl is screened in cinemas nationwide on 24 October 2018. Filmed by Digital Theatre during the final week of the show’s run at the Manchester Palace Theatre, the recording of […]
Spamilton – Menier Chocolate Factory
Spamilton continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory until 8 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Spamilton– not to be confused with the other hip-hop parody musical Shamilton – is Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini’s inevitable parody of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Herculean hit Hamilton. And just like its target, the show is packed full to bursting with […]
Taking the rap: Jason Denton is having all kinds of fun in Hamilton spoof Spamilton at the Menier Chocolate Factory
From the brains behind Forbidden Broadway comes Spamilton: An American Parody, playing at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory until 8 September 2018. The show follows Lin-Manuel Miranda’s quest to write the perfect musical while also lovingly spoofing a range of other musical theatre shows and personalities. Even Miranda is a fan of this show saying: “I […]
Casting for Spamilton at the Menier Chocolate Factory
Casting has been announced for the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Gerard Alessandrini’s Hamilton-inspired spoof Spamilton which will make its UK debut this month. Running from 12 July until 8 September 2018 with an opening night on 24 July, the UK premiere of Spamilton marks a return to the Menier for Forbidden Broadway creator Alessandrini. Alessandrini will […]
Gerard Alessandrini’s Hamilton spoof Spamilton to make UK debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory
Gerard Alessandrini’s Hamilton spoof Spamilton will make its UK debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory this summer. Running from 12 July until 8 September 2018 with an opening night on 24 July, the UK premiere of Spamilton marks a return to the Menier for Forbidden Broadway creator Alessandrini. The good-natured send-up of the multi award-winning […]
Off-Broadway show Ruthless! The Musical to debut at the Arts Theatre
Award winning all-female show Ruthless! The Musical will receive its UK premiere at London’s Arts Theatre in March. Written by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird, the show spoofs classic Broadway musicals including Gypsy and Mame and 1950s film melodramas The Bad Seed and All About Eve. Directed by Richard Fitch, the new production will play […]
Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory – exclusive new production images
Comedian and writer Marcus Brigstocke is currently take on the title role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Barnum which opened last week. Here our official photographer Roy Tan offered a brand new collection of production images. This first major London revival of the show since the classic American musical first played the West End 36 years […]
Barnum – Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Barnum continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 3 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Barnum – “The Greatest Show on Earth” – has, like some double-jointed contortionist worthy of the titular showman, managed to flex, twist and squeeze its way into one of London’s smallest theatres. And the […]
Interview – Celinde Schoenmaker on playing the real-life Jenny Lind in Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory
CELINDE SCHOENMAKER is best known for playing big roles in big West End shows – notably and most famously Fantine in Les Misérables (2013, her West End debut, and again in 2014) and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (2015-17). But she’s about to open in one of London’s smaller houses, the Menier Chocolate […]
Barnum at the Menier Chocolate Factory – Marcus Brigstocke and Laura Pitt-Pulford lead casting
Comedian and writer Marcus Brigstocke (Spamalot) will take on the title role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Barnum which begins previewing on 25 November ahead of an opening night on 5 December. The first major London revival of the show since the classic American musical first played the West End 36 years ago, […]
