Musik continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 25 October 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A charming and an outrageously funny way to spend an evening.
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The Last Five Years and Rags share the musical theatre honours at the 2021 Offies
There were two wins each for the Southwark Playhouse run of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and the Park Theatre transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s critically-acclaimed production of Rags (Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz, Joseph Stein), directed by Bronagh Lagan, at OffWestEnd’s 2021 Offies Awards. Jonathan O’Boyle won in the Director category for his […]
The Last Five Years and Rags lead the musical theatre nominees for 2021 Offies
The Southwark Playhouse run of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and the Park Theatre transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s critically-acclaimed production of Rags lead the musical theatre finalists for OffWestEnd’s 2021 Offies Awards. Jonathan O’Boyle’s actor-musician production of The Last Five Years and Bronagh Lagan’s staging of Rags The Musical lead the list […]
Musik – Leicester Square Theatre
Musik continues at the Leicester Square Theatre, London until 1 March 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Judging by the stone-cold faces of some of my fellow reviewers, Musik might well be one of those Marmite musicals you either love or hate. It’s rude, it’s scatalogical, it’s loud, it’s chaotic. And […]
Musik – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Rooms
Musik continues at the Assembly Rooms – Bijou, Edinburgh until 24 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is a joy to watch Frances Barber strut the stage as this larger-than-life parody of a self-delusional pop icon and artist’s muse Billie Trix. First seen in the equally strange Closer to […]
Pet Shop Boys and Jonathan Harvey’s Musik is heading for London
Jonathan Harvey and The Pet Shop Boys’ (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe) new cabaret show MUSIK will follow its world premiere run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a London transfer. The show which reunites the writers with stage and screen star Frances Barber who returns to the role she previously played in the trio’s […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 Preview: 10 musicals that have grabbed our attention
With only a matter of days before the Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, we’re keen to share the Top 10 shows that have piqued our curiosity, writes Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr. There will be, once again, a winner selected from the huge range of musical theatre pieces staged at the Fringe for Musical Theatre Review’s Best […]
