My Fair Lady continues at Chichester Festival Theatre until 5 September 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I have no doubts this production will transfer to the West End, so catch it at Chichester while you can.
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Chichester finds its My Fair Lady cast
Casting has been confirmed for Chichester Festival Theatre’s (CFT) first ever production of Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady this summer.
Chichester Festival Theatre 2026 to feature new production of My Fair Lady
Musical theatre producing powerhouse Chichester Festival Theatre will take on Lerner and Loewe’s sublime My Fair Lady as the centrepiece of the venue’s 2026 season
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2025
We have asked Musical Theatre Review’s brilliantly talented team of expert critics, based across the UK, to name one particular show that made the biggest impression on them during the last 12 months.
My Fair Lady – The Mill at Sonning
My Fair Lady continues at the Mill at Sonning until 17 January 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No doubt the best I’ve seen at the Mill at Sonning. Not to be missed.
Productions of Once and My Fair Lady to feature in Alan Cumming’s first Pitlochry Festival Theatre season
A revival of Once and a major new production of My Fair Lady will feature in Alan Cumming’s inaugural season as artistic director of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Mill at Sonning’s My Fair Lady – the cast announced
West End stars Simbi Akande and Nadim Naaman will lead the cast of The Mill at Sonning’s Christmas season production of Lerner and Loewe’s timeless My Fair Lady.
LISTEN NOW: The Mayor of Musical Theatre Podcast returns with Broadway star and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti
The Mayor of Musical Theatre Podcast is back from a break, and host Ian Bowkett’s latest guest mayor is Broadway star and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti.
My Fair Lady – Leicester Curve
My Fair Lady continues at Leicester Curve until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ With Lerner and Loewe’s classic score behind it, there is still a lot of ‘loverly’ things in this timeless show.
My Fair Lady – Leeds Playhouse
My Fair Lady continues at Leeds Playhouse until 29 June 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Eliza herself (Katie Bird) has one of those thrilling soprano voices that sets the spine tingling. At the same time, she can bring out the pathos in ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?’.
My Fair Lady will be Curve’s Christmas 2024 musical
Leicester Curve’s musical Christmas present this year will be a new production of Lerner and Loewe’s timeless My Fair Lady.
My Fair Lady – Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh and Touring
My Fair Lady continues at the Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh until 7 January 2023, then tours until 1 April 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
WhatsOnStage Awards 2023 – the nominees
Daniel Fish’s innovative 2019 Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s much-loved Oklahoma! leads the musical theatre nominees for the 23rd WhatsOnStage Awards.
Music Review: My Fair Lady – Complete Recording
My Fair Lady (Jay Records, CDJAY2 1277) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Jay Records CD which, incidentally won the Gramophone magazine’s award for Best Musical Theatre, is welcome as a more or less complete record of the show. Not only does it contain all the songs and incidental music for the dance ensembles, but it also has a bonus track of ‘Come to the Ball’, a song much liked by Lerner himself, that was cut from the show out of town before the original production hit Broadway.
Musicals Mash Up: 2-9 October 2022
Welcome to the first instalment of 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 New cast for Get Up, Stand Up! final performances The producers of the Olivier Award-winning musical […]
Cast for My Fair Lady UK and Ireland tour
Charlotte Kennedy will step out of the London Coliseum ensemble into the role of Eliza Doolittle when Bartlett Sher’s multi-award-winning production of My Fair Lady embarks on its UK and Ireland tour next month. The Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduate who made her professional stage debut in the West End production of Les Misérables […]
West End LIVE – first 34 shows confirmed and rooftop preview pop-ups planned
Thirty-four of the West End’s most popular shows will be on hand to turn London’s iconic Trafalgar Square into the ultimate open-air theatre when West End LIVE returns to the capital in June The organisers of the crowd-pleasing live entertainment event have revealed the list of 34 shows already confirmed to feature in the weekend […]
My Fair Lady – London Coliseum
My Fair Lady continues at the London Coliseum until 27 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following in the footsteps of icons of the magnitude of Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn has to be a pretty daunting prospect but the fearless Amara Okereke makes Eliza Doolittle truly her own in this […]
Broadway florist to accompany My Fair Lady to London
The London Coliseum will be saying it with flowers in celebration of the arrival of the hit US production of My Fair Lady by introducing Broadway florist boo•kay to Londoners. When New York’s Lincoln Center Theater’s multi-award-winning production of My Fair Lady arrives at the prestigious West End venue for a limited summer season from […]
Stephen K Amos and Malcolm Sinclair join the cast of My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
The full cast line-up has been announced for Bartlett Sher’s lavish production of My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum. Stephen K Amos, playing the role of Alfred P. Doolittle, is a BAFTA Award-winning comedian whose stage work includes My Night With Reg and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. Malcolm Sinclair will play the […]
Lincoln Center Theater’s My Fair Lady to embark on UK tour
New York’s Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning production of Lerner and Loewe’s much-loved My Fair Lady will embark on a UK and Ireland tour from September 2022 following a limited engagement at the London Coliseum this summer. My Fair Lady will open in Bradford before going on to visit Dublin, Cardiff and Southampton, […]
Amara Okereke will star as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
The first casting news has been announced for Bartlett Sher’s award-winning production of My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum from 7 May to 27 August 2022. Amara Okereke will star as Eliza Doolittle. Okereke was recently seen in the Almeida’s acclaimed production of Spring Awakening and she won the Stage Debut Award for her […]
Remembering Sally Ann Howes (1930-2021) – A Truly Scrumptious Performer
The British actress and singer Sally Ann Howes may well be remembered for playing Truly Scrumptious, but she also had a long career before that in films, on stage and on television. She had a beautiful voice and a lovely personality to match. Michael Darvell looks back at her fascinating career of over 60 years. […]
Musical Theatre 2022 Preview – all you need to know
With Covid-related delays and cancellations still plaguing theatre productions, we know it is impossible to predict whether all the shows listed below will go ahead, but we will continue to keep the faith and support all the incredible creatives bringing us these wonderful musical theatre openings in 2022 – in the West End, on the London […]
London Coliseum summer season for Bartlett Sher’s award-winning revival of My Fair Lady
New York’s Lincoln Center Theater’s multi-award-winning production of My Fair Lady will transfer to the London Coliseum for a limited summer season in May next year. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the critic and crowd-pleasing production will become the first major West End revival of Lerner and Loewe’s show in 21 years when performances begin on […]
Voting open for The Curtain Up Show’s Album of the Year
Some of the biggest shows to play the West End and Broadway will battle it out for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2018. Presented in association with TodayTix, the awards linked to popular theatre chat show The Curtain Up Show will once again feature three categories, each with six nominees. They are open to […]
A dynamic duo: SpongeBob and Mean Girls top Tony Award nominations
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical and Mean Girls made it to the top of the heap as the Tony Award nominations were unveiled, each garnering a dozen nods. Coming up close behind were The Band’s Visit and the revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, each receiving 11 nominations, and the revival of My Fair Lady, with […]
My Fair Lady – Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont, New York
My Fair Lady continues at Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont, New York. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ Another week, another sumptuous revival of a sumptuous classic musical. That’s the story out of New York this spring. Right on the heels of the opening of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel comes Lincoln Center’s fantastical mounting of […]
Broadway Musical Theatre Preview 2018 – from Frozen to Summer
With heroines including a queen who can freeze you, a guttersnipe who can charm you, and a diva who’ll make you want to dance, a half-dozen new musical productions are slated for the last half of the 2017-2018 Broadway season, writes Ron Cohen. The openings include the usual crowding up in April, as new shows […]
Mill at Sonning’s My Fair Lady – cast details
Casting has been announced for The Mill at Sonning’s Christmas production of Lerner and Loewe’s timeless My Fair Lady. Following on from last year’s record-breaking production of High Society, My Fair Lady will play the festive season at the distinctive Thames-side venue from 23 November until 27 January 2018, with a press night on 29 […]
Music Theatre International picks up rights for classic Lerner and Loewe musicals
Timeless My Fair Lady is one of five classic Lerner & Loewe musicals acquired by leading theatrical licensing agency Music Theatre International (MTI). The legendary writing team’s much-loved re-working of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, lines up alongside the duo’s much loved Camelot, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and their newly restored early work The Day Before […]
Kerry Ellis: The Story So Far – The Pheasantry
Kerry Ellis: The Story So Far continues at The Pheasantry, London until 20 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This regular visitor to The Pheasantry has done better-prepared shows than The Story So Far which I thought would be a chronological retrospective of a career which took off when she understudied Martine […]
My Fair Lady – West End stars celebrate 60th anniversary
A host of West End Stars will gather at the iconic St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, the location of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins’ memorable first encounter, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the original Broadway production of one of the greatest musicals ever written, My Fair Lady. Directed by Alastair Knights (Putting It Together at […]
Maria Kesselman – Crazy Coqs
Maria Kesselman performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Although she says she’s still “feeling her way” as a cabaret performer, Maria Kesselman’s CV suggests she’s no newcomer to the genre and an easy listening evening in her delightful company on her one-night-only Crazy Coqs debut was […]
Kerry Ellis – The Pheasantry, London
Kerry Ellis performed in cabaret at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Seven months pregnant and thankfully unrestricted by the catsuit she wore when taking over Grizabella from Nicole Scherzinger at the London Palladium earlier in the year, Kerry Ellis is in wickedly good form for her short residency in the Kings Road cabaret room, […]
Kerry Ellis – The Pheasantry
Kerry Ellis performed at The Pheasantry, London. What a pleasure to see Kerry Ellis and hear her gorgeous voice in such an intimate venue, accompanied by just a piano, after having admired her in Wicked, Oliver! and My Fair Lady. I was first saw Ellis 13 years ago in the National Theatre revival of My Fair […]
Alex Jennings is new Willy Wonka
Alex Jennings will play Willy Wonka in the West End production of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the role currently played by Douglas Hodge. Jennings’ first performance will be on Monday 19 May 2014. Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has broken records at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where it has been seen […]
Jennings and Le Prevost reprise My Fair Lady in Paris
Alex Jennings is reprising the Professor Higgins role that won him a 2003 Olivier Best Actor in a Musical Award in a revival of My Fair Lady at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris next month. Jennings took over the Higgins part from Jonathan Pryce at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane in a show that hit […]
My Fair Lady – Kilworth House Theatre
Playing at the Kilworth House Theatre, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire until 14th July. Mitch Sebastian’s memorable staging of My Fair Lady is as well-chiselled as the astutely and beautifully designed environment of the Kilworth House Theatre in which the musical is performed, from the fine vocals of the cast to Cornelius Clarke’s black-smeared dustman, Alfred Doolittle, an old hack out of Ealing […]
Kerry Ellis in Concert, sublimely enjoyable
Kerry Ellis in Concert, reviewed at the London Palladium. It takes a big presence to host a concert at the London Palladium, one of the West End’s larger auditoriums, and make it feel like an intimate cabaret gig. Kerry Ellis uses the combination of a phenomenally powerful voice and self-effacing humility to do just that. […]
Liz Robertson Sings Her Favourite Songs
Reviewed at The Crazy Coqs, London. Forty years on from making her showbiz bow as a cabaret dancer at the nearby Savoy Hotel, the ageless Liz Robertson is back in cabaret mode for her one-woman show at The Crazy Coqs, the new go-to Piccadilly nightspot for lovers of the genre which becomes ever more polished […]
